Jun. 21—For Jay Fisher, cobbling together an analog recording studio is a labor of love, his own technical skills and nostalgia for the time when he could lay claim to being an extended member of the ...

John Mellancamp’s recent album “No Better Than This” was recorded by the singer and “O Brother, Where Art Thou” music producer T-Bone Burnett using a single vintage RCA 77DX microphone and a ...

When producer and engineer Matt Linesch (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Lauren Ruth Ward, Mika) bought the studio beside David Swartz’s California Vintage Guitar in Sherman Oaks, CA, five years ...

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl talks about the studio and Neve 8028 console at the heart of both Nirvana’s success and his new film “Sound City” and the beauty of pre-digital recording. Maybe it’s ...

Every sound you hear in real life is analog, but digital recording converts the original sound into a sequence of numbers. No wonder analog and digital sound so different! Ex-movie theater ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

This version of the famous song features a full band, and is the only copy that will ever be manufactured or released. Bob Dylan recording with an acoustic Gibson guitar and a harmonica in 1961 at ...