More than four decades into his career, writer/arranger Chris Caswell is still working like a young man, sometimes pulling all-nighters like he did at the GRAMMYs just a few weeks ago. There, Caswell performed in Daft Punk’s live appearance, and then for the taping of The Beatles tribute, which aired Read more...
Surround sound made its first public appearance in 1941, when Disney released its groundbreaking animated musical, Fantasia.
Ever since then, surround systems have increasingly been used to enhance the emotional impact of films (which George Lucas has famously, and accurately, declared are “50% sound.”)
In the mid 1990s, a Read more...
It’s hard to make a great pop song without a great bass line, and it’s hard to do a great bass line justice without a great bass sound. The bass often serves as the soul and the spine of a record, and if it’s not right, nothing is.
Although the Read more...
Mike Sniper started the indie label Captured Tracks in 2008, working nights out of the basement of Williamsburg’s Academy Records, which he helped run during the day. Within a year, he’d be putting out a constant stream of new releases.
Although 2009 was an especially rocky year for the global Read more...
There is no doubt that audio technology has become less expensive, more transparent, more powerful and more portable. In terms of real cost-to-performance, anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars can get you a lot more in a set of professional studio monitors than at any other Read more...
