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8th Annual Mix L.A. Open
June's unpredictable weather made for an especially memorable event, as nearly 150 audio professionals gathered on Monday, June 9, 2003, at the Malibu
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The Engineer and the Vocalist
So what's the big deal? With automatic tuning devices, nondestructive digital editing, multitracking and effects, why worry about the vocal sound?
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In the Studio: Rickie Lee Jones
Over the course of her 20-year career, singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones has influenced innumerable other artists and acquired a passionate, almost reverential
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The Matrix Reloaded
An interview with the Academy Award winning audio editors about recording the next installment of The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded. Recording and mixing techniques...
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Tapping Into ”A Mighty Wind”
A Mighty Wind won't save the music industry, but it will definitely provide it with some much-needed laughs.
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Studios Fight Back
From the rise of independent studios in the 1960s and '70s, through the boom years of late '90s hip hop and pop, studios have...
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Working Smart
Anybody who's spent time in a studio lately has observed what happens when inexperienced producers collide with the endless choices offered by digital recording.
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Getting Noticed
Fresh talent is what keeps the music industry vital and, ultimately, profitable. The paradox? There's more and more music being made, but fewer and...
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Grass-Rooted Creativity
In Nashville, but off of the beaten path both geographically and client-wise is Alex the Great Recording, a residential, rock-oriented studio owned by
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The Village, Studio D
The Village has always had a great West L.A. location and a great history; these days it also has a great buzz going. Celebrating...
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Star Trek: Nemesis
Phenomenon, franchise, lifestyle call it what you like. The Star Trek television series and roster of movies not to mention books, the Las Vegas...
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Avast and Away!
Disney magic still manages to bring out the kid in everybody, including the veteran creative and production personnel for the animated feature Treasure
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Chris Fogel
In our sometimes over-inflated, over-hyped technological world, where audio addicts frenzy over the latest, the greatest, the oldest and the coolest,
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Survival of the Fittest
Never an industry for the faint-hearted, music recording has been the recipient of multiple whammies lately, such as general record company dysfunction,
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Larrabee Studios
Larrabee Studios started out, literally, as a mom and pop business when, back in 1969, music producer Jackie Mills and his wife, Dolores, purchased...
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Seventh Annual Mix L.A.Open
Veterans of Mix golf tournaments were in agreement: Monday, June 10, 2002, was a particularly beautiful day. The sun was warm, but gentle ocean...
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Facility Spotlight: Bustin’ Grooves at HUM
It's buzzing (okay, make that ) like a beehive at the warehouse-style office and studio space of HUM Music+Sound Design and its satellite companies,...
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Dennis Sands
Dennis Sands loves his work, and it shows. A three-time Oscar nominee for Best Sound (Cast Away, Contact and Forrest Gump), a TEC Award...
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Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo supervising sound editor Michael Wilhoit seems like a pretty normal guy. Still, you have to figure that to work on this kind...
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Jeff Balding
Nashville can be deceiving. With all that low-key style and relaxed attitude, people from the rest of the country can sometimes get fooled into...
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The Sum of All Fears
Although filming was completed before September 11, one might have expected some concerns at Paramount Pictures about the release of The Sum of All...
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High-Tech, Smart Tech
When you think of likely bastions of cutting-edge audio technology, Redondo Beach, Calif., isn't first on the list. But those old images of a...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Choosing a Console
Purchasing a console, especially a big-ticket one, has never been easy. Previously, choosing which console to buy wasn't that difficult: There weren't
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Classic Tracks: Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game”
Between that brooding, melancholy, impossibly romantic voice and languorous guitar, how could "Wicked Game" not become a hit?
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MEANWHILE, ON THE SCORING STAGE
For the Panic Room orchestra sessions at Sony Pictures' scoring stage, Paul Levy, owner of L.A.'s Advanced Audio, designed a Fibre Channel SAN (Storage
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Neil Dorfsman
Just a few minutes into a conversation with Neil Dorfsman and you get the feeling that he'd be a great guy to hang with....
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Brian Gardner
Just how long is Brian Gardner's discography? Well, pulling up his allmusic.com page results in a list of over 750 credits. It was hip...
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Cherokee Studios
West Hollywood's five-room Cherokee Studios has a rich 30-year history, a thriving present and a promising future. Its owners, three musician/engineer/producers
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Stylin’ at Club Moomba
It's an only-in-L.A. kind of thing: A multimillion-dollar new club, smack in the middle of the West Hollywood neighborhood known as Boys' Town, that's
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Facility Spotlight: SoundStorm, Last of the Red Hot Independents
Is it that now-classic 200-track train wreck in The Fugitive? The gun battle denouement of L.A. Confidential? Squeaking bats juxtaposed against a roaring
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Conway Recording
Conway Recording Studios, which first opened its doors on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood in 1976, is currently celebrating its 25th year in business. Known
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Club Spotlight: L.A.’s Conga Room
Merengue, charanga, mambo, son every Thursday through Sunday, sizzling Afro-Latin music, both traditional and modern, draws dressed up crowds to the Conga
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Beat by Beat: The Distinctive Spectrums of Loop-Based Production
Loop-based music: It doesn't sound like a big deal. But the truth is, it's a noisy revolution a virtual democratization of music. More than...
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Chris Lord-Alge
You have to give everything its own identity for the artist. You can't put your imprint on it. I would rather compress a vocal...
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Sony Pictures’ Cary Grant Theatre
The largest of Sony Pictures' 10 rerecording stages, the 367-seat Cary Grant Theatre strives to meld the future with the best of the past....
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Denis Hannigan
Home studios are the norm these days. But the evolution of music composer Denis Hannigan's home studio was a little different from most. When...
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5.1 Entertainment Group
Things are busting out all over at 5.1 Entertainment. Positioned as a key player in the world of DVD-Audio, the company has mixed and...
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Mix Sixth Annual L.A. Open
This year's sold-out event included 37 foursomes, who vied for glory and prizes, including a brand-new BMW roadster earmarked for the player who could...
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Julian King
The hardest to separate are steel and organ, because they end up getting in the same bandwidth a lot. I try to pan...
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The Fast and the Furious
The Fast and the Furious feels like an instant classic: think Blade Runner meets Rebel Without a Cause. While not exactly a chick flick,...