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Universal Music has several vaults. One is underground in an Iron Mountain facility.

Prolific pop culture writer Andrew Hickey has a podcast. Each song is one episode. They publish at 1-3 month intervals, he is on 166 in July 2023. https://500songs.com/ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/a-music-podcast-unlike-any-other

At 19:50 he discusses surround mixing for home theater and big theaters. That continues to about 25:15 with discussions of soundstage which might be of interest to ASR. After he touches on recording and mixing the music for integration into ATMOS for film with the dialog and sound effects...

Hope this can become the reel to reel content listening topic. There are a few new audiophile reel to reel hardware makers including very expensive ones. There is good availability of vintage tape machines. Usually the brakes wear and the capstan rollers need replacement. Recording studios and...

This is a long talk about the hardware + software setup for mixing ATMOS and listening to other's ATMOS mixes through an Apple MAC using Trinnov. Then they discuss the consumer experience. It is somewhat humorous and NSFW because they sometimes drop the F-bomb and the Sh-bomb.

You can look up the previous 4 seminars

and long discussion at AES 2918 There are several video interviews with him you can find. At Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine

This topic is a response to the Spotify topic. Global audio corporations are found in content - https://www.musicianwave.com/largest-record-labels-in-the-world/, equipment - Samsung-Harman, and others. Then Apple, Spotify, and all the streaming suppliers. One would expect Facebook and Netflix...

Sometimes questions about phono preamps come up. These are some technical resources. Walter Jung is a famous engineer active in the AES. He published many circuit design "cookbooks" for audio. In a classic application note from Analog Devices covering many topics, pages 8-18 to 8-30 discuss...

Carl Cox is a famous world DJ and from people I know who have met him, a nice person without the DJ ego gene. He started out DJing with records 30 years ago. He is doing hybrid live shows on electronic instruments sharing a common clock. He demonstrates doing it and some other recent YouTubes...

Upstream from what we listen to in movies & video streaming are all the sound stems-tracks. That includes the performer voices, and environmental sounds on the set including room tone. Later foley, sound effects from libraries, music, and low frequency effects are added in the editing process...

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/05/end-of-an-era-cd-baby-stops-distributing-artists-cds-vinyl-and-other-goods/

Mix With the Masters https://mixwiththemasters.com/ is a free YouTube channel and a series of paid tutorials online and in person in studios. They are more of a seminar or master class than a recording school or training program. In this one, Chris Lord-Alge https://www.chrislordalge.com/...

Dave Rat has a large sound company which custom designs PA systems, provides experienced live mixers, and rents gear. He has been active in the AES for many years. Think Coachella and large mega pop musician tours, outdoors and indoors. Dave Rat discusses the advice he gave his father buying...

In the recording world, Schoeps and DPA are very popular for distance microphones and close placement too. DPA descended from Brüel & Kjær. This article is a guide to instruments. They used a distance of 3 meters, and typical close microphone placement distance for the instrument SPL. Many...

With the growth of solar we have a growth of the battery industry. Whole home batteries are falling in price. In the DIY world there are 48V 19" rack batteries in about 100Ah units, 100 pounds, $1500 each. Usually the DC batteries are charged from the AC utility line, then discharged to the...

Local design group of Core77 has designer-maker talks. Thomas Barefoot discussed making speakers which are now used in recording studios. Of interest to speaker makers is testing them outdoors. Anechoic chambers are expensive, outdoors is free. This is a good one for ASR to archive.

What is the audio science experience on 3-type large mids crossing over at 380/3500 or 500/2000 in ATC and Neumann? Some argue that moving the crossover outside some vocal ranges improves things. My recording engineer friends prefer listening on conventional British-style monitors but switch to...

Crossovers are a necessary evil in listening. It can be done before multi (biamp, triamp, etc,) amplification, or after in passive components in the speaker. What is the research on crossover phase transitions in listening tests? What filter design are professional monitors measuring phase using?