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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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How High Do We Really Need To Hear
What Really Happens To Them Ultrasonic Signals, Anyway?
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• Digital Audio
• Hearing
• TVTech Magazine
April 2000
The Intellectual Property Bargain
More Thoughts About Copyright
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• Copyright
• TVTech Magazine
October 2002
Issues pertaining to the composing of “minimalist” loudspeaker music for home theater arrays
Power Chords, Polyphonic Trains and Plain Old Phase
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• ASA Papers
• Loudspeakers
June 2006
The Key Ingredients for A Good Demo Recording
How to make recordings that demonstrate a musician's playing ability and expression well.
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• Producing
• Recording Magazine
June 1997
Kick/Bass Revisited: A New Dimension Is Added By Rap And Hip-Hop
doommmmfff doommmmfff doommmmfff da-doommmmfff
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• Producing
• Recording Magazine
August 1994
A Letter to Santa
Dave out of his mind with Christmas Spirits.
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• Humor
• Recording Magazine
December 1994
Liberal Arts Education and Professionalism: A New Perspective
How audio can actually work in a Liberal Arts curriculum.
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• Education
November 1988
A Little Bit More About Dither and Bits
Toby Mountain’s Dither Demo.
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• Digital Audio
• Recording Magazine
June 1997
Looking At MIDI Through the Wrong End of The Telescope
A Quick Review of Voltage Control Languages, and the Origins of MIDI
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• Digital Audio
• Recording Magazine
January 1995
Loudness: Why Can’t We Just Set the Level Once and For All?
Understand why levels all over the place in broadcast audio, and take a look at the P2Level Pilot.
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• Equipment
• Recording Industry
• TVTech Magazine
March 2003
Loudspeaker array as a musical composition genre
Composing in surround sound.
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• ASA Papers
• Loudspeakers
June 2006
The loudspeaker as musical instrument
An examination of the issues surrounding loudspeaker performance of music in typical rooms.
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• ASA Papers
• Loudspeakers
May 2003
A Loudspeaker That Raises the Bar! Finally!!
How the BeoLab 5 was born.
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• Loudspeakers
• TVTech Magazine
July 2003
The Mackie 32-Input 8•Bus Console: The Last Best Console?
Dave assesses a well-known multitrack analog mixing console.
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• Equipment
• Recording Magazine
June 1994
The Mackie Digital 8•Bus Mixing Console, Version 2.0
A review of Mackie's multitrack digital mixer, the Digital 8•Bus console.
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• Equipment
• Recording Magazine
November 1999
Making Loudspeakers And Control Rooms That Make Music “Sound Good”
An unabridged version of an article that originally appeared in Mix Magazine, edited by Moulton.
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• Acoustics
• Loudspeakers
• Studio Design
January 1999
Making Your Home Control Room The Best That It Can Be: Some Basic Principles
Seven issues you will need to address as you build the control room of your home studio.
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• Studio Design
• Recording Magazine
June 2002
The Microphone vs. the Ear
Why Recordings Don't Sound Quite Like the Real Thing and Some Things You Can Do About It. An informal introduction to the realities of psychoacoustics.
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• Acoustics
• Hearing
• Microphones
• Recording Magazine
May 1993
The Mikrodigi 360 Digital Microphone: 21st Century Technology Is Really Here!
Recording magazine declined to publish this one. Too bad it was for the April issue! They thought it was a joke!
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• Humor
• Microphones
April 1995
More About CODECs
They're everywhere: data compression strategies for digital audio.
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• Digital Audio
• TVTech Magazine
December 2002
More Rock and Roll Clichés For Fun And Profit
While Amateurs Plagiarize, Professionals Use What Works!
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• Producing
• Recording Magazine
July 1994
A new loudspeaker design
A case study of an effort to more fully integrate the loudspeaker into the playback room in a musical way.
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• ASA Papers
• Loudspeakers
May 2003
Nick Batzdorf Interviews David Moulton
Regarding Acoustics of Control Rooms and Loudspeakers.
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• Acoustics
• davemoulton.com
• Studio Design
• Recording Magazine
February 1999
NuVerb: Why, It’s Virtually a Reverb!
Dave reviews a reverb unit on a computer card.
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• Equipment
• Recording Magazine
January 1995
On Special Instructions, Computer Hell, and Time vs. Money
"A hell as certain as change, mortality, and the end of life as we know it." (Mark Parsons)
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• Software
• Recording Magazine
November 1994
On the Importance of Lyrics
Lyrics are a big deal, and we ignore them at our peril. Nonetheless, we DO tend to ignore them. Hopefully, this article may convince to change your musicianly ways regarding lyrics.
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• Producing
• Recording Magazine
October 1992
Panoramic Power Response: A Fresh Approach To Loudspeaker Dispersion and Control Room Design
Moulton's fresh take on monitoring in the recording studio.
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• Loudspeakers
• Studio Design
• Recording Magazine
September 2000
The PAQRAT - Making Your MDM Into A 20-Bit Recorder
Getting your 16-bit digital multitrack to function as a 20-bit recorder.
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• Digital Audio
• Equipment
• Recording Magazine
February 1996
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