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Heading North Goes to ‘6’
Mastering engineer Ron Skinner’s Heading North Mastering (Toronto) now boasts the SADiE 6 software platform. “The most important change is the ability to switch...
Live Gear
Baltimore SoundStage Opens
Baltimore SoundStage, a new performance space, will open at 124 Market Place in Baltimore’s inner harbor on Labor Day weekend. The new venue is...
Facilities
Hideaway Studio
Welcoming such artists as Snoop Dogg, The Matches and others for personal use, The Hideaway Studio’s (Minneapolis) founder, producer/engineer/mixer Joseph Mabbott, is opening the...
Live Gear
iLive Thrives at Soundcheck Austin
Rehearsal facility Soundcheck Austin (sister company to Soundcheck Nashville, where the Mix Nashville event is being held in 2012) installed Allen & Heath iLive-T112...
Facilities
Wire Road Studios Opens
Houston’s music community came out in force to celebrate the grand opening of Wire Road Studios on July 31. After sipping on drinks and...
Live Gear
Sensaphonics Michael Santucci
Sensaphonics founder and audiologist Michael Santucci is the new lead audiology advisor to Hearing Health Science Inc., a start-up company specializing in hearing research...
Live Gear
Blue Note Upgrades
Due to the location of jazz club Blue Note’s stage, house engineers must contend with three mixing zones to compensate for the position of...
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Dan Mangan ‘Oh Fortune’ (Arts & Crafts)
There’s just something so beautiful about a man and his acoustic guitar—is it the simplicity? The single voice and a few strummed chords? Then...
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Beatlemania
Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum now features a Beatles exhibit, with nearly 70 artifacts, including some “never-before-exhibited” items such as...
Live Sound
Iron & Wine Tour Profile
When Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam put together a big band for their current tour, he needed someone to mix the new arrangements. As...
Facilities
Orbit Audio
Orbit Audio (Seattle) recently had an acoustic (by Guy Staley) and aesthetic makeover, as well as installed an SSL 4056 G Series with Ultimation....
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Smashing Pumpkins in Pre-Production
When Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan came into Coldwater Studio (Beverly Hills), he had 30-plus songs but whittled that number down during a...
Live Gear
Acentech Spruces Up Venue
The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, a 420-seat, 13,000-square-foot performance hall in Stowe, Vt., hosts a variety of music, dance and theater performances, as...
Live Sound
Al-Tee, Jay Sean on the Yamaha Train
Currently out with Jay Sean, FOH engineer Al-Tee is mixing on a Yamaha PM5D, noting that it’s a board he can easily find no...
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KickDrums on Their Own
Producers Alex Fitts and Matt Penttila, under the nom de plume KickDrums, had to turn the mirror back on themselves. The same critical eye...
Live Gear
Metric Halo to the Theater
Paul Kavicky, owner/operator of Pater Street Audio Company (Columbus, Ohio), is working the FOH position for Threesixty Theater’s production of Peter Pan, which will...
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Music: Disc Cutting at Grundman
Recording engineer Ryan Hewitt booked Bernie Grundman Mastering’s disc mastering studio for the vinyl release of Flogging Molly’s Speed of Darkness. Recorded at Echo...
Live Sound
System Fit for a Prince
It was extremely difficult to get a ticket for Prince’s “Welcome 2 America” tour, what with announcing show dates just a few days before...
Live Sound
HangOut Festival 2011
The second annual HangOut Festival was held May 20-22, 2011, in Gulf Shores, Ala. Thousands flocked to the festival to hear such great performances...
Live Sound
Liquid Blue | Secure Sound From 75 Feet
When The Grovler, the technical director/guitarist for band Liquid Blue, needed a behind-the-scenes solution for live access to audio equipment in a back-stage rack...
Films-TV
SFP: New Rooms, 2011
Mix Spotlights New Sound for Picture Post Production Facilities in 2011
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Music: Graham Wright’s Solo Offshoot
What started out as demos turned into a full-fledged solo album. Tokyo Police Club keyboardist Graham Wright has always had songs percolating in his...
Live Sound
Avid, Midas on Bareilles Tour
Opening for country rockers Sugarland and getting in a couple of headliner shows herself, Sara Bareilles is out in full force this summer, as...
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Music: Count, DJ Shadow Back in the Groove
Grammy-nominated engineer/producer Count and DJ Shadow are back in the studio working on a new album, with Count at the helm in his space....
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Review: We Are Augustines ‘Rise Ye Sunken Ships’ (Oxcart Records)
Any songwriter knows that getting thoughts onto paper can be cathartic—get those demons out into the open. No one knows this better than We...
Live Sound
Secure Sound From 75 Feet
When The Grovler, the technical director and guitarist for band Liquid Blue needed a behind-the-scenes solution for live access to audio equipment in a...
news
Music: Haynes to Tape
When Warren Haynes played “Save Me” for co-producer/mixer Gordie Johnson for the first time in a small rehearsal space in Manhattan, they knew they...
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Music: Paisley’s Deep Country Roots
Brad Paisley’s ninth studio album, This Is Country Music, is an homage to the genre he’s loved since he started performing when he was...
Live Sound
‘White Noise’ Musical
New musical White Noise follows a top-selling music producer who, according to the show’s producers, “stirs up an explosive cocktail of shock and spin...
Facilities
Music: Music Works NYC Opens
Boutique recording spot Music Works NYC was designed by Platinum-winning engineer/consultant Christos Tsantillis (50 Cent, Patti LaBelle, The Roots, Diddy) and built by Michigan-based...
Live Sound
Local Crew: Sound Works Productions
A pair of young, daring entrepreneurs (Eric Lindholm, then 19, now 25; and Daniel Nickleski, then 17, now 23) found themselves vying for similar...
Live Gear
Live: New York City Theater Goes 5.1
Last year, The Victory Theater’s audio system (originally installed in 1995) began to show its age. The theater’s director of production, David Jensen, consulted...
