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Mix sits down for Q&As with today's leading audio professionals.
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Powered Up in NYC
Bob Power has been busy in New York City mixing Me'shell Ndegeocello's new Maverick CD, Comfort Woman, at Chung King Studios' Gold Room.
May 1, 2004
Porcupine Studios Brings in George Benson
Porcupine Studios (Chandler, Ariz., www.porcupinestudios.com) recently hosted George Benson, who worked with producer Paul Brown on guitars and vocals on his upcoming CD;
May 1, 2004
Velvet Revolver
Given their pedigrees — former members of Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots — it would be easy to label Velvet Revolver as either the next rock 'n' roll supergroup or a potential knockoff of their previous incarnations.
May 1, 2004
John Wesley Harding
John Wesley Harding waited almost three years to release Adam's Apple, his 11th album overall and first for DRT Records.
May 1, 2004
Sessions & Studio News
NORTHEAST
Get ready for the release of Anthrax's greatest hits! The band was in at Avatar Studios (NYC) working on the collection, and used an audience of their fans during one new performance.
May 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
Sessions & Studio News
NORTHEAST
Avatar Studios (NYC) hosted bassist Charlie Haden to track his latest effort (Verve), featuring Cuban jazz pianist Gonzolo Rubalcaba, with Jay Newland engineering and Ross Petersen assisting…
Apr 1, 2004
Road-Tested and Approved
The challenge for Electronic Arts' audio director Aubrey Hodges and NASCAR Thunder 2005 video game sound designer Jesse James Allen was to mike the insides of the engine and driver Tommy King's cabin of EA's NASCAR racing machine —
Mar 1, 2004
Nashville “A Team” Performs on ‘Regeneration’
Chicago-based producer Neil J. Cacciottolo recently brought together Nashville-based musicians “Boots”
Mar 1, 2004
Working in the Boondog
Grammy Award — winning producer Jack Douglas is taking time off from producing Aerosmith's upcoming album and is now producing New York-based rock/pop/punk band Morningwood.
Mar 1, 2004
FOR THE LOVE OF GUITARS
Kim Simmonds (right) of blues/rock band Savoy Brown recently stepped into Lakewood Audio Video Group (Jamesville, N.Y.) to mix and master the band's upcoming album, You Should Have Been There, and his solo acoustic album, Stuck By Lightning.
Mar 1, 2004
A LITTLE HELP: FROM MY FRIENDS
Joe Cocker recently stepped into Capitol B (Hollywood) to work with Grammy-nominated producer CJ Vanston (A Mighty Wind soundtrack) and engineer Marc DeSisto to record an album full of songs that have influenced Cocker throughout his recording career.
Mar 1, 2004
Ryan Adams
Various self-help books suggest that one has to hit “rock bottom” before one can reform.
Mar 1, 2004
Miles Davis
In December 1969, Miles Davis boasted, “I could put together the greatest rock 'n' roll band you ever heard.” It must have sounded rather presumptuous, because the jazz trumpeter had only begun to flirt with electric instruments and rock influences at the very end of 1967.
Mar 1, 2004
Classic Tracks
Much has been written about the importance of David Bowie's album Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars.
Mar 1, 2004
SESSIONS & STUDIO NEWS
NORTHEAST
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, featuring trombonist Slide Hampton, tracked at Bennett Studios (Englewood, NJ) with engineer Gary Chester at the board…Loho Studios (NYC) hosted Universal rock band Flaw, who were in tracking their spring release.
Mar 1, 2004
New Canon Spot Is a Jewel
Jewel recently visited writer/producer Michael Lattanzi's home studio in the Hollywood Hills,
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
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