January 2005
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Technology
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| Apple GarageBand |
If you purchased an Apple computer recently, you received the iLife bundle, which includes GarageBand. On the surface, GarageBand looks like a dumbed-down,...
BY LAURA PALLANCK |
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| Apple Logic Pro 7 Workstation |
What do you get when you cross Apple technology with a German-born DAW? The answer will reveal itself later in this review, but suffice to say, the news...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Cakewalk SONAR 4 Producer Edition |
You can't speak of DAWs and not mention Cakewalk, a huge contender and contributor to the PC audio/MIDI realm. Roughly a year ago, Cakewalk released...
BY TONY NUNES |
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| Drawmer 1968 Mercenary Edition Compressor |
When a re-issue comes in for a review, I typically have one of two reactions. When the original version has issues, I hope that the redesign addressed...
BY MARTIN ALLEN |
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| PreSonus Central Station |
If there's anything that the small to medium DAW-based studio can use, it's more desktop space. PreSonus' Central Station accomplishes this and provides...
BY NICK BATZDORF |
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| Snapshot Product Reviews |
CAD EQUITEK E1002 Condenser Microphone After a too-long absence, CAD's popular Equitek studio condenser series is back. The first...
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| Tools of the Trade |
CRANESONG EGRET Cranesong's (www.cranesong.com) Egret is an 8-channel D/A converter with a stereo...
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| Upgrades and Updates |
All E-mu digital audio systems and Emulator X desktop sampling systems now ship with E-mu's Power FX hardware-accelerated VST effects software. Current...
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| Vintech Model 473 Class-A Mic Preamp |
Is it possible for a company to offer a quality, retro-style mic pre with usable EQ for $800 a channel? It seems like a lot to ask, but in the case of...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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Sound for Picture
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| Christmas With the Kranks |
Sleigh bells, an accordion and a theremin. Oh, and a 100-piece orchestra, too. Those are some of the ingredients for film composer John Debney's latest...
By Matt Hurwitz |
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| Genuine Rock 'n' Roll |
Rock 'n' roll sells. It always has. But here in 2005, we have Zeppelin selling Cadillacs, the Stones licensed to Microsoft and Iggy Pop being used to...
By Tom Kenny |
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| Inside The Assassination of Richard Nixon |
Based on actual events that took place in 1974, The Assassination of Richard Nixon documents the evolution of an ordinary furniture salesman into a would-be...
By Maureen Droney |
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| The Aviator |
Most people probably remember billionaire Howard Hughes for the crazy, pathetic creature he was in his last years: wildly unkempt, living in complete...
By Blair Jackson |
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Live Mix
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| cake |
To outsiders, it seems like Chris Bailey should be pushing 11 on the stress-o-meter. He's handling front-of-house duties and tour managing for Cake's...
By David John Farinella |
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| FixIt |
Freelance engineer Sean Sullivan has toured with Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Lopez and 98 Degrees and is currently...
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| House Ear Institute Listens to Industry, Provides Services |
The House Ear Institute (HEI), a non-profit hearing health institute located in Los Angeles, offered complimentary hearing screenings and hearing health...
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| Joe Satriani |
To always equate exciting, high-energy rock shows with microphone-wielding vocalizing frontmen is to ignore any live performance by renowned guitar virtuoso...
By Strother Bullins |
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| Kasey Chambers |
Australia's Kasey Chambers keeps it in the family: On tour, her father, Bill, plays guitar/dobro; and her brother, Nash Chambers, is her producer/manager/front-of-house...
by Steve Jennings |
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| Latest Installs |
JBL Roars In San Francisco JBL and Pro Media/UltraSound (Hercules, Calif.) recently completed an install requested by San Francisco-based stadium Monster...
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
ALLEN & HEATH XONE VF-1 FILTER SET An enhanced version of the filters built into the Allen & Heath Xone (www.xone.co.uk)...
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| News |
SLS Loudspeakers was part of an install done by Rutherford Design for nightclub Blush (Burlingame, CA). The venue's DJs spin house, hip hop and funk,...
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| Now Playing |
Tom Waits Sound Company: Rat Sound FOH Engineer/Console: Deanne Franklin/Midas H3000 Monitor Engineer/Console: Derek Van Ord/InnovaSon Grand Live P.A./Amps:...
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Recording Notes
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| DON McLEAN'S “AMERICAN PIE” |
Maybe you had to be there. But in the summer and fall of 1971, it seems that everyone was talking about Don McLean's Number One smash, “American...
By Blair Jackson |
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| ERIC “ROSCOE” AMBEL'S URBAN ROCK CORRAL |
Eric Ambel is sitting on a comfy couch inside the basement digs of Cowboy Technical Services, an analog/digital recording studio in the Williamsburg...
By Jeff Forlenza |
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| THE DONNAS |
When The Donnas got set to record their sixth release, Gold Medal, the follow-up to their breakout Atlantic Records debut, Spend the Night, it seemed...
By David John Farinella |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
Midas Records (www.midasrecords.net) in Canoga Park is a company with a plan, a major component...
by Maureen Droney |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
When it comes to bluegrass and bluegrass-influenced country, there are few artists who have attained the high status that Ricky Skaggs has earned. During...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
The sound of music has always been loud and clear in New York City, but the liveliest source of those sounds is constantly changing. One of the most...
by David Weiss |
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Insider Audio
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| Just Around the Corner |
Idon't know who and what I have to kiss to convince the powers-that-be at the Audio Engineering Society to hold its biennial West Coast convention in...
