February 2008
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Technology
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| AMS Neve 8801 Channel Strip |
The AMS Neve 8801 continues a recent, exciting trend in which select manufacturers produce rackmountable channel strips based on their large-format consoles....
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| Brainworx bx_digital Mastering Plug-In |
Brainworx's bx_digital Audio Units/VST/RTAS/TDM plug-in is designed to emulate the company's M/S bx1 Modus EQ and bx2 Image Shifter hardware mastering...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Digidesign C|24 Workstation Controller |
During this past October's AES, one of the hottest product releases was the new C|24 Pro Tools controller from Digidesign. It was a much-anticipated...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Digidesign Pro Tools Elastic Time |
The star feature of Pro Tools Version 7.4 is Elastic Time (ET). Similar to MIDI, ET can conform audio data to changes in tempo or time. This is useful...
BY STEVE MACMILLAN |
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| Euphonix Artist Series |
Twenty years ago, Euphonix made its public debut at an AES show with plans for Crescendo, its first console. The prototypes were rough, offering Macintosh,...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| Snapshot Product Reviews |
CAD TRION 7000 Studio Ribbon Microphone The passive CAD Trion 7000 ribbon microphone offers a figure-8 pattern, ships in a sturdy aluminum case and comes...
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| Toft Audio Designs ATB Analog Console |
The name Malcom Toft is etched in the audio history books; he will always be remembered for his console designs and his engineering work with The Beatles,...
BY BOBBY FRASIER |
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| Tools of the Trade |
ULTRASONE PRO HEADPHONES Fresh from NAMM are UltraSone's (www.ultrasoneusa.com) new headphone...
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Live Mix
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| Chris Brown's Holiday Exclusive |
Chris Brown may be one of the fastest rising acts in R&B, but with his Holiday Exclusive tour — which wraps up February 3, 2008, in Honolulu, after...
By George Petersen |
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| FixIt |
Front-of-house engineer Bryan Worthen is mixing a nine-date UK arena tour for Foo Fighters. He's manning two DiGiCo D5s to handle the show's double stages:...
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| Led Zeppelin Reunion Concert |
Last year saw numerous rock 'n' rollers reuniting on the stage — The Police, Van Halen, et al. But perhaps garnering the biggest headlines was...
By Sarah Benzuly |
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
AVLEX MX8-1RM MIC LINE MIXER Designed for multiple applications, the single-rackspace MX8-1RM mixer from Avlex (www.avlex.com)...
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| News |
Technomad Associates' loudspeakers and subwoofers are compliant with the International Electrotechnical Commission's (IEC) IP56 rating under its IP code…Modest...
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| Now Playing |
Joe Cocker Sound Company: Concert Sound FOH Engineer/Board: Chris Madden/Digidesign VENUE Monitor Engineer/Board: Niall Slevin/Digidesign VENUE D-Show...
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| On the Road |
Currently out with Mel Brooks' musical tour of The Producers is Dustyn Peiffer, who is mixing in a wide range of theaters and working with a full ensemble...
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| Technomad Donates to ‘Extreme Makeover’ |
Technomad Associates has donated a turnkey P.A. system to ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for a show scheduled to air in February 2008. The Hughes...
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Recording Notes
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| COOL SPINS |
Nick Lowe Jesus of Cool 30th Anniversary Edition(Yeproc) I guess I'm officially elderly, because I still have my vinyl LP of the...
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| COWBOY JUNKIES GO BACK TO CHURCH |
Twenty years ago, an album called The Trinity Session put a largely unknown Canadian band with the unlikely name of the Cowboy Junkies firmly on the...
By Blair Jackson |
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| Joe Jackson's “Rain” |
Joe Jackson doesn't waste time with nostalgia. Look Sharp may have been your favorite album in 1979, but when Jackson reunited his original band a few...
By Barbara Schultz |
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| MINNIE RIPERTON'S “LOVIN' YOU” |
Let's check out the formula: You grow up loving literature, pick up the guitar in college and then, while you and your young wife — whom you adore...
By Gary Eskow |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
During the course of this rough-and-tumble decade, many record makers have been faced with the challenge of doing more with less. This month, we take...
by Bud Scoppa |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
A couple of months ago, Omnisound Studios (www.omnisoundstudios.com) was acquired by Billy...
by Barbara Schultz |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
Don't call them, they'll call you. Well, maybe the owners of the studios in this month's column aren't that exclusive, but they're not exactly beating...
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
NORTHEAST At Avatar Studios (NYC), My Morning Jacket spent a month in Studio A recording their upcoming album with producers Jim James and Joe Chiccarelli...
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Insider Audio
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| Late for the Future |
I guess I first noticed it a couple of years ago while I was watching an HD documentary on my local PBS channel. “Welcome to the future!”...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Project Studio
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| Persist Music |
West Norwalk, Conn., is a quiet town located less than an hour from New York City. This time of year, a foot of snow covers the barren foliage and the...
BY HEATHER JOHNSON |
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Tech's Files
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| Low-Fi D.I.Y. |
Since the beginning of Micro-Music/Chip-Tunes/Circuit Bending (for more info, see www.8bitcollective.org,...
