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Starting Over IV

Three Not-So-Easy Pieces About Starting Over: Care And Feeding Of The Median Plane.

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• davemoulton.com • Studio Design • Recording 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.

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• Mixing • Recording Magazine

January 1993

Straight Arrow Recording: A Profile

A Vermont studio. Mike Billingsley (inventor of the SASS mic) built this one.

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• Studio Design • Recording Magazine

May 1994

Studio Profile: Orchard Sound. It’s All A Question Of Balancing Your Priorities

A profile of Scott Hull's home studio.

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• Studio Design • Recording Magazine

February 1995

Subjective Testing in Your Own Home Studio

So You Wanna Find Out If You Can Hear 24/96 Audio

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• Hearing • Measurement • Recording Magazine

August 2001

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

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

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

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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