April 2008
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Technology
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| Ableton Live 7 Performance-Oriented DAW |
From its inception, Ableton Live has been a favorite of dance music producers and DJs because of its ability to seamlessly sync up sampled loops. Building...
JIM AIKIN |
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| American Acoustic Development Model 7001 |
From Phil Jones — designer of the Acoustic Energy AE-1, Boston Acoustic's Lynnfield 300 and 500 monitors, and the AAD 2001 — comes a new...
JOE HANNIGAN |
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| EastWest PLAY Sample Libraries |
Following the model that was established two decades ago, most soft-sample libraries are released in one or more of the day's popular formats. EastWest,...
GARY ESKOW |
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| Snapshot Product Reviews |
APHEX HEADPOD 454 High-Output Personal Headphone Amp The HeadPod™ 454 from Aphex is a 1-input/4-output headphone amp....
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| Sony PCM-D50 Handheld Recorder |
Sony's new handheld PCM-D50 recorder reprises most of the features and performance of the company's much-higher-priced PCM-D1 in a smaller-sized unit...
BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Sound Devices 744T 4-Track Recorder |
Sound Devices' flagship 744T 4-channel recorder offers timecode in every imaginable format, sampling rate and depth. It's my choice for single-camera...
GLENN BERKOVITZ |
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| Tools of the Trade |
RØDE NTG3 SHOTGUN MIC For broadcasting and location recording, RØDE (www.rodemic.com) unveils the NTG-3...
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Live Mix
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| FixIt |
Monitor engineer Dave Guerin recently road-tested the DiGiCo D5 Version 4 upgrade for The Pogues' Christmas tour. Entec Sound and Light supplied the...
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| Gallo Center Opens With High-End Audio System |
The Gallo Center for the Arts, a new $40 million theater complex in Modesto, Calif., offers two performance venues: The Mary Stuart Rogers Theater holds...
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| Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood |
When many big pop acts put on a show, it typically calls for a heavily choreographed routine. Such acts follow a tight script that's filled with large...
Gaby Alter |
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
AVIOM 6416M MIC INPUT MODULE Introduced at last month's Musikmesse, Aviom's (www.aviom.com) 6416m mic input module...
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| News |
For Celine Dion's current world tour, production company Solotech is bringing out a pair of new Studer 5 SR consoles for both FOH and monitors…DPA...
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| Now Playing |
Killswitch Engage Sound Company: Rat Sound FOH Board/Engineer: Digidesign VENUE/Jordan Coopersmith Monitor Board/Engineer: Yamaha PM5DRH/Bob Strakele...
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| Sara Bareilles |
Mix caught up with rising new talent Sara Bareilles, who's opening for James Blunt on the U.S. VH1 You Oughta Know tour. The singer/songwriter showed...
Steve Jennings |
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Recording Notes
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| CLASSICS IV'S “TRACES” |
Cover-band mates cum pop stars: As old as rock itself, this dream, born from endless hours spent woodshedding hits of the day, can come true, and in...
Gary Eskow |
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| COOL SPINS |
Robin Danar Altered States (Shanachie) Though this bears the name of well-traveled engineer/producer/live sound mixer Danar, he is not the artist per...
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| JACKIE GREENE |
While it's undeniable that the record business can be cruel and cold, and it spits out some of its best while lesser talents rise to the top, there are...
Blair Jackson |
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| LENNY KRAVITZ AND HENRY HIRSCH |
Lenny Kravitz stands alone. On the one hand, he is known for embracing some of the musical ideas of many predecessors he openly admires, from Jimi Hendrix...
Chris J. Walker |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
The technological revolution has given rise to an entrepreneurial revolution. As proof, I offer you my own 'hood in Studio City, a name that, I'm discovering,...
Bud Scoppa |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
Asked to close the door, I'm having trouble. “Heavy, isn't it?” asks Kevin Kritch, the Great American Country cable network's VP of studio...
Peter Cooper |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
The year 2006 is just a couple of notches back on the calendar, but in the lightning-fast world of New York City audio post, it's more than enough time...
David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
SOUTHEAST NPALL Audio (Nashville) completed the editing, sweetening and 5.1 surround mix for Class C, a documentary about girls' high school basketball...
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Insider Audio
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| The Emperor's New Sampling Rate |
The arguments about sampling rates and word lengths in digital audio are long over with, aren't they? I mean, no less a personage than James A. “Andy”...
PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Producer's Desk
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| Steve Osborne |
Steve Osborne got into the audio business just in time to be “old school.” He came up through the ranks — all the way from tea boy...
BARBARA SCHULTZ |
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Project Studio
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| Philosophy of the World Recording |
Seattle-based producer/engineer/musician Steve Fisk (www.stevefisk.com) developed his craft in the 1980s and '90s...
