October 2004
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Technology
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| Fairlight Dream Constellation Console |
In the pro audio world, a bargain is a beautiful thing — especially when your purchase offers a full feature set, ease of use and great-sounding...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Genelec 8050A Reference Monitors |
“Genelec Messes With Success!” was the headline I envisioned when I heard that the Finnish company was attempting a major redo of its ubiquitous...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Lynx AES16 AES/EBU Interface Updates |
Macintosh power users rejoiced on Internet forums when the long-awaited OS X drivers for the Lynx AES16 and AES16-SRC PCI interface cards arrived in...
BY K. K. PROFFITT |
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| MOTU Digital Performer 4 |
Digital Performer 4 from MOTU is one of the most robust DAWs available, featuring formidable audio capabilities coupled with a devastatingly powerful...
BY JOHN McJUNKIN |
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| MOTU MachFive Software Sampler |
Until recently, Native Instruments' Kontakt, Apple/Logic's EXS-24 and Tascam's GigaStudio have arguably led the market for software-based samplers. Now,...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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| Nautilus NEMO DMC-8 Monitor Controller |
Mastering engineer John Vestman is often asked, “How do I make my mixes sound better?” The answer could easily fill a book, but Vestman's...
BY ERIK ZOBLER |
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| NHT Xd Series Speakers |
NHT has long been known as an innovative company that set its own destiny, often doing things differently. One such example is the company's acclaimed...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| Snapshot Product Reviews |
RANDALL RM4 AND RT2/50 Guitar Tube Preamp/Amplifier Getting a great guitar sound is all about tone, and the amp is a major part of that. We've seen all...
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| Upgrades and Updates |
Lexicon (www.lexiconpro.com) is shipping the Omega Desktop Recording Studio. The integrated computer...
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Sound for Picture
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| Mr. 3000 |
Fall is in the air, and the regular baseball season is about to give way to the playoffs and then the World Series. So...
By Paul Soucek |
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| The Manchurian Candidate |
With roots planted firmly in the Cold War paranoia, John Frankenheimer's superb 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate, does not seem like a good prospect...
By Blair Jackson |
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Live Mix
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| FixIt |
Aaron Beck is a theatrical sound engineer whose credits include Jolson: The Musical, The Buddy Holly Story, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. After...
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| Incubus |
Incubus' radio smash hit in 2001, “Drive,” boosted the band into top seating on the Modern Rock charts. Currently touring under their newest...
by Steve Jennings |
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
SMITH PRO AUDIO 1230 PRO The 1230 Pro from Smith Pro Audio (www.smithproaudio.com) is a 12-inch...
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| News |
Allen & Heath will celebrate its 35th anniversary at PLASA (September 12-15, 2004, in London), in addition to introducing two new products in the Xone...
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| Now Playing |
Chayanne Sound Company: Lizano Audio Services Corp. FOH Engineer/Console: Rafael “Cocoy” Alvarez/spec'd per country Monitor Engineer/Console:...
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| On the Road |
Jonathan Byrd Washington-based band Death Cab for Cutie (DCFC) has a reputation for melancholic, reflective lyrics, doing their best to dodge being labeled...
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| Projekt Revolution |
On a Saturday evening in mid-August, a quick stroll through the sprawling, grassy parking lot of Charlotte, N.C.'s Verizon Wireless Amphitheater revealed...
by Strother Bullins |
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| Yamaha Helps Bombay Dreams |
Broadway's Bombay Dreams is the story of a slum boy who rises to fame and fortune making “Bollywood” movies and features a 5.1 score combining...
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Recording Notes
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| JAM BAND AXEMAN WARREN HAYNES |
So you think you're busy? How'd you like to be in Warren Haynes' shoes? The prodigiously talented guitarist/singer/songwriter is having quite a year,...
By Blair Jackson |
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| RAY CHARLES |
It somehow seems fitting that Ray Charles' swan song, a duets album on Concord Records called Genius Loves Company, finds the legendary singer creatively...
By Blair Jackson |
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| Ray Charles and Mr. T |
A little more than 20 years ago, Terry Howard became an “on-call” studio maintenance technician for Ray Charles. By the time Charles recovered...
Barry Rudolph |
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| RAY CHARLES' “WHAT'D I SAY” |
With a career spanning more than five decades and scads of hits in multiple genres, choosing a single “Classic Tracks” from Ray Charles is...
By Blair Jackson |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
The Los Angeles Recording Workshop (LARW, www.recordingcareer.com) has a much larger location,...
by Maureen Droney |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
It's not surprising that Nashville, a city that's had a thriving music business for many decades, is also home to a number of educational institutions...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
How does a dance track move through New York City's underground and onto the charts? This month's story is all about how one track found its groove....
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
NORTHEAST Joss Stone, Lonestar, Maroon 5, Story of the Year and others performed for Sessions@AOL at Avatar (NYC) with engineers Greg Thompson and Anthony...
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Insider Audio
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| Back to the Future |
There's an interesting conundrum in audio these days: As our tools get better and the quality of what we produce achieves new heights, the delivery system...
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Producer's Desk
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| Ken Scott |
Since his first dates as an assistant engineer during The Beatles' sessions for A Hard Day's Night at London's Abbey Road Studios (then known as EMI...
BY RICK CLARK |
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Project Studio
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| Dr. Trey |
It may be difficult to imagine a ukulele player from Oahu loosely modeling his music producing career after gangster rap's überproducer, Dr. Dre,...
