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Many of the articles on these pages originally appeared in magazines such as Recording and TV Technology. Out of deference to the publishers involved, works written in the last two years will generally not be shown.

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Surround Sound’s Field of Dreams: If We Build It, Will They Come?

Make sense of all those channels gathering on the horizon. Dave reports on the Technical Conference on Multichannel Audio at AES.

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• Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine

March 2003

Taking Stock: How Important Is High Resolution Audio, Anyway?

An epic discussion of high resolution digital audio.

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• Digital Audio • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine

September 2000

Taming the Big Wave

Getting Control of Low Frequencies in the Studio and Control Room

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• Acoustics • Studio Design • Recording Magazine

January 1997

Taming Wild Mastering Levels

Discussion of a critical development in the brave new world of digital audio: loudness inflation.

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• Mixing • Recording Industry • Recording Magazine

January 1999

The Tascam TM-D8000 Digital Mixing Console: An Overview

Another offering in the low-cost digital console sweepstakes.

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• Equipment • Recording Magazine

August 1998

Tips ‘n Tricks for Mastering

If Ya Gotta Master At Home, Some Thoughts On How To Minimize Your Pain

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• Mixing • Recording Magazine

September 2004

TV Audio IS Getting Better, And We’re Learning To Use Metadata Too!

How television engineers (attempt to) broadcast audio signals intact from the control room to the end-user's set-top box.

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• Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine

October 2003

Ultra Audio on the BL5

"represents a true reinvention of the loudspeaker as we know it"

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• News

July 2004

The Wacky World of Blind Testing

An introduction to reducing bias in our sound judgments.

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• Measurement • TVTech Magazine

November 1999

Way Beyond Spectral Management: Compression as Timbre

Dave discusses COMPRESSION. Y'know, making the soft stuff loud and the loud stuff soft.

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• Mixing • Recording Magazine

April 1994

We Want Really Accurate Recordings, Right? Or Do We?

And in this column, I really get down to it. Here we go, with the awful, terrible and painful truth. I’m sorry to be the one to tell ya...

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• Hearing • Producing • TVTech Magazine

May 2000

Whadda Ya Mean, It’s Indistinguishable From Chance?

A pair of articles exploring the difference between knowing something for sure, and dumb luck.

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• Measurement • TVTech Magazine

June 2000

Whaddya Mean It’s Inaudible? Why, I Know A Guy…

The ongoing debate of what it means when something is "audible" or not.

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• Hearing • Measurement • TVTech Magazine

January 2000

Whaddya Mean The Sound Is Fluffy?

Exploring the tenuous relationship between words and sounds.

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• Measurement • TVTech Magazine

June 1999

What’s This Mastering Business, Anyway?

The final step of preparing a recording for release in its final format (such as a CD).

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• Mixing • Recording Magazine

September 1998

What About BIG Studio Monitors

Do You Really Need Them? How Do You Use Them?

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• Loudspeakers • Recording Magazine

March 1995

What Do We Mean By Audibility?

Attempting to understand what, exactly, is the difference between hearing something and not hearing something. Not as simple as it sounds.

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• Hearing • Measurement • Recording Magazine

December 1998

What Happens When Our Willing Suspension of Disbelief Hits the Wall? Uh-oh!

Discussing the limits of music specifically composed for performance playback on a set of surround sound loudspeakers.

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• Loudspeakers • davemoulton.com • Recording Magazine

June 2002

What IS The Sound Of One Amp Clipping?

Our Intrepid Author Ventures (or Sinks?) Deeper Into The Swamps of Subjective Listening Tests

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• Equipment • Measurement • Recording Magazine

September 1994

Which Way To Go? More Resolution or More Channels?

A look at future audio formats.

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• Digital Audio • Recording Industry • Recording Magazine

August 1998

“It’s A Wine-Tasting, Not A Shoot-Out,” Tom Said.

Checking Out Eighteen In-Yer-Face® Monitors In A Single Day!

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• Loudspeakers • Recording Magazine

June 1995

Yeah, I Think I Can Hear It! Wow! It’s Like, Totally Awesome!

The discussion of blind versus subjective listening continues.

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• Measurement • TVTech Magazine

December 1999

A Year Later: Musings About 9/11/01, Our World and Our Industry

A year in review.

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• davemoulton.com • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine

September 2002

The Zen of Specifications

Lies, damn lies, and audio specifications! This article talks about making sense of them all.

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• Measurement • Recording Magazine

April 1993

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