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‘Out came this ginormous sound’: Hugh Padgham on ‘accidentally discovering’ the gated reverb drum sound
'As is not unusual with innovations, it was not something those involved were looking...
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Les Paul and the invention of multitrack recording
Looking back on the genius of Les Paul, as featured in this month's Genius!4...
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Genius!3: Shioto Okita and the rectangular diaphragm
The brains behind Audio-Technica's pioneering products - part three
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Genius!3: Hideo Matsushita and the dual moving-magnet cartridge
The brains behind Audio-Technica's pioneering products - part two
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Genius! 3: Fumio Kamikura and dual companding technology
The brains behind Audio-Technica's pioneering products - part one
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Looking back at pro audio’s pioneers: Genius!3 is out now
Brought to you by the makers of PSNEurope, the third edition of Genius!, looking...
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PSNEurope hosts Genius! Live at AES LA on Saturday
Come along and discover what it takes to create something amazing!
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GENIUS! #28: Peter Thomas and the Advanced Transmission Line
“I thought that if we got rid of the wool and got the absorption...
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GENIUS! #26: Miller Puckette and Max
“I was frustrated by having to wait for the sound to come out of...
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GENIUS! #25: Chrys Lindop and in-ear monitoring
“I noticed that singers, especially, much preferred listening to mixes on headphones... In loudspeakers,...
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GENIUS! #24: Rog Mogale and Air Motion
"I couldn’t take going to great-looking clubs only to see an ugly black box...
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GENIUS! #22: George Massenburg and parametric EQ
To this day, channel EQs based on the designs of Massenburg or fellow pioneers...
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GENIUS! #21: Dave Martin and the ‘Philishave’
The twin-driver MH212 was the first ever dedicated cone midrange horn
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GENIUS! #20: Stefan Kudelski and the world’s first professional-quality portable tape recorder
The reel-to-reel Nagra 1 was approximately the size of a shoebox
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GENIUS! #19: Herbert Jünger and the Jünger Audio D1
The D1 was among the first digital compressor–limiters
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GENIUS! #18: Michael Gerzon and Ambisonics
"Stereo: An obsolescent term meaning a hi-fi system in which two speakers are missing"
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GENIUS! #17: Bruce Hofer and the AP System One
"Some of my best ideas come while I'm asleep"
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GENIUS! #15: Ahren Hartman and the Axient wireless microphone system
"There were points in the project when I thought, ‘Well, this is just never...
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GENIUS! #14: Andy Hildebrand and Auto-Tune
"Several producers insisted on getting it NOW one explaining he'd just paid $60,000 to...
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GENIUS! #7: Klas Dalbjörn and the Lab.gruppen PLM Series
“I was quite sure that I didn’t want Lab.gruppen to deliver an ‘amplifier with...
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GENIUS! #5: Jeff Byers and the founding of Midas
High quality signal processing, rugged construction and a compact form-factor were among the elements...
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All hail the boffins: Introducing Genius! by PSNEurope
Our new supplement features the geniuses whose inventions transformed the world of professional audio