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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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Bruce Richardson
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Getting the bass sound right is one of the hardest parts of recording modern music. When the average listener subconsciously listens to music, the bass is the instrument that they're listening to. And they probably don't know it.
So, how to record that killer-thumpin-groovular bass?
I do a lot of work with Chuck Rainey.
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Rip Rowan
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Limiters, gates, expanders, multiband compressors, de-essers, normalizers, ultramaximizers. These are all variants of the basic compressor, and they all can do a lot to help you get the most out of your mix.
If you missed part one of this series, go back and give it a read.
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Garry Simmons
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There is quite a buzz about the Yamaha DSP Factory these days.
The DSP Factory is a PC-based recording system built around the DS2416 soundcard and optional input/output (I/O) components. And with the imminent release of the DSP Factory, the buzz is growing even louder.
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Philip Cody
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It's Deneueve! She's smiling at me from my PC monitor. Her eyes beckon and she says, "Is that an intercontinental ballistic missile in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" I reach out for her. I touch her face and her face becomes the sun.
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Rip Rowan
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When I was first starting out as a musician, I was blown away by even small recording studios.
The studio where my band was cutting its teeth was a little garage operation. The owner had converted the utility room and garage into a control room and a studio.
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Garry Simmons
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Nearly 600 manufacturers of all things musical crammed the Nashville Convention Center and the Nashville Arena from July 10th through the 12th for the summer NAMM show. There was obviously more to see and write about than space allows, so this report will focus on Soundcards and Software for the PC-based studio, plus Other Cool Stuff.
As an aside, I've heard that NAMM stands for Not Available, Maybe May (when referring to the January show).
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Ted Perlman
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All writers want it, need it, got to have it. Ain't no stopping them. A "hit". A #1 record. The big payoff. The realization of all their dreams. Something their mama can show to the neighbors to prove that her son (or daughter) is not a bum, but a big deal songwriter with a "hit".
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Jay Kahrs
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Another movie, another magic box, another magazine and another column.
What does this have to do with anything? Plenty.
I asked Rip if I could start writing for ProRec and after a long phone conversation about what I should write about, we came up with the idea of doing an advice column.
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Rip Rowan
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It was with deep regret and sorrow that I returned the VoxBox unit sent to me by Manley Labs for evaluation.
How deep, you might ask.
Well, I considered selling my car or my furniture to keep it.
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Pete Leoni
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Hey Ted? How about laying down some funky rythym guitar on this track, I'll zip it over to you.
Hey Pete? Could y'all put some of that New Orleans/Dr. John style piano on this file, using that 9 ft Baldwin at your place? I'll e-mail you the rough track and oh, by the way, I need it back in LA in an Hour.
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Joel Braverman
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After reading the marketing hype on Arboretum's web site for their plugin effects package, I was almost drooling at the idea of testing them out. Are they worth it? At $299, they are certainly less expensive than some competing effects packages.
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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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