MATT GALLAGHER |
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Tech's Files
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| Quest for the Optimal DAW Display |
Most of my geek-related purchases are made online. But choosing a computer monitor is a bit different than buying a hard drive — I want to see...
EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| A Guy We All Kind of Knew… |
This is the part of the magazine where I'm supposed to comment on the longest-running overnight sensation in technology: HDTV. Or provide a rally cry...
Thomas A. D. Kenny, Editorial Director |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
GET IN SYNC! I've just finished reading Paul Lehrman's article in the February 2008 issue (“Insider Audio: Late for the Future”), and he...
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Current/Industry News
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| HELIOS' NEW HOME |
Producer/mixer Clemens Schleiwies opened his new studio, The Private Room (www.the-private-room.com), in Munich,...
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| IN LOVING MEMORY |
J. PAUL HUNTSMAN, 1953-2008 J. Paul Huntsman, a supervising sound editor who worked on films including The Thin Red Line, The Illusionist and Starsky...
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
AFA Music Group's ArtistForArtist digital music label Website is now live at www.afamusic.com, providing users with...
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| READ…WATCH LISTEN…PLAY |
Go beyond the printed page and log on to www.mixonline.com to get extra photos, text and sounds on these select...
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| TANGERINE OPENS |
New mastering facility Tangerine Mastering (www.tangerinemastering.com) hosted a welcome event in late January....
David Weiss |
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| TEC SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS ANNOUNCED |
The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio announced the recipients of its 2007 TEC Awards Scholarship Grants. Carson Ritz is in his third year studying...
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| THE AUDIO GOODS FROM GDC 2008 |
The 2008 Game Developer's Conference was at the Moscone Center for the second year in a row, drawing record crowds in excess of 18,000 people. This year...
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| TOWNHOUSE STUDIOS TO CLOSE |
By the time you read this, the Townhouse Studios (West London) will have closed. At press time, parent company Sanctuary Group announced that the facility...
Barbara Schultz |
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On the Cover
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| Wildfire Post-Production Studios |
Leslie Shatz and Chris David can admit now that when they first floated the idea of buying Wilshire Stages two years ago, the industry response was less...
Tom Kenny |
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General
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Each year, the audio team for the annual Grammy Awards telecast looks to top itself, to introduce at least one new wrinkle to improve the viewer's audio...
TOM KENNY |
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| ACOUSTIK MUSIK |
Recent projects at mastering studio Acoustik Musik Ltd. (Oberlin, Ohio) include the Northern Ohio Youth Chorus, Kendal at Home and the Oberlin College...
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| BRASS WITH GADD |
Engineer/owner Clarke Rigsby of Tempest Recording (Phoenix) has been working on a new album with horn ensemble the Boston Brass, featuring Steve Gadd...
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| H.A.S. Productions |
Larry Hall, owner and founder of H.A.S. Productions (Las Vegas, www.hasaudio.com), believes that “things happen...
BARBARA SCHULTZ |
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| JILL SCOTT |
R&B singer Jill Scott and her 14-piece band have been on the road touring in support of Scott's latest album, The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3,...
Sarah Jones |
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| Justin Timberlake |
Last year, Justin Timberlake worked out a diverse repertoire to perform along with the densely layered songs on his latest album, FutureSex/LoveSounds,...
JANICE BROWN |
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| LIVE SOUND SYSTEM CONTROLLERS |
There's nothing like the joy of assembling a new P.A. system. The sweet smell of new cabinetry, manuals everywhere and enough audio wiring to entertain...
STEVE LA CERRA |
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| MAKING The HD TRANSITION |
It's a safe bet that every broadcaster, network and facility manager across America has February 17 circled in red on their 2009 calendars. And as that...
GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| New York's Met In HD |
Coloratura performances might not have changed much since Mozart's time, but the opera experience itself is certainly going through a profound sea change....
GARY ESKOW |
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| SOLID-STATE MIC PREAMPS |
The stand-alone mic preamp has survived all of the different evolutions the recording industry has undergone. With the DAW-entrenched studio, engineers...
Tony Nunes |
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| STEVE GABOURY'S LIVEWIRE |
When is a project studio not a project studio? When the studio you're talking about is Livewire Production & Recording (New York City,
David Weiss |
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| The Verve |
The Verve tour, which rolled out across the UK in late 2007, found front-of-house engineer Ian Laughton and monitor engineer Tristan Farrow both manning...
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| Understanding Integration |
Way back in the December 2007 issue of Mix, we scratched the surface of game sound integration techniques. (See “AudioNext: Roll Your Own Level.”)...
ALEXANDER BRANDON |
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