interviews

Tom Dube

by Jason Hatfield

Tom Dube wears a lot of different hats. He has worked as a producer, engineer, mixer, tour manager, videographer, photographer and nanny. Tom has produced, co-produced and engineered records by...

Ken Bogdanowicz: Behind The Gear with Soundtoys

by Walt Szalva

Ken Bogdanowicz is the man behind Soundtoys, the boutique software company known for their feature laden and very analog flavored effects plug-ins. Ken's history with designing effects goes back to...

Ryan Hewitt: On working together, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rick Rubin, Ian MacKaye, Blink-182, Synthesizers as processors and lots more

by John Baccigaluppi

In just a few short years and at a relatively young age Ryan Hewitt has become one of L.A.'s first-call engineers in a notoriously competitive and dwindling market. The son of a well-known remote...

John Frusciante and Ryan Hewitt: On working together, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rick Rubin, Ian MacKaye, Blink-182, Synthesizers as processors and lots more

by John Baccigaluppi

The first thing you notice upon entering John Frusciante's Laurel Canyon home is the two Studer A- 800 two-inch machines that nearly block the front door and hallway, leaving just enough room to...

Slovenia

by John Baccigaluppi, Andy Hong

When John and I first started making plans to attend the May 2007 AES Show in Vienna, Austria, we talked about taking advantage of cheap intra-Europe flights and touring other countries. Having...

Nicolas Collins: DIY Electronics

by Robert Poss

Nicolas Collins's book, Handmade Electronic Music: The Art Of Hardware Hacking, is a brilliant, hands-on guide to electronic music making. I've known Nic since the mid-1970s; he's been a friend, a...

Bob Paquette: and his microphone museum

by Joe Wong

Milwaukee's Bob Paquette Sr. is regarded by many as the world's foremost expert on microphones. His self- published The History and Evolution of the Microphone is an 840-page volume chronicling the...

Michael Grace: Behind the Gear with Grace Design

by Walt Szalva

Michael Grace started Grace Design in 1994, a boutique pro audio company located in Boulder, CO. The story of his rise as a designer is one born from a love of music. His need for a preamp to...

Two Stage Compression: Two Stage Compression

by Mike Caffrey

Nicolas Collins - Trombone Electronics

by Robert Poss

What exactly is/are "trombone-propelled electronics?" The backwards guitar pieces were fun to watch because of all those "horny guitars" (as my wife dubbed the highly pronged pawnshop specials that...

Electric President - The Bedroom Goes On Tour

by J. Robert Lennon

Hey, wait a minute — weren't all the great records supposed to be recorded in somebody's bedroom by now? By people in their twenties, on cheap software, with consumer-level gear? Wasn't there...

Joe Boyd: Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, R.E.M., more...

by Larry Crane

When Joe Boyd's book White Bicycles came out last year, I was excited. Not only could I finally read more about this amazing record producer/label owner/manager, but there might be a chance to...