By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 01/01/2003

DAY THREE Pinske: Unfortunately, what Zappa got in the habit of doing is mix-and-matching so many things on a...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 12/01/2002

The Scoring Stage at Marin County's Skywalker Sound recently hosted sessions for the cast recording of Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme. Produced by David Frost

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 05/01/2001

Elliot Mazer has had a long, varied and distinguished career as a record producer, studio owner/engineer, entertainment technology company executive and

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 01/01/2001

HEAVY METAL MASTER Tom Werman has had a remarkable career by anyone's standards. As a record company A&R executive, he has signed and successfully...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 11/01/2000

PART 2 Guns N' Roses, The Sex Pistols, Elton John and more...We continue our two-part interview with engineer/producer Bill Price. See October Mix for

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 11/01/2000

B.B. King is not your average 75-year-old blues guitarist. Now entering his seventh decade as a recording artist, King marked the new millennium by...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 10/01/2000

In their constant quest for higher fidelity, better coverage and greater SPLs, the designers of large-scale sound reinforcement systems have often had

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

"Standards" Tour Includes Full Orchestra Afour-time Grammy winner, Joni Mitchell has consistently stretched her prodigious talent and many of the 20 albums

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 07/01/2000

While in Las Vegas for the recent NSCA Expo 2000, Mix watched Tina Turner tear up the stage at the 17,000-seat MGM Grand Garden...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 01/01/2000

Songs and Stories from Moby Dick," the latest touring show by Laurie Anderson, is a one-and-a-half-hour theatrical presentation that makes extensive use

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 01/01/2000

Organized and hosted by Pegi and Neil Young, the annual all-acoustic benefit concert for the Bridge School has become one of the most anticipated...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 01/01/2000

This latest collection of covers is perhaps Bryan Ferry's most audacious artistic statement since his genre-busting solo debut, 1973's These Foolish Things.

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 01/01/2000

An everyday story of a man and his lawn mower, The Straight Story is a surprisingly involving film, a gift both for film aficionados...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 08/01/1999

As a broad generalization, it can be said that most sound mixers get their start in live sound by one of three routes: with...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 07/01/1999

Though development of the Showconsole was initially driven by a very small group within Showco ("Only the president, the owners and myself knew about

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 07/01/1999

In 1998, close to 1 million fans flocked to see the George Strait Country Music Festival, a one-day, seven-act show staged in 18 football...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 05/01/1999

When The Beatles played their last concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in 1966, the equipment list for the show could have been written...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 04/01/1999

One paradox of technological progress is that advances in functionality are soon outstripped by users' expectations and demands. For example, though the