Copper


Happy New Year!

Issue 49Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #75, and welcome to 2019! It truly is difficult to believe that the year is gone, but here we are. Let's get to it! From our usual gang of...

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Tom Fine, Part 1

Issue 49THE COPPER INTERVIEW

[Tom Fine is an archival/recording/mastering engineer, and if if his name sounds familiar, it’s likely because he’s the son of Robert Fine and Wilma Cozart Fine. One of the rare husband-wife teams in...

Cables: Time is of the Essence, Part 2

Issue 49FEATURED

[In the last issue of Copper, we began a series of articles by Belden engineer Galen Gareis on the science involved in the design of audio cables. We continue here with Galen’s explanation...

Valerie June

Issue 49... AND INDIE FOR ALL

When Valerie June was growing up in Tennessee, everyone in her family sang as a matter of course. Now that she’s a New York singer-songwriter with a burgeoning career, her...

Editor’s Choice

Issue 49VINTAGE WHINE

No, not this Editor. Continuing from my last column, inspired by the arrival of a big batch of old issues of The Absolute Sound, The Editor referred to is TAS‘ founder, HP—Harry Pearson. For...

Eating

Issue 49MUSIC'AL NOTES

“If you touch me again,” I yelled, “I will kill you”— and I meant it. I travel quite a lot, and often the high point of the day is eating...

Still More of the ’67 Psychedelic Shootout!

Issue 49TWISTED SYSTEMS

Both the Beatles & The Rolling Stones released 2 albums in 1967. For the purpose of this face off (and because I, alone, make the rules) we are only dealing...

Brainz the Size of a Planet, Part 3

Issue 49QUIBBLES AND BITS

I have been describing the free-access crowd-sourced music metadata database MusicBrainz over the course of the last two issues of Copper.  I started out by describing the need for what I...

What Will Be New, in the New Year?

Issue 49THE AUDIO CYNIC

It’s been 141 years since Bell’s first call over the device that became the telephone. 140 years ago, Edison’s phonograph became the first device that could play back recorded sound....

What Is a Bass? Part 3: Alternative Materials

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 49MUSIC

In the first two installments, I talked about a bit of the history of electric basses, and covered the innovations that came from Alembic. This time, I want to discuss...

Special Effects

Issue 49TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

It’s holiday season as I write this, and I can’t help feeling grateful for the bread I’ll break and the people with whom I’ll break it. This year I also...