February 2005
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Technology
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| Ableton Live 4 Audio/MIDI Sequencer |
Ableton Live is billed as a “sequencing instrument” — a great description of this popular Mac/Windows program. Live is a specialized...
BY NICK BATZDORF |
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| Aphex Systems 1100MkII Mic Preamp |
Since introduced in 1999, Aphex's 1100MkI, with its great sound and super-low noise, quickly reached a unique orbit in the vast universe of high-quality...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Audient ASP008 Microphone Preamplifier |
A home studio's weak point often shows itself in the front end of the signal chain. For those looking for an affordable upgrade to their preamps, Audient...
BY STEVE LA CERRA |
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| Mackie Digital X Bus Console |
Mackie's Digital X Bus console represents an evolutionary jump for compact, powerful and affordable mixing systems used in recording, post-production...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Native Instruments B4 Organ Software |
During the past couple of years, Native Instruments' B4 has become popular in studios and touring rigs everywhere — and with good reason. Essentially,...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| Soundelux e250 Condenser Microphone |
Rethinking classic tube microphone design, Soundelux Microphones' cardioid-only e250 condenser mic solves the intrinsic problems encountered when close-miking...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Thermionic Culture Vulture Distortion Unit |
The Thermionic Culture Vulture valve distortion unit is a strange bird. The manual's first page reads, “Do not take this unit seriously. The Culture...
BY JEFF HARRIS |
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| Tools of the Trade |
CHANDLER MINI TG RACK MIXER This “old-school” — style 16×2 mixer from Chandler (www.chandlerlimited.com,...
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| Upgrades and Updates |
Independent Audio (www.independentaudio.com) is now representing Phoenix Audio and its...
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Sound for Picture
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| Tune In, Stream On, Get It Out |
It's like nothing else: Three days, 90,000 fans, six stages and 80 bands, with music each day from noon to 4 a.m. It's everyone from Dave Matthews, Trey...
By Maureen Droney |
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| TV on DVD |
Who would have ever thought that releasing classic TV shows on DVD would become all the rage? The hottest trend in consumer releases has become a boon...
By Bryan Reesman |
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Live Mix
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| avril lavigne |
When Canadian pop-rocker Avril Lavigne stormed onto the music scene in 2002 with her multi-Platinum debut album, Let Go, millions of teenage girls —...
by Sarah Benzuly |
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| FixIt |
Howard Lindeman With numerous engineering stints at Record Plant and Hit Factory, Howard Lindeman takes his engineer/mixer experience to his current...
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
MACKIE ONYX 80 LIVE MIXERS Designed specifically for live applications, the Onyx 80 console series from Mackie (www.mackie.com)...
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| News |
The ET Live musical event (Las Vegas) featured jazz/fusion band the Papamichael World Group who played, in part, to demonstrate the benefits of using...
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| Now Playing |
Scorpions Sound Company: PRG Audio (Las Vegas) FOH Engineer/Console: Aachim Schultze/Midas XL4 Monitor Engineer/Console: Barry Foy/Midas Heritage 4000...
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| Projects and Installs |
DPA Mics Bang on Cans Founded 16 years ago by three contemporary composers (Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolf), Bang on a Can recently showcased...
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| Queen's Music Hits the Theater Stage, Rock 'N' Roll Style |
Theatrical producers Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Phil McIntyre; Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor (musical directors); and sound designers Bobby...
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| Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
The Christmas creation of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is the brainchild of producer/composer/lyricist Paul O'Neill and musical director Al Pitrelli....
by Steve Jennings |
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Recording Notes
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| B.B. KING'S “THE THRILL IS GONE” |
While much of what Bill Szymczyk has recorded during the past 40 years, from The Eagles to Joe Walsh to The Who, now forms the elevator soundtrack to...
By Dan Daley |
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| COOL SPINS |
JA RULE R.U.L.E.(The Inc. Record) Ja Rule's fifth LP showcases a more reflective rapper who draws less on his past albums' thug-like lyrics and bling-bling'n...
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| ENGINEER/PRODUCER TCHAD BLAKE |
Tchad Blake, one of music's most inventive engineers, moved from Los Angeles to England four years ago. Since then, he has been based in a tiny village...
By Mr. Bonzai |
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| KEEPING THE COLTRANE FLAME LIT |
Ravi Coltrane, son of legendary saxophonist John Coltrane and keyboardist/harpist Alice Coltrane, held on to a dream for nearly 25 years — to collaborate...
By Chris J. Walker |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
A visit with producer Matthew Gerrard at his Santa Monica cottage studio left me amazed: so much music from such a tiny space. One of the busiest producers...
by Maureen Droney |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
A few miles northeast of Nashville in the hills of Madison is a sprawling low rancher that was once the residence of country legend Jim Reeves. This...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
Sesame Street is shot upstairs, but that doesn't mean KAS Music & Sound kids around. Actually, this studio deep inside the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios...
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA At Glendale's Real Sound Studios, producer Jaeson Jarrett and engineer Vachek Aghaniantz completed re-editing and mixing of the six-disc...
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Insider Audio
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| A Talk With John Chowning |
John Chowning pretty much sleeps when he wants and works when he wants. That is why when I'm talking to him at 10 a.m. East Coast time — and he's...
BY PAUL LEHRMAN |
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Producer's Desk
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| David Chesky |
David Chesky does it all. Since 1986, he's run his own audiophile record label, Chesky Records, which has released dozens of albums in a multitude of...
BY BLAIR JACKSON |
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Project Studio
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| Ear to the Ground Studio |
Deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a rutted dirt road twists upward through the forest. As you negotiate hairpin turns, pits and potholes, it grows darker...
