Interviews
By John Baccigaluppi, Eli Crews
On a beautiful day in early March, Oz Fritz showed up at the door of New, Improved Recording — a studio I co-own in Oakland, California. He had been hired by multi- instrumentalist/singer Mark Growden to co- produce and engineer Mark's new record Saint Judas. I was pretty nervous. This was the...
Interviews
From the first moment another engineer raved about a Little Labs DI to me, I knew that this company was onto something special. It t...
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Though he's the first to tell you that he's still finding his voice, Mike Odmark's sonic signature had arguably begun...
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In the fall of 2008 I was hired to help build a temporary home studio in the California...
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The name Jim Scott has graced many excellent albums since he made his debut as first...
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During the past several years I've had the good fortune of learning recording...
The last chapter in the "Jitter Saga" has yet to be written. But the penultimate chapter has just been written by Grimm Audio, who have challenged the most sacred concept -the commonly-held notion that internal clock always performs better than external. Digital clocking has been a hot topic among...
Steinberg Nuendo has been my main DAW for a couple years now, and during that time, both Nuendo and its sibling application Cubase took two minor steps in version number, but with each update, I was impressed with what I felt were significant new capabilities (Tape Op #68). Two years after the...
feature offers huge flexibility for tailoring dynamic rhythms or accents to really fit the mood of the composition; and using the grooves as a MIDI template, it's easy to substitute the triggered DrumCore sounds with your own samples! This brings us to the DrumCore Toolkit standalone application,...
For me, "perfect rooms" are boring. I like to hear the walls bounce and the floor shake. Spaces with character change the way we perceive both the music we love and the music we make. Unfortunately, if the rooms we mix in are less than perfect, elements in the vibe and nuances of our mixes may...
Even though I finished a review of more than 80 small-diaphragm mics last summer (Tape Op #72), I'm still discovering and testing SD mics and expect to do so on an ongoing basis -probably for the rest of my recording life. For those who missed that article, my tests focused on mono recordings of my...
Before you read F. Reid Shippen's review below, let me first explain to you why I chose a Monitor ST/SR system for the client theatre at The Station, a NYC-based video production facility that I co-own. One of my initial experiences with Dangerous Music was during my first year as Gear Reviews...
Strings are notorious for being the least life-like patch in any sample library, and as of a couple years ago, I believed that I would never work with a realistic string sample without taking out a loan. However, after demoing Dan Dean Solo Strings Advanced, I gleefully announce that my search is...
Stylus RMX has been on the music scene since 2004 and has been and continues to be a "go to" tool for good reason. There simply hadn't been anything before it that could manipulate real audio files on Windows and Mac systems with the speed and complexity that Stylus RMX could, and it's still the...
In my composition work, I have spent countless hours assembling a virtual orchestra using a variety of libraries and numerous MIDI channels for each of the individual instruments that make up each orchestra section. Even after assembling a working template, there is always the struggle to get the...