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The Robert Cray Band: Take Your Shoes Off (Rykodisc) So many times you read a review of a new R&B release, and the press...
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The Robert Cray Band: Take Your Shoes Off (Rykodisc) So many times you read a review of a new R&B release, and the press...
There has been much talk about the sky falling down on wireless microphones. So far the RF environment, like the air quality in major...
"For the Love of Money" made it to the Top 10 in the spring of 1974 (Number 9 pop, Number 3 R&B) and catapulted...
It was 25 years ago that four guys from Garfield High School in East L.A.-David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas, Louie Perez and Conrad Lozano-formed Los...
Everyone needs a typical gear story to maintain historical perspective when products like the Yamaha DSP Factory come along to shatter price and performance
Since the dawn of time, humans have recorded location audio on analog Nagra recorders. Along the way, brave individuals have made forays into other...
Nearly 100,000 industry enthusiasts ventured to Frankfurt, Germany, to see the latest audio and music technogadgets at the 20th annual Musikmesse, held
The demand for surround sound releases-in sound for picture, multimedia and audio-only forms-is on the rise, yet most of us work on consoles designed
Instead of simply giving rock fans more of the same, Roy Thomas Baker has managed throughout his long and distinguished career to produce audacious...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ=MSFT) announced today a change in the release schedule of its new operating system, Windows 2000, explaining that extra time was
Upon entering the premises of Advantage Audio in Burbank, the first impression is of decks cleared for action. There's nothing extraneous, nothing out
In the whole realm of recording, there's no place where art and technology are more hopelessly intertwined than in tracking vocals. Ask vocal-recording
One paradox of technological progress is that advances in functionality are soon outstripped by users' expectations and demands. For example, though the
Skeptics raised their eyebrows up and down The Great White Way when the Broadway production of the movie Footloose was slated for the boards...
Following is a guide to the top-of-the line offerings from various makers of disk-based recorders-emphasis on recorders. This is not intended to be a
For those of us engaged in professional recording on a daily basis, the availability of "classic" microphones is often more a necessity than a...
Since opening in December 1997, Soundelux Vine Street Studios has been using Tascam digital dubbers as the primary record and playback machines on many
Wheel of Fortune, one of the most successful productions ever launched, went to Hawaii earlier in the year for a week's worth of shows...
Pioneers in the field of techno remixes and monsters of the industrial arena, KMFDM are specialists in the art of transforming sampled sounds from...
April 1, 1999 Technology Fairlight MediaLink: Networking for Multiroom Audio Post Facilities Yamaha DSP Factory: PC-BASED RECORDING/MIXING/SIGNAL PROCESSING PLATFORM Zaxcom Audio Deva: PORTABLE DIGITAL...
There is something genuinely comforting about walking into Quad Recording Studios after leaving the hustle of 7th Avenue ten floors below. The wood is
Sifl 'n' Olly, a show peopled by ragamuffin sock puppets with a soundtrack that's literally recorded in a kitchen, fits in with MTV's minimalist...
For their 1998 Christmas tour, the Pops carried their own production for the first time in the group's touring history, squeezing sound and lights...
"Quirky." The word invariably pops up in every story written about the venerable British art-pop group XTC, so it's best to get it out...
In 1994, The Tractors seemed to defy the laws of Nashville. Bands were not traditionally big sellers, these guys weren't hunkish in the least,...
Toronto's Lacquer Channel Mastering is among the longest-standing mastering studios in Canada. And over its 22-year history, there has been one real constant
The west coast of Ireland: It's the stuff of poetry. Many people would trade most of what they have to live out there on...
In 1984, in the liner notes on the band's first album, the members of Camper Van Beethoven wrote about their small-town roots, complaining about...
While an increasing number of studios are gearing up for surround production, listening to the six discrete 5.1 tracks is definitely not the same...
CEDAR (Computer Enhanced Digital Audio Restoration) Audio Ltd. was founded over a decade ago to create and market PC-based systems for cleaning up sound
Where does the spark of creativity come from when new tools and systems are designed? Is it from freedom, or from pressure? Can an...
Paul Robb, between laughs, explains why he's concerned about winning two Clio awards for his work on a BMW television campaign. "Again, here I...
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
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,...
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...