September 2005
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Technology
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| ADAM P33A Studio Monitors |
The ADAM P33A speakers are a downsized version of the company's popular S3A speaker and are aimed at near/mid-field monitoring applications, where powerful...
BY JOE HANNIGAN |
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| Apple Soundtrack Pro Audio Editor/Recorder |
When Apple first unveiled Soundtrack a few years ago, I was impressed by its ability to handle loops and audio clips to quickly create music scores for...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| Chandler Limited Mini Rack Mixer |
Chandler Limited is known for designing new products with a vintage spin. Its latest, the Mini rack mixer, features Chandler's version of the classic...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Digidesign ICON |
As a longtime Pro Tools user and the owner of the first — and still largest — ICON console, I have discovered, created and stolen some great...
BY BRIAN SLACK |
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| New Sound for Picture Products |
SONIFEX DELAY SYNCHRONIZER Part of the popular Redbox Series, the RB-DS2 audio delay synchronizer from Sonifex (dist. by Independent Audio,
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| Sennheiser Evolution 900 Series |
The Sennheiser Evolution 900 Series microphones are like a new palette of colors for an engineer — 10 exquisitely designed tools to enable vivid...
BY BARRY RUDOLPH |
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| Tools of the Trade |
YAMAHA AW1600/AW2400 DESKTOP RECORDERS The latest additions to Yamaha's (www.yamaha.com) AW line...
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| Universal Audio 8110 Microphone Preamp |
Universal Audio is generally known these days for re-releases of its legacy analog processors such as the LA-2A and 1176, along with some newer combo...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| Upgrades and Updates |
Celemony's (www.celemony.com) Melodyne Uno Version 1.1.2 fixes bugs and offers ReWire integration...
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| Waves L3 Multiband Peak Limiter, Maximizer |
Few plug-ins have garnered as widespread use as Waves' L1 and L2. The Waves L3 takes those plug-ins to the next performance level. The 24-bit L3 comprises...
BY MICHAEL COOPER |
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Sound for Picture
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| Make Way for Family Guy |
You wouldn't expect people who listen to Family Guy jokes all day to look so, well, normal. But in person, the post-production sound crew for Family...
By Maureen Droney |
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| SmartSound Software |
Speed is everything in commercial music production. A three or four-hour booking for a 30-second spot doesn't leave a lot of time for final music tweaks....
By Barry Rudolph |
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| Sounddogs.com |
Online sound effects distributor Sounddogs.com definitely has it together. Punching up the company's Website on July 4, 2005, I was immediately presented...
By Maureen Droney |
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| Wilshire Stages |
Maybe it's the smaller, friendlier, indie-style vibe. Maybe it's the talented staff. Or maybe it's the fact that getting in and out is no hassle —...
Maureen Droney |
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Live Mix
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| Audio Companies Show Support For Live 8 |
With the worldwide Live 8 concerts having put the African issue on page 1 in newspapers all over the globe, the G8 Gleneagles meeting has finished with...
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| BECK |
“There will be dining room tables onstage,” Beck recently said in Rolling Stone, “and meals will be had.” Hinting at culinary...
BY SARAH JONES |
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| New Sound Reinforcement Products |
AUDIO-TECHNICA 3000 SERIES Audio-Technica (www.audio-technica.com) has enhanced its 3000...
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| News |
The Shaw Festival in Canada chose a LCS Matrix3 digital audio mixing system and CueConsole for the musical Gypsy…The San Francisco Hilton recently...
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| Now Playing |
John Prine Sound Company: Nomad Productions FOH Engineer/Console: Dan Lance/Yamaha DM1000 Monitor Engineer: Paul Franzen P.A./Amps: EAW KF730s (8), EAW...
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| On the Road |
Santana Carlos Santana is currently finishing up his touring year promoting his new release, All That I Am. Out with Santana are FOH engineer Robert...
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| ROBERT PLANT |
A name synonymous with rock 'n' roll for more than 35 years, you would expect a Robert Plant show to sound technically good. After all, who's had more...
BY CRAIG DALTON |
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| Songs of Carmen Surround Audiences |
Austria's opera season once again opened in surround this year thanks to sound company Mister Master and Europe's largest natural stage: a Roman-built...
