Scott Billington

Sep 1, 2006, By Rick Clark

Since its beginning in 1970, Rounder Records has been one of the country's preeminent labels for regional and roots music. It is home for the hugely successful...

Geoff Emerick

Aug 1, 2006, By Matt Hurwitz

A lot of us can relate to Geoff Emerick: a young teenager who used his tape recorder to capture everything he could and wondered how one of those things...

Guerrilla Remote

Aug 1, 2006, By Eddie Ciletti

Remote audio comes in many flavors, and aptly describes this sonic challenge. Getting to the next level is like playing a videogame where experience counts:...

SPL Transient Designer

Aug 1, 2006, By Michael Cooper

I wouldn't dream of recording drums in my studio without my SPL Transient Designer 4 (TD4). Boosting its attack controls on drum tracks can give kick,...

The Pre-Production Payoff

Aug 1, 2006, By Blair Jackson

In the way olden days pre-Pet Sounds and Revolver pre-production was a fairly well-defined process. It involved choosing material for a group or artist,...

Sylvia Massy Shivy's RadioStar Studios

Aug 1, 2006, By Jeff Forlenza

Snow is falling on Weed, the tiny logging town at the foot of Mount Shasta in Northern California. Inside a 90-year-old structure formerly known as the...

How David Paich Recorded Toto's Latest Album

Jul 14, 2006

T Bone Burnett

Jul 1, 2006, By Blair Jackson

I've been rooting for T Bone Burnett to succeed almost as long as I've been writing about music. Back in 1977, I fell in love with the music of a Los...