Conventional wisdom used to treat science and the creative arts like feuding cousins; the more they were separated, the better. But College of Engineering students have a habit of rejecting dated ...

Every song you hear on the radio, on Spotify, on a CD or vinyl record, is the result of many hands and minds. For many artists, the process of getting from written song to “playlist-ready” track will ...

Mastering engineer Dave McNair unravels some of the mysteries of how he makes music sound good over iTunes and MP3s played over $20 computer speakers. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg ...

Shane Choi has a passion for music and a mind for engineering, something he pairs together as a dual-degree mechanical engineering and trumpet performance major at Northwestern. But the fourth-year ...

I was dropped into the deep end of the pond. I was mastering American records for the U.K. market one day, and the next day, when I was around 19, I was working on “Revolver.” The Beatles knew from ...

Since “What’s Luv” by Fat Joe was released in 2002, I had always felt offended on the engineer’s behalf when Joe yells, “Put the fucking mic on!” to kick off the track. Like, Jesus, Fat Joe, how about ...

Emily Lazar has become the top engineer in music in 2020, nominated for three Album Of The Year Grammys in 2021 alone. I first met engineer Emily Lazar in 2012 when she was one of the nominees for ...

Tufts Department of Music last semester began offering a music engineering minor — an interdisciplinary program for students interested in both music and engineering — prompted by increased student ...