December 2005
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Technology
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| db audioware Quantum FX Version 2 |
Creative effects processing is the lifeblood of pop music mixes. Doubtless your DAW provides basic tools for sonic mangling, but what if you need more?...
BY JIM AIKIN |
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| Groove Tubes Glory Comp |
In 2001, Groove Tubes established a beachhead in the high-end market with its ViPRE mic preamp, an all-tube unit with specialized features such as variable...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Heil Sound PR 40 Microphone |
Although Heil Sound has decades of experience in the live sound and custom home theater industries, and is highly regarded for its quality microphones...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Joemeek oneQ Channel Strip |
Joemeek's new “Q” channel strip series maintains that classic Joemeek '60s midrange boost and presence, while better integrating into today's...
BY TONY NUNES |
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| M&K MPS-1611P Powered Monitor |
I've heard many two-way monitors during the years that delivered on the promise of deep bass extension; however, all but a few did so at the expense...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| Rupert Neve Designs 5012 Duo Mic Preamp |
The 5012 Duo Mic Pre belongs to Rupert Neve Designs' new line of affordable, all-analog signal processors dubbed The Portico Series. Products in the...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| Spectrasonics Stylus RMX |
The Stylus RMX real-time groove module combines maximum flexibility with an emphasis on sound quality when working with looped-based audio. Note, I didn't...
BY GABE SHADID |
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| Tools of the Trade |
PSP MASTERCOMP PSP Audioware (www.PSPaudioware.com) released the PSP MasterComp (VST/DirectX/RTAS...
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| Upgrades and Updates |
Microboards (www.microboards.com) is shipping the Print & Burn DVD/CD duplicator, which features...
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Sound for Picture
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| The Interior Life of Jarhead |
In some ways, the 1991 Gulf War, in which the United States and its allies decimated the armies of Saddam Hussein and ended his takeover of oil-rich...
By Blair Jackson |
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Live Mix
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| FixIt |
U2's monitor engineer, Dave Skaff (Alicia Keys, Shania Twain), recently picked up a Digidesign VENUE digital board for the band's current tour; when...
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| Midas XL4: Ten Years After |
If only we aged this gracefully! Ten years after its debut, and without discernable design changes, the Midas XL4 is celebrating a big anniversary. The...
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
EAW DIGITAL TOURING CONSOLE The umx.96 from EAW (www.eaw.com) is a 24-bit, 96kHz digital live console...
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| News |
Rental company Masque Sound (East Rutherford, NJ) recently purchased a JBL VerTec line array system. Says JBL VP of tour sound, David Scheirman, “The...
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| Now Playing |
Bonnie Raitt Sound Company: Schubert Sound Systems FOH Engineer/Console: Paul Middleton/Gamble EX 56 Monitor Engineer/Console: Doug Gherma/Yamaha PM5D...
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| On the Road |
Juanes Swept up in the Latin crossover craze, alongside such artists Ricky Martin and Shakira, Juanes continues to deliver strong studio albums that...
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| Sheryl Crow |
In support of her latest effort, Wildflower, Sheryl Crow is out on a short tour, bringing along an 11-piece string section, front-of-house engineer Bruce...
by Steve Jennings |
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| TRIO! Sound |
Béla Fleck doesn't seem to know how to rest. When The Flecktones, his normal touring band, decided to take a break in 2005, banjo-picker Fleck originally...
By Candace Horgan |
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Recording Notes
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| COOL SPINS |
The KnittersModern Sounds of…The Knitters (Rounder) The Knitters were a short-lived alter-ego of X, the cream of L.A.'s ‘80s punk scene....
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| GEORGE CLINTON |
For most music aficionados, the word “funk” translates into hip-swaying, booty-shaking rhythms. However, for George Clinton — creator,...
By Chris J. Walker |
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| PAT BENATAR'S “LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD” |
It's fortunate that most creative people are extremely confident in their visions and fight for their beliefs. Many hits would not see the light of day...
By Robyn Flans |
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| SOLO ENO |
Brian Eno once described the tape recorder as his “first instrument,” and has often cited minimalist composer Steve Reich's cut-and-paste...
By Paul Tingen |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
Since it was founded in 2000, Santa Monica's 5.1 Entertainment Group (www.5point1.net) has been...
by Maureen Droney |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
When I was growing up and starting to play in garage bands and dreaming of being a rock god one day, the idea of going to a school and learning to play...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
CBGB — it seems like no matter how many times you see those letters, the mystique remains. A bar originally built in 1973 to be the forum for New...
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
NORTHEAST Bennett Studios' (NYC) Dae Bennett mixed stereo and 5.1 versions of Trey Anastasio's new DualDisc album. Meanwhile, Rob Thomas produced a track...
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Insider Audio
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| The Masters Come Alive |
What is the point of restoring a historical music recording? Is it to re-create the recording session so we can hear the original instruments, the room...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Producer's Desk
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| Joe Henry |
Proving that if it isn't broke, don't fix it, producer Joe Henry has just completed a string of seven-day recording sessions for artists as varied as...
BY DAVID JOHN FARINELLA |
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Project Studio
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| Steve Goldberger's The Shed |
“From bad things, sometimes good things come,” says Steve Goldberger, a longtime home studio owner/songwriter/musician/engineer from Niagara-on-the-Lake,...
BY BREEAN LINGLE |
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Bitstream
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| UWB and WUSB |
Back when I was in school, radio was a simple thing. It had a carrier wave and your choice of modulation — AM or FM. Life was good. Bandwidth,...
