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Recording Wild
FIDDLERS ON THE ROOF Last year was my fourth year working as a research SCUBA diver in the U.S. Antarctic Program. I was also...
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Breaking the Rules
History is filled with cases of inventions that either happened by accident or yielded results that were far from the original intent. In 1928,...
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Joan Osborne Explores Her Country Roots
Producer Steve Buckingham and engineer Neal Cappellino talk about the making of singer Joan Osborne’s country/roots record Pretty Little Stranger
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Wave Mikes the World
Wave Recording Studios, an audio mixing and sound effects company for the advertising industry in the UK, has started to amass a 7.1 sound...
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Shootout at Studio 8121
New Washington, D.C.-based Studio 8121 (www.studio8121.com) recently held a gear shootout for local engineers, testing everything from mics and mic pre's
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Metal in Vegas
Odds on Recording, a massive high-end recording facility and CD replication house in Las Vegas, hosts sessions with nationally known acts and local bands,
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Gladys Knight Ssalutes Great Jazz Women
A look at the recording of Gladys Knight’s tribute album to great women jazz singers, Before Me
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Some Things Never Change
Thirty years ago, jingle singer/voice-over artist Penny Riker and musician/engineer David Schwartz saw a burgeoning industry of pro 16/24-track and garage
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2006 TEC Awards
A record 750 people attended the 22nd Annual TEC Awards at the Hilton San Francisco to honor Hall of Fame inductee David Hewitt, Les...
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Issues in Modern Mastering
GOLDEN EARS TAKE ON VOLUME WARS, COMPETITION FROM THE MASSES AND THE GREAT WORKSTATION DEBATE
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Ken Latchney, 1966-2006
Engineer Ken Latchney passed away in his sleep on July 27; it is reported that he died of a heart attack. Latchney has mixed...
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Learn to Master
Mastering engineer Billy Stull (above), owner of Masterpiece Mastering and pro audio equipment manufacturer Legendary Audio, has created the Masterpiece
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Classic Tracks: The Romantics’ “What I Like About You”
Sometimes the rock 'n' roll myth of using music to get out of a dead-end life actually comes to pass—much as it did for...
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Atherton at A440
Engineer James Harley visited A440 Studios (Minneapolis) to mix an album by 17-year-old pop singer Alyssa Atherton. A440 is equipped with Pro Tools HD3
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Timeless Poetry
Bass player, producer and engineer Jaxsn engineered songs by Reverend Benjamin Martin in his Jaxsn Music studio (Hartford, Conn.). Delroy Baker produced
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Kevorkian at Avatar
Avatar Studios' (New York City) resident mastering veteran, Fred Kevorkian, has put the finishing touches on many of the season's significant new releases,
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Cutting Room Mastering
Mastering engineer Dave McNair at work in his new Cutting Room studio in New York City After 10 years on Broadway, The Cutting Room...
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Precision and Beyond
Way back in high school science and math classes, we learned about precision and the concept of three significant figures (sig figs). For example,...