The Vieuxtemps Guarneri is a violin that is older than the United States of America — 273 years old, to be exact. It recently became the most expensive violin in the world, selling for an estimated $16 million. Its new owner anonymously donated the historic instrument to violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, on loan for the…
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Ever wonder why there are so many different compressors and why they all sound different? That’s because back in the analog days there were a number of different ways to achieve compression depending upon the type of electronic building block that you used. Here’s a brief excerpt from Bobby Owsinski’s book “The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook” that covers…
Dennis Morris‘ career is the stuff of Almost Famous lore. The London-born photographer was at the onset of his teenage years when Bob Marley invited him onto a tour bus with himself the Wailers, thereby catalyzing an iconic path that has seen his work immortalized in Rolling Stone, TIME, and People. As a chief chronicler…