January 2007
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Technology
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| Ableton Live 6 Performance-Oriented DAW |
It's not boring, but it's become quite predictable: Every new version of Ableton Live boosts the feature list to a new level. That was true when I reviewed...
BY JIM AIKIN |
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| API A2D Dual Microphone Preamp |
The A2D dual mic preamp from API is the company's first foray into the digital realm, melding tried-and-true analog technology...
BY BOBBY G. FRASIER |
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| Digidesign VENUE |
Since its arrival some 18 months ago, Digidesign's VENUE has found acceptance on major tours with more than 300 systems in use worldwide. This modular...
BY PETE KEPPLER |
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| Hear Technologies Mix Back System |
Having trickled down from the rich and famous to the working musician, the continued popularity of in-ear monitors has created a need for high-quality,...
BY STEVE LA CERRA |
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| IK Multimedia Ampeg SVX Bass Amp Plug-In |
IK Multimedia's Ampeg SVX Bass Amp is a complete virtual bass guitar rig posing as a plug-in. SVX uses the company's DSM technology to model Ampeg bass...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Muse Research Receptor VST Plug-In Player |
In the genus of digital audio effects and instruments, there are two species: dedicated hardware devices and computer-based software tools. It's hard...
BY ROBERT BROCK |
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| Snapshot Product Reviews |
AVANT ELECTRONICS MIXCUBES Mini Reference Monitors During the '70s, '80s and into the 1990s, Auratone 5C Sound Cubes were pretty much required in every...
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| Steinberg Cubase 4 DAW |
Cubase has been a studio mainstay for close to 20 years now. Although it may not be the front-running application on either the Mac or the PC, Steinberg's...
BY JIM AIKIN |
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| Tools of the Trade |
ADOBE SOUNDBOOTH Adobe's (www.adobe.com) Soundbooth removes noise from existing recordings and lets...
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| Waves Tune Pitch-Correction Plug-In |
One of five plug-in processors in the new Waves Vocal Bundle (which also includes DeBreath, Renaissance DeEsser, Renaissance Channel Strip and Waves...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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Sound for Picture
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| Conflagrations and Claustrophobia |
Now in his mid-70s, director Clint Eastwood continues to amaze and provoke. His latest artistic (and critical) triumph is a pair of films about the pivotal...
By Blair Jackson |
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Live Mix
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| FixIt |
Greg Mace of house-of-worship audio specialists GJM Sound recently completed an install at Nampa First Nazarene Church (Nampa, Idaho) that required serious...
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| Garry Brown Takes on Vegoose |
Held over Halloween weekend, this year's Vegoose festival (Las Vegas) saw four stages hosting top talent such as Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, the Black...
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| GUNS N' ROSES |
Tirelessly flogged in the media for every manner of abuse imagined or otherwise, Guns N' Roses is still legitimately regarded by many as one of the biggest...
By Gregory A. DeTogne |
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
MACKIE QUAD SERIES PROCESSORS Mackie's (www.mackie.com) Quad Series digital processors offer 24-bit...
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| News |
For the seventh year, 3G Live (L.A.) provided staging/lighting/sound for Reventón, a Latin rock/pop music festival held at the Los Angeles Memorial...
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| Now Playing |
Barenaked Ladies Sound Company: Solotech (Montreal) FOH Engineer/Board: Robin Billinton/Soundcraft Vi6 Monitor Engineer/Board: John Sulek/Midas H3000...
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| OK Go |
You may not know OK Go by name, but you've probably seen their notoriously popular video for “Here It Goes Again,” in which the four bandmembers...
By Heather Johnson |
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| On the Road |
Goo Goo Dolls Front-of-house engineer Paul David Hager just wrapped up a couple months with the Goo Goo Dolls' tour, which relied on gear supplied by...
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| Panic! at the Disco |
An elaborate circus set filled the stage at Madison Square Garden Theater for Panic! at the Disco's pair of concerts in mid-November, complete with a...
By Gaby Alter |
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| Pet Shop Boys |
Despite not having toured since 2002, electro-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys played to an exuberant crowd at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium...
by Steve Jennings |
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Recording Notes
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| BRIAN SETZER'S LUCKY “13” |
Brian Setzer makes a lot of great albums, but he doesn't spend a lot of time in studios. His MO is to begin a new project well-prepared, whether that...
By Barbara Schultz |
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| ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS' “PUMP IT UP” |
Elvis Costello began his music career with the purist intentions: “My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant,” he told the New Music...
By Barbara Schultz |
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| GLADYS KNIGHT SALUTES GREAT JAZZ WOMEN |
Before Gladys Knight became one of the most successful soul singers in America — fronting The Pips for a string of immortal classics, and then...
By Chris Walker |
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| JOAN OSBORNE EXPLORES HER COUNTRY ROOTS |
It should come as no surprise that Joan Osborne wanted to make a country album. Born and raised in Kentucky, Osborne is a longtime, die-hard fan of the...
By Elianne Halbersberg |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
For Adam Beilenson and Mike Kerns, it turns out that more is more. The longtime partners own and oversee the biggest music-dedicated studio operation...
by Bud Scoppa |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
When one thinks of Nashville music, world beat, fusion and new age don't readily come to mind. But as the city's artistic and recording communities have...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
Virtually all music that's made with an intent to distribute gets to the Internet today, but an arguably much smaller percentage is produced with cyberspace...
by David Weiss |
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Insider Audio
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| Virtual Instruments — Virtually There |
This month, I expect to be helping to cut the ribbon on a brand-new lab in a brand-new music building at my school. It will be equipped with a dozen...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Producer's Desk
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| Jim Abbiss |
In recent years, Jim Abbiss has stepped into the limelight as the producer of a string of hit records by mainly young and trendy British bands. Most...
