January 2006
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Technology
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| Focal SM8 Powered Monitors |
Having seen them at several industry shows, I've admired the Focal SM Series' look and sound for a while now and looked forward to giving them a serious...
BY JOE HANNIGAN |
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| Mackie Tracktion 2 DAW Software |
The big-name sequencer/recorders have dominated the market for close to 20 years. With Tracktion, Mackie aims to shake up the scene. Tracktion is quite...
BY JIM AIKIN |
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| MOTU Traveler FireWire I/O With Preamps |
These days, laptop computers provide as much — if not more — horsepower as your desktop behemoth. As a result, the availability of audio...
BY STEVE LA CERRA |
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| Phonic PAA3 Portable Audio Analyzer |
At some point, every engineer needs to measure audio. Audio test instruments have traditionally been cumbersome and expensive, but progressing technology...
STEVE LA CERRA |
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| RTZ 9762 Dual-Combo Mic Preamp |
The 2-channel RTZ 9762 is a single-rackspace remake of the Class-A Neve 1272 microphone preamp. The 9762 adds to the original's operation and sonics...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Submersible Music DrumCore Loop Library |
That “next big thing” rock vocalist is due in your studio in an hour to record a demo, but the drummer didn't show up to lay down the backing...
BY JIM AIKIN |
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| Tools of the Trade |
A DESIGNS MP-1A/MP-2A MIC PREAMP This audio chameleon from A Designs (dist. by TransAudio Group, www.transaudiogroup.com)...
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| Universal Audio LA-3A Audio Leveler |
Universal Audio has a wonderful habit of reissuing some of the most beloved vintage processors known to gear mavens worldwide. Now, the company has re-created...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| Upgrades and Updates |
Celemony Software (www.celemony.com) releases Melodyne Version 3 for Mac and PC. Melodyne3 is no...
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| Yamaha PM5D Digital Console |
With more than 1,000 units sold, thousands of engineers have used the Yamaha PM5D. This year's TEC Award — winning digital live console —...
BY MARK FRINK |
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Sound for Picture
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| Entering the World of Narnia |
Movie audiences certainly hear the big scenes — the battles, the sword hits, the crowd roars with grunts and groans. The sound effects demand attention...
By Tom Kenny |
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Live Mix
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| Fiona Apple |
Fiona Apple is touring to support her new CD, Extraordinary Machine. It's been more than five years since her last tour, and the sold-out crowd at San...
by Steve Jennings |
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| FixIt |
Thomas McNabb, FOH for Mae, is a one-man engineering show for this tour, as there is no monitor engineer. (The band handles monitoring duties.) Mae is...
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| Jamiroquai |
The ever-stylish Jay Kay didn't even stop to change his bizarre hat as he wore out a path in front of his band, Jamiroquai, while belting out two hours'...
By Heather Johnson |
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| Neil Diamond |
Neil Diamond's 2005 world tour started “down under” last March, played the UK in May, began its North American run last summer and will continue...
By Mark Frink |
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
SLS LS6593 LINE ARRAY The LS6593 compact line array from SLS Loudspeakers (www.slsloudspeakers.com)...
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| News |
Out on tour with The Rippingtons, FOH engineer Trinidad Sanchez is miking the band with Sennheiser e902 (kick), e904s (rack toms, floor toms), e905 (snare)...
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| Now Playing |
Rob Thomas FOH Engineer/Console: Dave Wilkerson/Midas Heritage 3000 Monitor Engineer/Console: Chris Sharp/Midas Heritage 3000 P.A./Amps: L-Acoustics...
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| On the Road |
John Roden When Paul McCartney goes on the road, it's never just a tour — it's an event. His recent U.S. dates wrapped up in late November after...
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| Stuck on Staind |
There's something to be said for longevity, and front-of-house mixer Jeff Gilmer knows this from his experience with Staind. In addition to producing...
By David John Farinella |
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| The Rolling Stones |
There are rock bands, and then there is the Rolling Stones. Who else could sell out arenas and stadiums night after night (with $450 tickets, no less),...
By Sarah Jones |
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| What Is a Green Room? |
It's not just a problem for etymologists: Searching for the origination of a term has been plaguing our live sound engineers. What is a green room? A...
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Recording Notes
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| COOL SPINS |
Various ArtistsHigher Ground Hurricane Relief BenefitEMI Dr. John & The Lower 911Sippiana HericaneBlue Note Both of these fine CDs were created to raise...
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| DAVID BLUMBERG |
David Blumberg started out as a trumpet player, spent some time on the road with Larry Elgart's band and then returned to L.A., his hometown, to begin...
By Gary Eskow |
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| DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE |
The increasing popularity of iTunes and music downloading has encouraged a number of people to announce the death of the album as a listening experience....
By Rick Clark |
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| PETER FRAMPTON'S “SHOW ME THE WAY” |
As this issue of Mix has a focus on live recording, we thought it would be appropriate to finally tackle a track from the best-selling live rock album...
By Blair Jackson |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
There was a time, way before my time, when record labels groomed an artist. They would pluck them out of obscurity, polish up their image a bit and put...
by Heather Johnson |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
If you play pedal steel and want to cut an album, Nashville would seem like the most obvious place in the world to go. After all, pedal steel is as much...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
As a recent feature article in Mix illustrated [“Artist Development 2005,” March 2005], artist development everywhere is on the rise. A logical...
by David Weiss |
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Insider Audio
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| My Back Pages |
In January 1996, this magazine reported that 3M was getting out of the recording tape business. Ampex was changing its name to Quantegy. Alesis was advertising...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Producer's Desk
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| Jeffrey Lesser |
To hear Jeffrey Lesser tell it, he's not really working. Despite a successful engineering and producing career that spans nearly four decades, he continues...
