Jun. 21—For Jay Fisher, cobbling together an analog recording studio is a labor of love, his own technical skills and nostalgia for the time when he could lay claim to being an extended member of the ...

John Mellancamp’s recent album “No Better Than This” was recorded by the singer and “O Brother, Where Art Thou” music producer T-Bone Burnett using a single vintage RCA 77DX microphone and a ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: Analogue emulations make up a large component of the plugin landscape with options ranging from compressors and EQs to delays, reverbs and tape machines. If we want to create a truly ...

When producer and engineer Matt Linesch (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Lauren Ruth Ward, Mika) bought the studio beside David Swartz’s California Vintage Guitar in Sherman Oaks, CA, five years ...

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl talks about the studio and Neve 8028 console at the heart of both Nirvana’s success and his new film “Sound City” and the beauty of pre-digital recording. Maybe it’s ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

New bands have a lot to learn: Your friends have better things to do than come to all your shows, your first five songs will most likely be shit, and when it comes time to having real recorded ...

The current resurgence of vinyl shows that the digital age never did snuff out analog listening. Analog recording methods, however, are effectively DOA. To find that old dinosaur, you might have to ...

This version of the famous song features a full band, and is the only copy that will ever be manufactured or released. Bob Dylan recording with an acoustic Gibson guitar and a harmonica in 1961 at ...

On a chilly November evening, a few hundred people mill around a warehouse in a quiet corner of Oakland. The crowd spills into the empty street, where musicians, engineers, and music fans in hoodies ...