Classics

Over the Limit

by Rip Rowan

The seminal article blasting the modern mastering industry for singlehandly destroying a generation of great music.

Greed and Power:

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.

Point-to-Point III:

Debra Soule
by Rip Rowan

Building a mix from the ground up with Debra Soule's "Everlasting".

Radio, Radio

by Bill Park

A comprehensive explanation of the wholesale changes in the radio industry stemming from the 1996 Telecom Act.

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All Things Must Pass Away

Bill Park
When we speak of art, and in particular the art of music, we are always relating to how the music has affected each of us on a personal level. Few musical artists have so broadly affected not just the music, but also the culture of the western world as the Beatles.
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Ten Powered Nearfields Reviewed

Rip Rowan
The last three years have been exceptionally good for powered loudspeakers. This is good and bad. Good, because there are so many excellent choices now. For the most part these speakers all sound great, and they're generally better than most of the midfield monitors available ten or so years ago.
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Behringer Truth B2031

Rip Rowan
The Behringer Truth B2031 is a biamplified monitor featuring an 8" polycarbonate woofer and a 1" ferrofluid-cooled titanium tweeter. A 150 watt amplifier drives the bass speaker while a 75 watt amplifier powers the tweeter. The tweeter is mounted into a computer-designed waveguide horn to improve imaging and time alignment.
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Roland DS-90

Rip Rowan
Roland has its own unique approach to the powered nearfield solution. The DS-90 is billed as a "digital monitor speaker". The system features 24 bit D/A converters that allow the user to feed the speakers directly from the digital output of a digital mixer.
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Dynaudio BM6A

Rip Rowan
The Dynaudio BM6A is a biamplified nearfield with a 7" woofer and a 1" silk dome tweeter. The speaker is the only one of the bunch to offer a rear-mounted port. The system enjoys a reputation has having excellent transient response, and excellent imaging, resulting primarily from the unusual and rather amazing woofer – this little 7" woofer sports a huge 3" voice coil and a powerful magnet, giving it a powerful electromagnetic engine.
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KRK V8

Rip Rowan
The KRK V8 is a biamplified system with an 8" woofer and 1" silk dome tweeter. Probably the most remarkable attribute of this system is its unusual gold-colored woven Kevlar woofer cone. The system is ported with a long, narrow port that extends across the bottom of the cabinet. The cabinet has the typical KRK look with it's stone-like Zolatone coating.
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Genelec 1031A

Rip Rowan
Probably the most popular biamplified nearfield in use in major production facilities, the Genelec 1031A has seen widespread acceptance in broadcast, video post, 5.1 mixing, and music production and mastering facilities (in fact all of the local post facilities I've worked in use Genelec 1031As). The 1031A offers an 8" polypropylene woofer and 1" metal dome tweeter housed in a computer-designed waveguide. Power is provided by a pair of 120 watt amplifiers.
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Travels of a Vintage Microphone Junkie, Part 3

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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The Aged 1957 Les Paul Gold Top Reissue

Bill Park
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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Tuning Windows 2000 for Audio

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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Roll Your Own Thunderbird

Pete Leoni

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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Greed and Power: the Spirit of Radio?

Bill Park

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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