Chazz Lyons: Surviving in Paradise.
by Larry Crane
One afternoon, late last summer, I found myself walking down a dead end street, two blocks off the famous Waikiki beach in Hawaii, looking for the address where I was to meet the owner of a local...
interviews
We talk at length with record-makers about how they make records.
Chris Muth: Behind the Gear with Dangerous Music
by Rich Wells
Chris Muth of Dangerous Music knows his stuff. Formerly a mastering gear designer at Sterling Sound in New York City, Muth now co-owns Dangerous Music with partner Bob Muller, a unique combination...
Studio Security
by Anthony Collins
There is an epidemic sweeping the music industry. No, it's not an STD or computer virus, but something just as bad: Studios are falling prey to equipment theft. Audio gear is being stolen from...
Doug Easley: His dad digs Loretta Lynn
by John Baccigaluppi, Larry Crane
Easley McCain Recording in Memphis has been a fixture in the recording scene since the early '90s, initially with local records with bands like the Grifters, and later nationally with bands like...
Scott Bomar: Standing on the shoulders of giants...
by Larry Crane
Scott Bomar just turned 30, yet he's been playing bass professionally for 15 years, on stage and in studios. His band, Impala, churned out garage rock in the nineties, and eventually Scott's...
Xopher Davidson: If this made a sound, it would sound cool
by Peter Nyboer
Don Coffey Jr.: The Art of Guerilla Recording
by Tim Lee
Don Coffey Jr. admits that he stumbled onto his career as a studio engineer by accident. From the early 1990s until last year, the 37-year-old native of Knoxville, Tennessee, was the drummer and...
Bill Skibbe & Jessica Ruffins: Behind the Gear with Key Club Recording Company
by Garrett Haines
Many of us would be fortunate to record national bands, build great sounding studios, or design our own line of pro audio gear in our lifetime. But over the past ten years Bill Skibbe and Jessica...
Dan Richards & The Listening Sessions: Dan Richards & The Listening Sessions
by Devon Bryant
So you've saved up your pennies and now you're ready to add to your mic collection. Or maybe you've had your eye on some preamp recommended by that one guy at the local music retailer. Maybe you're...
múm: The Best of Both Worlds: Mixing Digital and Analog in Iceland
by Éanna Cunnane
The Icelandic group Múm started off as a four piece mixing inventive but orthodox electronica with acoustic instruments. Now they're a three-piece, and their music - neither wholly...
Rudy Van Gelder: Recording Coltrane, Miles, Monk, etc.
by Sasha Zand
Rudy Van Gelder's legend looms large, yet he has avoided most interviews throughout his 50-plus years in the recording biz. He has never discussed his techniques, and even in the following...
John Tchicai
by John Baccigaluppi
I first met John Tchicai when I recorded his 1995 album, Love is Touching. I was several days into the project when I learned that, among others, he had played with John Lennon, Albert Ayler and...