John Mellancamp’s recent album “No Better Than This” was recorded by the singer and “O Brother, Where Art Thou” music producer T-Bone Burnett using a single vintage RCA 77DX microphone and a ...

Why do so many musicians, engineers and producers still prefer to make their recordings in the pure analog domain on magnetic tape? Well, it just sounds different than digital recording, and in many ...

San Francisco, California – June 22, 2020 – Award-winning producer, engineer and mixer, Glen Robinson, has spent the past four decades making records with some of the most iconic names in music.

Every sound you hear in real life is analog, but digital recording converts the original sound into a sequence of numbers. No wonder analog and digital sound so different! Ex-movie theater ...

The current resurgence of vinyl shows that the digital age never did snuff out analog listening. Analog recording methods, however, are effectively DOA. To find that old dinosaur, you might have to ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

In last week’s episode, PBS pop-science magazine show Wired Science covered the issue of analog vs digital sound – and predictably, the piece was highly compressed and lacked in dynamic range. The ...

In previous installments of the AudioFile, we’ve talked about basic PCM audio, which encodes audio into a series of numbers that a computer can play or manipulate. We’ve also discussed the process of ...

For the past 30 years, Everett musician Sean Wolcott has collected artifacts from a bygone era of music. Wolcott’s studio, Soundview Analog Recorders, is filled with analog recording equipment from ...