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By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Released in November '98, The John Lennon Anthology is a magnificent piece of work-a four-disc set that captures the depth and breadth of Lennon's...

By Rick Clark ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Located on a farm about 25 miles from downtown Nash-ville, in full view of grazing horses and cows, is WireWorld, the studio base of...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

You might be relieved to know that this is going to be my last column about dealing with upgrades-at least for a while. It's...

By Maureen Droney ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Wunderkind is probably the most appropriate label for Kevin "KD" Davis. Still in his early 20s, Davis is a one-man mix factory. He works...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999 ⋅ Updated: 09/03/2024

Something special occurred in Hollywood during the last half of 1998—Terrence Malick, the reclusive director of Badlands and Days of Heaven, had returned to...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Although the benefits of spending one's days surrounded by simple beauty and the charms of our Colonial past can't be discounted, it's still not...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

A shift has slowly been taking place in the Manhattan advertising community over the past several years, and increasingly, it involves a trip down...

By Ty Ford ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

…AND ALL THAT JAZZ

By Ty Ford ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

TRAVIS TRITT IN MULTIMEDIA SPLENDOR

By Philip De Lancie ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

For many in the audio industry, working with sound and music is a conscious alternative to working in more "main-stream" occupations. But while the...

By Philip De Lancie ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

For as long as most of us can remember, America's music business has been concentrated in just three cities: Los Angeles, New York and...

By Loren Alldrin ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Nowadays, more and more microphone preamps are coming loaded to the gills with additional processing. You've got compression, EQ, enhancement, limiting,

By Bryan Reesman ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Songwriter/producer Glen Ballard has had a fairy tale career: Over the course of more than two decades in the L.A. music industry, the Mississippi...

By Erik Hawkins ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Let's face it, anyone who owns a recording studio-big or small-will eventually need some test equipment. But quality audio test gear costs thousands of

By Mike Lawson ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

E-mu has delivered a powerful new tool for desktop computer music production called the Audio Production Studio. This PCI-based audio card provides 64

By Walt Szalva ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

With the increasing power of personal computers and development of digital audio workstations, several feature-packed programs have been developed to

By Scott Colburn ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

Antares introduced the Auto-Tune pitch correcting plug-in for Pro Tools about two years ago, and the masses went mental. Because it (as well as...

By MICHAEL GOLDMAN ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

After a 17-year break, the four original members of the legendary Firesign Theatre comedy troupe returned to the recording studio last year. Their mission:

By Scott B. Metcalfe ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

In January of 1998 I was contacted by the Coolidge String Quartet about making a recording for the Danish record label Olufsen Records. The...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of its chart sections, Billboard magazine recently ran enough Top Ten lists to choke David Letterman. But the list that