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
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
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
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
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...
2015
Mix Regional Canada: Big Move for Deluxe
Media Complex Decamps to New Location, Upgrades Facilities
2015
Tech // New Products, August 2015
SyncPro Production Resource File Sharing Direct Access Without the Cloud For those wanting to speed up their workflow, GetSync.com ($39.99/year per user) offers peer-to-peer...
2015
Jaga Jazzist Records ‘Starfire’
Jaga Jazzist is a prog-rock band, a jam band, a jazz ensemble and an electronic outfit all in one. The eight-piece Swedish group records...
2015
Jungle Room Studios Mobile
Throughout his 25-year career in music, Brian Tarquin—guitarist, recording artist, Emmy Award–winning TV music composer, label owner and book author—has depended upon his recording/mixing...
2015
James Taylor, ‘Before This World’
James Taylor’s Before This World, out this month on Concord Records, is the Grammy Award–winning singer/songwriter’s first album of original music since 2002’s October...
2015
George and Chico Freeman at Southport for ‘All in the Family’
Guitarist George Freeman has crossed paths with Southport Records owner/engineer Bradley Parker-Sparrow many times since Sparrow founded the label in 1977. Freeman’s latest album,...
2015
Cool Spin: Foals, ‘What Went Down’
For What Went Down (Warner Music), the follow-up to Foals’ career-defining album, Holy Fire, the Oxford, UK quintet decamped to Saint-Remy-de-Provence in the South...
2015
Corsica Arts Club Releases Self-Titled Debut
What you hear is not what you see with Corsica Arts Club. The Los Angeles-based duo of Arash Parsee and Brendan Thompson (expanded to...
2015
Asleep at the Wheel, ‘Still the King’
Beloved Texas swing group Asleep at the Wheel have been carrying the torch for the late Bob Wills’ legacy almost as long as Wills...
2015
Top New & Updated Live Mixers: Big & Small
This baker’s dozen represents the most interesting and promising new live mixing products in 2015, whether big, small or somewhere in between. While widely...
2015
MixTrips: Tom and Kenny at Cold Spring Tavern
On Saturday, July 11, Chris Pelonis picked me up in Los Olivos in his Porsche convertible and said, “You wanna go get a beer...
2015
MixTrips: Chris Pelonis
Chris has been a longtime friend and I’ve thought from day one that he had one of the great creative/technical minds in our industry.
2015
MixTrips: What It Is
I’ve been at Mix since 1988, and I’ve seen a lot in this world of professional audio.