BY PAUL LEHRMAN |
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Mix Masters
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| Randy Thom |
A lot of people ask Randy Thom for advice about creating sound for film. That's not really surprising. Although the nine-time Academy Award — nominated...
BY MAUREEN DRONEY |
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Project Studio
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| The Clubhouse |
That “one man's trash is another's treasure” saying proved doubly true for the Cowboy Junkies and their project studio, The Clubhouse. For...
BY HEATHER JOHNSON |
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Bitstream
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| Pedant In a Big Box |
SDDS (Sony Dynamic Digital Sound): Sony's 12-channel professional version of its ATRAC lossy codec used for motion picture soundtracks. SDK (Software...
BY OLIVER MASCIAROTTE |
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Tech's Files
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| The Sound of Vacuum Tubes, Part 2 |
After submitting last month's column on preamp tubes, I set a record by making it Web-ready within the week. While this alone was worth a pat on the...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| High Resolutions… |
Happy New Year! After weeks of nonstop partying and egg nog, the holiday season comes to a close with New Year's Eve, a night of deliberate excess. So...
George Petersen Editorial Director |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
HISTORY LESSONS I would like to correct some misinformation in your article about Bay Area recording in the 1970s [November 2004], mostly pertaining...
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Current/Industry News
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| 2004 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER RELIES ON SIBELIUS |
Composer Paul Moravec (who has written more than 80 published orchestra, chamber, lyric and choral compositions) was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| AES: A LEGEND IS BORN |
Veteran mastering engineer Billy Stull (left) and audio legend Rupert Neve celebrated the recent AES debut of Legendary Audio (
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| BOOKSHELF |
BRUCE SWEDIEN: Make Mine Music Years in the making and now finally available in the U.S., Make Mine Music is written by the multi-Platimum, Grammy Award...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT |
ASCAP and Westlake Audio (L.A.) are working together to bring indie bands into the Hollywood recording studios as part of the studio's Artist Development...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
L.A. Studios' Margarita Mix Hollywood (L.A.) tapped Geoff Nathanson as its general manager, marketing and strategy…Reggie Mebane is Nashville-based...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INNOVATORS INDUCTED INTO TECnology HALL OF FAME |
About a year ago — as part of expanding the 20-year-old TEC Awards — the Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio created the TECnology Hall...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| JAZZ VENUE HAS ITS DEBUTANTE BALL |
New York City's Jazz At Lincoln Center (www.jalc.org) held a grand opening for its new home, Frederick...
David Weiss |
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| MCP BRINGS IN NEW MANAGER |
With studio management positions at Edison Recording Studio, Mayfair, Counterpoint Studios and most recently at Clinton Recording (all in New York City),...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| MIAMI HEATS UP WITH GENELEC |
Grammy Award — winning engineer/producer Gustavo Celis (Best Salsa Album for Roberto Blades' Encore and Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album for...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: Michael Descoteau, Masque Sound director of broadcast services Main Responsibilities: bringing our resources to the broadcast marketplace for awards...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SMART AV OPENS UP TO MANUFACTURERS |
Announced at AES 2004, Klotz Digital is now integrating Smart AV's production consoles with its VADIS (Variable Audio Distribution Interface System)...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| VAGABOND SETTLES IN CHICAGO |
Co-owners engineer/sound designer Drew Weir and producer Riso Sanders have expanded their commercial sound design and audio post facility, Vagabond Audio,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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General
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| 20th Annual TEC Awards |
The stars came out to celebrate the 20th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, held October 30, 2004, in San Francisco. The evening's highlights...
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| BEHIND THE GLASS |
HIGH-TECH DREDNECK AT SUGAR HILL Galveston, Texas — based jam band Dreadneck convened at Sugar Hill Studios (Houston) to record their full-length...
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| Big Sound, Intimate Sound |
Large symphony halls are carefully designed to enhance the sound of acoustic instruments. Normally, they feature reflective surfaces that help the audience...
by Mel Lambert |
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| CORRECTION |
The photo for November's “On the Move” with Ron Fair was incorrect. Pictured is the real Ron Fair. ...
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| Curing The Summertime Blues |
File this one under, “It's always somethin', Jane.” For once, the talk of the music industry isn't declining CD sales — it's declining...
BY BLAIR JACKSON |
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| Dedicated Speaker Processors |
Improving the sound of your live rig has never been easier. Today's digital signal processing systems for loudspeaker control offer recallable input/output...
By Strother Bullins |
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| GREEN DAY |
Reaching Number One on Billboard the week it dropped in September 2004, Green Day's American Idiot follows Jesus of Suburbia through his confusion, alienation...
By Steve Jennings |
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| Line Arrays |
In recent years, line array systems have garnered considerable attention as a means of addressing sound reinforcement requirements for medium- to large-size...
BY ROGER MAYCOCK |
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| MARCUSSEN MASTERING |
“Turbo-pop” band Powder (www.powdermusic.com) dropped by Marcussen Mastering in...
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| Percussive Perfection |
This feature marks the first installment of Mix's six-part “Recording the Band” Series by technical editor Kevin Becka. In these bi-monthly...
By Kevin Becka |
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| ST. CLAIRE RECORDING SERVES UP |
John Parks created the “ultimate classroom” for himself when he launched St. Claire Recording, a new one-room facility in Lexington, Ky....
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| TRACK SHEET |
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Producer Linda Perry and mix engineer Bernd Burgdorf dropped by Bernie Grundman's (Hollywood) place to master a Kelly Osbourne track...
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| Tracking At the Crossroads |
It was nearly seven decades ago when Robert Johnson recorded his talisman tune in a Memphis hotel room onto wax cylinders. If he were still alive, I'm...
By Craig Dalton |
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