Dave,
Just read your metadata article of 2002. Now in 2010, things have stabilized a bit. Its old news like this that confuses people. If you want to be helpful, send your members here (WebEd: Filed under "Recommended Practices" at the Advanced Television Systems Committee website: PDF A/85 – Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television).
Al

I am an experienced audio engineer and I had a little question. I have a live sound stage that I am constantly working on, and I have some electrical RF issues wherein any unbalanced signal (guitars mostly) is almost inaudible compared to the origional signal. Is there such thing as a balanced cable for guitars or is there any other way around this with out re-wiring the whole stage?

Hello Dave!


I'm thinking of using a pair of Beolab3 as nearfield monitors for my studio but am wondering about the wiring.

B&O provide wires with PowerLink / 3.5 Jack connections, which require adaptors to fit with common usb/firewire soundcards outputs.

Maybe you use a different set up?


Thanks a lot!

Hello Dave,

I'm very uplifted by what I've read here about control room acoustics and wide-dispersion speakers, as I have always disliked the trend of damping everything to death... I'm going to give your Moulton Room recipe a try, but I have two questions that I hope you will clarify for me before I start doing the woodwork:

1) Does the dampened masonite wall need to have an airtight seal to the existing walls to work properly?

2) I want to soffit-mount my JBL 4408's. Do their fronts have to be flush to the masonite or to the damping material in front of the masonite?

BTW, is this the proper way to contact you? I tried to register, but recieve no confirmation mail....
[Dave's contact address can be found under "About". I went ahead and activated your member status. Sorry to say, Hotmail is not a reliable provider. - the webguy]

Thank you so much for publishing all these "GOODIES"! I´m definitely going to order your book!

Regards,

René Thomsen

Hi Dave!

Thanks for the email. Anyway, that'd be me. You remember the Milan studio, eh? Wowsers, as Inspector Gadget used to say.

Best,

Dave

Hi Dave;
I stumbled across your site while doing a Google search on kick miking technique. Are you the same Dave Moulton that used to run Dondisound Studios in Milan (then Red Hook), NY? As a young teenager with a keen interest in electronic music I was always chomping at the bit take some of your courses but never had a car or the scratch to do so. Who knew that 40 some-odd years later the miracle of the Internet might actually make this finally possible. Keep up the great work!

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Phillip.

Best regards,

Dave

Hello Dave,
I came across your article and found it to be an interesting read.

I beleive you may have identified the root cause and solution regarding sum...

Keep listening, in itself is a science.

Ciao,

Philip Richardson
http://www.trueanalog.com

Hi Dave, I wanted to say thank you for all I learned from you reading recording magazine. I am a regular on KvR and someone posted a link to your M/S article. (great read) I was surprised to see how close you are, I'm just a few feet from the N. Chelmsford line on Middlesex Street.

When Mars was in Natick I worked with a guy named Ron who called you his mentor, Recording Magazine also interviewed my 2nd cousin Rob Chiarelli, who btw now is in the mic business http://www.gauge-usa.com/

Myself I'm a 50 year old guitar player/songwriter...my link has my gear which includes Samplitude 10.2 pro and some of my songs as well. I was quite surprised to see how close you are to me, just out rte 40.

Not to sound too forward but I would love to take a ride out sometime to see your facilities. (no I'm not job hunting lol) Perhaps oneday also book some time to do some mixing down the road. If this is okay please drop me an email or let me know here as I'll be bookmarking this page right now.

Thank you again for all your sharing of knowledge, I stopped getting recording mag years ago but that magazine brought me into the digital world of recording. Looking forward to hearing from you

Hi Dave!

I just discovered this site, and find it very helpful. The articles on EQ, and Comb Filtering especially have made me view things differently: I have a home office where I do record things, and sometimes they sound good, other times not. Now I want to control the environment much more, and be able to foresee how to get the results I'm after.

I am a norwegian guy who through your writing about comb filtering discovered a standing wave, a very loud, muddy peak at 100hz while recording my acoustic guitar (playing G and G# on the thick E string) with a rode Nt1A (a large-diaphragm mic). I'm recording in a tiny room (3,5 x 2 meters) made of wood. I have duvets or sleeping bags and a book shelf on the inner half (the recording part) of the ceiling and walls of the room to deaden the sound, but the rest of the room is as it is. How would you deal with this 100 hz problem? I guess I should put something on the other halve of the room, but I don't know what that should be - I use that part mostly for writing, and there's a door there.

