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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
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
The Growing Gulf Between High Resolution and Low Res
Two diverging trends in audio standards; which fork do you take?
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• Digital Audio
• Recording Industry
• TVTech Magazine
April 2003
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 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
Some Thoughts About Loudspeakers
How to think about loudspeakers as musical instruments.
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• Loudspeakers
• TVTech Magazine
June 2003
A Loudspeaker That Raises the Bar! Finally!!
How the BeoLab 5 was born.
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• Loudspeakers
• TVTech Magazine
July 2003
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
The Pitfalls and Promises of the Center Channel
How to use the center channel in stereo as well as surround.
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• Mixing
• TVTech Magazine
October 2003
A Happy Accident: A Better Way to Play Back Stereo?
Examine a different surround sound configuration.
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• Mixing
• TVTech Magazine
November 2003
A Fresh Approach to Equalization: the Tom Bates Way
Using EQ to make things sound better (instead of less bad).
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• Mixing
• Recording Magazine
April 2004
Ultra Audio on the BL5
"represents a true reinvention of the loudspeaker as we know it"
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• News
July 2004
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
Audi debuts B&O automotive sound system
The Advanced Sound System, incorporating Sausalito Audio Works' ALT lenses, was introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
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• News
September 2005
Sensible Sound on the BL5
"demonstrably the finest loudspeaker system designed and manufactured thus far."
• News
October 2005
“From Exile to Exaltation” wins 2006 Independent Music Awards for Best Gospel Song
Two of Dave's surround mixes were nominated for the Independent Music Awards, one wins!
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• News
• davemoulton.com
December 2005
Design considerations for an idealized domestic surround sound listening space
The author describes an ideal surround sound system.
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• Acoustics
• ASA Papers
• Studio Design
June 2006
Loudspeaker array as a musical composition genre
Composing in surround sound.
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• ASA Papers
• Composition
• Loudspeakers
June 2006
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
• Composition
• Loudspeakers
June 2006
Bang & Olufsen wins major car sound system award
The Bang & Olufsen in-car entertainment system fitted to the Audi A8 has been voted the world’s best sound system.
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• News
July 2006
Original Notes on Music for the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Garage in Kansas City, MO
Creating loudspeaker music for a large space.
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• Composition
• davemoulton.com
October 2011
KCUR broadcasts piece on the Kauffman Center Garage
For a series called "Artists in their Own Words," KCUR's Laura Spencer met up with composer David Moulton and artist Lajos Héder during the installation.
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• News
• davemoulton.com
December 2011
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