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Square One: Balancing Act  Apr 1, 2009, By Brian Smithers Balanced Line Connections Tutorial to Keep Audio Tracks Clean and Clear in EM April 2009...

Square One: Read the Script  Feb 1, 2008, By Peter Hamlin Wouldn't it be nice to have an assistant in your studio? Someone who could take care of repetitive tasks for you? Someone who would know enough computer...

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Preaching to the Converted  Jun 1, 2007, By Brian Smithers It seems we will never be rid of the analog-versus-digital debate. Far from a debate, really, it usually amounts to little more than hand-wringing over...

How Your DAW Does Math  Apr 1, 2007, By Brian Smithers Much of the number crunching that occurs within your audio software remains a mystery; does your DAW treat audio as floating-point numbers or as fixed-point numbers? What’s the difference, and should you really care?...

Timing Is Everything  May 1, 2006, By Brian Smithers Horticulturalist Luther Burbank is credited with defining a weed as any plant that is growing in the wrong place. In that same spirit, one could consider...

Master of the Universe  Dec 1, 2004, By Brian Smithers Very little in the field of audio engineering is more shrouded in mystery than the thing we call mastering. Does the name come from the idea of creating...

Tricks for Tracks - learning all about MIDI  Mar 1, 2004, By Jim Aikin If you’ve never used the MIDI features of your multitrack recorder, you’ve come to the right place. In this column we’ll explore how a computer (or a standalone workstation) records and plays MIDI data. We’ll also discuss the main ways in which you can edit the data to clean up and personalize your recordings....

A Better Mousetrap  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...

Microphonic Machinations  Dec 1, 2001, By Scott Wilkinson A microphone's job is simple: it converts an acoustic sound into an electrical signal that corresponds to the original waveform as closely as possible....

Going Direct  Nov 1, 2001, By Scott Wilkinson During the past 15 years, many fundamental music-technology concepts have been explained in Square One (originally titled From the Top). In 1997 EM technical...

Mics in the Mix  Aug 1, 2000, Myles Boisen Whether you have a closet full of mics or are contemplating your very first microphone purchase, selecting the proper mic for a recording application...

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