BY MICHAEL BARBIERO |
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Project Studio
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| Slate Run Productions |
There comes a time in most every engineer's life when balance becomes paramount. Balance in the types of work, balance in a mix, balance in lifestyle...
BY TOM KENNY |
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Tech's Files
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| Not a Mic Preamp Shootout |
I just completed seven exhausting weeks of testing mic preamps for an educational video. It started last fall when I was asked to do a preamp shootout....
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| Virtual Vintage |
Walk around any pro audio/MI convention, and you'll see lots of vintage gear — or vintage-looking gear. Some of it is close to the real thing,...
George Petersen Editorial Director |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
GREAT IDEA, QUESTIONABLE APPROACH First, let me commend you on a great October 2005 issue. I found the overall content to be really informative to my...
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Current/Industry News
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| CLASSICAL TURNTABLISM |
A most unusual spin on classical music performance debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York City this fall: the Concerto for Turntable. Composed by Raul...
David Weiss |
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| FAIRLIGHT TO BENEFIT WITNESS |
Fairlight has partnered with human rights nonprofit group WITNESS to host an auction of a one-of-a-kind, vintage Fairlight CMI signed by legendary musicians...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| GET ADR OR DIE TRYING |
As Hurricane Katrina moved toward Miami, Manhattan Transfer Miami (www.mtmiami.com) was expecting...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| GROOVEMASTER UPGRADES WITH SSL |
Engineer/producer Johnny K (owner of Groovemaster Recording in Chicago, http://groovemasterstudio.com)...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
JBL (Northridge, CA) new appointments: Simon Jones, director of portable P.A. marketing; Phil Sanchez, product manager for commercial sound products;...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| LEARNING ONLINE TRICKS |
After 20 years as a real estate agent, 56-year-old recent Berkleemusic.com graduate Del Couch now owns and operates his recording studio in Palmetto,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| MARGARITA MIX GOES HD |
Margarita Mix de Santa Monica's (www.margmix.com) infrastructure has been re-engineered to host...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| MIX WEB EXTRAS |
Go beyond the printed page and log on to mixonline.com to get extra photos, text and sounds on these select articles: “Orchestral Recording”:...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
iMesh launched the public beta version of its iMesh 6, a P2P online music service that hosts 15 million tracks available from the Gnutella and iMesh...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| QUAD SALE FINAL |
It took longer than was initially expected, but the sale of the four floors of Quad Studios (www.quadstudios.com)...
David Weiss |
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| SOLO DAVE MATTHEWS |
Dave Matthews recently recorded new material at Robert Lang Studios (Seattle, www.robertlangstudios.com)...
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General
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| A Night at the Opera |
“There's probably no indoor theater this big in the world hosting live opera,” says Allan Naplan, referring to the 12,000-plus crowd gathered...
By Nick Russell |
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| ALBINI'S ELECTRIC AUDIO |
Melodic pop/rock band the Slow Signal Fade took time out from their recent tour to record nine songs with Steve Albini at his Chicago-based two-room...
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| Angelo Badalamenti |
Angelo Badalamenti is one of the most original musical voices in film. The Italian-American composer and longtime David Lynch collaborator bends the...
BY BRYAN REESMAN |
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| CORRECTION |
In the October 2005 “The Audio Pipeline” feature, under the “Protocols at a Glance” heading, the sentence, “…with...
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| DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE |
Out in support of Plans (see page 130 for information on the recording of the album), Seattle-based indie quartet (who recently signed to Atlantic) Death...
by Steve Jennings |
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| ESSENTIAL EQUALIZATION |
EQs: We all need them, and most of us have a lot of them — both in our racks and on our computers. Engineers have various criteria for choosing...
BY STROTHER BULLINS |
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| Good Night, and Good Luck |
Good Night, and Good Luck is completely unlike any other film currently playing at your local multiplex. Shot in a sort of faux vérité black...
By Blair Jackson |
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| Networked Amplifiers For Live Sound |
These days, just about everything from your DVD player to your coffee machine can be remote-controlled, so why not your power amplifiers? Networked communication...
BY STEVE LA CERRA |
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| Orchestral Recording |
The conceit of these sorts of periodic articles, which are designed to fill readers in on the latest recording techniques, is that there is great new...
BY BLAIR JACKSON |
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| Production Logic |
Editor's Note: Most sound reinforcement press focuses on big rock 'n' roll tours, massive stadium installations and the...
BY TOM KENNY |
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| Professional Audio Design |
The nature of recording facilities is shifting almost too rapidly to grasp, but Professional Audio Design is uniquely qualified to give context to the...
BY DAVID WEISS |
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| RYAN GREENE HAS A NEW CRUSH |
Producer/engineer Ryan Greene, known for producing punk and rock bands such as NOFX, Dishwalla, Lagwagon, No Use for a Name, Nerf Herder and The Dickies,...
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| TANTRIC RECORDING |
Hard rock band Tantric took up residence at the new Saint Claire Recording Company in Lexington, Ky., to track a song for their forthcoming fourth album....
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| THE DUBWAY REPORT |
MCA recording artist Leona Naess brought her new album to Dubway Studios (New York City) to mix with staff engineer Emery Dobyns. The British singer/songwriter...
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| TRACK SHEET |
NORTHWEST Hyde Street Studios (San Francisco) recently re-opened Studio C, and has already brought in projects from Chuck Prophet, Rat Dog, Norton Buffalo,...
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| WOLFMOTHER STRIKES |
Conjuring the spirits of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and T. Rex, Australia's Wolfmother entered the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles to finish their...
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