November 2004
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Technology
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| AEA R88 Stereo Ribbon Microphone |
Tone junkies rejoice! There is a wonderful new way to get your fix and it's called the AEA R88. Looking like something from a '50s sci-fi film, this...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Apogee AD-16X and DA-16X Converters |
Apogee topped itself with the release of its latest product, the AD-16X and DA-16X converters. The new units replace the company's similarly named AD-16...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| dbx 162SL Stereo Compressor/Limiter |
What good can come of crossing a blue-blooded compressor with an upstart? dbx knows! Its Purple Series 162SL Compressor/Limiter offers stellar performance...
BY STEVE LA CERRA |
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| Demeter VTMP-2c Microphone Preamp |
Leaving your teens is always an event, even if you're a mic preamp. Commemorating the upcoming 20th anniversary of the VTMP-2, Demeter Amplification...
BY MARTIN ALLEN |
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| EastWest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra |
The EastWest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra (EWQLSO) takes the concept of sampling to the next level. The disk streaming library offers recordings...
BY NICK BATZDORF |
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| Eventide Octavox Harmonizer |
If you're a Pro Tools user, I'm certain one question has been on your mind: Why isn't there a good Harmonizer plug-in? Eventide has answered the question...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Taylor Guitars/Rupert Neve Expression System |
I was walking around the Winter NAMM show a year ago and ran across Rupert Neve. I wondered why this dean of analog electronic design was at an MI show....
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| Universal Audio 2-1176 Dual Limiting Amplifier |
The 2-1176 Dual Limiting Amplifier is a 2-channel version of Universal Audio's '60s-era 1176 and uses the same FETs (for gain control elements) and output...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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Sound for Picture
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| M. Night Shyamalan |
Night Shyamalan is something of a throwback. In today's Hollywood, where CGI runs rampant and blockbuster translates as huge action effects, Shyamalan...
By Tom Kenny |
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| Multi-Platform Integration at HSR |
Actors' strike. Economic downturn. Rate-cutting. Big studios closing. If there's one thing you can count on in the New York post community — no...
By Gary Eskow |
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Live Mix
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| Allen & Heath Celebrates 35 in Style |
At the recent PLASA show (London), Allen & Heath hosted an anniversary party on the walkway of London's Tower Bridge to celebrate 35 years in the pro...
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| FixIt |
Devine Evans Devine Evans is the Pro Tools engineer/programmer for Mary J. Blige, Musiq Soulchild and R&B crooner Lloyd. Check out some of his work at...
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| News |
Yamaha PM5D consoles have been purchased by sound reinforcement companies nationwide, including Acoustech (Hollywood, FL) for use at the Republican National...
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| Now Playing |
Steven Curtis Chapman Sound Company: CTS Audio, Nashville FOH Engineer/Console: Russ Long/Yamaha PM1D Monitor Engineer/Console: Tim Farris/Yamaha PM1D...
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| On the Road |
Scott Steiner Scott Steiner, currently handling FOH duties for Sonia Dada, recently completed mixing the band's Test Pattern 5.1 CD/DVD release, which...
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| The Cure |
The Cure's Curiosa shows at San Francisco's SBC Park brought the band and support acts Interpol, The Rapture and Mogwai together on one action-packed...
by Steve Jennings |
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| Touring San Francisco's PREMIER VENUES |
THE FILLMORE What once hosted Wednesday night social and masquerade balls (1912), was a dance hall (up through the 1930s) and a roller rink (1940s),...
By Sarah Benzuly |
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| USHER |
It's halfway through Usher's second show at the Oakland Arena (Oakland, Calif.) in early September when front-of-house engineer Horace Ward checks the...
By David John Farinella |
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Recording Notes
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| “THE UNBROKEN CIRCLE” |
It has been quite an emotional couple of years for producer John Carter Cash. In May 2003, his mother, singer June Carter Cash, died unexpectedly, a...
By Blair Jackson |
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| Cool Spins |
Wilco: A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch) My affection for Wilco has waxed and waned through the years. After loving their alt-country debut, A.M., I've liked...
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| FLYING (ALMOST) SOLO |
“Lenny Kravitz has taken up 80 percent of my adult life,” says engineer Henry Hirsch without so much as a trace of cynicism in his voice....
