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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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About Women In Audio, AES Style, And Losing (Or Finding) Your Voice
We're in a sexist business, and mostly we really don't like to deal with that fact. Time to get sensitized!
• Education • Recording Industry • Recording Magazine
May 1995
Ah Never Met A Data Ah Didn’t Like, Will Said
A discussion of Dolby's metadata schemes.
• Producing • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
June 2002
Baby, It’s A Brave Brave New New World Out There
Editorial piece on the emergence of cheap digital consoles and surround sound.
• Equipment • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
November 1997
Bad Audio and Some Unintended Consequences
Dave Gardiner brings up the issues surrounding legacy noise reduction (Dolby) in TV audio.
• Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
May 2002
The Brave New World: Bad Audio Fixed?
Dave discusses trends in television audio and techniques for improving it.
• Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
December 2001
The Brave New World: Raising the Standards of Quality
Audio standards worth striving for.
• Digital Audio • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
April 2001
A Couch Potato Rants About Video Quality
What happens when an audio geek starts looking at his TV more carefully.
• Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
March 2002
Dave Goes To The Grammies
Can Glitz ‘n Glamour Seduce Our Intrepid Audio Explorer? You Bet!
• Humor • davemoulton.com • Recording Industry • Recording Magazine
June 2000
Dolby C: How Dolby Sees It
A summary and interesting look back at the history of Dolby's noise-reduction scheme.
• Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
July 2002
The Growing Gulf Between High Resolution and Low Res
Two diverging trends in audio standards; which fork do you take?
• Digital Audio • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
April 2003
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.
• Equipment • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
March 2003
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.com • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
November 2001
Starting Over II
Dave's adventure, continued. Monitoring.
• Loudspeakers • davemoulton.com • Recording Industry • Studio Design
April 1994
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.
• Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
March 2003
Taking Stock: How Important Is High Resolution Audio, Anyway?
An epic discussion of high resolution digital audio.
• Digital Audio • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
September 2000
Taming Wild Mastering Levels
Discussion of a critical development in the brave new world of digital audio: loudness inflation.
• Mixing • Recording Industry • Recording Magazine
January 1999
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.
• Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
October 2003
Which Way To Go? More Resolution or More Channels?
A look at future audio formats.
• Digital Audio • Recording Industry • Recording Magazine
August 1998
A Year Later: Musings About 9/11/01, Our World and Our Industry
A year in review.
• davemoulton.com • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
September 2002

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