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by Rip Rowan The seminal article blasting the modern mastering industry for singlehandly destroying a generation of great music.
the Spirit of Radio?
by Bill Park A scathing indictment of the megalithic entertainment conglomerate Clear Channel and its devastating effect on music and the people who make it.
Debra Soule
by Rip Rowan Building a mix from the ground up with Debra Soule's "Everlasting".
by Bill Park A comprehensive explanation of the wholesale changes in the radio industry stemming from the 1996 Telecom Act. | | | | | | | |
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Rip Rowan
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The most challenging tools for newcomers to the recording scene to understand are dynamics processors: compressors, expanders, noise gates and limiters. We are all familiar with tools like EQ, reverbs, choruses, flangers -- even if we don't know exactly how they work exactly we might understand what kinds of sounds they produce.
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Rip Rowan
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The Manley VoxBox is Manley Labs' entry into the current vogue: multi-effect voice processors. These devices typically couple a microphone preamp and compressor into a single unit.
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Rip Rowan
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Which is better, tube or semiconductor circuits? And if differences exist, what are these differences?
The tubes vs. semiconductors issue is both emotional and rational. Many leaders in audio technology continue to hold up the vacuum tube as the state-of-the-art in audio amplification.
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Rip Rowan
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I admit it. I'm a homereccer.
My wife barely remembers what I look like. My non-musician friends don't remember me at all. Good thing I don't have any kids or they'd be in a one-parent household.
My dog, bless his wagging tail, still loves me.
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Philip Cody
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"When I'm drivin' in my car,
And the man comes on the radio
He's tellin' me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination"
.....................(Mick Jagger/Keith Richard)
Where the do I want to go today?
Hey, Microsoft! I want to go fishing today.
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Pete Leoni
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Tube simulators, tape simulators, tube warmth? What in the world is this all about anyway?
Our fearless editor has commisioned me to write a report on these plugins, but I don't think it should be done without a little background info.
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Joel Braverman
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Walter Murch is known as the film editor and sound mixer for some of the best movies of our times - the Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient are just a few. Recently a popular Pro Audio magazine interviewed Mr.
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Jim Roseberry
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About the reviewer: As many of you know, I'm currently writing the US manual for Samplitude 2496. I work closely with SEK'D as an independent contractor, but I'm not an employee.
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Ted Perlman
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Drugs.
Uh, oh, here it comes. At some point everybody in the music business comes into contact with them, either by doing them ("Oh, it makes me s-o-o creative!") or by having to work with someone who has done them ("Could somebody please pick Joey up off the floor so we can get started").
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Ted Perlman
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Most songwriters tend to think the world revolves around such global-impacting issues as:
1. Will Ms. Big-Big-Big Star record one of my songs on her next album?
2. Will Mr. Big-Big-Bigger Star record one of my songs on his next album?
These questions are with them, morning, noon and night.
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Philip Cody
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I have an eight-track tape of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. It's in a box, in my attic, nestled among other mementos of my analog life ... a trumpet mouthpiece, a wire recording of Gene Krupa's big band that my uncle made in the early Fifties, a small, leather pouch with three New York subway tokens from when tokens were a quarter, an empty pack of Lucky Strikes ...
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Lionel Dumond
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Part Two: Whatchoo Talkin' 'Bout, Lionel?
Welcome back! As you will recall, in Part One of this article, I introduced this discussion of EQ on a mainly conceptual level, and gave an example of the most common role of EQ in modern pop recording -- as a tool to separate timbres across the frequency spectrum in a multitrack mix.
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