February 2007
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Technology
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| Ableton Live 6 |
Over the course of its short history, Ableton Live has moved quickly from a novel live performance/looping tool to a full-featured audio, MIDI and now...
BY ROBERT HANSON |
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| API 5500 Dual Equalizer |
The musical-sounding API 5500 Dual Equalizer embodies more than 40 years of tradition, beginning with the original 550 console equalizer module designed...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Avantone AK-Type VII Microphone |
The AK-Type VII from Avantone, part of the company's Signature Series of mics, is a hand-built omni made in limited quantities. The stainless-steel body...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Retro Instruments Sta-Level Compressor |
The Retro Instruments Sta-Level improves on the original '50s Gates Sta-Level via some critical components and added adjustability, while staying true...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Schoeps CMIT 5 U Shotgun Microphone |
For nearly 60 years, Schoeps has been a leader in small-diaphragm microphone design, offering a dazzling array of mics and capsules to fit nearly any...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 4 Software |
Sonicfire Pro 4 is the latest incarnation of SmartSound's Sonicfire Pro software series for creating royalty-free music for video and other projects....
BY RICK SPENCE |
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| Tools of the Trade |
RUPERT NEVE DESIGNS 5088 Even after promising his wife he wouldn't, Mr. Rupert Neve (www.rupertnevedesigns.com)...
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Sound for Picture
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| Freak Out |
Freak Out is a comedy/horror film best described as the bastard offspring of Weird Science and any of the Friday the 13th films. It's the story of two...
By Glen Yard |
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Live Mix
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| FixIt |
For the 2006 European MTV Awards (November 2 at the Copenhagen, Denmark-based Bella Centre), sound designer Derrick Zieba worked alongside an audio team...
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| Gnarls Barkley |
Tim Engwall and Stephen Curtin are tucked safely behind their respective Digidesign VENUE desks at monitor world and the front-of-house position, watching...
By David John Farinella |
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
TURBOSOUND ASPECT TA-500 SPEAKER, TSB-118 SUBWOOFER Turbosound (www.turbosound.com) expands its...
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| News |
Denmark's second-largest outdoor concert event, Danmarks Smukkeste Festival, relied on Nordic Rentals A/S' Dolby Lake processor for the main-stage Adamson...
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| Now Playing |
Corinne Bailey Rae Sound Company: SSE Hire (UK) FOH Engineer/Console: Dan Lewis/DiGiCo D5 Monitor Engineer/Console: Duncan Wild/DiGiCo D5 P.A./Amps:...
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| NSCA Brings In Fits & Starts |
The National System Contractors Association (NSCA) has chosen Fits & Starts Productions to conduct its first House of Worship workshops at its annual...
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| On the Road |
International Jazz Festival Celebrating its 40th year in bringing top jazz musicians to the University of Idaho, the Lionel Hampton International Jazz...
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| Tenacious D |
Part rock 'n' roll show, part comedy act, the tag team of Jack Black and Kyle Gass (aka Tenacious D) whooped it up at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic...
by Steve Jennings |
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Recording Notes
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| FIVE FOR FIGHTING |
The “group” is called Five for Fighting, a term that comes from the world of hockey, as in a five-minute penalty for fighting. But in truth,...
By Blair Jackson |
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| GEORGE JONES AND MERLE HAGGARD |
When it comes to laying the cards on the table, few can do it like Merle Haggard and George Jones. They built their careers on straight-shooting lyrics...
By Elianne Halbersberg |
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| JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP'S “PINK HOUSES” |
Early one summer morning in 1983, a 32-year-old John Mellencamp, dba John Cougar, drove himself home to Bloomington, Ind., from the Indianapolis airport....
By Heather Johnson |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
A wave of mortification swept over me on a late-fall evening as I approached the gleaming new home of Levels Audio Post (
by Bud Scoppa |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
I'm sitting in a pub in Bolton, England, trying to finish my “Nashville Skyline” column. It's the only place in town where one can get a...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
Like Bentleys and Ferraris do for serious drivers, major recording facilities serve as an elite source of inspiration to musicians, engineers and producers....
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
NORTHEAST At Blue Jay Recording (Carlisle, MA), producer Sean Garrett worked on a collaboration between Nicole Scherzinger (of the Pussycat Dolls) and...
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Insider Audio
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| Get Your Game On |
If you've been playing (or watching your kids playing) any new videogames recently, you've probably noticed that the soundtracks have become incredibly...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Producer's Desk
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| Butch Walker |
Butch Walker has a hard time standing still. It's not a medical thing; it's a demand issue. The singer/songwriter/producer/engineer is jumping between...
