Pro Techniques from Elliot Mazer
Did The Last Waltz, Cheap Thrills by Janis Joplin and Big Brother & The Holding Company, or Leonard Bernstein's Concert For Peace have an impact in your life? How about Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Willie Nelson, Gordon Lightfoot, or The Band? Do you still get emotional when you hear Michael Hedges' soaring guitar lines or every song on Neil Young's Harvest? [read on]

The Loading and Reloading of St. Anger
"St. Anger is sonically and musically unique," says Metallica's engineer and go-to Pro Tools guy, Mike Gillies, about the band's latest Bob Rock-produced release. "The aggressive tone that an all-high-resolution recording process provided us, at 88.2kHz, was perfect. It was very different from the sonic depth and wide stereo field of the earlier albums. Pro Tools|HD made the guitars sound as if the NS-10 monitors in the control room were Mesa or Marshall cabinet speakers! [more]