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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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Baby, It’s A Brave Brave New New World Out There

Editorial piece on the emergence of cheap digital consoles and surround sound.

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• Equipment • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine

November 1997

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Audio-Technica AT4060 Tube Condenser Microphone

A review of Audio-Technica's vacuum-tube cardioid condenser microphone, the AT4060.

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• Microphones • Recording Magazine

April 1999

Whaddya Mean The Sound Is Fluffy?

Exploring the tenuous relationship between words and sounds.

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• Measurement • TVTech Magazine

June 1999

The Audio Technica 30 Series Microphones

A review of three mid-priced condenser microphones for studio use.

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• Microphones • Recording Magazine

July 1999

The Royer R-121 Ribbon Microphone

What Goes Around Comes Around. A review of the new ribbon microphone from Royer, the R-121.

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• Microphones • Recording Magazine

July 1999

So You Wanna Record A Wicked Blues Harp?

Shaker Harmonica Microphones

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• Microphones • Recording Magazine

July 1999

24 Bits: Can You Hear ‘Em? 96 kHz.: Can You Hear It?

How Do You Know? What Does It All Mean?

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• Hearing • Measurement • TVTech Magazine

October 1999

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

The Wacky World of Blind Testing

An introduction to reducing bias in our sound judgments.

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• Measurement • TVTech Magazine

November 1999

Yeah, I Think I Can Hear It! Wow! It’s Like, Totally Awesome!

The discussion of blind versus subjective listening continues.

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• Measurement • TVTech Magazine

December 1999

Grammy Nomination

George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children for "Best Engineered Classical Album"

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• News • davemoulton.com

January 2000

Whaddya Mean It’s Inaudible? Why, I Know A Guy…

The ongoing debate of what it means when something is "audible" or not.

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• Hearing • Measurement • TVTech Magazine

January 2000

The Difference Between What You Hear and What You “Hear!”

An overview of those human biological signal processors otherwise known as ears, and how they impact the question of audibility.

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• Hearing • Measurement • TVTech Magazine

February 2000

Is Bits Really Bits

What Really Happens When You Listen To A (you pick the number)-Bit Signal?

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• Digital Audio • Hearing • TVTech Magazine

March 2000

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

We Want Really Accurate Recordings, Right? Or Do We?

And in this column, I really get down to it. Here we go, with the awful, terrible and painful truth. I’m sorry to be the one to tell ya...

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• Hearing • Producing • TVTech Magazine

May 2000

About Hearing

All about our amazing auditory system.

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• Hearing

May 2000

Whadda Ya Mean, It’s Indistinguishable From Chance?

A pair of articles exploring the difference between knowing something for sure, and dumb luck.

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• Measurement • TVTech Magazine

June 2000

Dave Goes To The Grammies

Can Glitz ‘n Glamour Seduce Our Intrepid Audio Explorer? You Bet!

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• Humor • davemoulton.com • Recording Industry • Recording Magazine

June 2000

Taking Stock: How Important Is High Resolution Audio, Anyway?

An epic discussion of high resolution digital audio.

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• Digital Audio • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine

September 2000

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

Choosing Studio Monitors: How Should We Go About It?

How to kick the woofers before buying (uhm, not really).

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• Loudspeakers • Recording Magazine

November 2000

The Audio Window

This piece examines the human range of audibility. Fundamental stuff, but you may not have thought about it in these terms before.

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• Hearing • Recording Magazine

December 2000

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