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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Jim Cunningham 11/10/11 06:32 AM, 0 CommentsArtificial reverberation, or echo as it is often called, is one of the most useful effects available to the recording engineer. Recently there has been an explosion of reverb devices available in the marketplace, and to compete for your dollars, they all must claim to be the best if not the ultimate machine of all time. Actually, each has strong and weak points, so the purpose of this article will be to investigate the four basic types and see how… View this story
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Friday, November 04, 2011
Gary D. Davis 11/04/11 08:43 AM,R-e/p: Dick, how did you choose an engineer for the Dylan album? Dick LaPalm: I left the decision up to Rob. I asked him who should do it. At the time we had 3 guys. Rob came back after a couple of days and said, “I should do it.” I said, “Fine.” R-e/p: Rob, why did you decide to do it? Rob Fraboni: Mainly because I was really familiar with Bob’s music, as well as The Band’s. I’ve been listening… View this story
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Barry Rudolph 09/22/11 09:00 AM,How do you review an icon? Often seen in photographs along with iconic people from dictators to heads of state to rock n’ roll stars, the Shure 55 is the most recognized microphone in the world. First produced in 1939, the original Model 55 Unidyne microphone was the first single-element unidirectional dynamic microphone. From its beginnings at that time being a cardioid pattern microphone, its smaller size made it a true classic that was affordable and accessible to all. Then… View this story
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Gary D. Davis 08/18/11 01:20 PM, 0 CommentsR-e/p: Tell us about redoing the control room for Village. GEORGE AUGSPURGER: From my standpoint, even before getting into the subtleties of those things that the client may like, there are a number of things you do in any control room. One is that you try to get the thing as nearly as possible to be bilaterally symmetrical. You’re stuck with two channel and four channel stereo, which are both oriented left and right, and to get any kind of… View this story
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Jerry Ferree 06/10/11 03:31 PM, 0 CommentsEveryone who listens to pop music has at some time heard that weird swishing effect swooping down through a drum solo or a vocal group making them sound rather like a long-distance short wave broadcast. Most engineers will tell you that this is caused by phasing, yet most have only a vague idea of the mechanics involved and few still are able to produce a controlled effect. Let’s take a quick look at what happens to produce this effect and… View this story
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Friday, June 03, 2011
Oliver Berliner 06/03/11 04:13 PM, 0 CommentsA short while ago a mild furor was generated when AM radio stations began to receive stereophonic promotion records and discovered to their horror that the soloists were 3 dB or more too loud when the stereo discs were played monophonically. It was quickly determined by these broadcasters that an instrument or voice which was recorded with equal intensity on both of the channels would encounter the effects of simple addition of the two portions and become at least fifty… View this story
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011
PSW Staff 04/05/11 10:25 AM, 2 CommentsRecording to an original Edison Cylinder machine is an incredible experience to watch. Thanks to Gerald Fabris of the Edison Historic Site, Bruno Caruso (great grand nephew of Enrico), the Hot Tamale Brass Band, the AES, the Audio Program at the New England Institute of Art and especially to Thomas Edison, we have the opportunity to watch a recording session right here. Recorded on February 2, 2010, 100 years to the day after the publishing of the recorded song “Take… View this story
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tom Lubin 03/30/11 09:35 AM,This article is the third and final in a multipart series. Additional articles in the series are available here. Building On The Roots Throughout the 20th century, the records of blues, hillbilly and folk artists of earlier times have been available for all to hear, providing a starting point for later performers to build on in their times. While this ethnic and regional music continued to evolve as an oral tradition, it was no longer necessary to follow these… View this story
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011Tom Lubin 03/22/11 09:25 AM,This article is the second in a multipart series. Additional articles in the series are available here. Columbia Records Then the public began to buy phonographs. In general these playback applications required a ready supply of pre-recorded material and in 1890 the D.C. operation began to sell pre-recorded cylinders under the Columbia label (thus the oldest record label in the world came into existence). The survival of this one company was due to its astute pursuit of alternate markets… View this story
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011Tom Lubin 03/15/11 12:59 PM,This article is the first in a multipart series. Additional articles in the series are available here. For the purposes of introduction, the gramophone and the phonograph have been considered a single invention since the former evolved out of the latter to eventually replace it. Both were inscribing, groove based systems. The gramophone/ phonograph was the keystone innovation on which the record industry was invented. A good place to begin an exploration of the technological development of the record… View this story
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