An audio engineer’s journey from analog behemoths to the pocket-sized power of digital mixers, and the ghost of a 1982 DSP chip that started it …
The Genie in the Machine: How a 40-Year-Old Chip Gave Rise to the Modern Digital Mixer

An audio engineer’s journey from analog behemoths to the pocket-sized power of digital mixers, and the ghost of a 1982 DSP chip that started it …
A sound is born. It isn’t a bang, but a whisper—the softest exhale of a vocalist, the gentle scrape of a pick across a steel …
It began, as many great ideas do, with a small problem and a bit of ingenuity. The year was 1971, in a snack bar in …
There’s a certain romance to the old way. I remember it well. The tangible, physical presence of a great guitar amplifier. The low, warm glow …
There’s a smell to old analog gear, a mix of hot dust, ozone from the transformers, and the faint, metallic scent of the solder joints …