Enjoying Recorded Music That You Can’t Even Hear
Twenty years before Thomas Edison’s great breakthrough in recorded sound, another inventor first conceived of a method of “writing” sound on a blackened piece of paper. But he never intended that his recordings would be played back with a machine. Is it possible to enjoy music that you can’t even hear?
“Tequila y Bucana” now available online
The debut CD from D.C.-based Norteño band Los Ilegales de Lempira, a client of our studio, is now available on iTunes, Amazon, and the other digital download and streaming services. Check it out!
The Mic Clip from Hell: Hacking the Sennheiser MD421
Sennheiser’s MD421 dynamic microphone is a workhorse microphone. Originally intended as a general-use microphone for vocals and instruments, along the way it gained “killer app” status on tom drums. An unintended defect in the mic’s design, though, has been killing tom drums ever since. Here’s a little history on this famous microphone, and a neat […]
