Dr. Perry Alexander

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Strictly Smokin’ and Friends - Strictly Smokin’ Big Bang

15 Jun 2024

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New Gear

29 Feb 2016

Major overhaul in the stereo room! Gone are the venerable Snell C/Vs and Parasound amplifier. Replaced with an amazing system that I happened to stumble into. Sometimes it is way better to be lucky than good.

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Tom Dowd and The Language of Music

08 Jun 2013

Years ago I saw a documentary when doing laps around the television about Tom Dowd. Dowd was a recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records and was among the first to use stereo and multitrack recording techniques. He also worked on the Manhattan Project and made the decision to go into recording when his classified work was more advanced than academia would acknowledge.

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