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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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More than any other song on this project, "Everything's a Lie" makes use of layered guitars and oddball noises. Most of the other songs on the CD, by comparison, are straightforward two-guitars-bass-and-drums arrangements.
The drums on this track were cut live, then cut into loops and reassembled into the final arrangement.
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Bill Park
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Keep On Growing
But after a while I realised that I wanted to go to another level. I was getting back into pure music for music's sake. I was getting seriously into playing guitar and my songwriting was developing.
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Bill Park
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Is That A Saftey Pin Through Your Nose, Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?BP: Now, Diamond Reo goes through some serious changes, and morphs from being a pop-rock band through that hard rock period, into being one of the first punk bands in Pittsburgh.
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Bill Park
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Drowning in the River...BP: Like you said, everything was hitting. Through the various people that the bunch of you knew, you had the ear of the majors, and a lot of stuff from our area was begining to take off.
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Garry Simmons
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Yamaha has long been associated with studio monitors. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the ubiquitous Yamaha NS10s grace the meter bridge of many a studio, great and small. With the introduction of the all-new MSP10 powered monitor and the SW10 powered subwoofer, Yamaha staking a claim in the ever-popular (and increasingly crowded) powered near-field market.
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Rip Rowan
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If there's been one trend in music gear in the last couple of years, it's been cheap mics and prosumer tube preamps. They're everywhere. The explosion in home recording has instantly created a market for these devices, and companies have rushed to market with all kinds of products to help you keep your wallet empty.
Make no mistake about it.
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Bill Park
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Last week I had occasion to attend one of the NARAS "Ask A Pro" Series events. This one was Called "Radio Today" and the panel contained radio execs, program directors, DJs, and label representatives.
It was an interesting, if somewhat disheartening event. The Spirit of RadioSince the late 1920s, it has been all about radio.
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D. Glen Cardenas
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Introduction
Look in any newsgroup devoted to DAW discussion and sooner or later there will be some sort of mention regarding favorite hard disks or preferred disk formatting techniques or optimum parameter settings or SOMETHING about the impact of specific hard drives on the performance of audio streaming.
Often, the argument starts with the personal preference between SCSI and IDE disk drives.
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D. Glen Cardenas
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In comparing IDE and SCSI it is important to understand that both types of drive are, from a "between the shells" point of view, the same.
Inside the Drive
Hard disks have a sealed case with one or more platters of magnetically coated media, a small synchronous motor designed to rotate the platters at a precise speed, and an actuator with one or more arms attached, each with a read/write head at the tip.
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D. Glen Cardenas
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When it comes to picking a drive for a DAW, you have a bit of a job ahead of you.
We looked at the two contending controller formats in the last sections, but that's just an overview. What about the specifications? What do you need to know about a drive's performance in order to make an intelligent choice regardless of which format you're interested in?
As it turns out, the specifications of both the drives and the controllers can lead you quite clearly to the best choice so long as you don't lose track of what you're after.
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D. Glen Cardenas
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So how do you get this so-called Bus Mastering to work anyhow?
First, let's make sure your ducks are in a row. You must have the following squared away:
1) A motherboard with the proper chip set for bus mastering.
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