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Megatrax Revamps, Opens Up L.A. Studios
Megatrax Production Music knows how to get great sounds, tracks that will pop out of the radio, the small screen or the big screen....
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MixTips: Steve Kovacs
Steve Kovacs picked Chicago. An Arizona native and Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (Phoenix) graduate—with further studies in Music Theory and Composition at...
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May 2013 Editor’s Note: To Phil Ramone, a Toast!
Phil Ramone was special in so many ways. In the days and weeks following his passing on March 30, as the stories and remembrances...
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On the Cover: Ben’s Studio, Nashville
Its official name back when Chet Atkins built it in 1965, in a building owned by Atkins and Owen Bradley, was RCA Victor Nashville...
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Pro Tools 11 Brings Speed, Power, 64 Bits
Pro Tools HD 11 exclusively offers new metering options that provide a variety of scale and ballistics options. The number “11” carries a certain...
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The Saltmine Studio Oasis
About 30 seconds into a conversation with Don Salter it’s clear that this guy knows old-school—the vintage discrete 36-channel custom Neve with an additional...
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The Big Picture: Dallas Audio Post Opens Dolby Stage
Roy Machado has a good thing going in Dallas. He arrived from Atlanta back in the mid-1980s to study music at the world-renowned University...
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April 2013 Editor’s Note: It’s Television, Not Broadcast
I am a big fan of the HBO series Game of Thrones. I’ve read the five books, and I’ve watched from the beginning, live...
Live Sound
Little Big Town
Little Big Town is on the cusp right now, that magical place where 14 years of hard work on the road is about to...
Live Sound
George Strait and Martina McBride
The adulation for George Strait has to be experienced to be believed. The stats are amazing: 66 Number Ones, 20 Platinum records, 72,000-seat sellout...
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March 2013 Editor’s Note: Travels Old and New
Over the past 30 days, which roughly coincides with the cycle of putting together this issue of Mix, I seem to have bounced back...
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On the Cover: Vintage King Los Angeles
In a technology industry that has maintained its foundation built on boutique gear, VKLA makes sense. The mom and pop pro audio stores, the...
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Dolby Bows Revolutionary New Platform
Nobody does a demo like Dolby. And the company’s latest debut of its latest technology, formally shown to the world late-April at CinemaCon, just...
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John Lennon Educational Tour Bus | Bringing Music to the People
15 YEARS ONBOARD THE JOHN LENNON EDUCATIONAL TOUR BUS
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‘The Art of Flight’ | Flying in 7.1 Surround
Dolby Labs recently hosted a media screening of the Curt Morgan–directed action sports movie The Art of Flight (Brain Farm Digital Cinema, Red Bull...
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On the Cover: 45 Years of Ardent Studios, Memphis
Wow—45 years and counting. That’s not easy to do in any industry, let alone one that is dependent on the forces of technological change...
Live Sound
Jeff Bridges & The Abiders
The Jeff Bridges tour this fall that popped up on a lot of national TV and in some select West Coast wineries sure looked...
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Mathien Brings the Fun(k)
Produced by Chris “Wolfdog” Schneider and recorded and mixed at Pressure Point Recording (Chicago) by Steve Kovacs, The Night I Was an Alpha Male...
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On the Cover: 25th Street Recording
Dave Lichtenstein is an avid surfer, so it’s not really in his nature to feel the pressure to do anything too quickly. But he’s...
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AES Ready to Roll
The professional audio industry turns its attention to New York City later this month for the 131st Audio Engineering Society convention, and there will...
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Film Mixers on the Move
It was a summer of musical chairs in Hollywood as a couple of high-end post facilities announced the hiring of A-list recording mixers to...
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Abbot Mixes ‘X Factor’ on Yamaha DM2000
The X Factor will make its U.S. debut on Fox September 21, and Michael Abbott, owner of All Ears Inc., has chosen a Yamaha...
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Ready for Football!
When Full Sail University launched its partnership with ESPN in late 2010, the goal was to get students involved in real-world production—audio, video, gaming,...
Live Gear
InfoComm 2011 Show Report
InfoComm (June 11-17, Orlando) has grown into a pretty healthy trade show, with an increased audio presence that has made it the leading U.S....
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SFP: IDEAS Orlando
When you bill yourself as an “innovation studio,” part of a creative juggernaut of marketing and agency services—from story to shoot to edit to...
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On the Cover: Jungle City Studios
We’re taught from a very young age that hard work pays off, that if we practice, put in the hours and hone a skill,...
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On the Cover: Manifold Recording
Projects like Manifold Recording don’t come around often in a studio designer’s life. A client with knowledge and passion for the way music works...
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Michael Abbott Q&A
AUDIO DIRECTOR FOR GRAMMY AWARDS ENSURES EMMY-WINNING SOUND TO THE HOUSE, OVER THE AIR
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Music: Al and Shelby—Together Again
“What gets me the most about Shelby is her writing ability,” Schmitt says. “It’s just so real. The silver trailer—she has this love for...
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On the Cover: Naughty Dog Puts a Byte into Game Audio
Videogame sound production has come so far so fast these past few years that it’s easy to forget it’s still an industry in its...
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John Coffey and Robert Kennedy of Coffey Sound Q&A
NAVIGATING AND LEADING TECHNOLOGY CHANGEOVERS IN LOCATION SOUND
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Hall of Fame, Mutemath Open Full Sail Live!
It was a busy June at Full Sail University (Winter Park, Fla.) with the induction of the second group into the Full Sail Hall...
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On the Cover: Universal Mastering Studios West
Former L.A. editor, Bud Scoppa, dropped in on Universal Mastering Studios West in the old Hanna-Barbera building on Cahuenga. What he described for the...
