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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.
• Equipment • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
November 1997
Whaddya Mean The Sound Is Fluffy?
Exploring the tenuous relationship between words and sounds.
• Measurement • TVTech Magazine
June 1999
24 Bits: Can You Hear ‘Em? 96 kHz.: Can You Hear It?
How Do You Know? What Does It All Mean?
• Hearing • Measurement • TVTech Magazine
October 1999
The Wacky World of Blind Testing
An introduction to reducing bias in our sound judgments.
• 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.
• Measurement • TVTech Magazine
December 1999
Whaddya Mean It’s Inaudible? Why, I Know A Guy…
The ongoing debate of what it means when something is "audible" or not.
• 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.
• Hearing • Measurement • TVTech Magazine
February 2000
Is Bits Really Bits
What Really Happens When You Listen To A (you pick the number)-Bit Signal?
• Digital Audio • Hearing • TVTech Magazine
March 2000
How High Do We Really Need To Hear
What Really Happens To Them Ultrasonic Signals, Anyway?
• 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...
• Hearing • Producing • TVTech Magazine
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.
• Measurement • TVTech Magazine
June 2000
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
The Brave New World: What REALLY Matters In Audio?
Taking a look at transducers, the cornerstones of audio reproduction.
• Equipment • Microphones • TVTech Magazine
January 2001
The Brave New World: How Microphones Have Changed
How microphones are evolving.
• Microphones • TVTech Magazine
February 2001
High Resolution Audio and Standards
Uh-oh! Some Production Professionals Have Their Say
• Digital Audio • TVTech Magazine
March 2001
The Brave New World: Raising the Standards of Quality
Audio standards worth striving for.
• Digital Audio • Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
April 2001
The Brave New World: Loudspeakers
Those black boxes with sound coming out we take for granted.
• Loudspeakers • TVTech Magazine
May 2001
The Brave New World: About The Rooms In Which Loudspeakers Work
Conceptualizing the room as part of the loudspeaker itself.
• Loudspeakers • TVTech Magazine
June 2001
The Brave New World: Control Room Design
The needs and design of control rooms.
• Studio Design • TVTech Magazine
July 2001
The Brave New World: Loudspeakers! Can’t Live With ‘Em, Can’t Live Without ‘Em!
Thinking about speakers as musical instruments.
• Loudspeakers • TVTech Magazine
August 2001
Some Reminiscing About My Experiences With Subjective Testing
How Dave began his journey down the rabbit hole of audio perception measurement.
• Measurement • TVTech Magazine
September 2001
The Brave New World: Loudspeakers to the Left of Us! Loudspeakers to the Right of Us!
I Think We're Surrounded, Magneto!
• Loudspeakers • TVTech Magazine
September 2001
The Brave New World: Bad Audio
Dave discusses audio in TV world.
• Mixing • TVTech Magazine
October 2001
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
The Brave New World: Bad Audio Fixed?
Dave discusses trends in television audio and techniques for improving it.
• Recording Industry • TVTech Magazine
December 2001
Hi-Rez Redux
Dave gets dragged into the 21st century with high-resolution audio.
• Digital Audio • davemoulton.com • TVTech Magazine
January 2002
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
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
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
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

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