BY PAUL TINGEN |
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Project Studio
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| Fireproof Recording |
When rent on his Brooklyn, N.Y., studio, Fireproof Recording, jumped from $1,000 a month to nearly quadruple that amount, producer/engineer Adam Lasus...
BY HEATHER JOHNSON |
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Tech's Files
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| Guitar Distortion |
If you have ever felt that guitars are bullying the vocals and the drums, then it's time to take a closer look at those subtly subversive guitar multi-effects...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| Some Things Never Change |
Thirty years ago, jingle singer/voice-over artist Penny Riker and musician/engineer David Schwartz saw a burgeoning industry of pro 16/24-track and garage...
George Petersen Executive Editor |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
MIND YOUR MIDI I am writing in regards to the “Outer Limits of Portability” article (October 2006) to address a few of Kevin Becka's issues...
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Current/Industry News
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| BOOKSHELF |
For most Beatles fans, Mark Lewisohn's irreplaceable The Beatles: Recording Sessions is the best way to learn about how the group's recordings came together....
Matt Hurwitz |
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| DIAMONDS FOR SUGARHILL |
Houston-based SugarHill Recording Studios (www.sugarhillstudios.com) has just wrapped up...
COMPLIED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| GOT TECH? |
Recently opened, Studio Service Group (St. Paul, Minn.; www.studioservicegroup.com) provides...
COMPLIED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
Harman Pro North America (Northridge, CA) named Nick Owen VP of sales for AKG Acoustics, Soundcraft and Studer in the U.S.…Scott Robbins has been...
COMPLIED 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: LIVE SOUND SPECTACULAR! More information...
COMPLIED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
DON'T GET BURNED Burned Media (www.burnedmusic.com) has soft-launched its download site, which...
COMPLIED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SHOOTOUT AT STUDIO 8121 |
New Washington, D.C.-based Studio 8121 (www.studio8121.com) recently held a “gear shootout”...
COMPLIED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SPARS SOUNDBITES |
Eds. Note: Karen Brinton, owner/manager of Remote Recording, gives us a step-by-step tour diary of a day in life of her...
Karen Brinton |
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| TEC AWARDS UPDATE |
Starting with the 2007 TEC Awards, an award will be presented for Creative Achievement in Sound Production for Interactive Entertainment. The criteria...
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| WAVE MIKES THE WORLD |
Wave Recording Studios, an audio mixing and sound effects company for the advertising industry in the UK, has started to amass a 7.1 sound effects library,...
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| WOW AND FLUTTER EXPANDS |
In addition to a company restructure, Wow and Flutter West has opened Stage A, a 10,000-cubic-foot, large-format film/TV mixing theater in Santa Monica,...
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General
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| 20TH ANNUAL BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT CONCERT |
For the past 20 years. Neil and Pegi Young have brought together an eclectic lineup of top-notch musicians to perform in front of an enthusiastic crowd...
by Steve Jennings |
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| A Trip to the Slammer |
Despite the exploding digital revolution, the popularity of analog compressors and limiters shows no sign of waning — and for good reason. There...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| Alice in Chains |
Front-of-house engineer/production manager Chad Olech and monitor engineer Maxie Williams couldn't ask for a better gig. Alice in Chains are relatively...
By Sarah Benzuly |
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| BREAKING HEADS |
At Doug Hamblin's Dugout Studio (Studio City, Calif.), the great Johnny Rivers (of “Secret Agent Man” fame) cut tracks for his upcoming roots...
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| FORMAL SESSIONS |
Independent Mastering (Nashville) engineer Eric Conn quips, “We are only accepting clients with coat and tie now.” He and Don Cobb worked...
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| METAL IN VEGAS |
Odds on Recording, a massive high-end recording facility and CD replication house in Las Vegas, hosts sessions with nationally known acts and local bands,...
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| Mixing Drums |
Mix is proud to introduce a new article series for 2007: “the Inside Track,” a bi-monthly feature by Mix technical editor Kevin Becka that...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| REMOTE RECORDING CAPTURES STONES |
The key word is “legend”: Veteran recording/mixing engineer Bob Clearmountain was at the controls when Remote Recording Services' Silver...
Barbara Schultz |
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| Sound on Stage |
The Bridge School benefits. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Numerous local radio station events and accompanying fireworks displays. Bay to Breakers...
BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| Talk To Me |
A long time ago, in a sound system not so far away, routing audio meant connecting copper wire from an analog output to an analog input. Anytime a connection...
BY STEVE LA CERRA |
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| The Big Boards |
Ten years ago, this article would have been very different. The concept of digital consoles for sound reinforcement was in its infancy, with a single...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| The Dixie Chicks |
Fern Alvarez, who has been handling the Dixie Chicks' front-of-house mixing responsibilities for just about a decade, has seen numerous changes while...
By David John Farinella |
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| TRACK SHEET |
SOUTHEAST The Record Plant Remote (Ringwood, NJ), manned by engineer Kooster McAllister, is gearing up to record the fifth season of Nashville Star (covered...
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| WORKING IN A SALTMINE |
John Gray, chief engineer at The Saltmine Studios (Mesa, Ariz.) reports that '06 was the facility's busiest year yet. Ministry spent a month mixing their...
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