Audio Heads and Tails

During his review of the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014, our colleague and audioXpress contributor Oliver A. Masciarotte wrote an amusing sentence: “Many engineers would debate the fact, but consumer electronics (CE) wags the tail of the pro audio dog.” I have often debated this... Exactly whose tail is moving which dog?

It being my seventh trip to Denver’s mile-high Tech Center district, I thought I knew what to expect. An audio engineer friend and I decided to drive to Colorado from Minneapolis. The weather was unseasonably warm and the traffic sparse, enabling us to ignore the piloting and discuss the technology that would be unveiled during the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest’s 11th iteration.

The January 2015 issue of audioXpress celebrates our 14th year. This edition includes our Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) 2014 report, we assembled and tested the MOD 102 Guitar Tube Amplifier Kit by MOD Kits, invited Scott Dorsey to update his Kludge reamplifier box and Gerhard Haas explains how to build a Wah Wah effects device. Don’t miss it!