By Elianne Halbersberg |
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| TOWER OF POWER'S “WHAT IS HIP?” |
Oakland, Calif., at the beginning of the 1970s was light years removed from the residual Summer of Love vibe still hanging on across the Bay in more...
By Maureen Droney |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
As the music industry continues its wrenching changes, so do commercial recording studios. Amazingly, however, the L.A. recording scene during the past...
by Maureen Droney |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
When I first moved to Nashville almost 10 years ago, one of the first things I learned is that the region is loaded with all kinds of non-country music...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
How does one of the ultimate small-studio applications, Propellerhead's Reason, cross paths with Avatar's Studio A, one of New York City's ultimate big...
by David Weiss |
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Insider Audio
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| Looking Backward |
So there I was, ambling around the floor at the San Francisco AES, minding everybody else's business but my own, when I came across a new company from...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Bitstream
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| Azalia Blossoms |
While San Francisco is known for such prosaic schlock as the Golden Gate Bridge and Fisherman's Wharf, the former farmland to the south is where bellwether...
BY OLIVER MASCIAROTTE |
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Tech's Files
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| Supporting High-Resolution Audio |
Every Sunday, I scan the back page of The New York Times Arts and Leisure section for the J&R Music World ads. As a barometer of what's popular, it covers...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| Welcome to AES! |
It's been six years since AES came to San Francisco, nearly an eternity in the technological timeframe. That was the show where Studer unveiled its 24-track...
George Petersen Editorial Director |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
FACTOR REALITY IN THE FANTASY I was psyched when I saw your “Fantasy Studio Shopping Spree” [October 2004]. What a cool idea: gear recommendations...
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Current/Industry News
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| ARGOSY TURNS 10 |
In 1993, Argosy (www.argosyconsole.com) founder David Atkins was the third-generation manager...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| AUTOGRAPH CELEBRATES 30 YEARS, ADDS NEW FACILITY |
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, theater sound design specialists Autograph Sound Recording (London) unlocked its new recording studio and post-production...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| BALL STATE ENHANCES CURRICULUM |
Though Ball State University (Muncie, Ind., www.bsu.edu) has dropped “Engineering” from...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
Sonic Distribution (Somerville, MA), exclusive distributor for SE Electronics, has brought in Bob Reardon to build its new U.S. operations and become...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| MARGARITA MIX BRINGS IN NEW GM |
The L.A. Studios' Westside facility, Margarita Mix de Santa Monica, has tapped veteran producer Jonathan Whitehead as its new general manager, operations...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
Heart's new album, Jupiter's Darling, was released over the TrustyFiles (www.TrustyFiles.com)...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NYC GETS BIONIC POST BOOST |
Keyframe Post-turned-Bionic Media (New York City, www.bionic.tv) has expanded its space to include...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ON THE MOVE |
On the Move: Ron Fair, keynote speaker at AES S.F. Previous Lives: President, A&M Records, 2000-present Senior VP of A&R/staff producer....
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| PHOTOMAG SOUND & IMAGE RELAUNCHES |
Joe Caterini, president of Photomag Sound & Image (www.pmag.com), announced the completion of an extensive...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| RAY CHARLES LANDMARK STUDIO |
On August 31, 2004, the posthumous release date of Ray Charles' Genius Love Company, fans caught a glimpse into the icon's spawning grounds. People from...
Chris Walker |
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| TELEFUNKEN HITS TUBE JACKPOT |
Telefunken North America has acquired what may be the last large stock of vintage NOS (New Old Stock) 6072A General Electric tubes, which were used in...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TOM LORD-ALGE HITS THE SOUTH BEACH |
Indie artist Sylvia Tosun booked time at South Beach Studios (Miami) with mixer Tom Lord-Alge (Avril Lavigne, Peter Gabriel, Faith Hill) and producer...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| WELCOME TO AES SAN FRANCISCO |
It's been six years since thousands of audio gearheads and enthusiasts trampled through the streets of San Francisco, attending the AES convention, hailing...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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On the Cover
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| Skywalker Sound |
We tend to give a lot of ink to Skywalker Sound, and with good reason. First, it's Skywalker Sound, and the mystique generated by the name itself has...
By Tom Kenny |
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General
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| A Long Time Ago |
With its infinite scenic vistas, colorful neighborhoods and rich history, San Francisco has always been a magnet for filmmakers. It's the city The Thin...
