BT
It's safe to say that no one can squeeze more Pro Tools tips into a 15-minute cell phone call than the effusive BT. Even with his busy schedule creating wild successes—from his hit progressive house pop album, Movement in Still Life, to producing N'Sync's "Pop" single, doing soundtracks for The Fast & the Furious, Under Suspicion, and Go!, and cutting his recent Rare & Remixed CD of Godspeed, Sarah McLachlan, Seal, Tori Amos, and Mike Oldfield remixes—can't keep him from taking time out to get all geeky about gear and share some audio tricks. [read on]

WIN Media Studios
If Glen Robinson and crew at WIN Media Studios heard too much of "Living in the U.S.A," "Jungle Love," and "The Joker" by the time they wrapped their double live Steve Miller CD production, it sure doesn't show. In fact, no one at this busy Manhattan, New York, studio, where the venerable 29-year-old weekly King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show has been produced the past three years, could get quite enough of transferring, recording, sweetening, remixing, and mastering every one of Miller's early nuggets for The Steve Miller Band: On Tour 1973–1976. [read on]

Powerman 5000
Powerman 5000's massive sonic attack was pure in-your-face industrial rap-metal when the band first took Boston by storm, a sound defined on releases like True Force, Mega Kung-Fu Radio, and Tonight The Stars Revolt! That sound is evolving once again with help from a new rhythm section, Pro Tools, and one of the best downstairs neighbors a musician could ever ask for. [read on]