By Dan Daley
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Daytime Music Dramas: ‘GMA’ at the CMAs
An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at mixing music for ABC’s ‘Good Morning America.’
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Classic Tracks: Joe Walsh’s “Life’s Been Good”
Producer/engineer Bill Szymczyk talke about the recording of Joe Walsh’s 1978 hit, “Life’s Been Good”
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Classic Tracks: Prince and the Revolution’s “Purple Rain”
Engineers David Z and David Leonard discuss the recording of Prince’s 1984 Number One hit “Purple Rain”
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On the Cover: Hit Factory Criteria—50 Years of Musical Milestones
Read Mix writer Dan Daley's article on the 50 years of audio recording history at studio Hit Factory Criteria in Miami
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Classic Tracks: Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”
Engineer Ken Scott talks in detail about the recording of Lou Reed’s 1973 hit “Walk on the Wild Side” Trident Studios Herbie Flowers Thunder...
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Classic Tracks: Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away”
A look at the recording of Dobie Gray’s 1973 hit “Drift Away”
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Classic Tracks: Brownsville Station’s “Smokin’ in the Boys Room”
When it came out in late 1973, Smokin' in the Boys Room immediately became the rallying anthem for what was for many high school...
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Classic Tracks: Barry Manilow’s Copacabana
In the vast and murky limbo of hipsterdom, Barry Manilow has been both a punch line and a punching bag, a synonym for American...
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Classic Tracks: B.B. King’s “The Thrill Is Gone”
While much of what Bill Szymczyk has recorded during the past 40 years, from The Eagles to Joe Walsh to The Who, now forms...
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Classic Tracks: The Mamas & The Papas’ “California Dreamin'”
Dayton Howe instinctively downplays his role in the creation of one of pop music's most memorable tracks. I was just the engineer, he says....
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Classic Tracks: The 5th Dimension’s “Aquariaus/Let the Sunshine In”
It seems axiomatic that the further back in time we reach, the more the actual making of records becomes almost anticlimactic to what transpired...
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Classic Tracks: Arlo Guthrie’s “City of New Orleans”
Sometimes, a so-called "career record" can affect more than one career. When Arlo Guthrie's cover of the late Steve Goodman's paean to America's fading...
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Classic Tracks: Randy Newman’s “Sail Away”
Randy Newman Sail Away is a classic song - Mix magazine talks to audio engineers and prodcuers about recording Sail Away in 1972.
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Bob Johnston
As we walk through the hall at BMI in Nashville, which has graciously provided a huge conference room for this interview, Bob Johnston gets...
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Classic Tracks: Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville”
Few other songs have defined an artist, an era, a place in time and space, and an attitude like Jimmy Buffett's The song, released...
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Producer Billy Sherrill
The modern country music establishment in Nashville meaning since Hank Williams died in 1952 can be traced back to a triumvirate of producers who...
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Classic Tracks: Kenny Roger’s “The Gambler”
Kenny Rogers' recording of the Don Schlitz-penned song The Gambler turned a simple record into an entire industry. Aside from the tens of millions...
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Steve Cropper
Steve Cropper's guitar signature is all over the soundtrack of American pop music culture, from the unforgettable opening bars of Sam & Dave's Soul...
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Sound Survival Tips
Recording studios, which have had their own economic issues to deal with for the last decade, did not escape the pressures to streamline, cut...
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Goldcrest Post Expands New York Facility
PDiddy is up on the Avid screen in one of the 11 video-editing suites at Goldcrest Post Production's facility on the far-west fringes of...
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Classic Tracks: The Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”
Recorded in late 1964 and reaching Number One in both the U.S. and UK charts in February 1965, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' gave...
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HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS’ A TASTE OF HONEY
Engineers are often involved in the pre-production of records, sometimes sitting in on rehearsals with the producer and the band. In the case of...
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Scratching Out an empire
Who would have ever thought that a pair of Technics turntables, a microphone and a mixer could change pop music forever? With the drop...
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Classic Tracks: Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love”
Cream was one of the first nonorganically created rock supergroups of the 1960s. Music business entrepreneur Robert Stigwood contracted Eric Clapton,
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RIGHT TRACK SETS A NEW COURSE, Part 1
He's doing what?! That was the reaction from the owner of one major Manhattan studio to the news that Simon Andrews, principal owner of...
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Singapore Post
Singapore is the quintessence of modern Asia: a gleaming forest of glass-and-steel highrises towering over the two- and three-story shop buildings that
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Jack Richardson
As I try to explain to my audio production students: You have democracy and you have dictatorships, and everything falls somewhere in between. The...
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Another Side Of Nashville
The ups and downs of Nashville's music industry have been well-documented in these pages over the years. The link between the city's recording studio
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Hoots in the Holler
When most people show off their upscale personal recording studios, they'll sometimes brag about how much they spent on it. When songwriter Chuck Cannon
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Classic Tracks: Prince’s “Kiss”
By 1986, when Prince recorded this month's Classic Track, he was among the most popular and critically lauded artists in America. He hadn't confused...
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I’m Mac. I’ll be Your Server Tonight.
The proliferation of hard disk recording has made the adoption of the central server model for music recording an inevitability.
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Classic Tracks: Fine Young Cannibals’ “She Drives Me Crazy”
Chaos may be the natural state of the universe, unless artificial order is imposed on it. But in pop entertainment, the most successful chaotic...
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Facility Management
CHANGES IN INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS MODELS SET THE TONE FOR STUDIO MANAGERS The job of a studio manager has been much maligned, rarely understood,...