August 2006
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Technology
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| Anthony Gallo A'Diva Ti Speakers, TR-2 Sub |
New from Anthony Gallo Acoustics, the A'Diva Ti loudspeaker (with companion TR-2 subwoofer) is the newest product in an acclaimed line of audiophile...
BY JOE HANNIGAN |
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| Rimage 2000i Duplicator/Printer |
This review actually began late last year, when Mix evaluated the Rimage 360i DVD/CD duplicator, which yielded inconsistent performance. (See sidebar.)...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| Rimage 360i Desktop Duplicator |
The 360i desktop duplicator can burn/print 25 CDs or DVDs per batch. Priced at $1,703, it ships with an integrated software package for labeling and...
Rick Spence |
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| Snapshot Product Reviews |
ABBEY ROAD/CHANDLER LIMITED TG12413 Limiter Plug-In The TG12413 Limiter plug-in is based on the '60s transistorized EMI Abbey Road TG12413 Limiter module...
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| Sony Media Software ACID Pro 6 |
Sony has never been shy about updating ACID, the company's workhorse program for PC. The recent release of ACID 6 — hot on the heels of last year's...
BY DAVID WEISS |
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| SPL Transient Designer |
I wouldn't dream of recording drums in my studio without my SPL Transient Designer 4 (TD4). Boosting its attack controls on drum tracks can give kick,...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| Steinberg WaveLab 6 Audio Editing Suite |
Calling Steinberg's WaveLab an audio editor would be an oversimplification because it's a high-end suite of tools for massaging, compositing and archiving...
BY JIM AIKIN |
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| Tools of the Trade |
EDIROL R-4 PRO RECORDER The highly skilled big brother to the portable R-4 handheld recorder, Edirol's R-4 Pro (www.edirol.com,...
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| Universal Audio Solo 610/110 Mic Pre/DI |
Since 1999, Universal Audio has been steadily building up a stable of quality hardware products, first starting with the LA-2A and 1176 legacy compressors...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Upgrades and Updates |
Muse Research (www.museresearch.com) has released new UniWire audio and MIDI networking technology...
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| Yamaha AW2400 24-Track Hard Disc Recorder |
Yamaha knows a thing or two about building personal digital audio workstations. In 2001, the company launched its AW Series, which was largely based...
BY JASON SCOTT ALEXANDER |
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Sound for Picture
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| Trailer Mixing and Music |
At its best, a movie trailer gets the heart racing, the mind reeling and prompts a little voice in your head that says, “I've gotta see this film!”...
By Blair Jackson |
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Live Mix
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| FixIt |
A veteran of many Paul Simon tours, David Morgan (Steely Dan, James Taylor, Bette Midler and countless others) is currently mixing FOH for Simon's new...
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| Martina McBride |
Mix caught up with Martina McBride when she passed through the Oakland Arena (Oakland, Calif.), in late June. Mixing Martina at front of house is her...
by Steve Jennings |
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| Melissa Etheridge |
Melissa Etheridge is standing center stage at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, Calif., in late June (the third show of her 20-plus-date tour), belting...
By David John Farinella |
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| Nady Systems Celebrates 30 Years |
It's been 30 years since Nady Systems' (www.nadywireless.com) CEO/founder John Nady put the...
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
AUDIO-TECHNICA HYBRID EARPHONES Now available in the U.S., the ATH-EC7 GM ear bud/clip-on hybrid headphones from Audio-Technica's (
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| News |
NSCA's (www.nsca.org) proprietary insurance program provides its member companies with customized solutions,...
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| Now Playing |
AFI Sound Company: Rat Sound (Oxnard, Calif.) FOH Engineer/Console: Ron “Ronnie Rat” Kimball (also system engineer) and Mikey “Rhino”...
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| On the Road |
John Ward One of the year's most successful tours, country superstar couple Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have wowed audiences with Soul 2 Soul II 2006,...
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Recording Notes
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| CASSANDRA WILSON |
Three years ago, the paths of jazz/blues vocalist Cassandra Wilson and producer/musician/soundtrack composer T Bone Burnett intersected for a single...
By Chris J. Walker |
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| JESSI COLTER |
It's one thing to follow in the footsteps of a loved one, but it's quite another when that loved one is Waylon Jennings, a legend who has passed on after...
By David John Farinella |
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| THE CYRKLE'S “RED RUBBER BALL” |
Folk singers wouldn't throw in the towel. The Brits were here. Blues masters tossed jagged contrapuntal lines into a densely textured pop symphony. Back...
By Gary Eskow |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
Welcome to L.A.: This month's column features two out-of-towners — visitors from Boulder, Colo., who began their project in their home state and...
by Bud Scoppa |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
My neighborhood was nearly destroyed by a major tornado eight years ago, but it's hard for me to imagine the unfathomable devastation — the equivalent...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
Thrillseekers craving adventure in professional audio can find everything they're looking for in the mobile devices department. As PDAs, pocket PC phones...
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
SOUTHEAST Donna the Buffalo laid down tracks at Blackbird Studios (Nashville) and Echo Mountain (Asheville, NC) with producer/engineer Joe Blaney…Producer/engineer...
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Insider Audio
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| And the SCAB Goes To… |
This is the month when Mix readers get the chance to vote for their favorite candidates for the venerable TEC Awards, a tradition that has been going...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Mix Interview
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| Geoff Emerick |
A lot of us can relate to Geoff Emerick: a young teenager who used his tape recorder to capture everything he could and wondered how one of those things...
