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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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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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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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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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Many things will affect the performance of digital audio software in general, and multi-track production software in particular. The performance of the disk drive being used to store the audio data is only the beginning.
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D. Glen Cardenas
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The SCSI interface is an old timer. Before there was IDE, there was SCSI. It was used not only for disk drives, but scanners, printers and even to interface the PC with synthesizers and automated sound and light boards.
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D. Glen Cardenas
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IDE, or more formally, IDE/ATA, is the most common system for connecting a hard drive to a PC.
In modern systems (to which this discussion is limited), they plug directly into the motherboard through a 40 pin cable.
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D. Glen Cardenas
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By default, IDE disk drives transfer data to and from the system using a protocol called "Programmed Input/Output" or PIO. This technique requires the CPU to get into the middle of things by executing commands that shuffle the data to or from RAM and the drive.
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D. Glen Cardenas
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What is the difference between regular DMA and bus mastering?
Plenty!
Bus Mastering Logistics
First, let's look at bus mastering again but from a DMA point of view. A bus is a data transport.
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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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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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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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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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