2016
New Products June 2016
Propellerhead Reason A-List Studio Drummer Rack Extension Features Multiple Styles The A-List Studio Drummer Rack Extension Instrument for Reason ($99) provides a fast, easy...
Acoustic Treatment: Affordable Kits, Unique Products
Acoustic treatment manufacturers sell solutions comprising a variety of physical products that must be arranged, positioned and applied correctly to work correctly. The goal...
Grammy Museum Mississippi Opens
When The Recording Academy’s Grammy Museum decided to extend its educational mission outside of its Los Angeles home base, it aimed straight for a...
Classic Tracks: Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”
When stars align and the right producer hears an artist, gets excited and shares a vision—even helps shape that vision—magic is often the result....
Microphones for Instrument Recording
Microphones for instrument recording are often quite personalized choices, yet there are some brands, makes and models that always work well to capture the...
Producer Matt Wallace Works With 3 Doors Down on ‘Us and The Night’
Us and The Night (Republic Records) marks the sixth release of new material for 3 Doors Down. This time out the band was joined...
Tribute to ‘RVA’ Legend Thompson at The National
On February 28, 2016, more than a dozen musicians came to The National in Richmond, Va., to salute The RVA’s beloved troubadour Robbin Thompson,...
The Wild Feathers, ‘Lonely Is a Lifetime’
Pop/rock band The Wild Feathers recorded its latest in producer Jay Joyce’s St. Charles studio (Nashville) with Joyce and his go-to engineer, Jason Hall....
Black Stone Cherry Return Home for ‘Kentucky’
Recapturing the energy and sound of their self-titled first album—that’s what Black Stone Cherry set out to do in recording their latest release, Kentucky,...
Drums Are ‘The Story of Fred Short’
Although songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Marco Benevento has just released his sixth album, The Story of Fred Short, it’s his first to be recorded in his own...
The Hit House
A motion picture’s music score is rarely, if ever, licensed for use in the film’s trailer. Indeed, it rarely ever was; more likely it...
Carlos Rodriguez-Quiros
Carlos Rodriguez-Quiros is a renowned classical guitarist with an affinity for sound. From what he hears in his brain to his fingers on the...
May 2016 New Products
Fostex HP-A4BL DAC/Amp Headphone Power and Quality Conversion The HP-A4BL from Fostex ($499.99) features newly designed digital circuitry and high-performance headphone amplifiers, balanced headphone...
Stop. Look. Listen.
We use the term “golden ears” every now and then in the pages of Mix, usually to describe an engineer whose taste and talents...
‘The Art of Listening’
It is fitting that producer Andrew Scheps is featured prominently in the new music documentary, The Art of Listening, advocating the experiential benefits of...
Classic Tracks: Journey’s “Open Arms”
VH-1 named it the greatest power ballad of all time, and even though it only went to Number 2 on the Billboard charts in...
The Incentive Auction and What It Means for Wireless Audio
[Because Shure has been an industry leader in negotiations with the FCC regarding pro audio wireless systems and the auction of spectrum, Mix asked...
Mix Regional Sessions: Southwest
STUDIO AT THE PALMS, LAS VEGAS Celine Dion was in Studio X with producer Humberto Gatica and engineer Martin Nessi…Cindy Blackman was in Studio...
Mix Regional News: Southwest
Evil Triplet, Nina Diaz, Beach House at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas Things have been busy as usual over at Sonic Ranch. Engineer Charles...
New Products April 2016
Grove Hill Audio Liverpool Compressor Reinvented Beatles-Era Processor The all-tube, feedback, variable mu compressor from Grove Hill Audio ($1,495) was made famous by its...
Broadcast Wireless Systems
Wireless components specifically for gathering live event broadcast audio include a broad range of options in transmitters and receivers, communication (comm) and interruptible foldback...
Judah & The Lion Records in Low Country Sound
Nashville-based Americana-folk band Judah & The Lion recently released Folk Hop ‘N Roll, an album whose name couldn’t be more spot-on. It’s a unique,...
Boulevards Gets Funky With ‘Groove!’
The authentic spirit of funk lives in Raleigh, N.C.’s, Jamil Rashad, aka Boulevards. The songwriter has defined ideas for delivering the essence of funk,...
Charles Bradley’s ‘Changes’
The challenge for producer/engineer/guitarist Thomas Brenneck, who has completed his third album with the fabulous ’60s-style soul singer Charles Bradley, is somehow to capture...
Mix Regional Southwest: New Home for Kitchen Sink in Santa Fe
The Kitchen Sink Recording Studio opened about 10 years ago, “in a rambling old adobe house north of the city of Santa Fe,” according...
