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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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The Real World of Project Control Room Monitoring
How to Have Decent Listening Without Breaking Your Bank
LoudspeakersStudio DesignRecording Magazine
April 1997
The Royer R-121 Ribbon Microphone
What Goes Around Comes Around. A review of the new ribbon microphone from Royer, the R-121.
MicrophonesRecording Magazine
July 1999
Rules of Analysis
A few notes for AES.
Measurement
April 2003
The Saito Sessions
Chronicles the recording session of a classical soprano.
ProducingRecording Magazine
August 1995
Sensible Sound on the BL5
"demonstrably the finest loudspeaker system designed and manufactured thus far."
News
October 2005
Some Reminiscing About My Experiences With Subjective Testing
How Dave began his journey down the rabbit hole of audio perception measurement.
MeasurementTVTech Magazine
September 2001
Some Thoughts About Copyright
A discussion of copyright issues.
CopyrightTVTech Magazine
March 2010
Some Thoughts About Our Recent Day of Horror
Bad Audio and the Meaning of TV At A Time Like This. A piece from 2001.
davemoulton.comRecording IndustryTVTech Magazine
November 2001
Song Analysis Worksheet
A worksheet download for Dave's lecture on September 26th, 2009.
Producing
September 2009
So What’s So Good About Digital, Anyway?
Dave's take on the old debate over analog vs. digital audio.
Digital AudioRecording Magazine
June 1993
February 1995
July 1999
Speaker, Speaker, On The Wall, Who Sounds Coolest Of Them All?
If you sometimes have a hard time figuring out the best piece of gear to use, you're not alone. Moulton investigates the difference between "blind" and "sounds cool" testing methodologies.
MeasurementRecording Magazine
June 1994
Spectral Management, or, Ways To Think About EQ and Mixing
Dave talks about the huge range of sounds we can hear and how these dimensions should be approached from a mixing standpoint.
HearingMixingRecording Magazine
March 1993
Starting Over
My own personal life adventure building a home studio. This adventure is recounted in a series of "Starting Over" articles.
davemoulton.comStudio DesignRecording Magazine
April 1994
Starting Over II
Dave's adventure, continued. Monitoring.
Loudspeakersdavemoulton.comRecording IndustryStudio Design
April 1994
Starting Over III
Where Audio Hits The Air, The Zen Of Specs Takes On A Whole New Outlook. Dave loses it when it comes to fan noise (and he doesn't mean the cheering of his readers, either!).
davemoulton.comStudio DesignRecording Magazine
April 1994
Starting Over IV
Three Not-So-Easy Pieces About Starting Over: Care And Feeding Of The Median Plane.
davemoulton.comStudio DesignRecording Magazine
June 1994
Stereo Reconsidered: A+B/A-B: Another Way of Mixing
Dave explains how to listen in A+B/A-B, or "Sum and Difference" Listening and Mixing.
MixingRecording Magazine
January 1993
Straight Arrow Recording: A Profile
A Vermont studio. Mike Billingsley (inventor of the SASS mic) built this one.
Studio DesignRecording Magazine
May 1994
Subjective Testing in Your Own Home Studio
So You Wanna Find Out If You Can Hear 24/96 Audio
HearingMeasurementRecording Magazine
August 2001
September 2000
Taming the Big Wave
Getting Control of Low Frequencies in the Studio and Control Room
AcousticsStudio DesignRecording Magazine
January 1997
Taming Wild Mastering Levels
Discussion of a critical development in the brave new world of digital audio: loudness inflation.
MixingRecording IndustryRecording Magazine
January 1999
The Tascam TM-D8000 Digital Mixing Console: An Overview
Another offering in the low-cost digital console sweepstakes.
EquipmentRecording Magazine
August 1998
Tips ‘n Tricks for Mastering
If Ya Gotta Master At Home, Some Thoughts On How To Minimize Your Pain
MixingRecording Magazine
February 2010
Ultra Audio on the BL5
"represents a true reinvention of the loudspeaker as we know it"
News
July 2004
The Wacky World of Blind Testing
An introduction to reducing bias in our sound judgments.
MeasurementTVTech 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.
MixingRecording Magazine
April 1994

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