Best regards, hope you have the time to advice me a bit, and thanks anyway for this clearly written site!

-Gaute

Hi Phil!

Thanks for the kind thoughts. I'm glad it all worked for you. Nice how the whole thing ties together so well, isn't it?

Best regards,

Dave

Dave,

It is great to see many of my classmates have signed your guest book. M,P &E 1989.
As a clinical chemist going to Berklee and having you as a teacher really solidified music for me. Then years later finding the Schillinger System and putting math and music together really made music click.

Peace,
Phil DiTullio

Mr. Moulton,

I can't thank you enough for this website and all of your wonderful information! I will be buying/reading your book.

Sincerely,

Mike Nelson

Hey Dave,
I'm an audio engineering student at NESCOM. I'm a big fan of your book, it's a great resource, very readable, and I keep re-reading it and getting more out of it.

This summer and over the course of the fall semester, I will be producing, recording, mixing, and mastering an album for a string quartet for my senior project. I'd like to know what your experience has been for stereo and/or surround recording of similar projects. If you could point me to articles that you or other people have done on the subject, that would be great

I've gotten to try out some of the stereo techniques you list in the book, and so far the one I like best is mid-side, but I'm not sold on any one technique(I'll be doing some more tests to try to make up my mind). I'd like to try out some kind of surround recording set up too, and I'm also thinking about setting up a dummy head to try out binaural recording to see how that sounds. Any tips or suggestions are welcome.

Thanks, Jake

Hi David!

Is there anyone in Fredonia that would be willing to help my 86 year old Father-in-Law set up a new turntable? I set him up with a new Numark TT with SPU cartridges for stereo and 78's from KAB. It looked to be plug & play but there is some wire attachments and setup adjustments. He has been in touch with a store in Buffalo to do it but he will no longer drive there alone. He is an interesting fellow, a music and jazz (pre-bop) anthologist with an archive of vinyl that may be of interest to the University after he is done transferring his favorites to CD on the recorder we just bought him.

Thanks for your attention, alan

Hi, My family also attended Juilliard. Maybe we played in the School Orchestra ? My dad had a small recording studio AC Recording and Electronics, He is now retired. ,,,,Great Articles. Thanks. 'JoJo' Chen

Hi Steve!

Thanks for your kind thoughts regarding Mid/Side thinking. Actually, you need to thank Bob Ludwig, who turned me on to it as a way of thought about stereo, as opposed to just a trick used for a certain coincident stereo microphone configuration. Also, thanks to IzoTope, for a beautiful implementation of the concept in Ozone4.

Thanks Bob! Thanks Izo!

Best regards,

Dave

Mr. Moulton,
I meandered my way over here from an article of yours that was posted on iZotope's web site concerning Mid/Side thinking, and was compelled to comment. I'm about as green in the art/science of mastering as can be found, and have thrown myself head first into this adventure mainly through the necessity of mixing and mastering a demo album for my rather diverse 4 piece modern rock band.

The many marathon reading sessions on the subjects of mixing and mastering have taught me quite a lot. However, your article on Mid/Side thinking really struck a chord (no pun intended). It eloquently put to words what I've been chasing for decades, since my first home-made analog circuit I assembled on stripboard back when I was 16 that essentially amplified the difference signal and cut out the Mid content! I've been making mix tapes and CDs for personal listening using this 9V gadget of mine (and a recent C++ all-digital adaptation) and suddenly I feel vindicated! No more shameful sessions of digging into commercial mixes spanning 30-40 years listening for deep-buried details! I've been a closet Mid-Sider for decades and have suddenly seen my affliction given an official name, and I can now be proud of it!

I'll no doubt be spending a great deal of time on your site soaking up as much knowledge from the multitude of articles, so I'll issue my thanks in advance. In the meantime, I have some fresh Stereo material to go listen to... digging into L-R material no longer seems as illicit and forbidden as it used to. LOL!
All the best.

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Rob! I'm glad you're finding the website and articles useful. That was my hope!

Best regards,

Dave

Dave,
Thanks for all the great information. I think I've learned more from reading your papers, as well as those of your associates, than I have from the many books I've read, classes I've attended and the evening internship I did some years ago. Your articles have cleared up a lot of conflicting information I've acquired over time and they translate well to real world application too.

Best wishes,
Rob