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Editor’s Note: Beginning to Understand 7.1
I freely admit that I didn’t understand the drive behind 7.1 when people started talking about it almost a decade ago. I understood the...
By Tom Kenny, Editorial Director
Recording
Editor’s Note: Music From the Heart and Head
I like Dave Grohl, and I’m liking him more as the years go by. He lives the life he believes in, and he eats,...
Live Sound
Editor’s Note: The Importance of Crew
When my younger daughter Jesse was in the fifth grade, her class at Thornhill Elementary in Oakland, Calif., put on an original musical based...
Technology
Editor’s Note: What’s in a Column?
A little over six months ago, I called our longtime technical editor, Kevin Becka, and asked him if he might be interested in writing...
Recording
Editor’s Note: Being a Good Stewart? What Does That Mean?
I was on the phone with Kirk Imamura, president of Avatar Studios in New York City, talking about his SPARS column for this month’s...
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Editor’s Note: Sound and Picture
We’ve seen this happen before, with a medium birthed on audio giving way to dominance by video. It happened in broadcast, where radio—the original...
Technology
Editor’s Note: Where Have All the “Good” Hackers Gone
Okay, so maybe “good” isn’t the right word. Probably not “noble” or “moral,” either. But at least back in the early ’80s, when the...
Live Sound
Editor’s Note: You Can’t Beat Live
Damn it’s fun to go out and see live music. Pick your act, pick your night. Pick your heroes, pick an unknown. I was...
Recording
Editor’s Note: Empire State of Mind
This was supposed to be a note about Mix. About how we have new owners in NewBay Media and a new design with a...
Recording
Editor’s Note: Are You in the Cloud?
You can’t avoid “The Cloud” these days. The phrase is everywhere, from billboards advertising online banking to Amazon’s recently announced and highly publicized music...
Technology
Editor’s Note: Change, Challenge, Opportunity
Driving into work the other day, the first week of February, I caught a KCBS radio report on double-digit percentage stock drops at McClatchy...
Technology
Editor’s Note: The Last Best Chance for Surround Music
Late last summer, I was invited down to the new DTS headquarters outside of Los Angeles for a look at what they were doing...
Live Sound
Editor’s Note: The Ever-Changing, Ever-Expanding Universe of Live
In 1988, when I joined Mix, I knew what Live Sound was. It was stadium dates with the Rolling Stones and club gigs with...
Technology
Editor’s Note: The Meaning of Avid
It’s almost been a pro audio sport, on and off, for the past 15-plus years: Avid bashing. Practically from Day One, back in 1994,...
Recording
Editor’s Note: Studio Business With Style
We love this cover shot of Rose Mann Cherney. It was taken very early on a late-summer morning along the shores of Lake Michigan...
Technology
Editor’s Note: Connections, Face to Face
I’m writing from the plane on my way to Mix Nashville, packed in with 150 people but for all practical purposes alone. It’s about...
Technology
Editor’s Note: Coming Back to Nashville
We’ve been regularly calling Nashville from the Mix offices these past few months in anticipation of our third annual Mix Nashville event, to be...
Recording
Editor’s Note: Analog on Her Own Terms
Just as we were putting the August issue, with its theme on Analog Audio, to bed, I was invited to see Shelby Lynne at...
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Editor’s Note: Mixing and Matching in L.A.
Things really do come together in Los Angeles. New York has broadcast and Broadway and music and energy. Nashville has the players, the studios,...
Recording
Editor’s Note: Big River
When I walked into the office on Monday morning, May 3, I wasn’t expecting the images out of central Tennessee. I follow the news,...
Technology
Editor’s Note: The Original Community
I’ve often wondered how the music industry would look today if Jerry Garcia hadn’t passed away in August 1995. It was a much different...
SFP
Editor’s Note: The Things We Learn From Television
During a break in rehearsals in the midst of Grammy week, Joel Singer, co-owner and chief tech of Music Mix Mobile, said to me,...
Live Sound
Magic From Stage to Studio
For the past couple of years, I've been meeting my brother Kit and his daughters in the Tennessee countryside for some good times at...
Recording
The Misunderstood Part of the Record Process
The Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing put on yet another dynamite panel in October, its 26th with the Audio Engineering Society. Titled Mixing
Recording
Understanding Community
We've been talking about a lot lately here at Mix. We've been planning for coming changes on our Website, with new functionalities, better search,...
Recording
From the Editor: So You Wanna Be a Producer…
There was a point during the Anatomy of a Hit panel at Mix Nashville this past May when producer Dann Huff turned to moderator...
Recording
From the Editor: Time to Step Out and Step Up
It would have been easy to put a shot from American Idol on the big screen of this month's cover. It's a certified Number...
Live Sound
From the Editor: Sound and Music, Live and Recorded
Read Mix Editorial Director Tom Kenny Editors' Note, Where Tom Kenny Writes About the Excellent Sound Quality from Bonnarroo 2009
Recording
From the Editor: Community Involvement
Read Mix Editorial Director Tom Kenny Editors' Note, Where Tom Kenny Writes About Using Music Communities to Create Audience for Music Album Releases...
Recording
From the Editor: Who Has the Answers
Read Mix Editorial Director Tom Kenny Editors' Note, Where Tom Kenny Writes About State of Music Industry for Audio Professionals
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From the Editor: Sound and Picture
Read Mix Editorial Director Tom Kenny Editors' Note, Where Tom Kenny Writes About Sound and Audio for Film Production for Audio Professionals