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 ...

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 ...

Why do so many musicians, engineers and producers still prefer to make their recordings in the pure analog domain on magnetic tape? Well, it just sounds different than digital recording, and in many ...

Long before the recent vinyl renaissance, audiophiles have long espoused the analog benefits of vinyl records as being vastly superior to digital. The argument often includes claims of vinyl sounding ...

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 ...

There are no computers inside Downing Sound Studios. That means there’s no AutoTune and no Pro Tools either. Located in Huntsville, Alabama, Downing is the city’s last all-analog pro recording studio.

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — Walking into Oceanside’s Thunderbird Analog Recording Studio is like stepping decades into the past — wood-paneled walls, mid-century modern furnishings and vintage instruments ...

The global music industry has always been shaped by technology, from the early days of analog recording to the rise of digital audio workstations and online streaming platforms. Today, it finds itself ...

When Stephen Ucherek plays his classic Rickenbacker guitar, he likes to hear it played back on good old analog tape. But in a digital world, the supply of tape is spooling out. Quantegy, the only ...