IN “PRAISE” OF JAZZ GREAT ROY HAYNES
Roy Haynes is a something of an under-appreciated gem amid the treasure trove of America's great jazz veterans. The 73-year-old drummer is not particularly
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Roy Haynes is a something of an under-appreciated gem amid the treasure trove of America's great jazz veterans. The 73-year-old drummer is not particularly
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Digidesign's Pro Tools|24 MIX has arrived, and it will knock your socks off. This newest incarnation of the ever-popular Pro Tools system features a...
From a distance, the trajectory of Steve Earle's career follows a perverse but unbreakable logic: Everywhere he should have zigged, he zagged. Every time
March 26, 1999, marked the thirtieth anniversary of the first concert by the legendary Allman Brothers Band. The date fell, fittingly enough, during what
Alesis has successfully made its mark in signal processors, drum machines, sequencers, synthesizers, tape recorders (and what a mark that is) and studio
Sometimes reverb is used to enhance reality-applied, as if with an artist's paintbrush, to color, fatten, soften, smear or gel. Other times, reverb is
July 1, 1999 Technology AlterMedia Studio Suite 4.0: STUDIO MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Alesis MasterLink ML-9600: 24-bit/96kHz Hard Disk/CD-R Mastering Recorder Digidesign Pro Tools|24 Mix: CROSS-PLATFORM...
Listed below are the nominees chosen by the Nominating Panel of the 15th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards. A special TEC Awards nominees
Roger D'Arcy, 42, and Nick Whitaker, 37, started the English firm Recording Architecture in 1987, believing that, when it comes to studio design, acoustics
John Storyk has been a fixture in studio design almost since there were studios to design. At 53, he can trace his professional lineage...
This year's NSCA show (www.nsca.org) took place at Nashville's Opryland Hotel, an antediluvian biosphere where attendees could lose themselves for hours
The Aphex 1788 is a full-featured, 8-channel, remotely-controllable microphone preamplifier offering excellent sound quality plus two inventions: continuously
Howie B. has been something of a ubiquitous figure in popular music the past few years, particularly in Europe. The producer/engineer/mixer/composer/DJ
Mike Shipley's work is practically a fixture on the Billboard charts. His credits include a wide range of successful artists, such as Def Leppard,...
From cost-conscious table-toppers to multi-thousand-dollar mainframes, effects manufacturers have added at least 25 new units in the 18 months since Winter
Microphone technology has advanced steadily (if slowly) over the past century, with changes occurring at an evolutionary-rather than revolutionary-pace.
There is no question that Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) ranks among the top films of all time in terms of its sonic...
FROM MAY 8 TO 11, 1999, thousands of audio professionals converged on Munich's M.O.C. Congress Center for the 106th convention of the Audio Engineering
When Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released their self-titled Shelter Records debut in 1976, few would have predicted that we would still be talking...
Audio on the Internet. Does that intrigue you or scare you? If you work for a large record company, or your business depends on...
No one would ever accuse Craig Huxley of being timid. In 1985 he opened a sprawling, Memphis-modern decorated, multiroom recording complex in Burbank
Find a need and fill it. It's a ready-made success formula for just about any business, and it's worked especially well for Chace Productions...
If audio signals are the lifeblood of an audio production facility, then wiring is the circulatory system through which those signals move. Once installed,
With both DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD on the horizon, the compact disc may face two serious challenges to its long-held position as the...
Back in 1980, Ivo Watts-Russell aspired to create something new and bold in the music world. Excited by the music he was hearing in...
I don't want to date myself, but my relationship with Otari goes back to 1979 when I first bought a 1-inch, 8-track Model 7308...
Since their formation in 1969, the British band King Crimson has been questing for new frontiers. Now, 30 years down the line, they've delved...
NAB99, held in Las Vegas April 17-22, was the biggest broadcast show yet, drawing a record 105,000 attendees. For those of you who didn't...
The U95S is the latest microphone in the growing Soundelux line, features audiophile grade electronic components throughout and is designed to be the
Many studio listening environments today depend upon near-field or midfield monitors. And many veteran recording engineers make the mistake of placing
It takes a long time to grow a basement studio to the point where moving to a new facility is possible. For us at...
June 1, 1999 Technology Audio-Technica AT895: DSP-Controlled, Adaptive-Array System Microphones RPG Diffusor Systems Room Optimizer: STUDIO SPEAKER PLACEMENT SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS Apocalypse Now from...
Once upon a time, when there were only a handful of large-scale loudspeaker system manufacturers, enterprising sound companies typically built their own
The Ashly Protea 4.24G is a rackmount digital equalizer featuring four independent channels of 11/43-octave graphic equalization, plus high and lowpass
Seventeen years between albums is an eternity in the pop music world, yet half a minute into the first track on Blondie's greatly anticipated...
Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris could hardly believe they were finally all seated at the large Elektra Records conference table promoting
To call Rockfield Studios (Monmouth, Gwent, Wales) historic might be accurate, but it doesn't tell the whole story. This legendary facility is said to
Although Sundholm may not be a familiar name in pro audio, Conrad Sundholm, the company's president/chief designer is hardly a newcomer to the industry.
After years of creating top-selling plug-ins for Pro Tools, VST and DirectX formats, TC Works has taken the next step with SparkTM, a comprehensive
One year ago, Mackie was completing its plans to acquire RCF, a major OEM supplier of speakers, horns and drivers to manufacturers and touring...
In 1971, I wrote a college paper on the use of electronic music studio techniques in popular music. The paper, one of the favorite...