After my most recent post, “Analog Tape and Why I Don’t Miss It”, was published here last week, I felt it was only fair to add some balance by speaking out about the favorable qualities of this rust-covered wonder.
For the first 15 years of my recording career, I Read more...
Few topics stir up as much strong emotion among audio professionals as analog tape can.
Musicians and engineers alike love to romanticize about how warm and musical tape sounds, how it forces you to make decisions and commit to sounds without being able to “undo” it all, and how it Read more...
R E S P E C T — find out what it means to sound.
That sense of respect is something you’ll find in spades at All Welcome Records. You can sense it between partners, for the principles of audio, and for the timeless music that comes as a result. Read more...
The latest Mix with the Masters to be announced is analog all the way.
That’s because it will be led by none other than Steve Albini, appearing for the first time at MWTM from August 21-27 at the residential Studio La Fabrique, in the South of France.
Renowned for his Read more...
A new record label today needs a standout artist, high aspirations, and a unique angle to get off the ground – Brooklyn’s Better Breakfast Records has all three.
An “analog recording company” founded in 2013 by Chris McFarland, Better Breakfast is debuting with the naturally appealing single “Smoking Gun” by Read more...
