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Interviews:
Mix sits down for Q&As with today's leading audio professionals.
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Matthew Sweet: Happy at Home
>Tucked away in the Hollywood Hills, surrounded by the sites of countless hit movie location shoots, is the home and personal studio of Matthew Sweet.
May 1, 2004
Classic Tracks: The Doobie Brothers' “What a Fool Believes”
No one was more surprised than Michael McDonald when the song he wrote for the Doobie Brothers, “What a Fool Believes,” earned Grammys for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, as well as Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists at the 1980 awards ceremony.
May 1, 2004
Jimmy Jam
Prince must have kicked himself squarely in his purple paisley derrière after firing his keyboardist and bassist back in 1983.
Apr 1, 2004
Jim Chapdelaine
Making a living in the music industry today is a) easy! b) easy, but only if you know Paris Hilton, c) tougher than ever, or d) forget it.
Apr 1, 2004
Alanis Morissette
“I can be an asshole of the grandest kind,” Alanis Morissette sings as she walks across a cavernous green-screen soundstage at Hollywood's historic Raleigh Studios, filming her latest music video for “Everything.”
Apr 1, 2004
John McLauglin's Classical Splash
The brilliant and innovative guitarist John McLaughlin has always followed his heart. Beginning in England during the late '60s, he was experimenting with blues and avant-garde jazz/rock with Alexis Korner, Graham Bond, Ginger Baker, John Surman and others.
Apr 1, 2004
Cyndi Lauper's “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”
Much the way Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera have been played off against each other in the press in recent years, Cyndi Lauper was often compared to Madonna in 1983 and 1984, the years Lauper made her solo debut with She's So Unusual and Madonna released her first two discs.
Apr 1, 2004
Audio at Electronic Arts
AS LITTLE AS 10 YEARS AGO, sound and music for games were practically afterthoughts, usually handled by the same person, generated on MIDI synths and only occasionally using samplers and libraries for effects, and wedged into the game at the end, usually at 8-bit resolution.
Mar 1, 2004
Music for Games
We've moved from MIDI to audio files, from 22kHz mono playback to 44.1 stereo, and from repetitive bursts of loops to full scoring and interactive transitions — in key.
Mar 1, 2004
Bob Clearmountain
In person, Bob Clearmountain looks much too youthful to have been engineering for more than 25 years.
Mar 1, 2004
Guitar Wizard Johnny A.
A home studio can be a blessing and a curse for a workaholic.
Mar 1, 2004
Gary Rydstrom
It's the rare individual who is able to go out on top, to walk away from a career while still at peak performance.
Feb 1, 2004
Nick Launay
Some people work fastidiously to build a career while others naturally fall into one.
Feb 1, 2004
Steve Earle
Steve Earle is not a man to lay idle. Since a stint in drug rehab pulled him out of a personal and career slump in the mid-'90s, the 48-year-old rock/country songwriter has been producing new work at a pace that would leave many younger artists in the dust.
Feb 1, 2004
Rufus Wainwright
After what he terms a few “harrowing” experiences with record producers, singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright has finally found an aural ally in Marius deVries.
Feb 1, 2004
Living Colour
Much like a popular couple breaking up, the extremely dynamic alternative metal band, Living Colour, which officially disbanded in 1995, was constantly queried about reuniting.
Feb 1, 2004
The 5th Dimension's “Aquariaus/Let the Sunshine In”
It seems axiomatic that the further back in time we reach, the more the actual making of records becomes almost anticlimactic to what transpired outside of the recording studio's confines.
Feb 1, 2004
B.B. King
If 2003 was “The Year of the Blues,” it's appropriate that the undisputed modern master of the genre, B.B. King, put out a fine album in the fall to cap the celebration.
Jan 1, 2004
The Naked Truth About The Beatles' “Let It Be…Naked”
Ever wondered what The Beatles' Let It Be album would have sounded like had it been properly completed instead of released as a companion disc to their 1970 fly-on-the-wall motion picture of the same name?
Jan 1, 2004
Neil Sedaka's “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”
Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Neil Sedaka was a gifted pianist once lauded by none other than Arthur Rubinstein as one of New York's best young players. Sedaka was on course to become a classical musician and even enrolled at the famous Julliard School, but a collaboration that he and neighbor Howie Greenfield began several years earlier would pull him in a different direction. A slew of hit records, including the Number One worldwide smash, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” would come from t
Jan 1, 2004
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