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Oct 1, 2003,
By Scott Wilkinson
In EM's March 2001 Tech Page, I discussed a technology called Dolby Headphone, which convincingly simulates 5.1-channel surround sound in conventional...
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Jan 1, 2007,
By Scott Wilkinson
Surround sound is one of the biggest advances to have been made in audio reproduction for quite some time. But what about all the existing 2-channel content?...
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Jan 1, 2001,
Peter Neumann
Hats off to our 31 favorite products of the past year.Every year at this time, EM editor in chief Steve O considers quitting his job and doing something...
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Jan 1, 2003,
By the EM Staff
In 1992, then-managing editor Steve O and associate publisher Carrie Anderson dreamed up the Editors' Choice Awards. We were convinced that we had a good...
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Jan 1, 2005,
By the EM Staff
You might think that the EM editors would be jaded after all these years of evaluating products. But we're not because we don't just check out a bunch...
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Feb 2, 2005
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Jan 1, 2006,
By the EM Staff
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. No, we're not talking about the French Revolution, we're referring to the seemingly endless hours...
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Jan 1, 2007,
By the EM Staff
Traditionally, we start our Editors' Choice Awards article with a paragraph about how the editors fought like wild animals when choosing our winners....
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Mar 1, 2002,
By Scott Wilkinson
As I've written many times in this column, the size of transistors within silicon microchips can't continue shrinking forever; at some point, they will...
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Jun 1, 2001,
BY MIKE SOKOL
Mixing in surround doesn't mean you have to take out a second mortgage. EM goes shopping at retail electronics stores for affordable consumer receivers and subwoofers that are well suited for surround applications....
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May 1, 2003,
By Brian Smithers
Even as consumers continue to flock to the low-res world of MP3, RealAudio, and Windows Media Audio, the recording industry is moving steadily in the...
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Aug 1, 2004,
By Orren Merton
Mac OS X has added Audio Units to the already overcrowded field of audio plug-in formats. Although progress has been slow, Macintosh software developers are increasingly supporting the Audio Units format in both host applications and software plug-ins....
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Aug 1, 2004
Blue Microphones has been wowing the audio industry with one amazing microphone after another for the past several years. Its newest mic, the Bluebird,...
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Nov 1, 2006,
By Brian Smithers
As the term implies, an electronic musician depends on electrical devices to produce, capture, manipulate, and deliver musical ideas. At some point, the...
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Dec 1, 2001,
Steve Oppenheimer
Back in the '60s and '70s, the federal government strictly regulated the cross-ownership of radio, television stations, and newspapers. The regulations...
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Dec 1, 1999,
Brian Knave
One of the best ways to learn the finer points of an art is to observe a master of the art in action. I recently had the good fortune to do just that:...
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Jun 1, 2007,
By Len Sasso
Using vocoders for nonvocal purposes is nothing new. Of the vocoder's two inputs, the carrier needs to have sustained notes with rich timbre. The speech...
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Jan 1, 2000,
Rick Weldon
As one of the "three tenors of guitar" in the band the Hellecasters, John Jorgenson spends much of his time recording with his bandmates, Jerry Donahue...
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Oct 1, 2005,
Steve Oppenheimer Editor in Chief
The world of electronic music has been blessed with many brilliant pioneers. But of them all, one man became the veritable symbol of electronic music:...
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Apr 1, 2001,
By Larry the O
At the January NAMM show, I conferred at the hotel bar with longtime Electronic Musician technical editor Scott Wilkinson. Wilkinson writes EM's Tech...
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Jun 1, 2001,
Steve Oppenheimer
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Apr 1, 2004,
By Ethan Winer
You might think that understanding your studio’s acoustics is a complicated subject, but it boils down to grasping a few essential principles. Acoustic designer Ethan Winer explains nodes, modes, nulls, and standing waves to help you understand how small room acoustics affect the music you record and mix....
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May 1, 2006,
By Len Sasso
You can think of a vocoder as a morphing multiband equalizer, in which the morphing is controlled by a spectral analyzer. Typically, speech (called the...
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Feb 1, 2002,
By Scott Wilkinson
The advent of new, high-resolution audio media, such as Super Audio CD (SACD; see Tech Page: CD The Next Generation in the March 1998 EM) and DVD-Audio...
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Dec 1, 2004,
Steve Oppenheimer Editor in Chief
Product reviews are arguably EM's most popular articles, and we publish a lot of them. In 2004, we published 134 reviews, not counting product roundups...
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2 Will Get You 7.1
2007 EDITORS' CHOICE AWARDS
A Better Mousetrap
A Change Is Gonna Come
A Different Drummer
A New Approach to Personal Studio Acoustics
A New Look at Vocoding