BY DAVID JOHN FARINELLA |
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Project Studio
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| Echo Mountain Recording |
It only takes a few hours hanging out in downtown Asheville, N.C., to realize this small mountain city of 70,000 has become a magnet for thousands of...
BY RICK CLARK |
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Tech's Files
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| Micro-lution |
My focus this month is on the AKG C-414, a venerable studio condenser mic that has about as many permutations as the Universal Audio 1176. At first glance,...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| Breaking the Rules |
History is filled with cases of inventions that either happened by accident or yielded results that were far from the original intent. In 1928, researcher...
George Petersen Executive Editor |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
HOW ABOUT A “CLEAN” LOUD? Blair Jackson's “Issues in Modern Mastering” (December 2006) touched on a very important issue: Loudness...
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Current/Industry News
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| AHMET ERTEGUN, 1923-2006 |
I was really intent on making certain kinds of records, which, in my mind, would repeat some of the emotions I got from records...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ALL FOR ONE |
David Bock, designer and co-founder of Soundelux Microphones, acquired the rights to the Soundelux Microphone company; the deal is scheduled to be finalized...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| BOOKSHELF |
The Golden Moment by Keith Hatschek brings you inside the minds of numerous top engineers and producers, who relay anecdotes and tips from their careers...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
New faces at Todd-AO Studios (Hollywood): sound re-recording mixers Gary Summers, Ken Teaney and Lisle Engle…Jumping from L-Acoustics to JBL Professional...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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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...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
MASTERING FOR ALL Geared toward the indie music community, Sony Music Studios Internet Mastering (SIM, www.SonyMusicSIM.com)...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE P&E WING |
If someone asks you what you do, you're likely to say, “I make records,” or “I mix concerts.” After all, it's a natural tendency...
BY MARK RUBEL |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: Spencer Nilsen, Ex'pression College of Digital Arts president/creative director Main responsibilities: to provide a creative environment and inform...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TEC AWARDS TO STORM NYC SITE, DATE ANNOUNCED FOR 2007 |
The 23rd Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards will be held Saturday, October 8, 2007, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. For...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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On the Cover
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| BiCoastal Music |
The reason Hal Winer named his gorgeous new Ossining, N.Y., recording room BiCoastal Music (www.bicoastalmusic.com)...
By David Weiss |
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General
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| A YEAR AT LONDON BRIDGE |
It's been a little more than a year since Seattle-based producers Jonathan Plum and Geoff Ott purchased the city's legendary London Bridge Studio (
Barbara Schultz |
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| Clearwing Productions |
Think back to this past holiday season. Rushing from store to store, trying to find the perfect gift. Or did you surf the Web, trying to make sense of...
BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| JAZZ IT UP |
The longtime Duke Ellington Orchestra drummer, Louie Bellson, recorded a 16-bar solo for the New Orleans Congo Square Charity at Mad Dog Studios in Burbank,...
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| Keep It in the Stereo Realm |
Known for their ease of use, precision, versatility and ability to quickly deliver high-quality results, dedicated stereo microphones are sometimes preferable...
By Matt Gallagher |
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| Mix 'N Match |
Mixing monitors is like directing traffic in midtown Manhattan: Everyone wants to go first, no one is heading in the same direction, and nobody wants...
By Steve La Cerra |
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| NEW STUDIO |
Producer/engineer/songwriter Jimmy Daniel's JDM Mobile company (www.jdmmobile.com) announced the...
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| Ozomatli |
Ozomatli is a celebration waiting to happen — a fiery brew of jazz-funk, Latin salsa and urban hip hop. Basic tracks for the band's upcoming album,...
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| Ray LaMontagne |
Since coming out with his second release, Till the Sun Turns Black, singer/songwriter Ray LaMontagne has been enjoying critical acclaim, which fueled...
by Steve Jennings |
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| Recording Wild |
FIDDLERS ON THE ROOF Last year was my fourth year working as a research SCUBA diver in the U.S. Antarctic Program. I was also moonlighting as producer,...
BY SARAH JONES |
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| Refresher: Mid-Side Recording |
Of all stereo-miking techniques, mid-side recording is the most versatile, allowing the greatest degree of control over the stereo image during the mix,...
Sarah Jones |
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| Setting the Bar |
For those of us who tend to seek the cutting edge, I am about to pull a Bill Gates. Yes, the richest man in the world once looked into the future and...
BY ALEXANDER BRANDON |
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