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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before the recent vinyl renaissance, audiophiles have long espoused the analog benefits of vinyl records as being vastly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

On a chilly November evening, a few hundred people mill around a warehouse in a quiet corner of Oakland. The crowd spills into the empty street, where musicians, engineers, and music fans in hoodies ...

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 ...