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Euphonix Control and Operating Network
In 1988, a team of young designers working in a garage in Silicon Valley founded Euphonix to develop new and different approaches to audio...
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You Call That Music?
By the end of the 1970s, Frank Zappa had released 28 original albums (including seven two-LP releases), either by the Mothers of Invention or...
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We are the Mothers…and This Is What We Sound Like!
Frank Zappa has been justly celebrated as a composer, guitarist, bandleader, social and political commentator, scourge of the religious right and free-speech activist. Less...
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Hiroshima
Founded in the late 1970s by saxophonist Dan Kuramoto, Hiroshima has had a long and successful career, and the band's 11 albums have sold...
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Mixing With the Best
A few years ago, an objective observer might have predicted the end of the large-format live mixing console. Harrison/Showco and Yamaha had both introduced
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Norah Jones
The extraordinary success of Norah Jones' Come Away With Me, her first full-length album for Blue Note, has taken many people by surprise, not...
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MARY J. BLIGE
Out on a world tour since January, Mary J. Blige brought her No More Drama show to the Chronicle Pavilion (Concord, Calif.) in late...
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STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
As the accompanying article stresses, any installation plan that includes speaker cabinets suspended above an audience area should be reviewed by a qualified
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Neil Diamond
Digital audio has made steady, if not entirely trouble-free progress in the recording world, and even devout analog believers now accept that their work
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ROXY MUSIC
Reunited after an 18-year hiatus, Roxy Music embarked on a 50-date, 12-country world tour in June. Mix caught the show at the Chronicle Pavilion,...
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Wireless COMES OF AGE
In the '80s, sound designers for Broadway musicals were among the first to use large numbers of wireless microphone systems in live performance. Today,
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