BY MIKE METTLER — OCTOBER 22, 2014
“It’s a very common name. Back of $20 bills, that’s me.” Producer Andy Jackson is being typically self-effacing as he leans back in a chair across from me in front of the massive 48-track Neve 88R console that dominates the control room in the Astoria, the grand houseboat recording […]
BY MIKE METTLER – OCTOBER 21, 2014
“48k is a very high standard. If I sing something in the studio and then I play it back that way, it sounds exactly the same,” says electronic music pioneer Gary Numan. “The thing that’s most important to me is the sounds of the songs and the songs […]
BY MIKE METTLER — OCTOBER 10, 2014
“Souls, having touched, are forever entwined.” It’s a lyric penned by Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan in honor of his dear friend and late bandmate Jon Lord, the original keyboardist for Deep Purple who pioneered merging rock music with classical themes when he composed the material played jointly by […]
