News Pro Audio Absolute gold: dive into a digitised library of vintage 78rpm recordings by Borna Crvelin Expand your listening with digitised 78rpm recordings from the first half of the 20th-century. The collection stands at 286,954 and counting. The not-for-profit organisation Internet Archive has unleashed a huge…
Features Pro Audio Talking drums and Talking Heads: the limitless world of percussion instruments by Josh Davies The percussion family consists of the widest range of instruments seen in any instrument family. An orchestral percussionist, for example, needs to master a huge variety of instruments, each with…
Features American Music: how Duke Ellington built a jazz empire by Dan Shaw When it comes to the pillars of jazz, none stand prouder than Duke Ellington. And like fellow luminaries of the idiom, he pushed this uniquely American phenomenon forward, doing it…
Features Pro Audio Masters of the mix: unsung heroes of the recording studio world by Dan Shaw We occupy an age where knowledge about the recording studio is abundant. Yet it was a few short decades ago where this was definitely not the case. The pioneers and…
