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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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Bill Park
| In the Field
So we have had the C-28s at the Benedum Center for a couple of weeks. The Pittsburgh Opera is presenting Puccini's "Turandot". Through the good graces of house sound engineer Chris Evans we have used the C-28 in the orchestra pit.
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Bill Park
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Am I in Heaven, or what!
The Gibson Les Paul. Quite a guitar. From Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton through the Allman Brothers and Joe Walsh, to Slash and... er... Les Paul... some of the most famous guitar players in the world have used the Les Paul to obtain their signature sounds.
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Jose-Maria Catena
| Virtual Memory
Windows 2000 does not allow disabling virtual memory. This is not a problem. I never recommend disabling VM, and Windows 2000 manages it much better than Win9X.
You can choose the disk volume where the VM file will be placed.
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Pete Leoni
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Once again it's time to build a new "Roll Your Own" Computer for audio!
A lot has changed since I wrote the last installment of "Roll Your Own". The price of both CPUs and memory modules has dropped dramatically.
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Bill Park
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Outside of the I. C. Light Amphitheater, a multipurpose venue on the banks of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, a small group of stagehands is walking in little circles.
Right now.
I just came from there, where I was walking in little circles in support of these stagehands.
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Rip Rowan
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You can't walk through a music store these days without having to step over an inexpensive large-diaphragm mic made in China. They're everywhere.
A dozen companies have jumped into the market, reselling mics that are made in China but which sport deceptively cool German names like Audio Deutchkraft (based in Washington) and BPM Studiotechnik (at least based in Germany).
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Rip Rowan
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Probably the hottest product to hit the audio world lately has been the Studio Projects line of condenser microphones. Discussion forums on the Internet are loud with posts to the effect that "you can't tell the difference between a C1 and a U87!" and that the Studio Projects mics are the best mics ever made.
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Rip Rowan
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One of the most exciting events in audio this year is the eagerly anticipated release of SONAR, Cakewalk's replacement for the Pro Audio line of applications. Following in the footsteps of Pro Audio 9, SONAR is an integrated MIDI sequencer and audio multitrack recorder.
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Bill Park
| How did this project come together?
In early September I was brainstorming ways to raise awareness for the studio in the community here. I was also trying to think of a way to raise some funds - and also create a small record label to release some local talent.
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Bill Park
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I don't really know Chris Mickle. I think that this is odd, since we are in the same business and have worked many of the same venues and worked with some of the same artists. Sort of a small word/big world situation. We've recently began bumping into each other on line, and find that we have a lot in common. Chris's live recording trucks turn up at places like South By Southwest and Red Rocks, and the client list includes such artists as Puff Daddy, Melissa Etheridge, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Ani DeFranco, Dave Mathews, and other high visibility artists.
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Bill Park
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Last month I detailed the fun that I had in acquiring a pair of vintage AKG C-28 microphones. This month I have done a lot more research into this model, replaced one of the capsules, corrected some errors in some of my earlier information, and spent a lot of time bending Tracy Korby's ear about my new acquisitions.
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Bill Park
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So Wither the Old?
I did get tired of the same old sound of the same old outboard gear. But there were a couple of categories of older gear that I never got tired of. Like I said above, old guitars, old amps, and old microphones really seem to retain their charm for me.
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