2015
Mix Regional Sessions: Pacific Northwest
LONDON BRIDGE STUDIO, SEATTLE Star Anna was in the studio with producer Mike Clink and engineer Geoff Ott. The band tracked live in the...
Issue 201
2015
Software Tools for Composition & DIY Sound Design
Today’s sophisticated audio sculpting tools have arguably amended the unspoken rules of creating sound for video. Tech-savvy, creative musicians may wield only one instrument...
2015
Mix Regional News, Pacific Northwest: The Hallowed Halls Opens in Portland
The Hallowed Halls Studio—tucked inside the historic Wikman Building in Southeast Portland—opened its doors on July 11. Erected in 1919, the building was the...
2015
Mix Regional News, Pacific Northwest: Bear Creek Builds Tree House Studio
Bear Creek Studio, located 20 miles outside of Seattle in Woodinville, Wash., recently built a treehouse studio, which was featured on the TV show...
2015
Mix Regional News, Pacific Northwest: RLS Refurbishes Interscope SSL G-Series
It’s been a year since Dave Grohl made a stop at the legendary Robert Lang Studios (RLS) to film parts of the Seattle episode...
2015
New Products September 2015
FOCAL TRIO6 BE MONITOR 3-way or 2-Way Design With Remote Switching The Trio6 Be from Focal ($5,990/pair) is two monitors in one, offering remote...
2015
Cool Spin: Ghostface Killah/Adrian Younge, ‘Twelve Reasons to Die II’
Prolific super-producer Adrian Younge personally crusades against mass-produced hip-hop and R&B by playing analog-only instruments recorded to analog tape with no plug-ins. He’s the...
2015
Mercury Rev’s ‘The Light In You’
For Mercury Rev’s eighth studio album, The Light In You, vocalist Jonathan Donahue, recorded his initial ideas at home into a 1970s mono cassette...
2015
Metric’s Daily Jams Create ‘Pagans in Vegas’
Over the course of six albums, Canadian foursome Metric has evolved into a heavy-hitting contender in modern rock. Which makes the group’s resident gearhead,...
2015
Wilco Debuts ‘Star Wars’
Wilco quietly released their ninth studio album, Star Wars, on July 17, just hours before headlining the Pitchfork Music Festival in their hometown of...
2015
Steve Miller Rocks Wolf Trap
The Steve Miller Band has been a staple on rock playlists for almost five decades, and he still routinely fills smaller venues, like The...
2015
Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss and Union Station with Jerry Douglas
Willie Nelson is inarguably a bona fide American icon, and if Alison Krauss is merely a superstar in comparison, just give her a few...
2015
Universal Audio UAD-2 Plug-Ins
Neve 88R Channel Strip Collection, Softube Marshall Amp Simulator
2015
Big or Small, It’s All Sound for Picture
My first real assignments at Mix, once I was finished copyediting and proofreading for the day, were writing about Sound for Film, starting with...
2015
Classic Tracks: Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy”
By the time 1974 rolled around, it had been five years since Glen Campbell had had a hit....
2015
Sonic Rescue
Although “videographer” is a job classification I’ve never put on my resume, in the new age where anyone can broadcast to the world, I’ve...
2015
For the Birds
This summer I was tapped to teach a Sound for Picture course, which provided an opportunity for me to not only review the range...
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