http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:50:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By George Petersen I’VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME RESEARCHING PAST AUDIO technologies, and I’m frequently amazed at the speed by which history can be discarded. Even a remarkable product such as Sony’s PCM-F1—a revolution in its day—is virtually unknown some 25 years after its debut. So I’m hardly surprised (although ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2008/01/09/lost-sounds/ By George Petersen I FIRST GOT A REAL SWISS ARMY KNIFE back in the early ‘70s, when I spent a lot of time troubleshooting gear. I finally managed to destroy it (it essentially was worn out to the nubs) after it saved my butt about a thousand times, repairing hundreds of ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/12/27/what-i-really-wanted-for-christmas/ By George Petersen AFTER WAY TOO MANY YEARS, APPLE FINALLY did a real makeover on Logic, its flagship music/audio production software, now offered as the “Logic Studio” bundle of production tools. It’s sort of the Final Cut Studio approach, which includes FCP, Soundtrack Pro 2, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro, Motion ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/11/15/whats-this-doing-in-my-daw/ By George Petersen WITH THE AUDIO EDUCATION FOCUS IN THIS MONTH’S MIX, I figured I rant about the learning process. When I was a high school kid back in the Paleolithic 1960s era, I wanted to learn electronics. I experimented a lot (destroying a few radios along the way), assembled Heath ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/11/01/lessons-from-a-screwdriver/ By George Petersen WALKING AROUND THE AES SHOW LAST WEEK, ya couldn’t miss it. Right out in the middle of the exhibit floor at New York City’s Javits convention center was a huge 30×30-foot pad of astroturf, with a rustic-looking cabin sitting right in the middle of it. What is it? It’s ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/10/17/audiobites-the-shed/ By George Petersen EVERYTHING SEEMS TO HAPPEN IN THREE’S. I’m not sure if it was my good or bad luck, but all three of the Fender tube amps in my studio have died in the past couple weeks. I’ve got a 1972 Deluxe Reverb, and two 1969 Bassmans—one with a stock ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/09/25/tubing%e2%80%94on-a-sunday-afternoon/ By George Petersen ONE OF THE CHORES OF RUNNING A SMALL LABEL is promotion, and when you don’t have a lot of money, you need to look into all kinds of outlets to get the word out about your artists—ALL KINDS… Last weekend, I went to The Expo 2007, described as the ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/09/18/the-small-label-blues/ By George Petersen WITH THE PLASA SHOW ON THIS WEEK IN LONDON, it seems somehow appropriate to talk about touring and I just finished reading Tour Book: How To Get YOUR Music on the Road, a new book by U.K. tour manager/live engineer Andy Reynolds. Yeah I know what you’re thinking… ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/09/11/touring-touring/ By George Petersen HERE WE ARE AND AES IS JUST A MONTH AWAY! It doesn’t seem so long ago when we were at AES (at least the San Francisco show) and now AES is upon us once again. If you haven’t done so already, now–or at least 21 days before the ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/09/06/aes-the-untold-story/ By George Petersen THERE OUTTA BE A TRADESHOW FOR TRADESHOWS, where all these organizers can all meet and coordinate their dates for the upcoming year. Just about anybody who goes to a lot of audio tradeshows can remember those years when Musikmesse overlapped NAB, etc. And it never seems to end—next ... http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/08/20/tale-of-two%e2%80%94er-three%e2%80%94tradeshows/