Ongoing History Daily: Cool History of Audio Tape, Part 5
One of the important pioneers in the world of audio recording is Major Jack Mullin. Although he was a solider
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Magnetic Tape
Ongoing History Daily: Cool History of Audio Tape, Part 1
Before the 1930s, the only real way to capture music for playback later was on either a rotating cylinder or
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Ongoing History Daily: An update on tape rot
Storing audio for long, long periods of time isn’t as easy as we once thought. For example, about a dozen
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Ongoing History Daily: Tape and CD rot
I think it goes without saying that we as a species would like to preserve our music forever and ever,
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Let’s give credit to three unsung pioneers of music.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca and was adapted from the much more in-depth Ongoing History of New Music
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Ongoing History Daily: Sonic Youth’s guitar sounds
Few bands managed to get as many sounds out of a guitar as Sonic Youth. What was their secret? In
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Random music news for Monday, October 28, 2019
In LA on a movie junket (more on that later), right in the midst of wildfire season. The best hope
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cassettes
If you’re a regular reader of these pages, you’ll know that I believe the cassette is a hateful, outdated, obsolete
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Sony Develops Magnetic Tape That Holds 185 TB (NOT a Typo). Let’s Make a Playlist with It.
I haven’t used a tape drive for backup for years and frankly, I had no idea that it still was
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