2017
Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Getaway Tour”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers—Anthony Kiedis, vocals; Flea, bass; Chad Smith, drums; and Josh Klinghoffer, guitar—brought The Getaway Tour to Oracle Arena in Oakland,...
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2017
Classic Tracks: Camper Van Beethoven’s “Pictures of Matchstick Men”
Camper Van Beethoven formed in the founding members’ hometown of Redlands, Calif., but it was in their college days, at the University of California...
2017
TechTalk: Time to Gear Up?
The gear bug is infectious: Once bitten, you’re always looking for the next and newest thing that will improve your workflow and inspire you...
2017
Tech: Reviews: Audio-Technica Artist Series
When it comes to choosing microphones for live sound applications, a rugged, low-profile mic that can handle high SPL levels is often desirable. This...
2017
Tech: Reviews
In 2004, when RME released the first product in its Fireface line, Firewire audio interfaces were still a relatively new concept. The Fireface 800...
2017
3 New Headphones, 3 New Approaches
We’re now well into the 2017 trade show season, and no matter the event, there are always plenty of new mics, speakers and headphones...
2017
Product Hits From NAMM 2017
This year’s mid-January Winter NAMM show in Anaheim was busier than ever, offering more new gear than any show in recent memory. All product...
2017
Mix Regional: Northeast
PHILLY SOUND, PHILADELPHIA Inside an old, stone church in South Philadelphia, Philly Sound Studios caters to local and international musicians. Studio partner and house...
2017
The New Wave Of Studio Monitors: High-End, Nearfield, Three-Way Systems
Marking somewhat of a burgeoning trend between the October 2016 AES Show in Los Angeles and the January 2017 NAMM Show in Anaheim, an...
2017
Broadway In A Studio: Cast Album Recording For Falsettos, She Loves Me
Confession time: As a young man, I believed that Broadway cast albums were recorded right there on the theater stage—actors in full costumes and...
2017
Dauphin Street Sound, Mobile, Ala.
MLB pitcher Jake Peavy has a reputation for fierce intensity on the mound. His competitiveness has helped to earn him a Cy Young Award...
2017
Belafonte Re-Record, 60 Years Later
The 1957 film Island in the Sun made it clear that Harry Belafonte was no ordinary entertainer. He was an actor, artist, political activist...
2017
Twenty One Pilots
Mix caught up with the band Twenty One Pilots—Tyler Joseph on vocals/keyboards, Josh Dun on drums—at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on...
2017
Amos Lee Tours With Spirit
Over the course of an Amos Lee show, fans will get a taste of nearly everything—his delicate and haunting hits like “Arms of a...
2017
Classic Tracks: Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way”
“Walk This Way” likely would not have come to be if Aerosmith hadn’t gotten itchy in the studio and decided to go to the...
2017
Temples: Contemporization Of Volcano
Since their 2012 single, “Shelter Song,” and its follow-up full-length, Sun Structures, the UK’s Temples have caught ears because of their clever interpretation of...
2017
Sampha’s 100% Humidity
Sampha Sisay’s collaborations with Kanye West, Drake, Frank Ocean and Solange, to name just a few, have had the 27-year-old soulful singer/songwriter traveling far...
2017
Valerie June And The Order Of Time
Wondrously resonant and authentic, the music of Valerie June is roots-fueled yet defies category. The songs on her new album of all-original songs, The...
2017
Best of Show Awards: NAMM 2017
The editors of Mix and Pro Sound News, representing the NewBay Media Pro A/V Group, roamed the aisles of the 2017 NAMM Show, January...
2017
Save the Date! September 16, 2017 – Mix Presents Sound for Film & Television
Sound designers, editors, mixers, recordists, Foley artists, composers, technologists, chief engineers and all those working in audio post-production, mark your calendars: The fourth annual...
2017
Zynaptiq Adaptiverb
Adaptiverb uses an entirely new approach to reverb processing, and it sounds incredible. In Zynaptiq’s own words, “Rather than stacking delay/allpass nodes or convolving...
2017
Spotlight: Pro Tools | MTRX Interface
Soft-announced at AES last September and now close to release is the Avid Pro Tools | MTRX Interface. This is the highend box that...
2017
Tegeler Audio Manufaktur Crème
Tegeler Audio Manufaktur’s aptly named Crème is a 2-channel line-level audio processor designed to be a “finishing touch” for stereo mixes or across buses/stems....
2017
Placid Audio Copperphone Microphone
Engineers and music producers are always looking for that certain something in a production that sets their tracks apart from the rest. It could...
2017
Bay 8 Studios
Bay 8 is owned and operated by engineer Matthew “Formatt” DeFreitas. The Providence, R.I., native moved to Miami in 2009 after several years in...
2017
Update From Criteria Studios
No visit to Miami’s studio scene is complete without checking in with Criteria Studios (formerly Hit Factory), the home of unforgettable recordings by Derek...
2017
Live From Big Wall Studios
This multi-studio complex in north Miami’s theater district has kept its big rooms booked by opening them up for band rehearsals and video shoots,...
2017
The Best Of Multichannel Preamplifiers With I/O
Most audio processing takes place today within a CPU. So our most relied upon hardware (other than the CPU itself) is often a comprehensive...
2017
Game Composer Winifred Phillips
If composition terms like “horizontal resequencing” or “vertical layering” aren’t familiar, that’s understandable. They’re not necessarily film-composing terms, but they are part of a...
2017
Composer John Lunn
Every so often the theme that colors the opening credits of a television series works its way into the collective consciousness. Digging all the...
2017
Build Your Own Studio: The $100,000 Studio
That time of year has come again, where Markkus Rovito and I take a look at how to improve on your current setup. In...
2017
Build Your Own Studio: The $35,000 Studio
Rather than presenting an entire soup-to-nuts studio this time, we’re looking at a targeted upgrade to a project studio dedicated to sound design and...
2017
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks, the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll, performed a two-hour show at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif., in December. The set...
2017
Cherub: Live Sound And Samples
Engineer Hunter Gifford mixed FOH and monitors for electro-pop/rock group Cherub on the band’s recent fall tour, using a DigiCo SD9 for the house...
2017
Classic Tracks: Mr. Mister’s “Kyrie”
The band decided to create "Kyrie" part by part, yet endeavor to make it sound live, keeping that objective throughout the entire process.
2017
A Salute To Leonard Cohen
The setting: Toronto’s Luminato art festival. The venue: a gigantic, long-disused industrial building called The Hearn Generating Station. The performers: Rufus Wainwright and 1,500...
2017
Rose Cousins And Natural Conclusion
The beauty of Rose Cousins’ new album, Natural Conclusion, is practically on a Joni Mitchell level. She’s a poetic and precise yet fearless artist...
2017
Entrance’s Book Of Changes
“As a musician who gets to write and play the music and sing and produce the album, there are so many artforms that go...
2017
On The Cover: Mount Olive High School, New Jersey
There’s a nationally recognized robotics department, with associated old-style and new-style machine rooms and electronics stations. There’s a high-def television station that rivals a...
