Riding the Multichannel Track
The familiar wooden roller coaster continues to have its enthusiasts, but for many of today's thrill junkies, wind on the face and the clatter...
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The familiar wooden roller coaster continues to have its enthusiasts, but for many of today's thrill junkies, wind on the face and the clatter...
Riddled with anti-matter warheads, the alien spacecraft explodes with a blinding flash of energy. A room-shaking roar of sound accompanies the ship's
The popularity of vintage audio gear has driven up prices and made desirable models hard to find. Some manufacturers are already emulating older equipment
In the ever-growing world of electronic music, veteran synthesist and composer Wendy Carlos has achieved greater glory than most. Although newer techno-buffs
Saxophonist, arranger, producer-you'd have to look a while to find someone who brings as much to the table as Bob Belden (maybe back to...
Next to copy-protection threads, few subjects are more hotly debated in certain circles on the Internet than the proper way to use channels and...
Last summer, Jan Paul Moorhead, chair of the Music Synthesis department at Berklee College of Music (Boston) and Bill Scheniman, the chair of Berklee's
This season, I've found myself on the post-production stage for television shows, much more than previous seasons. I have worked on Mad About You,...
Without the facility to monitor six or more channels clearly and transparently with one gain control, mixing for surround sound on your favorite console
From January 28 through 31, 1999, more than 61,000 music industry pros packed the cavernous Los Angeles Convention Center for the winter expo of...
March 1, 1999 Technology JBL LSR 28P and LSR 12P: POWERED 5.1 MONITORING SYSTEM Dolby DP569 and DP562: Multichannel Dolby Digital Encoder/Decoder Martinsound MultiMAX:...
New York's gilded midtown entertainment palace, Radio City Music Hall, narrowly escaped the wrecker's ball in the late 1970s during the last days of...
A stinging critique of the 1980s even as they happened, Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" had a lengthy genesis, as related here by engineer...
Desmond Child certainly has to be considered one of the most influential pop music composers of recent years. He co-wrote much of Slippery When...
Mating great microphones with robust diversity transmission is the formula for wireless success. The first product in a new series of wireless systems
In-ear monitors are not just for rock stars and Platinum cowboys anymore. The miniature speakers that fit in musicians' ears are gaining popularity, and
QSC Audio's second generation of lightweight amplifiers, the PLX Series, was introduced at the 1998 NSCA show in Las Vegas. With a two-rackspace form
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...
Some of the greatest themes in film music-like "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago or "Also Sprach Zarathustra" from 2001: A Space Odyssey-have cemented key
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...
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...
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...
Something special occurred in Hollywood during the last half of 1998, something only a handful of people will truly appreciate because most of it...
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...
A shift has slowly been taking place in the Manhattan advertising community over the past several years, and increasingly, it involves a trip down...
The Professional Monitor Company's PMC IB1S midfield studio monitors provide one of the most sensational listening experiences I have enjoyed. I found
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...
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...
Nowadays, more and more microphone preamps are coming loaded to the gills with additional processing. You've got compression, EQ, enhancement, limiting,
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...
The Roland VS-1680 is capable of making fully professional recordings at a level rivaling systems many times more expensive. In fact, I produced and...
When Mix asked me to write an article on acoustic fixes for small home studios, I said, "No problem, I've analyzed plenty of small...
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
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
With the increasing power of personal computers and development of digital audio workstations, several feature-packed programs have been developed to
The folks at Shure really know how to package a microphone to make one drool with anticipation. This mic looks good! Fortunately, the sleek...
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...
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:
In January of 1998 I was contacted by the Coolidge String Quartet about making a recording for the Danish record label Olufsen Records. The...
The PMC IB1S is a three-way system. The 1-inch Vifa soft-dome HF tweeter is driven by a 1-inch-diameter voice coil and is mounted to...