Abyssinian Sons Studio: FILTER FINDS A HOME-AND STUDIO-IN CHICAGO
Tucked away in Chicago's arty Wicker Park area is Abyssinian Sons Studio, the creative launch pad for Filter's Richard Patrick. It's more than just...
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Tucked away in Chicago's arty Wicker Park area is Abyssinian Sons Studio, the creative launch pad for Filter's Richard Patrick. It's more than just...
The down-to-earth vibe and vintage gear at Gravity Studios in Chicago draw demo work from local alternative rockers such as Smashing Pumpkins. But how
WITH THE SUCCESS OF HOME THEATER SYSTEMS AND DVD-VIDEO, AS WELL AS THE UPCOMING LAUNCH OF DVD-AUDIO, there's no doubt that surround sound is...
In the spring of 1979, Rickie Lee Jones' "Chuck E.'s in Love" appeared like an oasis in a desert of disco and arena rock....
Musician and songwriter Marvin Etzioni brings his passion for music and his own artistic sensibilities to all of his production work. As a result,...
Walking west on 54th Street in New York City, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, I see on the right the new Hit Factory while...
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...
The torrential rains that plagued the East Coast the week before AES disappeared just as suddenly and completely as the microphones, recorders and computers
November 1, 1999 Technology Apogee PSX-100: TWO CHANNEL 24-BIT/96KHZ CONVERTER Crane Song Trakker: ANALOG CLASS A COMPRESSOR/LIMITER Pendulum Audio OCL-2: OPTICAL COMPRESSOR RODE NTV:...
Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer (World Circuit/Nonesuch); Eliades Ochoa: Sublime Ilusion (Higher Octave)Given the incredible success of
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Every picture tells a story, and paging through the Mix Master Directory under the New York headings provides an interesting snapshot of the New...
It's been quite a last couple of years for the young New York-based producer/songwriter/musician/remixer/programmer who goes by the colorful moniker Che
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
Legendary producer Tom Dowd sheds light on the recording of John Coltrane's classic rendition of "My Favorite Things."
The fact that Euphonix has been developing a digital console is no secret. In fact, the company first announced its plans to build a...
The other night I went to the opening of a production of a very hip Broadway musical, put on by the students at the...
Monday, June 14, dawned foggy and cool as intrepid golfers headed out, revved and ready, for an early start at the Malibu Country Club,...
Jimmy Douglass seems too young to have done so much. His past credits include work on sessions with icons such as the Rolling Stones,...
When Chris McHale and his partner Joe Barone drew up plans for their new facility, Irving's Place, they kept the ad market firmly in...
Drummer Mark Ambrosino has worked with some of the best, including Michael Brecker, Whitney Houston, Leonard Bernstein, Michael McDonald and Michael Bolton.
Bloodlines run deep in the music business, as Queens native Chieli Minucci readily acknowledges. His father, Ulpio, was a composer ("Domani") and arranger
Whether it's the stress of following up a big hit or finding one, there always seems to be some obstacle in the path of...
Thanks to the Flaming Lips, headphones were on everyone's minds, and ears, at a San Francisco stop on the Music Against Brain Degeneration Revue...
With prerecorded music sales essentially stagnant over the past several years, and many music-oriented productions moving from commercial studios to garages
The mainstream record industry traditionally has lived very much in the present, with the value of a recording only as high as its current...
Although Tommy LiPuma has been in the record business for nearly 40 years and has 18 Gold and Platinum records, 30 Grammy nominations and...
In his emergence as one of the most creative producers of the day, Craig Street has worked on a string of projects with artists...
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
Audio and video engineer John T. (Jack) Mullin-who introduced America to high-fidelity magnetic tape recording, built the first prototype videotape recorder
Over the past 20 years, digital media has made possible the economical delivery of music with very high dynamic range. Dynamic ranges above 90...
The Akai DD8 random-access digital film dubber is designed to be used in place of traditional mag machines and as a plug-and-play replacement for...
October 1, 1999 Technology Tascam MX 24-24: Disk-Based 24-Track Recorder/Editor Alesis M1 Lab Analysis: Alesis M1 Summit Audio MPE-200: ELEMENT 78 SERIES MIC PREAMP/EQUALIZER...
It turned into a package deal straight out of Hollywood: On Monday, July 26, Andre Perreault joined Complete Sound, along with the Miles O'...
More than 200 audio professionals descended on the Universal City Hilton in mid-June for StudioPro99, Mix magazine's second annual technical and business
Since its opening in 1940, the Disney Sound Department has created and mixed the sound for most of the classic animated and live action...
Thanks to the portability and power of laptop computers, many live sound engineers are now able to carry their own acoustical analysis tools wherever