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ANNUAL
Features
Jan

ANNUAL INDEX 2011
Interviews
Feb Mar Apr Dec Brian Tarquin records a CD tribute to Les Paul Terry Wollman on miking acoustic guitar Al Schmitt on miking, mixing, and more Tom Silverman (Tommy Boy Records) on the business of songwriting Sebastian Arocha Morton on the songwriter as producer Chris Cox remixes Michael Jackson Electrons (Steve Ferrone, Warren Cuccurullo, Anthony J. Resta, Roger O’Donnell, and Eric Alexandrakis) rework a David Lynch track

Recording Live Performances—Your Options Acoustic Live Recording Capturing Live Music for the Internet Feb 2010 AES Convention Report Commit, Execute, Deliver: Vintage Trouble in the studio Strings: The Real Thing (recording strings on a budget) Recording Drums in the Studio LIVE! Recording a Diva, Her Band, and a Symphony Orchestra Mar 2011 Winter NAMM Show Report The 3 “Ps” of Songwriting: Present, Protect, Promote In The Studio: Recording Not Forgotten: Three Scenes For Violin and Piano Apr In The Studio: Apple iPad miking techniques in detail May Lift Every Voice (vocal recording strategies) Melodyne in Action Comparing Auto-Tune and Melodyne editor: A Producer’s Perspective Game Audio: Your Next Career Move? Billy Sheehan, Stanley Clarke, and Randy Coven on recording bass Jun Converting an Office Room into a Studio Room Correction—an Overview Building A Recording Studio SXSW 2011 Report Jul Put Your Foot Down! (recording with guitar effects) Fat Guitar Tones Without The Mud

Reviews
(*indicates items Reviewed And Revisited)

Mixers/Recorders/Desktop Workstations
Jan Roland R-05 Portable Recorder Yamaha Pocketrak W24 Recorder Zoom R24 Recorder/Interface/Controller/Sampler* JoeCo BBR1 BlackBox Recorder Korg MR-2 High Resolution Mobile Recorder May Phonic S16 digital mixer Aug Korg Sound On Sound Unlimited Track Recorder Superscope PSD430 recorder/CD burner/practice tool Sep Zoom R8 recorder/interface/controller/sampler Nov Roll Music Systems RMS216 Folcrom summing mixer Dec Zoom H2n Handy Recorder

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Microphones
Jan Feb Audio-Technica AT4080 and AT4081 ribbons Bock 195 Coles Electroacoustics 4050 stereo ribbon MXL Revelation Bartlett Microphones Spark Mini Mar Shure KSM44A and KSM42 Apr Blue Spark May Chameleon Labs TS-1 MkII Samson Meteor Mic Lauten Clarion FC-357 sE Electronics VR1 Voodoo Ribbon Jun Telefunken CU-29 Copperhead Aug Shure Beta 91A, Beta 98A, and Beta 181 Sep Earthworks PM40T PianoMic, Audix M1280B mini-mic Oct Blue Reactor Telefunken AK-47MkII Audix CS212B Electro-Voice RE320 dynamic Dec Blue Yeti Pro

Dec

Guitar Gear Grab Bag: effects from Dwarfcraft, George Dennis, Godlyke, Hardwire, Malekko, Radial Engineering, Totally Wycked Audio, and WMD BOSS RC-30 Loop Station looper/delay pedal Tech21 Blonde amp simulator pedal Eventide Space reverb pedal TC Electronic Flashback, Shaker, and Hall of Fame stompboxes Rupert Neve Portico 5017 portable preamp/DI/mixer Slate Pro Audio Dragon dynamics processor Universal Audio 4-710d 4-channel preamp/processor/interface Grace Design m103 channel strip Radial Engineering Workhorse 500-Series enclosure and JDV-Pre, Shuttle, EXTC, and PhazeQ modules Great River Electronics / Harrison 32EQ and MP-500NV preamp Millennia Media HV-35 500-Series preamp Pulse Techniques (Pultec) EQP-1A3 equalizer A-Designs Audio HM2 Compressor “The Nail” Radial Engineering PowerPre preamp and Komit compressor Line 6 M5 stompbox modeler KRK Systems KNS Series headphones JBL MSC1 Monitor System Controller Shure SRH940 headphones Equator Audio Research D5 monitors NuForce NE-700X and NE-700M in-ear phones

Monitors/Headphones/Audio Routing
Feb Apr Nov Dec Dec

Signal Processors/Effects Hardware
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Prodigy Engineering Bella 500-Series preamp Daking Audio FET III compressor JDK Audio R20 mic pre, R24 eq, and R22 compressor Empirical Labs FATSO Jr and Kush Audio UBK Edition
RECORDING JANUARY 2012

Computer Hardware/Interfaces/Controllers/Converters Jan PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 digital mixer/interface Mar MOTU UltraLike-mk3 hybrid audio interface May Roland OCTA-CAPTURE Jun Sound Devices USBPre 2 Nov PreSonus StudioLive 16.0.2 digital mixer/interface TASCAM US-2000 Dec Yamaha AUDIOGRAM 3 and AUDIOGRAM 6 M-Audio MobilePre Korg nano2 controllers Glyph Technologies GT 050Q hard drive system Roland DUO-CAPTURE and QUAD-CAPTURE
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