Tag: Audio Engineering
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When the Studio Became an Instrument: Why 1980s Hard Rock Sounds Larger Than Life
How 1980s producers like Mutt Lange and Bob Rock turned the recording studio into an instrument—and the audio engineering secrets behind arena rock’s biggest albums.
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The Sonic Alchemist of Champaign: Mark Rubel, Pogo Studio, and a Lifetime in Sound
Sitting in a Parkland College recording class inside downtown Champaign’s Pogo Studio in the late 1990s, I watched Mark Rubel push up the faders on rough, in-progress mixes of Hum’s Downward is Heavenward. From the theatrical rock of Captain Rat and the Blind Rivets to tracking over 1,000 records on analog tape and directing education…