Interviews Jan Apr Steve Vai Jim Wilson, Airshow Mastering James Cruz of Zeitgeist Sound May Keb’Mo’ Aug Jennifer Batten Sep Miking and Mixing an Orchestra with Mike Pappas Oct A Basement Conversion: The Borla/Mouse Studio Nov Larry Carlton Dec Three producers on recording SFX as a career AI 2010 Annual Index Zoom G9.2tt Line 6 POD X3 Live RECORDING JANUARY 2011 2010 Features Jan Feb Apr Feb Mar Jun Nov Dec Jan 2009 AES Convention Report The Hybrid Guitar Recording Method, Part 2 (Part 1 Nov 2009) Feb Recording Lead Vocals: Isolation and Rejection Mar Special Issue: The Recording Songwriter Become a Recording Songwriter! When You’re the Band The Evolution of a Song Demoitis—the disease and the cure Apr 2010 NAMM Show Report May When Your Rack Meets Your Wallet Pragmatic Design For Project Studios Know Your Audio Interface SXSW 2010 Report Jun Special Issue: The Mic Locker Mics, Mechanisms, and Myths A Studio Miking Primer—everything but drums (see July) Jul Special Issue: Bang A Drum! A Drum Miking Primer The Fine Art Of Drum Replacement Create Your Songs With Drum Loops Aug Recording the Music for a Theatre Play Running Your Studio under Linux Sep Ten Steps To Better Mixes Mixing in Pro Tools: A 10-Step Program Oct Abbey Road Sessions Green Glue—affordable sound treatment Do It Yourself: Rack Panels for Under Four Dollars Nov The Keys To The Studio: integrating keyboards with your rig Dec Theme Music for TV—A Production Report Getting Your Music Heard in Today’s Commercial Culture Reviews (*indicates items Reviewed And Revisited) Mixers/Recorders/Desktop Workstations Jan Feb Mar Sep Phonic Helix Board 24 Universal TASCAM DR-100 Sony PCM-M10 Mackie Onyx-i Series Sanyo Xacti Sound Recorder Oct Alesis PalmTrack Nov Solid State Logic XLOGIC X-Desk Dec Zoom H1 PreSonus Studio Channel Daking Audio Mic Pre One A-Designs EM-PEQ May Square State Solid State EQUALIZER model one b Jun Cloud Microphones Cloudlifter Chandler Limited Little Devils Jul Grace Design m501 Sep Summit Audio Everest Zoom G2.1Nu Nov Solid State Logic XLOGIC X-Rack modules Microphones Feb Mar Avant Electronics BV-1 Blue Bottle Rocket Stage Two Audio-Technica AT2035 Apr Neumann TLM 102 Shure KSM313 May CAD Audio E100S Jun Sontronics Orpheus and Sigma Cloud Microphones JRS-34 and JRS-34-P DPA Microphones 4099 Series ART M-Three and M-Five Jul Earthworks SR40 Mojave Audio MA-101fet MXL Drum Cube and A55-Kicker Granelli Audio Labs G5790 Aug AEA A840 Active Ribbon Sep ADK Berlin 47 Au and Cremona 251 Au Oct AKG Perception 820 Tube Nov Telefunken AR-51 Dec Royer Labs R-101 Blue Yeti Monitors/Headphones/Audio Routing KRK ERGO System JBL LSR2300 monitors and sub Shure SRH 440 and SRH840 headphones ADAM Audio A3X monitors Audio-Technica ATH-AD700 headphones Focal Professional CMS 50 and CMS Sub Behringer TRUTH B1030A monitors Computer Hardware/Interfaces/ Controllers/Converters Apogee GiO M-Audio Axiom Pro 49 Feb Euphonix MC Control Avid Digidesign Eleven Rack Mar Cakewalk SONAR V-Studio 100 May Akai LPK25 and LPD8 Universal Audio UAD-2 SOLO/Laptop Jun Avid M-Audio Fast Track Jul PreSonus FireStudio Mobile Aug Steinberg CC121, MR 816 CSX, and CI2 Glyph GT062E Sep Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 DSP Oct Cakewalk V-Studio 20 Nov Akai MPK Series Controllers Novation SL MkII Controllers and Nocturn Signal Processors/Effects Hardware Jan 62