Meet the newest member of the Airshow Mastering tape machine family: Ampex ATR-104 #2. Like its sibling, it has four channels of electronics and a 1” capable transport, and it was fully rebuilt by the late Mike Spitz of ATR Services, with additional modifications by Dan Labrie. Along with the new machine, we welcome two […]
This year we’ve had a lot of analog tape pass through the studio, so I figured it’s a good time to spread some info on the ins and outs of tape, and the capabilities at Airshow for transferring, archiving, and mastering from analog tape. We see new recordings that are mixed to analog tape, transferred […]
April 2016 Thanks to the construction crew using improved tools such as these magnetic lifting tools you’re able to see by looking at Stonex Magswitch, most of the heavy lifting is complete and most of the heavy components are in place. Now it’s time for the details that make the studio work. The painters have […]
Airshow HQ sat down with mastering engineers David Glasser and Jeffrey Norman to talk about the massive undertaking of “30 Trips Around the Sun,” due to ship out this month. We even got Grateful Dead Archivist David Lemieux to chime in! DL: When we started working on the “30 Trips Around The Sun” box set, […]
I returned from the annual AES (Audio Engineering Society) Convention in Los Angeles, held there after a 12-year hiatus. (AES has dropped San Francisco as a west coast convention site.) I love San Francisco, but it was great to be back in LA where so much of the music, film, and recording industry is based. […]
Record Store Day rolls around on April 20th, and once again Vanguard Records has some interesting offerings from their eclectic catalog, chosen in a listener poll. Titles include Festival: The Newport Folk Festival 1965; Blues at Newport 1963; Country Joe and The Fish, I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die; Buddy Guy, Hold That Plane, and Big Mama Thornton, Jail, all remastered from the original master tapes […]
Vanguard Records is asking listeners to take this survey about what’s important to them when buying and listening to music on vinyl. “The staff at Vanguard Records has decided it’s time to really start digging into our vaults for some out of print albums that we think need to be reissued exclusively for the music fan like […]