BY BREEAN LINGLE |
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Bitstream
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| Pedant In a Big Box: Part Six |
“Bitstream” columnist Oliver Masciarotte once again scours his audio data dictionary to come up with another round of today's top IT terms...
BY OLIVER MASCIAROTTE |
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Tech's Files
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| Oscilloscope 101 |
Looking to enhance your audio production skills? Consider reinforcing your “major” with a dash of Electronics 101. The oscilloscope is the...
BY EDDIECILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| History: Looking Forward, Looking Back… |
As a kid, I had an acute awareness of the effects of history. I suppose that growing up in Naples, Italy, had something to do with that. History becomes...
George Petersen Editorial Director |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
CREATIVE AT THE CORE I am the guitarist on the Neville Brothers' Yellow Moon and Bob Dylan's Oh Mercy albums. I just wanted to say thanks for the great...
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Current/Industry News
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| AVID ADDS M-AUDIO TO ITS FOLD |
Avid Technology has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Midiman Inc., doing business as M-Audio. At closing, Avid will pay approximately $80...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OPENS NEW A/V FACILITY |
The youth of San Pedro, Calif., can get off the street and into the studio, thanks to a state-of-the-art multimedia facility at the city's Boys and Girls...
Heather Johnson |
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| DON'T MASQUE YOUR EXCITEMENT |
Scott Kalata (right) of Masque Sound & Recording (East Rutherford, N.J.) presented a Neumann M149 Jubilee edition microphone to long-standing customer...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| FITS AND STARTS TURNS HOW-TO |
Audio seminar and workshop provider Fits & Starts (best known for its surround sound tours) is now offering the manufacturer-sponsored HOW-To Church...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| GRAMMY LISTENING ROOM GETS FACELIFT |
The brainchild of producer Phil Ramone, with help from Peter Chaikin (Harmon Pro Group), John Eargle, George Augspurger and Leslie Lewis, the Recording...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| HARRY SHEARER TO HOST 20TH ANNUAL TEC AWARDS |
Harry Shearer will host the 20th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, Saturday, October 30, 2004, at the San Francisco Marriott. Although...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| HOT OFF THE PRESSES |
From the Mix offices comes features editor Sarah Jones' first foray into the book publishing world. Her Assistant Engineer Handbook begs the question,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
Joseph L. Lias (co-founder/president/CEO of Kipper Technologies) is THX's (San Rafael, CA) new president. The company has also added Sheau Ng, CTO; Bruce...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| KERRY VIDEO COMPOSED AT FIREHOUSE |
Composer Nathan Wang recently stepped into Firehouse Recording Studios (Pasadena, Calif.) to record music for The Remarkable Promise, a nine-minute video...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| NOTES FROM THE NET |
Digital Music Sales to Hit $1.7 Billion in 2009 JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corp., forecasted that digital music sales will more than...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: Steve Garth, president/CEO of Obedia Main responsibilities: Ensuring delivery of 24/7 tech support for DAW users. Previous lives 1999-2003,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TEXAS COLLEGE BRINGS IN SSL |
Gearing up to compete with schools and universities across the country, the San Jacinto College Central's (Pasadena, Texas;
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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On the Cover
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| Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences |
For more than two decades, the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences has provided high-quality audio training to those who believe that they will...
By Maureen Droney |
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General
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| Are You Plugged In? |
Computer-based production systems have come a long way since the days of razor blade editing. As DAWs have matured, an entire market has developed for...
BY ROGER MAYCOCK |
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| CHUCK D ENTERS THE THRESHOLD |
Public Enemy's Chuck D stopped in Threshold Sound + Vision (Los Angeles) to oversee mixes for Power to the People and the Videos, a DVD featuring more...
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| Correction |
AMS-Neve's (www.ams-neve.com) MMC12 was inadvertently omitted from our “Mid-Priced Consoles”...
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| CORRECTIONS |
Due to an editing error, a sentence in “Zooming In on the Zone” (August 2004) implied that system control units from TC Electronic and Lake...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| GLORIA ESTEFAN |
After eight years off the road, Gloria Estefan has returned, with her Live & Re-Wrapped 2004 tour, which winds up with two final sold-out nights at Miami's...
Text by Steve Jennings and Heather Johnson |
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| NEW BANDS REV UP WITH AUDIO ENGINE |
Audio Engine, considered one of Manhattan's most active audio post facilites, is now recruiting independent bands and student filmmaker projects. “We...
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| PIE STUDIOS IS SO LAST WEEK |
Producer/engineer Brian Malouf (Dave Matthews, Eve 6) stopped in PIE Studios (Glen Cove, N.Y.) to track a few songs for Last Week's forthcoming Sony...
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| SCARFACE OPENS THE GARAGE |
Def Jam South president/rap artist Scarface, the hard-hitting rapper and former Geto Boys member known throughout the 1990s for his “Southern thug...
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| Shopping Spree |
We all know what's been happening to the studio economy lately. As labels squeeze their budgets and major studios struggle to make the lease, more and...
By Strother Bullins |
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| The 2004 Mix Directory of Audio Education Programs |
EAST American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016-8058 Phone 202/885-2746 E-mail sarisky@american.edu...
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| The Education Option |
Although there have historically been two schools of thought about audio education — on-the-job vs. academic training — the lines are blurring...
By Theresa Leonard |
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| WHAT IS HIP? SY KOPPS POWERS UP WITH T.O.P. HORNS |
Sy Klopps Studios in San Francisco welcomed a Tower of Power reunion recently when the original horn section, along with bassist Francis Rocco Prestia,...
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