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| Tegan and Sara |
Out in support of their fourth album, folk/rockers Tegan and Sara are criss-crossing the U.S., playing to mid-sized clubs. Mix caught up with their front-of-house...
by Steve Jennings |
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Recording Notes
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| COOL SPINS |
Jamiroquai Dynamite (Epic) Eliminating the threat of getting chucked into the “where are they now” file, British electro-funk combo Jamiroquai...
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| HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO |
It's been more than half-a-century since the great French gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 43. Yet his...
By Blair Jackson |
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| JOHN HIATT IN MEMPHIS |
It was just a matter of time before John Hiatt would make an album in Memphis. With albums such as Crossing Muddy Waters and the raw roots classics Bring...
By Rick Clark |
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| MORE OF LES |
“I've just made a decision,” announces Les Paul, circa 1949. “I'm through with electronics. No more electrical gadgets for me.”...
By Matt Hurwitz |
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| THE ANGELS' “MY BOYFRIEND'S BACK” |
There's this: “I've stumbled on the side of 12 misty mountains/I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways/I've stepped in the middle...
By Gary Eskow |
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Coast to Coast
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| L.A. GRAPEVINE |
Intrigued by the idea of a “business-to-business record company,” I dropped in at the Westside's rapidly growing RipTide Music (
by Maureen Droney |
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| NASHVILLE SKYLINE |
Just half-an-hour northeast from downtown and Music Row (near Gallatin, Tenn.) is Karian Studios (www.karianstudios.com),...
by Rick Clark |
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| NEW YORK METRO |
They say there are a million stories in the Naked City. Come to think of it, there have probably been a million albums made in the Naked City (New York...
by David Weiss |
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| TRACK SHEET |
MIDWEST Engineer/producer Jeff “Madjef” Taylor completed production and mixing for Sounds of Blackness' latest album at SLR Recording Studio...
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Insider Audio
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| More Than Mice |
Last month, I wrote about a college class I teach, in which students from various disciplines get together and design new electronic musical instruments....
BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN |
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Project Studio
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| Craig Sharmat |
Kids don't usually launch their music career composing or arranging; those gigs evolve over time. Craig Sharmat (www.scoredog.tv),...
BY GARY ESKOW |
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Tech's Files
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| When the Chips Are Down |
I have always been a hands-on technician, but two recent events provided a refresher course in the challenges facing large-scale operations. As an employer...
BY EDDIE CILETTI |
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From the Editor
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| The New Audio Pioneers |
The other day, I heard a radio ad about Wi-Fi G4 iBooks with Tiger and BlueTooth, and it occurred to me that very little in the commercial would have...
George Petersen Editorial Director |
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Feedback
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| Letters to Mix |
TRIBUTE TO CHICAGO INTERNS I would like to thank Mix magazine for the article entitled “CRAS Interns, Remembered” [“Current,”...
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Current/Industry News
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| INDUSTRY EVENT |
Legendary pianists Alfred Cortot, Glenn Gould and Art Tatum came together for an extremely rare show earlier this summer, delivering their first live...
David Weiss |
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| INDUSTRY NEWS |
New York City — based Creative Group Inc. has hired Mike Buckner, general manager, and Joe Franze, director of HD production/new business…Paula...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| MPSE ANNOUNCES 2005 OFFICERS |
Twelve-year member of the MPSE's (www.mpse.org) Board of Directors, Bobbi Banks (ADR editor for 2 Fast 2 Furious, Son of the Mask) has been elected president;...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| OCEAN WAY GETS RENTED OUT |
Rent's upcoming soundtrack was recently recorded at Ocean Way Recording Studios (www.oceanwayrecording.com,...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| ON THE MOVE |
Who: Jerry Gepner, Vitec CTO Main Responsibilities: Foster growth on the product development and customer relationship front, as well as in the business...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| QUAD STUDIOS PARTIALLY SOLD |
The penthouse of Quad Studios, one of New York City's landmark recording facilities, has been purchased by producer/songwriter Andrew Koss and partner...
