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WIND AND BREATH CONTROLLERS: YAMAHA WX5 and BC3

By William Coakley | 01/10/2001
To use a breath controller (in this case, a Yamaha BC3) you blow into it and it produces a single control source usually used for real time enveloping sounds. It is usually headset mounted and consists of just a mouthpiece (no reed). In contrast, when a wind controller (Yamaha WX5)...

Ampex Tapes

By William Coakley | 01/10/2001
My studio policy: no Ampex tape goes in any machine at any time - ever. Over the 35 years of using thousands of tapes from cassettes to quarter inch, half inch, one inch etc., the ONLY manufacturer whose tape I found not only defective but also caused damage to my...