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...
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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...
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,...
When my younger daughter Jesse was in the fifth grade, her class at Thornhill Elementary in Oakland, Calif., put on an original musical based...
A little over six months ago, I called our longtime technical editor, Kevin Becka, and asked him if he might be interested in writing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This was supposed to be a note about Mix. About how we have new owners in NewBay Media and a new design with a...
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...
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...
Late last summer, I was invited down to the new DTS headquarters outside of Los Angeles for a look at what they were doing...
In 1988, when I joined Mix, I knew what Live Sound was. It was stadium dates with the Rolling Stones and club gigs with...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Just as we were putting the August issue, with its theme on Analog Audio, to bed, I was invited to see Shelby Lynne at...
Things really do come together in Los Angeles. New York has broadcast and Broadway and music and energy. Nashville has the players, the studios,...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
The Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing put on yet another dynamite panel in October, its 26th with the Audio Engineering Society. Titled Mixing
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,...
There was a point during the Anatomy of a Hit panel at Mix Nashville this past May when producer Dann Huff turned to moderator...
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...
Read Mix Editorial Director Tom Kenny Editors' Note, Where Tom Kenny Writes About the Excellent Sound Quality from Bonnarroo 2009
Read Mix Editorial Director Tom Kenny Editors' Note, Where Tom Kenny Writes About Using Music Communities to Create Audience for Music Album Releases...
Read Mix Editorial Director Tom Kenny Editors' Note, Where Tom Kenny Writes About State of Music Industry for Audio Professionals
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