BY SARAH JONES |
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Bitstream
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| Mal Contents |
Those of you who run a Windows OS computer know that Windows 2000 was the first modern, fully reliable version. But until now, the default settings and...
BY OLIVER MASCIAROTTE |
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Tech's Files
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| Things That Get Hot in the Studio |
In the past two issues, I wrote about vacuum tubes. This month, the filament-related theme continues. Light bulbs have been getting the nudge from LEDs...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| New School, Old School…Same Old School |
The focus of this month's Mix is on “Desktop Production.” Beyond the value of this phrase as a cool marketing hook, there's a whole lot going...
George Petersen Editorial Director |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
TAKING PROGRESS IN STRIDE I received the December 2004 issue of Mix today and thought I'd drop you a line to express my disappointment in what seems...
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Current/Industry News
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| 2005 TEC AWARDS CALL FOR ENTRIES |
The Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards nominating panel is accepting product nominations for the 21st Annual TEC Awards, to be held October 8,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| BERKLEEMUSIC.COM NAMES FIRST SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS |
Berkleemusic.com, the online extension of Berklee College of Music, awarded five musicians with its first online music scholarship program, which offers...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| BOOKSHELF |
Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema by Charles Koppelman is now available...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| CIDER MOUNTAIN OPENS IN IDAHO |
Recording engineer/producer Chris Phillips fled L.A. to build his dream recording facility, Cider Mountain Recorders, located just north of Coeur d'Alene,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| EX'PRESSION SUITE DEDICATED TO HENDRIX |
On Friday, December 10, 2004, Ex'pression College for Digital Arts (Emeryville, Calif.) hosted a gathering of recording industry notables — including...
Breean Lingle |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
Bringing in experience from audioEngine and Photomag, mixer John Grant joined Headroom Digital Audio (NYC)…Focusing in on Digidesign's (Daly City,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
HE'S BACK! Founders Shawn Fanning — yes, the Shawn Fanning of Napster fame — Jordan Mendelson and Ron Conway have launched SNOCAP (
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: Tom Roalkvam, BSW VP of sales Main Responsibilities: all aspects of sales and marketing Previous Lives: February 1996-present, numerous...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| PAD WSDG ARE HIGH ON EACH OTHER'S LIST |
Call it fate: When Professional Audio Design was retained by Platinum hip hop producer Tim Mosley and his engineer, Jimmy Douglass, to provide the gear...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SANKEN HELPS OUT ‘THE INTERPRETER’ |
For production sound mixer Danny Michael, who recently completed work for The Interpreter — due out this month — filming at the United Nations...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SOUNDLAB GETS A FACELIFT |
Disc Makers recently upgraded its in-house mastering facility, The SoundLab at Disc Makers (www.discmakers.com/music/soundlab),...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| XEPA DIGITAL HAS FIRST BIRTHDAY |
In only one year, XEPA Digital (Iron Mountain, Pa.; www.xepadigital.com) restored thousands...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| YAMAHA PURCHASES STEINBERG FOR $28.5 MILLION |
Yamaha Corporation had a big present under its Christmas tree: Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, a former division of Pinnacle; the company was purchased...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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On the Cover
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| Supersonic Studios |
Hybrid has become a 2005 buzzword, what with auto manufacturers from Honda to Toyota sending more eco-friendly vehicles into the fast lane. Now, with...
By Heather Johnson |
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General
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| 3 DOORS DOWN TO EMERALD SOUND |
Mississippi natives 3 Doors Down skipped over to Nashville, where they mixed songs from their forthcoming Universal release, Seventeen Days, at Emerald...
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| ABERDEEN RECORDING OFFERS WIDE-OPEN SPACES INSIDE AND OUT |
Aberdeen Recording (http://aberdeenrecording.com) is centrally located — right in the...
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| ARDENT GETS A TASTE OF HONEY TRIBE |
Devon Allman, son of rock legend Gregg Allman, brought his new band Honey Tribe (formerly Ocean Six) to Ardent Studios' A room to track their forthcoming...
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| DJ KAY SLAY KEEPS PACE AT CUTTING ROOM |
Hip hop artist DJ Kay Slay has been working on various projects at The Cutting Room's (NYC) Studio A, bringing in cohorts such as keyboardist Money Mark...
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| Dolly Parton |
Though country superstar Dolly Parton played a three-month club tour in 2002 to support Halos & Horns (which has been captured in a live DVD and double-CD,...
By Steve Jennings |
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| DTE Energy Music Theatre |
in the cold of winter, it warms my heart to think of outdoor summer gigs: bike rallies, outdoor festivals and, of course, sheds! One stop I have been...
By Steve La Cerra |
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| In the Loop |
YOU CAN STRETCH THEM AND SHIFT THEM, SLICE THEM AND dice them, hack them and stack them, and certainly use them and abuse them, but a loop is still a...
By Heather Johnson |
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| Radical Recording |
It's a fact, right? Creative recording is a dying art. With the bulk of the music business still dominated by quarterly statements, cookie cutter soundalikes,...
By Maureen Droney |
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| THE Beat GOES Virtual |
It's a given that the transition from dedicated hardware samplers and synthesizers to virtual software-driven instruments brings more of your music production...
By Roger Maycock |
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| THE VILLAGE BECOMES ALT-ROCK “OASIS” |
Cantankerous Brit-rock band Oasis recently wrapped up a month of overdubs and mixes for the long-awaited follow-up to their 2002 album, Heathen Chemistry,...
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