Prof. Dave,

The past six days have seen me glued to my Mac trying to get a grip on this whole "home studio" thing. The more I learn, the less I know. In particular your work has me spellbound. Cohesive, poignant and practical; even funny at times.

So this be my way of sayin' thank ya, man!

Ain't technology grand!

Now I think I'll get off to some sleep, having set my signal gen to trigger @ 63Hz or "snore frequency"...

Take care - Barry

Hi Dave, my name is Nat Huson an audio engineer trained at SAE- london 99/2000. I am very happy to be in this environment. i need to know how to test a mastered track for stereo and surround compatibility. Thanx. natty.

Best Acoustics Teacher Ever!!!!

Hey Dave:

It was a real kick to come accross your web site. Many times over the years I have thought about the month spent at Dondisound. That course rocked. But it might have been the path you had made through the yard and over the fence to the deli. The Cheesecake was to die for...

Hope this finds you and your family doing well.

TTYS

Gord

Hello,
Did you attend UNH in the 70's, and know Wayne April? If not, thanks anyway.

Hey Dave Moulton,,,just wanted to say great it was to finally drop by your Groton crib today and listen to sweet sonics in "that room" of yours! Also loved that fact that its in the pastural backyard of my old West Groton residence in the 60's..Stay close to the flame and I hope to see you again out there in Gods Country David M

Hi Professor Moulton,

I really appreciate all of the hard work you've put into this site. It is obviously a testament to the REAL work that you've put into the field of audio. And for that I am grateful.

I will be continuing to read your site and have also included a link on my site to show my appreciation.

Please continue the great work and I will try to follow in your footsteps in this endeavor.

Best wishes,

Perry Grinn

Hello "Papa Dave"!!!!
That's what I used to call you in Berklee way back when . You probably will not remember me - (a puerto rican student that graduated in 1989 from MP&E).
I found this page thru Bob Katz's book "Audio Mastering" and I wondered if it was really you...WHAT A THRILLL!!!...anyway, although not active professionally I still record at home in my mac (Logic) and am also into Multichanel Audio, mixing our group's (Glammest ) latest CD in 4.0 96/24.
I also have been "converting" SQ LPs from the 70s to DVD-As (LPCM 4.0) with outstanding results.
I would LOVE to hear from you-it's been 20 years now.
Take care and hope your body is not giving you a hard time ( I remember from back then) .
Saludos desde Madrid,
Germán A Sánchez

Hi Professor Moulton- I am a senior in high school trying to decide to go to either Berklee or Fredonia to study music and sound recording. I've been accepted to both schools and love them both. What do you think?
Thanks,
Paul

Dave,
Just read your metadata article of 2002. Now in 2010, things have stabilized a bit. Its old news like this that confuses people. If you want to be helpful, send your members here (WebEd: Filed under "Recommended Practices" at the Advanced Television Systems Committee website: PDF A/85 – Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television).
Al

I am an experienced audio engineer and I had a little question. I have a live sound stage that I am constantly working on, and I have some electrical RF issues wherein any unbalanced signal (guitars mostly) is almost inaudible compared to the origional signal. Is there such thing as a balanced cable for guitars or is there any other way around this with out re-wiring the whole stage?

Hello Dave!


I'm thinking of using a pair of Beolab3 as nearfield monitors for my studio but am wondering about the wiring.

B&O provide wires with PowerLink / 3.5 Jack connections, which require adaptors to fit with common usb/firewire soundcards outputs.

Maybe you use a different set up?


Thanks a lot!

Hello Dave,

I'm very uplifted by what I've read here about control room acoustics and wide-dispersion speakers, as I have always disliked the trend of damping everything to death... I'm going to give your Moulton Room recipe a try, but I have two questions that I hope you will clarify for me before I start doing the woodwork:

1) Does the dampened masonite wall need to have an airtight seal to the existing walls to work properly?

2) I want to soffit-mount my JBL 4408's. Do their fronts have to be flush to the masonite or to the damping material in front of the masonite?

BTW, is this the proper way to contact you? I tried to register, but recieve no confirmation mail....
[Dave's contact address can be found under "About". I went ahead and activated your member status. Sorry to say, Hotmail is not a reliable provider. - the webguy]

Thank you so much for publishing all these "GOODIES"! I´m definitely going to order your book!

Regards,

René Thomsen

Hi Dave!

Thanks for the email. Anyway, that'd be me. You remember the Milan studio, eh? Wowsers, as Inspector Gadget used to say.

Best,

Dave

Hi Dave;
I stumbled across your site while doing a Google search on kick miking technique. Are you the same Dave Moulton that used to run Dondisound Studios in Milan (then Red Hook), NY? As a young teenager with a keen interest in electronic music I was always chomping at the bit take some of your courses but never had a car or the scratch to do so. Who knew that 40 some-odd years later the miracle of the Internet might actually make this finally possible. Keep up the great work!

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Phillip.

Best regards,

Dave

Hello Dave,
I came across your article and found it to be an interesting read.

I beleive you may have identified the root cause and solution regarding sum...

Keep listening, in itself is a science.

Ciao,

Philip Richardson
http://www.trueanalog.com

Hi Dave, I wanted to say thank you for all I learned from you reading recording magazine. I am a regular on KvR and someone posted a link to your M/S article. (great read) I was surprised to see how close you are, I'm just a few feet from the N. Chelmsford line on Middlesex Street.

When Mars was in Natick I worked with a guy named Ron who called you his mentor, Recording Magazine also interviewed my 2nd cousin Rob Chiarelli, who btw now is in the mic business http://www.gauge-usa.com/

Myself I'm a 50 year old guitar player/songwriter...my link has my gear which includes Samplitude 10.2 pro and some of my songs as well. I was quite surprised to see how close you are to me, just out rte 40.

Not to sound too forward but I would love to take a ride out sometime to see your facilities. (no I'm not job hunting lol) Perhaps oneday also book some time to do some mixing down the road. If this is okay please drop me an email or let me know here as I'll be bookmarking this page right now.

Thank you again for all your sharing of knowledge, I stopped getting recording mag years ago but that magazine brought me into the digital world of recording. Looking forward to hearing from you

Hi Dave!

I just discovered this site, and find it very helpful. The articles on EQ, and Comb Filtering especially have made me view things differently: I have a home office where I do record things, and sometimes they sound good, other times not. Now I want to control the environment much more, and be able to foresee how to get the results I'm after.

I am a norwegian guy who through your writing about comb filtering discovered a standing wave, a very loud, muddy peak at 100hz while recording my acoustic guitar (playing G and G# on the thick E string) with a rode Nt1A (a large-diaphragm mic). I'm recording in a tiny room (3,5 x 2 meters) made of wood. I have duvets or sleeping bags and a book shelf on the inner half (the recording part) of the ceiling and walls of the room to deaden the sound, but the rest of the room is as it is. How would you deal with this 100 hz problem? I guess I should put something on the other halve of the room, but I don't know what that should be - I use that part mostly for writing, and there's a door there.

Best regards, hope you have the time to advice me a bit, and thanks anyway for this clearly written site!

-Gaute

Hi Phil!

Thanks for the kind thoughts. I'm glad it all worked for you. Nice how the whole thing ties together so well, isn't it?

Best regards,

Dave