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A scathing indictment of the megalithic entertainment conglomerate Clear Channel and its devastating effect on music and the people who make it.
Building a mix from the ground up with Debra Soule's "Everlasting".
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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I remember the first synthesizer I ever played. It was a Roland Juno 106.
Many of you are already guessing my age. You're right.
The Juno 106 was one of the first affordable programmable synthesizers for the masses.
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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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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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Joel Braverman
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I was tired of turning up the inputs on my mixer to record my hiss, um, I mean my Bass guitar and decided it was time to get a direct box. I didn't know what to get, so I asked the folks who made my bass - Warrior Instruments (http://www.warrior-w1.com) what to get - they recommended the Bass Driver DI.
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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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Jose-Maria Catena
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Recording audio on a computer places demands on the computer never anticipated by the computer's creators or operating system manufacturers.
For example, if you record on a large disk formatted with FAT32 in Windows 95, Windows will format the disk with small block sizes.
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Lionel Dumond
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Part 1: eQs and As
As the competent and conscientious recording engineer that you surely are, you've taken great care to record your (or your client's) latest opus.
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Rip Rowan
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One of the worst aspects of running a studio on a computer is the lack of a console.
I really miss being able to just reach out and grab a knob and turn. And I'm not alone. The recent drop in DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) prices means that lots of people are taking the home studio plunge.
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Jim Roseberry
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One of the most exciting products to make headlines recently is the Yamaha DSP Factory DS2416.
The Yamaha DS2416 offers the mixing power of the Yamaha 02R digital mixer, complete with 24 channels of digital mixing, on-board digital effects and dynamics processors -- along with everything else professionals need - plus 16 tracks of hard disk recording with up to 32 bit resolution.
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Joel Braverman
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I've been using the Behringer Composer for a few weeks and so far I'm very happy with it. The cost is low ($250) yet the unit is very transparent, with fast gate response.
The Composer is a dual-channel compressor / expander, noise gate, and peak limiter.
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Philip Cody
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It's Friday afternoon. You're home by yourself . . . as usual. The UPS guy has just dropped off a three by five foot box of God-knows-what. The return address on the shipping label reads "SteinWalk On-Line Entertainment." You scratch your foggy noggin, trying to remember what you might have ordered that could possibly be so big.
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Philip Cody
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I got into this year's NAMM convention courtesy of Celia Biggs, who works at SONY up here in Eugene. Celia's an attractive, middle-aged woman who lives a couple of houses down from me. She gave me a pass to this NAMM thing, saying how she thought it might help to expand my horizons.
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