BY MATT HURWITZ |
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Project Studio
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| The Dave Smith Room at Sony Music |
[Room 309 at Sony Music Studios, one of the best-kept secrets in Manhattan, will soon be renamed to honor Dave Smith,...
BY GARY ESKOW |
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Tech's Files
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| Guerrilla Remote |
Remote audio comes in many flavors, and “guerrilla” aptly describes this sonic challenge. Getting to the next level is like playing a videogame...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| It's Your Vote — Use It! |
A long time ago — a very long time ago — I was a poor college student. I scraped by doing technical jobs, like repairing electronics, running...
George Petersen Editorial Director |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
RING, RING — MONEY'S CALLING The money is out there, and as always, it gravitates to skill and assets. If you want to succeed, then think of yourself...
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Current/Industry News
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| AWARDS FOR HARTT STUDENTS |
Two students from The Hartt School's Music Production and Technology (MPT) program at the University of Hartford have been named winners of a prestigious...
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| BOOKSHELF |
Jeff Touzeau's Making Tracks: Unique Recording Studio Environments includes hundreds of photos and interviews from a wide range of international recording...
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| COMPANY WATCH |
SSL PURCHASES SYDEC Advancing its commitment to its workstation users, Solid State Logic purchased Sydec Audio Engineering, developers of the Soundscape...
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| IN LOVING MEMORY |
ARIF MARDIN, 1932-2006 Arif Mardin, the legendary producer/arranger whose career spanned landmark recordings from Aretha Franklin to the Bee Gees to...
Gary Eskow |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
Mojave Audio (Burbank, CA) promoted Dusty Wakeman to president; Wakeman recently spent his pro audio days with Mad Dog Studios…Filling the newly...
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| MIX WEB EXTRAS |
Go beyond the printed page and log on to www.mixonline.com to get extra photos, text and sounds...
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| NOTES FROM THE PRODUCERS & ENGINEERS WING OF THE RECORDING ACADEMY |
This month, Mix subscribers vote for the 2006 recipients of the Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards — no easy task. But one great thing about...
BY MAUREEN DRONEY |
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| PEACOCK FINDS SELF AT CAPITOL |
Alice Peacock, singer/songwriter and recently named president of NARAS' Midwest chapter, completed her latest release, Who I Am, at Capitol Studios in...
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| SOUND LOUNGE GROWS NEW SITE IN SOHO |
Sound Lounge's second location, Sound Lounge Hudson (SoHo, www.soundlounge.com), features two...
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| SOUNDS GOOD WHEN I GO VROOM |
More than 10 years ago, Acura teamed up with Grammy Award — winning engineer Elliot Scheiner and Panasonic to create the first ELS DVD-A surround...
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| STEVE MILLER TO RECEIVE LES PAUL AWARD |
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Steve Miller will be honored with the prestigious Les Paul Award at the 22nd annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards,...
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On the Cover
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| R!OT Atlanta |
In June, Mix's “Class of 2006” design feature announced the expansion of this month's cover studio, R!OT Atlanta. Serving the booming Atlanta...
By Barbara Schultz |
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General
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| ALL ABOUT ADAM |
At Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine), busy engineer Adam Ayan has mastered releases in a variety of genres in his Pro Tools HD/Sonoma-equipped Studio...
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| Bayou City Sound |
Our industry is chock-full of professionals who stumbled into the sound reinforcement business from a pure love of music and took that interest and molded...
BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| CARRYING THE “TORCH” |
Devon Allman (son of Allman Brother Gregg Allman) recorded and mixed his band Honeytribe's first album at Ardent Studios (Memphis). The debut was engineered...
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| COOL SPINS |
Solas Reunion: A Decade of Solas (Compass) The name sounds vaguely Hispanic, but folks in the know will tell you that Solas is among the most original...
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| CORRECTION |
In the June 2006 issue, the photographer for the cover shot is Peter Figen, not Amanda Strong. Mix regrets the error. ...
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| COUNTRY MEETS SOUL |
Soul legend Solomon Burke recorded his first country album with artist/songwriter/producer Buddy Miller in Miller's home studio. Burke met Miller when...
Barbara Schultz |
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| Hard Disk Drives |
When media theorist Marshall McLuhan published his landmark The Medium is the Message in 1967, he wasn't talking about recording media, but perhaps he...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| METHENY GUEST STARS |
The virtuosic Pat Metheny added his talents to bassist/composer Me'shell NdegéOcello's new album, which is being recorded at Eastside Sound in New...
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| PINK |
Hot off a stellar new album, I'm Not Dead, and a new marriage, Pink is currently taking her punk rock — tinged styling out to clubs across the...
by Steve Jennings |
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| RETRO UPGRADE |
The venerable Annex (Menlo Park, Calif.) is celebrating 30 years of music recording with the installation of a Neve VIII/60 Series console in its Studio...
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| SYLVIA MASSY SHIVY'S: RadioStar Studios |
Snow is falling on Weed, the tiny logging town at the foot of Mount Shasta in Northern California. Inside a 90-year-old structure formerly known as the...
BY JEFF FORLENZA |
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| The Pre-Production Payoff |
In the way olden days — pre-Pet Sounds and Revolver — pre-production was a fairly well-defined process. It involved choosing material for...
BY BLAIR JACKSON |
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