MULTICHANNEL DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS: The Latest and Greatest Contenders
In the world of digital audio, keeping up with new technology is anything but easy. Unlike tube gear, the market for vintage workstations is...
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In the world of digital audio, keeping up with new technology is anything but easy. Unlike tube gear, the market for vintage workstations is...
If the name Alien Soundscapes Incorporated conjures up some nightmare vision out cf The X-Files or the paintings of H.R. Geiger, rest assured the...
The Crane Song Trakker is a single-channel, all-Class-A analog compressor-limiter that uses all discrete components in the signal path. Housed in a single-rackspace
Forget the introductory hoo-hah (see last issue). We continue our conversation with recording legend Tom Dowd.How did Otis Redding strike you?Oh, he was
The first time composer/engineer Steve Wood wrote for orchestra, he had to purchase a one-month pass to his chiropractor. No joke. His back went...
Time should not be a luxury in the recording process, yet so often it is. Sometimes time is short due to budget, and other...
Anyone who makes audio or music recordings will frequently ask themselves the question: "Does it sound good?" And if I'm about to spend my...
Drummer Mark Ambrosino has worked with some of the best, including Michael Brecker, Whitney Houston, Leonard Bernstein, Michael McDonald and Michael Bolton.
Sound recording is unusual among the technical arts in that today's artists and technicians often combine current, state-of-the-art technology with equipment
Since Millennia (then known as Millennia Media) introduced its acclaimed HV-3 high-voltage mic preamp several years ago, the company's name has been synonymous
Galaxy Studios is set on a quiet lane in Mol, in Flanders in north-central Belgium. Not much happens in this bucolic suburban town. That...
Because so many in our little industry gather in the Big Apple for the October AES convention, I decided it would be appropriate to...
In the hype-filled world of the music industry, where words like "legend" and "masterpiece" have been cheapened by overuse, Tom Dowd truly is a...
Twenty-eight-year-old engineer/mixer/producer Andy Bradfield is one of the new breed of British engineers-a busy independent who has his hands full doing
The mainstream record industry traditionally has lived very much in the present, with the value of a recording only as high as its current...
Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer (World Circuit/Nonesuch); Eliades Ochoa: Sublime Ilusion (Higher Octave)Given the incredible success of
In recent years the number of pro audio recording formats has mushroomed; the alphabet soup of acronyms now includes DASH, PD, ADAT, DA-88, PCM,...
Legendary producer Tom Dowd sheds light on the recording of John Coltrane's classic rendition of "My Favorite Things."
The other night I went to the opening of a production of a very hip Broadway musical, put on by the students at the...
Jimmy Douglass seems too young to have done so much. His past credits include work on sessions with icons such as the Rolling Stones,...
With prerecorded music sales essentially stagnant over the past several years, and many music-oriented productions moving from commercial studios to garages
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Hit the Road Again Bruce Springsteen worked with the E Street Band for close to 20 years...
Although Tommy LiPuma has been in the record business for nearly 40 years and has 18 Gold and Platinum records, 30 Grammy nominations and...
It doesn't take an insider to see that the New York post-production industry is booming. New shops are opening up, commercial mixing facilities are...
In his emergence as one of the most creative producers of the day, Craig Street has worked on a string of projects with artists...
I went to the opening of a new studio the other day. It doesn't matter which city. The catering was laid out nicely, and...
ANYONE WHO HAS EVER BEEN BORED SILLY ON A long flight has probably at some point checked out the in-flight audio channels, which usually...
In 1958, when Mack Emerman founded Criteria Recording Studios, it was the city's first real recording studio. Emerman, who turns 75 this year, was...
Keyboards have always provided an endless array of colors and nuance for music projects, adding tone to an underbed or singing solo in an...
The Lc3w12 three-way passive monitors are the latest and largest additions to Westlake Audio's Lc Series, which includes four smaller monitors and a subwoofer.
No doubt, there will be purists who scream, "Sacrilege!" And debates will rage about the simple-yet-detailed beauty of the original mono mixes. But The
Jewel's story is one of perseverance. The press has filled volumes with her rags-to-riches saga; so, many of us know by now that she...
"There's no way in the world that I would spend months and months making a record," says multi-instrumentalist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. "When I listen
Since its opening in 1940, the Disney Sound Department has created and mixed the sound for most of the classic animated and live action...
The 1999 slate of nominees for a TEC Award in the category of Remote/Broadcast Recording Engineer includes some familiar names: Guy Charbonneau, Ed Greene,
In recent years, most of the big news and developments in Digidesign's Pro Tools system have centered around hardware. First there was the move...
This month, I mark my 20th anniversary as a professional audio writer. Okay, stop yawning. I know you don't want to read another deadly...
Maybe it's a feng shui thing, but "harmony" is the word that comes to mind when entering the Pacific Palisades home studio of Starr...
With the out-of-the-box success of The Matrix, and its provocative soundtrack, it's a given that sound designer Dane Davis and his company, Danetracks
Wind back the time machine to 1976 and you'll find the classic jazz/rock fusion recording Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever, a group then...
There's something very "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" about the world of music libraries. Is it the world of pop music...