June 2008
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Technology
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| Burgin McDaniel Komit Compressor |
In audio circles, Austin, Texas, is known for Austin City Limits, SXSW, Robert Rodriguez, Rupert Neve Designs and now Burgin McDaniel, a new startup...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| dbx DriveRack PA |
The DriveRack has become one of dbx's most popular processors, leading to a series of rackmount processors. The DriveRack PA is a complete system processor...
BY STEVE LA CERRA |
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| iZotope RX Advanced Restoration Software |
Manufacturer iZotope is known for developing innovative, high-quality plug-ins, yet the company's recent release of RX has generated more industry buzz...
BY JASON SCOTT ALEXANDER |
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| Native Instruments Kore 2 Plug-In Host |
The first incarnation of Native Instruments Kore was an insightful step forward in hardware/software integration, but it suffered from some design problems....
BY JIM AIKIN |
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| Overloud Breverb Plug-In |
Italian software developer Overloud is offering Breverb, a synthesized reverb plug-in that's modeled on high-end hardware reverbs costing many times...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Tools of the Trade |
PRESONUS STUDIOLIVE This 16×4×2 digital performance and recording mixer from PreSonus (www.presonus.com)...
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Live Mix
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| Celtic Woman |
Against a twinkling backdrop of stars, a woman appears, holding a fiddle, dancing lithely in a long dress and playing a Celtic melody. She passes between...
By Gaby Alter |
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| FixIt |
FOH engineer Jayme Braun recently finished up the third leg of the Adore 2007 tour. You can also find Braun mixing house for JoJo, Switchfood, Bryan...
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| MicroWedge Makes Stage Debut |
The Orpheum Theater (Los Angeles) was filled with music-loving concertgoers to check out a performance by Don Was and the Was (Not Was) band, featuring...
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
CROWN MACRO-TECH I SERIES The Macro-Tech i Series from Crown (www.crownaudio.com) features Class-I...
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| News |
Front-of-house engineer Neston Eåton is using the H15 capsule from Sabine with the Audix head and receiver's Mic Super Modeling set on the SM58...
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| Now Playing |
Silverstein Sound Company: Rat Sound (Oxnard, Calif.) FOH Engineer/Board: Sean M. Palmer (also tour manager)/Yamaha M7CL Monitor Engineer/Board: monitors...
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| On the Road |
Front-of-house engineer John Lee Hardee was recently spotted at the Langerado Festival mixing for Ani DiFranco. Here's what he says about mixing up his...
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| Presidents of the United States of America |
After a long break from touring, the Presidents of the United States of America (Chris Ballew, vocals/guitar; Andrew McKeag, bass/vocals; and Jason Finn,...
by Steve Jennings |
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Recording Notes
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| BROWNSVILLE STATION'S “SMOKIN' IN THE BOYS ROOM” |
When it came out in late 1973, “Smokin' in the Boys Room” immediately became the rallying anthem for what was for many high school students...
By Dan Daley |
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| GEORGE STRAIT |
Strait Facts: George Strait has more Number One hit singles than any other recording artist. “I Saw God Today,” the first single from his...
By Elianne Halbersberg |
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| JOE SATRIANI |
After more than two decades and a dozen studio albums, it's a challenge for any artist to continue to break new musical ground. But when you only have...
By Heather Johnson |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
“The people I admire most had the guts to do this kind of record,” says Jakob Dylan with quiet intensity. As he talks about his first solo...
by Bud Scoppa |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
There are manuals, for sure. And aspiring producers can follow directions in learning to tune vocals, set compression ratios and manage signal chains....
by Peter Cooper |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
Many of the world's great studios are meticulously designed with the latest that acoustical science and architecture has to offer — and sometimes...
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
SOUTHEAST Producer Tony Visconti worked on a release by Anti-Flag and Alejandro Escovedo at St. Claire Studios (Lexington, KY). Mario McNulty engineered...
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Insider Audio
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| You Light Up My Brain |
So I was washing the dishes after dinner with the TV on. The set in the kitchen is one of those little countertop jobs with rabbit ears and a 2-inch...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Tech's Files
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| Tools, My Olde Friends |
Did you ever try to be creative with an unfamiliar set of tools? Like a paintbrush, a musical instrument or recording gear, amazing things can happen...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| Mirror, Mirror On the Wall |
Maybe it's all the time I've been spending in airports, but I've read a lot of trashy tabloids lately; it's my guilty pleasure. My favorite parts of...
