Author Archives: Scott Foglesong

I recently digitized a few LPs for a friend. He was duly impressed by the lovely sound that his presumably obsolete vinyl discs were still capable of producing, so he asked me to show him how I remastered an LP … Continue reading →

From time to time the recording industry indulges in a format-war blowout, inevitably to consumer disadvantage. A current medium comes to be seen as inadequate; competing companies introduce new, mutually-incompatible media that promise improvement; nobody talks to anybody else; the … Continue reading →

Back when I was in my teens I often had the sneaking suspicion that the adults in my general vicinity were laughing at me behind my back. Chalk some of that up to generic teen paranoia. But my suspicions were … Continue reading →

Another summer rounds the curve towards the final stretch to the forthcoming fall, for this combo academic-performer the dividing line between one year and the next. Casting my thoughts forward by a few weeks, I’m starting to think about those … Continue reading →

I’m awash in childhood audio nostalgia. I suppose it was the Nutcracker Suite that did it, as I came across my very first grown-up record tucked away in the dining room closet and discovered that with a bit of software … Continue reading →

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Of late my work has mandated that I become reasonably adept at transcribing 78 RPM records into digital format. That’s just peachy; I relish acquiring a new skill set, no matter how arcane. But 78s aren’t arcane. They are what … Continue reading →

F. I hate flunking students—well, most of the time I hate it. Sometimes I don’t feel one way or the other about it, especially if the student in question has been conspicuous in his/her absence for most of the semester. … Continue reading →

Educator. Something I’m not, never have been, never will be. Educators are people who talk a good game but can’t teach their way out of a paper bag. They write screeds about teaching and speak in hypersyllabic educationese. But they … Continue reading →

Observe the timeline in the graphic below. Along its axis, from 1925 to roughly the present, are arrayed the five critical changeover years in audio history. Each of those particular dates carries with it a warning to the discerning listener, … Continue reading →