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Classic Tracks: Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away”
Take a deep dive into the recording of the Dobie Gray classic, oft-covered 1973 hit “Drift Away.”
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Classic Tracks: B.B. King’s “The Thrill Is Gone”
It was the last track of the last session of the album...and it was the perfect way to end it.
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Classic Tracks: Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville”
Few songs have defined an artist, an era and an attitude quite like Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville," released in January 1977.
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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
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”
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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”
The tale of Lola the showgirl may be tragic, but it's also a disco classic; here's how the dark and the light were mixed...
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Classic Tracks: The Mamas & The Papas’ “California Dreamin'”
"Lou Adler said it best when he said to me, ‘Bones, it's not a ham sandwich and a cheese sandwich; it's a ham and...
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Classic Tracks: The 5th Dimension’s “Aquariaus/Let the Sunshine In”
The 5th Dimension's smash hit that ended up being the best-selling single of 1969 was taken from two songs at opposite ends of the...
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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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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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Classic Tracks: Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass’ “A Taste Of Honey”
Legendary engineer Larry Levine was so crucial to Herb Alpert's era-defining "A Taste of Honey" that it literally wouldn't have been recorded if not...
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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”
Tom Dowd recalls recording "Sunshine Of Your Love" as an exercise in "protecting" Ginger Baker's drums from Eric Clapton's Marshall stacks.
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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”
Charged with turning a half-written Prince demo into a full-fledged track, David Z went to sleep one night and woke up to find Prince...
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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,...
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