I've seen your living room: your rig, which started out as a 4-track cassette recorder and a DX-7, now has engulfed the entire room, expanding like some...
Anyone who has played Tascam's GigaSampler or GigaStudio (originally developed by NemeSys Music Technology) readily understands why it is rapidly becoming...
Although the harmonica can be played sweetly, it's not intrinsically a sweet-sounding instrument. Rather, it ranks high on the list of potentially annoying...
From its humble beginnings with pianists accompanying silent movies to the platinum-selling soundtracks for today's films and television shows, the union...
A microphone's job is simple: it converts an acoustic sound into an electrical signal that corresponds to the original waveform as closely as possible....
You have the band's home page up. The counter works. You've even sold some CDs. You're about to breathe a sigh of relief, but then you sense them coming:...
In 1980, James Demeter was thumbing through a tube-electronics book when he stumbled upon the schematic for a cathode follower circuit. That circuit would...
So you've bitten the proverbial bullet and installed a mixer or workstation software application with surround panners, set up a 5.1 monitoring system,...
In a perfect world, every device in your studio racks would integrate seamlessly with its neighbors, your levels would always be hot without a hint of...
Posting audio on your Web site involves three easy steps. First, create the sound file in an appropriate format. Next, transfer that audio file to your...
For some engineers, all it takes is a glimpse of vocal session, 3 p.m. on the day's studio calendar to make their shoulders tighten and skin turn red....
Although the MPX 500 and, to a much lesser extent, the MPX 100 let you edit parameters to dial in custom effects, trailblazing beyond presets can be difficult because of an almost complete lack of documentation about those parameters....
Among the most misused audio terms are volume, level, and gain. During the past 15 years, many fundamental music-technology concepts have been explained...
Use the right shortcuts to get more work done with less effort. Every time you have to redo a task or repeat a series of actions, you probably wonder...
Before the Internet, e-commerce, and Napster, if you wanted a record, you had to go to a record store and buy it. If your tastes ran to music more challenging...
During the past 15 years, many fundamental music-technology concepts have been explained in Square One (originally titled From the Top). In 1997 EM technical...
Mixing in surround doesn't mean you have to take out a second mortgage. EM goes shopping at retail electronics stores for affordable consumer receivers and subwoofers that are well suited for surround applications....