Sarah Jones Editor |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
Paul Lehrman's April 2008 “Insider Audio” column, “The Emperor's New Sampling Rate,” addresses a study by David Moran and Brad...
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Current/Industry News
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| ‘ROCK BAND’ SOARS |
In just four months since its November 2007 release, Rock Band videogame's downloadable content went six-times Platinum; that's 6 million downloads....
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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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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| BRUCE KAPP, 1951-2008 |
Touring industry veteran Bruce Kapp, who is credited with helping to develop the concept of national gigging, was born with concerts on the brain: While...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| GADGET CORNER |
Don't just take your friends' music advice. Magix's (www.magix.com) MP3 Maker 14 Deluxe (PC, mobile...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| GOING GREEN IN THE STUDIO |
Whatever your view is on global warming, making your business — and your studio — more “green” is not only a wise investment...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
Previously with Guitar Center, Tom Menrath joins Audio Agent (Seattle) as VP of brand management…New York City-based Sound Lounge Music & Sound...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: Paul Taylor, president of Ultrasone Main Responsibilities: sales, marketing, logistics, maintenance, accounting, office operations Previous Lives:...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| PRODUCTS HITS FROM NAB 2008 |
With its theme of “Where Content Comes to Life,” this year's NAB expo — held April 11 to 17, 2008 — offered all you'd expect...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SEEN AND HEARD |
“We have the right to earn compensation from all types of ‘performances,’ including direct, live renditions...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TEC NEWS ON MIXONLINE |
Mix subscribers and others who wish to keep abreast of this year's TEC Awards nominations, voting schedule, TECnology Hall of Fame, Les Paul Award and...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ZAPPA SQUARED |
Coinciding with the release of the two-DVD (plus bonus audio CD) Zappa Plays Zappa filmed live in 2006, Dweezil Zappa takes a new ZPZ entourage on tour...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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General
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| Crack That Whip! |
When film directors and actors revisit cherished characters and “franchises” many years, or even decades, after their initial successes,...
By Blair Jackson |
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| FAB 40TH |
To mark the 40th anniversary of the making of The Beatles' iconic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band album, none other than Geoff Emerick is recording...
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| Intelligent Studio Monitors |
Every listening space — whether a state-of-the-art control room or a simple basement/bedroom studio setup — has a problem: the laws of physics....
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| LINKIN PARK |
Linkin Park's Midnight to Midnight tour hit cities across the U.S. in support of their latest album of the same name. Fans attending the concert can...
by Steve Jennings |
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| MIELE FINDS A HOME AT FUDGE |
This Katrina story has a happy ending. New Orleans-born engineer Jack Miele, his wife, two dogs and a studio full of gear were displaced when waters...
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| RAHN GOES ALL OUT |
Darren Rahn recorded and produced a new album by alto sax player Eric Darius at The LitterBox in Denver. Rahn used a Studio Projects T3 mic to capture...
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| ROCKING HORSE STUDIO OPENS |
Rocking Horse Studio (Pittsfield, N.H.), a brand-new facility designed by Michael Blackmer, hosted sessions with Universal Republic Records artists Another...
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| Room Tuning In the Box |
More and more, the recording studio environment is becoming one of plug-ins replacing outboard gear. I know several engineers who are mixing inside the...
By Bob Hodas |
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| SPECTRUM'S SILVER |
Jim Kalamasz is celebrating his Spectrum Recording Studios' (Miami) 25th anniversary this year, and '08 has been a very strong year for the facility....
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| the Class of 2008 |
On the Cover, Inner Machine Inner Machine (Buffalo, N.Y.) is enjoying a second life thanks to a couple of former studio gofers, Robby Tacak and John...
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| the Other Class of 2008 |
There's just no slowing down the demand for high-quality venues in which to take in your favorite band, watch your favorite sports team, catch up with...
BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TRAIN SESSIONS |
Rob Chiarelli produced the tracks “Someday” and “Always Midnight” for Pat Monihan and Train in Capitol Studios A and B (Hollywood)...
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