| Most of this issue of REQ was done remotely in California. Since
the last issue, I have taken two trips to California in order to interview music industry
professionals for upcoming REQ articles. In addition I got married, had a honeymoon
and packed my new wife's belongings into a U-Haul truck to move her to join me in
Michigan. Starting Labor Day we drive from LA to the Greater Detroit area. |
| I had it all planned and scheduled to do the necessary posting work on
this issue just before we started our labor-day trip. Unfortunately my wife only had
AOL as a means to send files up to the site. The whole process has been slow and
cumbersome, with the result of two articles having to be delayed until my return to
Michigan. I believe you will find them well worth the wait. |
| The Equalization Primer article puts together the many factors that
engineers use to determine the EQ settings to use during recording and mixing. We're
trying to provide you with a more complete picture of how to equalize your
recordings. This was one of the articles that has been delayed. This article
is actually part of the added information that will be going into an updated Mixing &
EQ study module (version 1.2) slated for release before Christmas. |
| I have some inside information on a project that will take the music
industry by storm and it involves my friend James Gurley who, in 1998, was elected to the
Rock and Roll hall of fame as part of the Big Brother & The Holding Company band.
James hired her, and the band launched Janus Joplin's career with their first release,
"Cheep Thrills." Hopefully by next issue I'll have the go ahead from James
to tell you more of the story that is unfolding. In the meantime you can meet this
guitar master in his interview with our Michigan Music Contributing Editor, PT Quinn. |
| Our home Recording editor, Ken Lanyon, starts his first of two articles
on the subject of synchronization; his first article concentrates on SMPTE time
code. For the home recordists that want more formal study in audio, we have posted
the registration form to get course content online, free of charge, over 8 issues. |
| The second major technical article is using meters in recording.
There's a difference between an amateur recording and a professional recording.
Things like using meters properly are behind professional results in recording. |
| We're working on quite an expansion of the Motown history that is part
and parcel of music made in Detroit. On the one hand we are beginning a chapter 2 of
the Motown Recording Heritage series of articles. On the other hand 3 engineers from the
Motown Era met this last week on the subject documentation of the Motown Sound for
all of the time that it remained in Detroit (1960 - 1972). I was one of these
engineers and another was Mike McLean. Our "Upcoming" feature fills you in
on some of his history with Motown. |
| Last, but certainly not least, we have a "Biography" article on
independent record company executive, Ron Dunbar. Ron has agreed to an exclusive REQ
series on the record industry of today. |
| So even with the setbacks in getting the articles out to you, I think
that we have put together a very interesting and informative issue for you. |
