December 2004
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Technology
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| Adobe Audition Version 1.5 PC-Based DAW |
Recent acquisitions of audio companies by much larger video companies have made some unusual bedfellows. Arguably, the company that has done the most...
BY TONY NUNES |
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| Aviom A-Net Pro |
Whether moving audio files around in a studio complex or offering shared access to stage feeds for front-of-house/monitors/recording/broadcast duties...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| Blue Sky MediaDesk 2.1 Monitoring System |
Is the world ready for a diminutive speaker system that is articulate, affordable, basically sounds great and is expandable to 5.1? Blue Sky has created...
BY BOBBY G. FRASIER |
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| Native Instruments Guitar Rig |
Who needs yet another guitar amp simulator/multi-effects box? When it's done this well, the answer is — we do! Native Instruments' Guitar Rig is...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| SE Electronics SE1A, SE2 and SE3 Mics |
I have a friend, a self-proclaimed audio snob, who swears that if he ever heard a great-sounding Chinese microphone, it would be one of the signs of...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Tascam DM-24 Digital Mixer |
Tascam's DM-24 is a popular digital mixer with good reason: It sports a large amount of I/O and with its superflexible signal routing, onboard effects,...
BY JOHN McJUNKIN |
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| Tools of the Trade |
SONAR 4 PRODUCER EDITION With a feature list as long as your arm, Cakewalk's (www.cakewalk.com)...
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| Upgrades and Updates |
George Massenburg Labs is shipping the GML 2032 mic preamp/parametric EQ. The Class-A unit can be purchased from
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| Waves IR-1 Parametric Convolution Reverb Plug-In |
When I first heard about Waves' IR Parametric Convolution Reverb, the letters IR and the word “convolution” puzzled me. After some research,...
BY ERIK ZOBLER |
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Sound for Picture
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| Crazy Cars and Man-Eating Leeches |
If you've never heard of A Series of Unfortunate Events, chances are you don't have a young reader at home. The brainchild of San Francisco author Daniel...
By Blair Jackson |
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| Sound Lounge |
What's the key to being a successful audio post mix house in New York City? While there are a lot of facilities struggling to discover the answer, Sound...
By David Weiss |
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Live Mix
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| Iridium Jazz Club Celebrates 10 Years |
The Iridium Jazz Club (www.theiridiumjazzclub.com), the famed New York City venue that...
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| News |
Lectrosonics contributed $10,000 to support the NSCA Education Foundation, including programs such as Project EST (training and certification for electronic...
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| Now Playing |
Neal McCoy and Band FOH Engineer/Console: Steve “Sonny” Taylor Monitor Engineer/Console: Norm Sida P.A./Amps: Matchless guitar amp Microphones:...
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| The Pixies |
In 1987, Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviet Union was still a communist world power and “pop” was the prevailing musical trend. But...
By Sarah Benzuly |
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| Top 10 Live Sound Picks from AES |
AES isn't just a recording show. This year's convention was packed with goodies for the live engineer. Here's my Top 10 fave picks. Allen & Heath (
By Mark Frink |
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Recording Notes
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| ALAN PARSONS |
Over the course of a career that spans more than three decades, Alan Parsons has been a successful engineer, producer and recording artist — a...
By Blair Jackson |
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| Cool Spins |
John Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls (Nonesuch) This stirring 25-minute opus by contemporary classical composer John Adams was commissioned by...
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| DURAN DURAN |
I confess: I am a former jazz shoe — wearing, button-collecting Durannie. From age 12 until my sophomore year of high school, I scoured my local...
By Heather Johnson |
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| EARTH, WIND & FIRE'S “SHINING STAR” |
Maurice White took a walk one night early on in Earth, Wind & Fire's three-week stay at Caribou Ranch in rural Colorado for the recording of their landmark...
By Robyn Flans |
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| THE NEVILLE BROTHERS |
It's been five years since New Orleans' Neville Brothers recorded an album in the studio. During that time, they've toured plenty, as they always have,...
By Blair Jackson |
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Coast to Coast
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| INDIE BUZZ |
LOG ON TO THE WEB TO STARE AT THE SON (VOLT) Jay Farrar returned to his St. Louis studio to record the first Son Volt album since the 1998 release, Wide...
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
Hollywood Boulevard was typically crazy. At Mann's Chinese, tourists gawked over movie star footprints, a man with an antenna on his head held court...
by Maureen Droney |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
I've always loved Christmas albums of just about any kind, but the ones that I return to are unusually durable statements that transcend the season and...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
Love it or hate it, American Idol is a popular phenomenon, attracting millions of viewers and turning its winners into instant stars. Producer Harold...
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Hillary Duff recorded new tracks at The Village (West L.A.) with producer Julian Bunetta and engineer Eric Sarafin; PJ Harvey stopped...
