Bob Olhsson: Looking at Digital Recording
Interview with Bob Olhsson: Looking at Digital Recording
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Bob Olhsson: Magic & the Motown Sound!
It's the mid-60s and tubes are glowing hot in studios from 30th Street to Abbey Road. Wheels are in motion and the legacy of Leonard Chess and Sam Phillips is welling up in the ears of America. In Det...
Leanne Ungar: Recording Leonard Cohen & Laurie Anderson
By Chad Blinman
I first worked with Leanne Ungar in 1992, when I was an assistant engineer at The Complex in West Los Angeles. The record was Leonard Cohen's The Future. Leanne has been engineering records for Leonar...
Howie Weinberg: Mastering engineer of the stars
Howie Weinberg got his start in the Masterdisk mailroom, believe it or not. As a huge fan of music, Howie sought a purpose to support his passion, and he had always dreamed of working in the field of...
The Bevis Frond: Psychedelic UK home recordings
The Bevis Frond's 1986 debut Miasma could have come from any time, or maybe no time. Nick Saloman's home-recorded, somewhat primitive recording techniques would have fallen under the "lo-fi" moniker h...
2 in 1 studio: House of Faith/Guerilla Recording
By Ian Swanke
Bart Thurber, once described by a record reviewer as the punk rock Phil Spector, has a favorite expression — "An engineer drives a train — I'm a recording guy". He's a West Coast legend to the 1,800 p...
Build a tube Mic Pre: Build Your Own Two Channel Vacuum Tube Mic Preamp!
When asked to come up with a "do it yourself" tube mic pre project, I thought long and hard about what topology to go with. I designed a number of different hybrid tube/discrete class A designs (elimi...
Guitar Tuning Nightmares Explained: Part 1 of 2 by Jack Endino
By Jack Endino
Gee, that's just about everyone, isn't it?