David Weiss |
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| RESUME BUILDING |
Producer Stewart Levine and mastering engineer Bernie Grundman have formed Straight Ahead Records (323/465-6264), which plans to offer audiophile-quality...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SHURE SUFFERS TRAGIC LOSS |
On July 14, 2005, three Shure employees were killed while driving during a lunch break in a Chicago suburb. According to Chicago authorities, a woman...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| TEC AWARDS UPDATE |
Tickets are now on sale for the 21st Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, to be held Saturday, October 8, 2005, at the New York Marriott...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| WHERE ELECTRONIC AND ACOUSTIC MERGE: WYATT WORKS ON NEXT ALBUM |
Doug Wyatt — inventor of key music technologies including OMS (Open Music System) software, which he co-designed with Opcode's founder Dave Oppenheim...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| YAMAHA AND NEXO ALLY |
As events, concerts and shows are becoming more complex, demand for total system control is increasing. Two companies recently announced that they have...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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On the Cover
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| The Alfred Hitchcock Theatre at Universal Studios |
When Universal Studios opened Blu Wave Audio — a digital transfer, mastering and restoration facility — on the lot in 2003, it was immediately...
By Tom Kenny |
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General
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| 10th Annual Mix L.A. Open |
The weather couldn't have been better for the 10th Annual Mix L.A. Open, held June 13, 2005, at the Malibu Country Club. Winning for the third out of...
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| Accessorize Your DAW |
By now, even the most ardent analog holdouts have conceded that computer-based production is here to stay. And the well-tempered modern digital audio...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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| BILLY CORGAN |
Fresh from the release of his first solo CD, TheFutureEmbrace, Billy Corgan (of Smashing Pumpkins fame) has hit the road with a vibrant aural and visual...
by Steve Jennings |
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| BRIAN D. INGOLDSBY, 1939-2005 |
Forty-year recording industry vet Brian D. Ingoldsby passed away in January 2005 from complications following a liver transplant. While at MCA, Ingoldsby...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| CORRECTION |
Mat Edgcomb's (front-of-house engineer for Ben Lee) name was misspelled in “Now Playing,” July 2005 issue. Mix regrets the error. ...
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| DONALD J. PLUNKETT, 1924-2005 |
Donald J. Plunkett — who helped form the Audio Engineering Society in 1948 and continued with the organization as an AES charter member, executive...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| Foley Recording |
One of the most critical, yet underappreciated links of the film sound chain is Foley recording. You probably know the basics. It was named after the...
BY BLAIR JACKSON |
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| Hellacious Horns |
English conductor and obvious curmudgeon Sir Thomas Beecham said, “Brass bands are all very well in their place — outdoors and several miles...
BY KEVIN BECKA |
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| KELLY “DRED” LIEBELT, 1977-2005 |
Atlanta-based engineer/mixer Kelly “Dred” Liebelt passed away on June 1, 2005, of a heart attack. Liebelt was the chief engineer at ZAC Digital...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| Manage That Live Mix |
It wasn't too long ago when “snapshot recall” on a live console meant that you took a Polaroid photo of the desk after the soundcheck was...
BY STEVE LaCERRA |
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| More Tips From the Pros |
Orchestral engineer Keith Johnson engineered on two Grammy-winning albums and has been nominated six times in the Best Engineered Classical Recording...
By Gary Eskow |
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| NASHVILLE/NYC DOLLS |
Dolly Parton made the trek from Tennessee to New York City to record a duet with pop/jazz celeb Norah Jones at Avatar's Studio A. The song is one of...
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| ONE UNION RECORDING |
It hasn't generated waves of publicity like Skywalker Sound across the Bay, but San Francisco post house One Union Recording has remained “on the...
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| PLATINUM ICE |
Engineer Rob Wechsler (right) recently mastered Vanilla Ice's new release, Platinum Underground, at WexTrax Mastering in McKinney, Texas. The project...
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| ROCK GROWS IN WEED |
The Girlfriend Experience, a San Francisco — based hard rock band featuring members of Ing, Counting Crows and Laundry, recently wrapped up a two-week...
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| ROY SEGAL, 1920-2005 |
Former head of Fantasy Studios and the Saul Zaentz Film Center in Berkeley, Calif., Roy Segal passed away on July 15, 2005, from complications of Lewy...
COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY |
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| SIMPSON SIGHTING |
Not long after wrapping up her The Dukes of Hazzard role, pop music/reality show star Jessica Simpson entered The Village in Los Angeles with producer...
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| The 2005 TECnology Hall of Fame |
A year ago, the Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio, which produces the annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, announced the TECnology Hall...
BY GEORGE PETERSEN |
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