BY OLIVER MASCIAROTTE |
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Tech's Files
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| Avoiding a Blue Holiday — Anytime |
The dreaded Windows Blue Screen of Death would definitely make you blue at this time of the year — or any other time. So for background music,...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| You Better Shop Around |
This week, I listened to some of the worst tracks I've heard in years. It was a standard (guitars/bass/drums/vox) rock project that any pro could have...
George Petersen Editorial Director |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
MARDIN MEMORIES Great interview with legendary genius Arif Mardin [“Mix Interview,” October 2005]! He and his brother helped shape much of...
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Current/Industry News
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| BE COUNTED! |
PAMA TO RELEASE INDUSTRY SALES STATS The Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (www.pamalliance.org)...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| CHUNG KING BRINGS IN PRO TOOLS |
Home to scores of Platinum recordings by the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake and will.i.am, among many others, Chung King Studios (New York...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| IF I WERE STRANDED ON A PRIVATE ISLAND.… |
Michael McDonald's Private Island Trax (www.privateislandtrax.com), a multi-room facility...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
Audio Analysts (Colorado Springs, CO) appointed Robert “Bob” Langlois to VP of worship design…Former senior VP/technology merchandise...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| JET-SETTING PRO AUDIO TIPS |
A group of 20 U.S. engineers, producers and musicians were recently invited to teach a group of 130 students at the Danish Rhythmic Music Conservatory...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| JONESING FOR A PROJECT STUDIO UPGRADE |
Composer/sound designer Jeffrey Allan Jones brought in MW Audio to supply production equipment and acoustic treatment products (Auralex ELiTE B24 Fiberglas...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| MEYER SOUND ACQUIRES LCS |
On November 1, Meyer Sound announced that it has acquired LCS, which manufactures VRAS, CueConsole, CueStation, Matrix3, SpaceMap and WildTracks. The...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NEFF PLANTS POST WORK |
San Francisco Bay Area — based audio engineer/film mixer John Neff recently completed a mix of Michael Franti's new documentary film, I Know I'm...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
GIVE THE CONSUMERS WHAT THEY WANT Just after the AES show doors closed, Microsoft and Real Networks announced that RealNetworks has settled its antitrust...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: Brad Vosburg, owner/operator, Fox Mountain Productions (Nashville) Main Responsibilities: recording, editing and mixing. Any open days I have are...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SHURE'S NEW PLC A LISTENING PLAYHOUSE |
Shure has added to its 6,500-square-foot, two-story Technology Annex with the new Performance Listening Center (PLC), designed by Russ Berger Design...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TEC SCHOLARSHIP WINNER ANNOUNCED |
The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio has announced that the 2005 TEC Awards Scholarship Grant has been awarded to Jeanne Montalvo. The Georgia...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| THE PASS FINALLY HOSTS GRAND OPENING |
Producer/mixer Dave Way and Jamie Way (former Larrabee East studio manager), along with investors Diana Richardson, Tony Richardson and Brent Spiner,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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On the Cover
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| The Mastering Lab |
Grammy-winning mastering engineer and audio pioneer Doug Sax looks out onto very different vistas these days. From his new 5.1-equipped Mastering Lab...
By Heather Johnson |
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General
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| 2005 TEC AWARDS WINNERS |
The Broadway Ballroom of the New York Marriott Marquis was packed for the 21st Annual TEC Awards on October 8, where attendees were treated with tributes...
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| AFTER 25 YEARS, STREISAND, GIBB INDULGE |
After 25 years, Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb reunite for Guilty Pleasures, the long-awaited part deux to her multi-Platinum smash Guilty, which featured...
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| DIESTRA HEATS UP MIAMI |
Latin alt-rock duo Diestra recorded their second album at Criteria Studios' (Miami) spacious Studio A. Bandmembers Ricardo and Luis Bonilla co-produced...
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| IDAHO SOUND SOLUTIONS |
Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Brad Keeler (pictured) completed his latest CD, Anachronistic Blues, at Sound Solutions in Spirit Lake, Ida. During the...
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| Rent |
On a splendid May morning in Building 180 on Treasure Island, in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, the principal cast members of director Chris Columbus'...
By Blair Jackson |
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| SAFEGUARDING SONIC TREASURES |
Long, long ago, in a simpler place and time, audio “storage” meant finding a dark, dry, cool place to park those 2-inch and ¼-inch tape...
By George Petersen |
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| SCHOOL OF ROCK BRANCHES OUT |
Staten Island reportedly has the greatest number of families with children as compared to New York City's other four boroughs, and with the launch of...
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| The Big SQUEEZE |
Music mixes have always been defined by the release format. Back in the days of vinyl, physical limitations forced artists and engineers to weigh issues...
BY SARAH JONES |
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| The Producers |
Frank Wolf is caught up in a classic case of things moving full circle — the hilarious 1968 Mel Brooks film The Producers gave way to a 21st-century...
By David Weiss |
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| The Sound of Silents |
Epic films can put both composers and scoring mixers to the test, requiring considerable amounts of cues, stings and lush melodies to accompany visually...
BY MATT HURWITZ |
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| THE WHITE STRIPES |
Early in the set, there's a moment when everything stops for the White Stripes. It lasts only a few seconds — so short that the audience (still...
by Ryan Wilkins |
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| VANGUARD |
In today's slimmed-down, budget-conscious world, SR companies are looking for new ways to increase their profits. Regional companies are booking summer...
By Sarah Benzuly |
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