December 2007
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Technology
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| Apple Soundtrack Pro 2 Software |
Apple's Soundtrack Pro 2 (SP2) workstation software for audio-for-video production has morphed into an entirely new program with each release. What began...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| Audient Black Series Vertical Rack Processor |
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Audient name, it originated with the founding partners of the DDA console line — David Dearden and...
BY BOBBY FRASIER |
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| Dangerous Music Master |
Dangerous Music changed the very concept of mixing “in the box” by introducing the Dangerous 2-Bus, the first stand-alone, line-level summing...
BY ANDREW MENDELSON |
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| EAW Smaart Version 6 |
Over the years, SIA Smaart has revolutionized the pro audio industry, offering dual-channel FFT analysis at an affordable price. Now in Version 6, EAW...
BY HARRY BRILL JR. |
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| Groove Tubes SuPRE Tube Preamp |
From the mind of “tube guru” Aspen Pittman comes the Groove Tubes SuPRE ($1,999), a 2-channel stereo tube mic preamp that puts a lot of features...
BY JOE HANNIGAN |
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| M-Audio NRV10 FireWire Mixer, Interface |
Not every musician has made the leap into the world of mixing in the box. Many of us still have keyboards, sound modules and outboard processors that...
BY JASON SCOTT ALEXANDER |
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| Propellerhead Software Reason 4 |
If you'd rather record all-electronic instrumentals than eat or sleep, then the release of Reason 4 ($499, $129 upgrade) will make your life complete....
BY JIM AIKIN |
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| Tools of the Trade |
M-AUDIO IE-40 EARPHONES Good things come in threes when it comes to in-ear listening devices from M-Audio (www.m-audio.com)....
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Sound for Picture
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| The Golden Compass |
These are great times for fantasy films. CG technology has gotten to the point where almost anything can be realistically depicted onscreen, so the floodgates...
By Blair Jackson |
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Live Mix
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| Annie Lennox |
For Annie Lennox's Songs of Mass Destruction tour, Clair Bros. is providing 10 i3 speakers flown per side, four ground-stacked Clair BT subs a side and...
by Steve Jennings |
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| Dave Matthews Band |
For more than a dozen years, the Dave Matthews Band has consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing touring acts in the U.S. Mix caught up with the...
By Heather Johnson |
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| FixIt |
Currently mixing FOH for Nelly Furtado, Jeffrey Luge Holdip has also mixed Citizen Cope, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Santos & Pecadores, as well as numerous...
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| Kaufman Center Gets Audio Face Lift |
New York City's Kaufman Center will unveil its new look on January 8, 2008. The facility's Merkin Concert Hall, a 449-seat performance space, received...
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
MACKIE TT SYSTEM32 Slated for Q4 2007 release, the TT System32 ($12,999) digital live mixing system from Mackie (www.mackie.com)...
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| News |
Stock Audio & Light (Geleen, The Netherlands) provided dual EAW UX8800 digital processors with EAW KF760 Series line arrays for a memorial concert by...
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| Now Playing |
Apocalyptica FOH Engineer/Board: Michael Bauer/DiGiCo D5 Monitor Engineer/Board: DiGiCo D1 P.A./Amps: L-Acoustics dV-DOSC and local Outboard Gear: Dolby...
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| On the Road |
Thievery Corporation Mix caught up with Thievery Corporation's front-of-house engineer John “Wedge” Branon when the band stopped at the San...
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Recording Notes
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| COOL SPINS |
Various Artists Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino(Vanguard) As one who has groused occasionally about the plethora of lame “tribute” CDs...
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| MÖTLEY CRÜE'S “GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS” |
Aquanet hairspray flew off the shelves when the new wave synth-pop acts of the early 1980s gave way to an onslaught of glam rock a few years later. Hair...
By Heather Johnson |
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| ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS |
That whipping sound you all heard a few months ago was a million heads doing a fast double-take at the announcement that former Led Zeppelin belter Robert...
By Blair Jackson |
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| ZAP MAMA |
One of the most successful African pop bands in Europe (and, increasingly, America), Zap Mama is largely the alter-ego of its founder and lead vocalist...
By Chris J. Walker |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
Weekends at Bernie's have been lively indeed since mastering legend Bernie Grundman and veteran producer Stewart Levine launched Straight Ahead Records...
by Bud Scoppa |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
Not long ago in this space, we reported that Masterfonics studios had closed, a casualty of the Emerald Entertainment Group's bankruptcy. As Mix has...
by Barbara Schultz |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
In the seething maelstrom known as New York City's audio post industry, one of the keys for facilities is to keep their eyes (literally) on the bottom...
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
SOUTHEAST Projects mixed and/or mastered at owner Jose Blanco's Master House Studios (Miami) received six Latin Grammy nominations this year. Currently,...
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Insider Audio
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| You and Me and HDTV |
Which is the more important sense: sight or sound? Those of us who spend our waking lives working with audio have little doubt that the aural dimensions...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Producer's Desk
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| Mike McCarthy |
Mike McCarthy landed in Austin just as the city's music scene started to blow up. It was 1994, and in short order he worked with indie darlings Spoon,...
BY DAVID JOHN FARINELLA |
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Project Studio
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| Wally Sound |
You've heard of the wall of sound? Well, this is the Wally Sound (www.wallysound.com). This project...