By Logan Erickson |
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| The Kit Is It |
The magic combination of three ingredients — do it yourself (D.I.Y.), curiosity and tenacity — are essential to the success of audio entrepreneurs...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| The Pick of Destiny |
When I was a kid, I was addicted to those Choose Your Own Adventure books — you know, the stories in which the readers get to determine the outcome...
Sarah Jones Editor |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
THE PRICE OF GOLDEN EARS I felt compelled to write and add my voice to the chorus (“Critical Listening,” December 2007)! Having just finished...
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Current/Industry News
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| BILLBOARD 2007 TOP 10 |
Daughtry, Daughtry Akon, Konvicted Fergie, The Dutchess Hannah Montana soundtrack Carrie Underwood, Some...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| BOOKSHELF |
In Lost Sounds — Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, author Tim Brooks and co-researcher Dick Spottswood have spotlighted...
George Petersen |
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| COMPANY CONSOLIDATIONS |
STUDIO CENTER TOTAL PRODUCTION, TONIC STUDIOS Studio Center Total Production (Virginia Beach, Va.; www.studiocenter.com)...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| HAVE TAPES, WILL PLAY |
Paul Stubblebine Mastering and valve-electronics manufacturer Bottlehead Corp. have introduced The Tape Project (
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| IN LOVING MEMORY |
JOEL DORN, 1942-2007 Jazz/R&B producer Joel Dorn passed away on December 17 due to a heart attack. Dorn's numerous accomplishments as a producer all...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
Former VP for academic affair/provost at Berklee College of Music, Harry Chalmiers is the new president at McNally Smith College of Music (St. Paul,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| LET'S GO GAMING! |
Check out Mix's new Game Audio digital magazine — with profiles, products and more — covering the latest audio news and developments from...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: Ted Leamy, COO at Pro Media/UltraSound Main responsibilities: running the day-to-day business of Pro Media/UltraSound tour sound and installation...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| P&E SURROUNDS S.F. |
The P&E Wing and the S.F. Chapter offered Academy and community members the opportunity to learn about 5.1 surround mixing and speaker technology at...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| QUAD NAMES SWAN MANAGER |
New York City's Quad Studios, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, named Glenn Swan studio manager; he most recently was at Sony Music Studios,...
COMPILED BY SARAH 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...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| STANLEY AN AES FELLOW AWARD PRESENTED AT SHOW |
The AES Awards Committee and Board of Governors selected Gerald Stanley, Crown Intl.'s senior VP of research, to receive the AES Fellowship Award for...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TEC AWARDS DATE SET |
The 24th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards will be held Friday, October 3, 2008, at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. For ticket...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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General
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| “Guitar Hero” Rocks |
It's two days after Christmas, a time when many companies are closed for vacation or coasting lazily into the new year. But at the headquarters of WaveGroup...
BY BLAIR JACKSON |
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| Answering the Call of Duty |
In 2004, game developer Infinity Ward released Call of Duty (CoD) to much critical acclaim, and the title soon became the benchmark World War II first-person...
BY MICHEL HENEIN |
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| AVENGED SEVENFOLD |
Five-piece Avenged Sevenfold (vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ and drummer The Rev)...
by Steve Jennings |
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| COMING SOON |
Delta H Design reports that the firm has designed a Hollywood studio for producer/engineer Neal Avron (Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, Everclear). The facility,...
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| CORRECTION |
In the December 2007 “New York Metro” column, we misspelled Jeff Berman's name; in addition, Berman is the owner, while Gail Nord is the...
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| game AUDIO |
“Videogames represent a new and innovative medium for what we've always tried to do, which is to tell great stories. But...
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| Gamers Got Game |
Michael Nielsen and Kaveh Cohen are a study in concentration as they sit alongside each other behind the colossal SSL 9000K console in the control room...
BY BUD SCOPPA |
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| Jack Johnson's Sleep Through the Static |
Early in 2007, Jack Johnson began remodeling an old L.A. mansion that also houses a recording studio and offices for his record label, Brushfire Records....
BY MR. BONZAI |
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| MASTERING LAB MILESTONE |
If you work with Doug Sax on a project this year, be sure to wish him a happy anniversary. The Mastering Lab (www.masteringlab.com)...
Barbara Schultz |
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| RTS Games Still Going Strong |
Although there's no question that the videogames getting the most attention from both gamers and the press these days are the latest generation of elaborate,...
BY BLAIR JACKSON |
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| STAR OF THE SEA |
Alternative rocker Nicole Atkins and her band The Sea recorded a version of The Mamas and The Papas' hit “Words of Love” at Retromedia Studios...
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| TANGERINE OPENS |
Roger Johansen and Gene Holder are the proud owners of a new John Storyk-designed mastering studio in Weehawken, N.J. The lead mastering engineer will...
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| The Importance of Being Earnest |
People are beginning to take games seriously, but not as seriously as they regard film in terms of dramatic presentation. This is in large part because...
BY ALEXANDER BRANDON |
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| Total Immersion Effects |
Feeling surrounded by sound libraries? If so, you're probably not alone. The number of packages seems to be growing by the day, and with good reason:...
By DAVID WEISS |
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| VAMPIRES AT THE LODGE |
African-influenced indie band Vampire Weekend visited The Lodge (New York City), where studio founder/chief engineer Emily Lazar was mastering their...
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