Interesting Mu:zines Articles

Thought it might be worth having a thread for great articles found in the muzines.co.uk archive (if there are any other readers here, I hope there are). Sometimes it’s a real surprise what you find just by browsing random issue contents.

I’ll start with this one that I came across today. Some very thought-provoking points being put forward in this 33 year old piece. I wonder what the writer makes of the state of present-day technology and whether it has addressed all of his wishes/criticisms?

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Two series written by the very knowledgable Ben Duncan, on studio basics that turn out to be quite complicated (grounding and signal connections). The other articles in the series are linked in each page respectively and it’s worth reading them all:

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Today we learn why studio techicians groaned when MIDI was standardised to use a DIN connector, and, without a single mention of MIDI, also find out why the pins are numbered 1,4,2,5,3:

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