BY BARBARA SCHULTZ |
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Tech's Files
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| Bring Back the Good Ol' Days |
Craftsmanship typically comes to mind when describing the work involved with creating a physical object — such as how a luthier fashions a fine...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| The Reluctant Mastering Engineer |
Not far from the Mix offices is a busy facility called Infinite Studios that's been run by engineer/producer Michael Denten for more than two decades....
George Petersen Executive Editor |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
MORE ON QUINCY JONES, PLEASE I always love picking up your excellent magazine. The 30th-anniversary special (October 2007) was a real treat. The only...
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Current/Industry News
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| ALL-IN-ONE POST SHOP |
Academy Award-nominated sound designer Leslie Shatz and sound mixer Chris David, who united to form Los Angeles-based Wildfire Studios (
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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| AVATAR, MIX THROW BASH |
On October 5, during the N.Y. AES Convention, hundreds of industry heavyweights traipsed through Avatar Studios to celebrate two “Big 3-0”...
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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| BOOKSHELF |
Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning producer/engineer Phil Ramone takes his unimpeachable skills from behind the board and onto paper. His Making Records:...
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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| GET INVOLVED! |
METAlliance (www.metalliance.com) has formed a partnership program in which professional audio...
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
MusicBox (Calabasas, CA) named Andrew Robbins director of film and TV music…Brian Pickowitz has been promoted to business development manager for...
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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| M&K SOUND RETURNS |
Loudspeaker company M&K Sound Co. has been taken over by a new team, headed up by longtime M&K distributors Per Becher and Asger Bak. Put under creditor...
George Petersen |
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| MERCH MADE EASY |
For independent artists, efficiently running the merchandise aspect can get tough — packing up for a gig can be heavy enough without having to...
David Weiss |
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| MOOGFEST A SCREAM |
The B.B. King's Blues Club in New York City was the place to be on September 22, as numerous performers entertained the 4th Annual Moogfest crowd, who...
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
PLAY ME! My Play MPE™ (www.myplaympe.com) allows indie record labels/artists...
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE P&E WING |
Decades after it was recorded, the music of Led Zeppelin still evokes certain descriptions: powerful, thrilling, awesome. And while monster rock tunes...
By Chuck Crisafulli |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: Avinash (Avi) Vaidya What: Shure VP of product development, CTO Main responsibilities: all engineering and configuration management functions and...
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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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 articles — plus much more online:...
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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| THE NEXT FRONTIER |
Taira Entertainment's www.OnlineAudioEngineering.com site provides online professional...
COMPILED BYSARAH BENZULY |
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On the Cover
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| Lurssen Mastering |
Two years ago in this space, Mix reported on veteran Mastering Lab owner/engineer Doug Sax's move to Ojai, Calif., near Santa Barbara, where he started...
By Barbara Schultz |
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General
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| 2007 TEC Awards HIGHLIGHTS |
Almost 700 people attended the 23rd Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, held on Saturday, October 6, at the New York Marriott Marquis. Hosted...
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| ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS |
Tempest Recording (Tempe, Ariz.) owner/engineer Clarke Rigsby tracked a live performance by the Fabulous Thunderbirds at The Rhythm Room club (Phoenix)....
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| CORRECTIONS |
The audio department at Sony Music Studios (“N.Y. Metro,” September 2007) was represented by Radio and Television Engineers Local 1212 of...
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| Critical LISTENING |
Talking about listening — and the listening process — is one of those seemingly impossible tasks, like writing a book on how to compose music...
By George Petersen |
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| Digital Converters |
Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters are “gateway” processors — the superaccurate portals that pros rely on in digital...
By the Mix Editors |
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| ECHO UPGRADE |
Hip hop artist/actor/producer T.I. has added a Digidesign ICON console to the George Augspurger-designed Studio A of his Echo Recording Studios (Atlanta)....
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| NEW MASTERING STUDIOS LAUNCH |
After two years in the building, Puget Sound Studios (Issaquah, Wash.; www.pugetsoundstudios.com)...
Barbara Schultz |
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| NOT JUST A HOBBY |
Bassist Tommy Lockett completed tracking a new album at The Hobby Shop (L.A.) this fall. Ai Fujisaki and Andrew Murdock co-engineered the Heat Records...
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| Roll Your Own Level |
A lot of audio issues have been covered in this space lately, from facility design to education programs. But for many of you, the actual process of...
BY ALEXANDER BRANDON |
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| THE Shins |
The Shins are currently out in support of their latest release, Wincing the Night Away (see “Recording Notes,” May 2007), an album that debuted...
by Steve Jennings |
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| THE WoW FACTOR |
World of Warcraft, simply known as WoW in the game industry, is more than just a game; it's an international phenomenon. WoW is an MMORPG (massively...
By Michel Henein |
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| ULTIMATE SESSIONS |
Carlos Santana visited Laughing Tiger Studios (San Rafael, Calif.) to lay tracks for an upcoming album. The sessions included a collaboration with Jennifer...
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| XL5 Productions |
In this space, regional sound companies get a chance to shine, talking about recent contracted gigs, latest installs, providing a one-stop shop, etc....
BY SARAH BENZULY |
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