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Insider Audio
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| Virtual Stuff |
One of comedian George Carlin's most incisive routines is about stuff: How do we get it? What do we do with it? How do we keep it safe? Where the heck...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Tech's Files
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| The Sound of Vacuum Tubes, Part I |
This the season to snuggle up to a warm ampli-fire with a good book (or this magazine). Amplification is the topic this time — specifically, the...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| China: A Study in Contrasts |
During my brief 51 years on this planet (including 23 years with Mix), I've traveled to dozens of countries on six continents and thought I'd seen it...
George Petersen Editorial Director |
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Current/Industry News
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| DEMAND FOR MASTERING SHOWS IN NEW ROOMS |
TRUTONE, NEW YORK CITY Co-developed by John Storyk of Walters-Storyk Design Group, Trutone's mastering studio on West 44th Street in New York City —...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| DUBLINERS GET BAKED IN L.A. |
Ireland-based The Dubliners visited L.A.-based Cups 'N Strings to restore their multitrack analog masters (recorded between 1975 and 1983 at various...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ENTRAVISION CONNECTS WITH NEVE |
Creative Studio Solutions, a studio design and engineering firm, was contracted by Entravision (L.A.) to conduct a massive install of its 27 networked...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
Rupert Neve Designs (Wimberley, TX) has added Drake Williams to its technical design team and Sandra Kuhns to the management team…Post facility...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
ARTIST MAITREYA TRUSTS WEED Sananda Maitreya's Angles & Vampires features his own version of TrustyFiles P2P file-sharing software — distributing...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: David Hetrick, KRK director of worldwide sales Main Responsibilities: manage domestic rep firms, international distributors and numerous temperamental...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SAX CREATES OWN WALL OF SOUND |
Doug Sax, owner of The Mastering Lab in L.A., has opened a new two-room studio facility featuring a customized Acoustic Technology Company ATC SCM150A...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TEC AWARDS 2004 |
San Francisco Marriott Hotel, Yerba Buena Ballroom, October 30, 2004, 8:30 p.m. sharp — Audiophiles gathered to see the industry's finest professionals...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TRUE REMOTE RECORDING — VIA THE WEB |
Longtime Dallas-based drummer Ron Kaplan (pictured) recently found himself on the “other side of the glass,” when longtime friend, Chicago-based...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| YAMAHA MERGES DEPARTMENTS |
Yamaha's new Music Production department — which resides in its Pro Audio & Combo (PAC) division — will align all of the company's home recording...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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General
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| 2004 TEC AWARDS WINNERS |
Held on Saturday, October 30, at the San Francisco Marriott, the Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards celebrated its 20 years in style. With surprise...
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| AES San Francisco Can't Top This! |
It's hard to imagine a more enjoyable audio trade show than the 117th AES Convention, held in San Francisco from October 28-31, 2004. The weather cooperated,...
By the Mix Editors |
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| Airshow Mastering |
You've probably seen Airshow Mastering in the pages of Mix before. Glamour shots of the company's freshly designed studios showcase cutting-edge gear...
BY BARBARA SCHULTZ |
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| AVATAR STUDIOS: BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER G |
Adding to studios A, B, C, D, E and R, Avatar Studios (New York City, www.avatarstudios.net)...
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| Bringing The Show Home |
A quick perusal of the music DVDs section at your local music store will tell you that this is a booming area bringing in a lot of work to recording...
By Blair Jackson |
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| Correction |
The Princeton Digital SP2016 plug-in version of the legendary Eventide SP2016 reverb was inadvertantly left out of the “Are You Plugged In”...
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| CORRECTIONS |
AUDIO EDUCATION SOCIETY? Not exactly, but that's what Mix inadvertently mistitled the Audio Engineering Society in Theresa Leonard's November essay on,...
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| Dave Harris |
Welcome to Charlotte, N.C., a traditional Southern town that has made its name as one of the nation's banking centers, a locus for Big Tobacco “where...
BY BREEAN LINGLE |
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| LOS SUPER SEVEN REGROUP FOR SUPER THIRD |
The Grammy-winning pan-Latin project known as Los Super Seven reconvened for their third album, Heard It on Border Radio, which was co-produced by Rick...
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| P.J. HARVEY |
In what P.J. Harvey has described as one of her favorite cities and venues, her two-night stay at San Francisco's The Warfield at the end of October...
by Steve Jennings |
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| Rodney Jerkins |
At 27, Rodney Jerkins has a list of credits — as a producer, musician and songwriter — that could make an industry veteran's head spin. He...
By Elianne Halbersberg |
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| Strictly Summing |
After amplification, summing and mixing are two of the oldest and most basic audio processes — going back to the early radio broadcast days when...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| The Hidden Sony Masters |
It's hard to hide when you're a music industry giant, but Sony Mastering has done a great job of just that for at least a decade. As with the other divisions...
BY DAVID WEISS |
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