Recording

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Last year it was inescapable: You couldn't go to a sporting event or a dance party without hearing that unmistakable, a cappella opening booming...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

You do whatever you have to do to get it on tape. That's always been my feeling. I didn't like going in the studio...

By by Elianne Halbersberg ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Remember those old family driving vacations mom and dad in the front seat, you and your brother or sister in the back, stopping every...

By Bryan Reesman ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Daft Punk steadfastly refuses to obey conventional rules of dance music. Unlike so much of the homogenized club fodder today, their music is carefully

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Times change, but the need for quality doesn't.

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Just when sound editors and mixers were getting a handle on drop-frame, nondrop and the idiosyncrasies of international video/film formats, along come

By Chris J. Walker ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

The British are different. Tea instead of coffee, soccer over football, cricket instead of baseball, not to mention driving on the side of the...

By Maureen Droney ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

You have to give everything its own identity for the artist. You can't put your imprint on it. I would rather compress a vocal...

By George Petersen ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Studio Network Solutions is a system design/facilitator company specializing in networking systems for the audio and video production industries. The

By George Petersen ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Since its very beginnings, Apogee Electronics has been on the leading edge of pro audio. More recently, the company has become a premier supplier...

By Mel Lambert ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Analog was easy. A reel of 2-inch 24-track tape could be played back in virtually any studio or post facility, anywhere in the world....

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Remixing isn't the right term. When artists like Kenny Gonzalez and Louie Vega get their hands on a track, strip it of everything but...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

WHERE THE LEFT BRAIN AND THE RIGHT BRAIN MEET Big shifts in the way music is recorded over the past several years have forced...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

When he's not making movies or starring in television shows, seminal rap artist LL Cool J turns his creative energies toward recording his own...

By George Petersen ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Working in audio can be tricky, especially when you're with a client who knows just enough about technology or to be dangerous. And when...

By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Oh, delicious irony. The Producers, Broadway's biggest hit in years, is the stage version of a 1968 cult film about a pair of sleazebags...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

If you were around during the bad old days of the first computerized music and digital audio tools, say 10 to 15 years ago,...

By Oliver Masciarotte ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

If you've been reading The Bitstream, then you know I try to cover technology that, while not explicitly audio, nonetheless impacts your production environment

By BY WALT SZALVA ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

The rapidly decreasing cost of DSP power over the past few years has allowed for the evolution of a new breed of reverb: the...

By Eddie Ciletti ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

The AES show is about gear, baby, new and exciting products, blah, blah, blahBut exit polls after several recent tradeshows all yielded ho-hum comments.

By Paul Verna ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

After helping build Right Track Studios into the powerhouse that it is and using its rooms to do the lion's share of his work...

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Who would have ever thought that a pair of Technics turntables, a microphone and a mixer could change pop music forever? With the drop...

By Barry Cleveland ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

ADK made waves a few years ago with the debut of its A-51 (Area 51) Series of affordable around $400 large-diaphragm FET condenser mics....

By Ty Ford ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Anyone who has spent any time dealing with audio in the digital domain has learned that below the calm surface lies a breeding ground...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

In the '80s, sound designers for Broadway musicals were among the first to use large numbers of wireless microphone systems in live performance. Today,

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

With two multi-Platinum albums and a Gold-certified single behind them, Sugar Ray have enough of a following to sell out most of the venues...

By by Michael Goldman ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Broadcasting's current soup du jour, otherwise known as reality television, offers a plethora of nightmares to torment audio crews. Take a recent challenge

By BY PHILIP DE LANCIE ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

When Wade Norton, chief engineer at NRG Recording Services, describes the old days before the studio installed a Fibre Channel SAN to link its...

By Larry The O ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Surround recording is an area many are exploring nowadays, and each of those that do so have their own applications and reasons for doing...

By James Stoffo ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

A majority of RF problems stem from a few factors, and you can avoid most RF headaches if you understand three or four general...

By Phil Ward ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

Despite their relative lack of success in the United States, Oasis are still one of the biggest live acts in the world, and every...

By Editors ⋅ Published: 09/28/2001

Mackie Designs (Woodinville, Wash.) welcomed Carl Owen into the position of manager of the Soundscape brand. Owen will be responsible for establishing

By Editors ⋅ Published: 09/28/2001

Former customer service manager for the New England area, Dawn Birr has been promoted to product manager for Neumann USA (Old Lyme, Conn.). In...

By Editors ⋅ Published: 09/27/2001

Napster is inching its way to launching its subscription service, announcing that it has signed a landmark licensing agreement with New York City-based

By Editors ⋅ Published: 09/27/2001

The 11-year manufacturing partnership between Studiomaster UK and Studiomaster Inc. (the U.S. subsidiary) has been severed due to ongoing disputes and

By Editors ⋅ Published: 09/26/2001

The AES Los Angeles Section announced its October 30, 2001, meeting, "An Evening with...John Eargle." Eargle will focus on multichannel miking, production

By Editors ⋅ Published: 09/26/2001

Organizers have pulled the plug on the 2nd Annual Latin Grammys after trying to reschedule the cancelled affair due to the terrorist attacks on...