By Blair Jackson |
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| BEN KWELLER PLAYS WITH GRAVITY |
Melodic rocker Ben Kweller stopped by Gravity Studios (Chicago) to mix five songs for Chicago's Q-101's TBA radio show, promoting his current tour and...
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| Beyond 2000 |
CALLING ALL ANGELS San Francisco's motley music community doesn't have a genre-specific scene like Seattle, Nashville or Minneapolis; however, the city...
By Heather Johnson |
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| First-Person Pseudo-Reality of Halo 2 |
“The fun thing about interactive media and games is that it's still a relatively new medium,” says Marty O'Donnell, audio director of Bungie...
By Blair Jackson |
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| George Lucas |
Never before — or since — has there been such a concentrated group of influential filmmakers as there was in San Francisco during the late...
By Larry Blake |
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| Living on the Faultline |
Okay, let's cut to the chase. We don't have room in our beautiful San Francisco Bay Area for all of you AES attendees to move here, much as you'd like...
Blair Jackson Senior Editor |
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| Mix AES 2004 New Products Guide |
AC Power Products Furman Series II Power Conditioners The Series II versions of Furman's beloved power conditioners represent the next generation in...
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| MOELLER “TRANSPORTS” MIDAS TO HOME STUDIO |
Jens Moeller, MI and concert sound sales rep for ASCON Trading (the Danish distributor for Electro-Voice, Dynacord, Midas and Klark Teknik), can practice...
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| Necessity Mothers Invention |
Jefferson Airplane lead singer Grace Slick is credited with the quote: “Anyone who says they remember San Francisco in the '60s wasn't really there.”...
By Maureen Droney |
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| Out of the Ashes, Into the '60s |
One of many interesting footnotes about the great earthquake and fire that leveled much of San Francisco in 1906 is that the great Italian tenor, Enrico...
By Blair Jackson |
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| PRESIDENTS PROMISE, LOVE EVERYBODY |
Just in time for this month's elections, ‘90s hitmakers Presidents of the United States of America reunited to record the 14 playful guitar-pop...
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| Ryan Greene |
Ryan Greene doesn't produce punk rock. “It's just pop music played twice as fast,” he says with a grin, referring to bands such as NOFX,...
By Heather Johnson |
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| SF Soundworks |
It seems like dot.com wünderkind Tony Espinoza came out of nowhere last year to launch SF Soundworks; at least, nowhere in the recording industry,...
By Heather Johnson |
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| Silicon Audio |
Northern California boasts beautiful vistas, but the view from Highway 101 in Santa Clara Valley is not one of them. “Silicon Valley” doesn't...
By Linda Jacobson |
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| SONIC WAVE THUNDERS WITH EARTHRIDE |
The hills and valleys of Raleigh, N.C., rumbled and quaked this fall when doom-metal band Earthride visited Sonic Wave Studios to record their second...
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| Studio 880 |
In-between San Jose and San Francisco, next to the freeway for which it was named, musical journeys have taken place at Oakland's Studio 880 (
By Breean Lingle |
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| The '70s |
ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE At the dawn of the '70s, three years down the line from the Summer of Love, the Bay Area music scene was strong and diverse. The...
By Blair Jackson |
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| The '80s |
THE HEART OF ROCK 'N' ROLL'S STILL BEATING What many consider the “golden age” of recording gradually dimmed in the decade of excess —...
By Heather Johnson |
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| The '90s |
WHAT A WICKED GAME WE PLAY “And then…the '90s came,” Studio D co-owner Joel Jaffe says with a sigh. Like many other recording industry...
By Heather Johnson |
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| TRACK SHEET |
NORTHWEST Bongo Post & Music (Sacramento, CA) creative director Bob Smith recently mixed, edited and scored music for the “Welcome to California”...
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| VANESSA WILLIAMS WRAPS SILVER & GOLD AT SOUND ON SOUND |
Pop singer Vanessa Williams and producer Rob Mathes chose Sound on Sound Recording (New York City) to record and mix her forthcoming Christmas album,...
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| Why I Call S.F. Home |
In Talking Heads, we tried to change our approach on every album. On '77, we worked with a Disco producer. On More Songs About Buildings and Food, we...
By Jerry Harrison |
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