Samantha Bennett

A critical examination of the twenty-first century fetishisation of professional audio technologies, and how it led to a new social formation—gear cultures. Gear—mixing consoles, outboard effects processors, microphones. These are professional studio recording-related technological objects—the tools of the recording industry—yet their omnipresence in the broader music industries and prosumer markets transcends the entrenched pro audio engineer guild. In Gear: Cultures...