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Nashville became known as Music City because WSM radio announcer David Cobb referred to the city with that nickname in 1950 on Red Foley's...
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Gadget Corner: Sony MEX-BT3600U
The new MEX-BT3600U in-car CD tuner from Sony Europe lets you listen to your music collection while running to the store for milk. Either...
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Mastering Lab Closes
Shortly after celebrating its 40th anniversary, Doug Sax (above) announced that Mastering Lab Hollywood will close; its Ojai, Calif., facility remains
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Industry News, May 2008
The former founding partners of Mixopolis Audio Post-Production, mixer/sound designer James Twomey and sound designer/composer Mike Levesque, join post
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Notes From the Net
AFA Music Group's ArtistForArtist digital music label Website is now live at www.afamusic.com, providing users with music downloads, ringtones, merch
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Helios’ New Home
Producer/mixer Clemens Schleiwies opened his new studio, The Private Room (www.the-private-room.com), in Munich, Germany. The facility is built around
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In Loving Memory: J. Paul Huntsman, Allen Strange
J. PAUL HUNTSMAN, 1953-2008 J. Paul Huntsman, a supervising sound editor who worked on films including The Thin Red Line, The Illusionistand Starsky & Hutch, among...
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METAlliance Goes Pro
At Winter NAMM, the METAlliance (metalliance.com) announced the first group of Pro Partner manufacturers in a new program of professional audio and video
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On the Move: Harry Chalmiers
Who: Harry Chalmiers, president of McNally Smith College Main Responsibilities: I am leading an inclusive planning process called 20/20 VISION. We are
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Bigger Slice of Cake
Cakewalk has expanded its strategic relationship with Roland; in 1995, Roland began distributing Cakewalk products in Japan. In 2003, Roland invested
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Mix L.A. Open Update
The 13th Annual Mix L.A. Open, set for Monday, May 12, 2008, at the Malibu Country Club, promises to be bigger and better than...
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CAS Tech Nominees
The nominees for the Cinema Audio Society's 4th Annual Award for Technical Achievement are: PRODUCTION Aaton Cantar X2Schoeps CMIT 5UFostex PD606Sonosax
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Gibson Guitar, TC Group Merge
Gibson Guitar chairman/CEO Henry Juszkiewicz (pictured at right) and TC Group CEO Anders Fauerskov held a press conference at Winter NAMM, where they
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Fernandez Mikes Adams
Scoring mixer Bob Fernandez recently completed recording Joseph Vitarelli's score for the HBO miniseries John Adams, which is based on David McCullough's
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Industry News, March 2008
Dr. Charles Chen joined Lauten Audio (Santa Clara, CA) as chief engineer. The company has also sparked a distribution agreement with Analog Audio GmbH
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On the Move: Ted Leamy
Who: Ted Leamy, COO at Pro Media/UltraSound Main responsibilities: running the day-to-day business of Pro Media/UltraSound tour sound and installation
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Quad Names Swan Manager
New York City's Quad Studios, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, named Glenn Swan studio manager; he most recently was at Sony Music...
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Industry News, February 2008
Former VP for academic affair/provost at Berklee College of Music, Harry Chalmiers is the new president at McNally Smith College of Music (St. Paul,...
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Have Tapes, Will Play
Paul Stubblebine Mastering and valve-electronics manufacturer Bottlehead Corp. have introduced The Tape Project (www.tapeproject.com), a new(ish) music-delivery
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P&E Surrounds S.F.
The P&E Wing and the S.F. Chapter offered Academy and community members the opportunity to learn about 5.1 surround mixing and speaker technology at...
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TEC Awards Date Set
The 24th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards will be held Friday, October 3, 2008, at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. For...
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Industry News
At Sterling Sound (NYC), mastering engineer Will Quinnell has been promoted to full timeHollywood-based SonicPool promoted Daniel Stuart to audio editor
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SAE Atlanta Opens
At SAE Atlanta's (www.sae-atl.com) grand opening, held October 12, are, from left: Institute Liverpool director Xander Snell, SAE Atlanta director Chris
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White Mark Celebrates
Acoustic and technical design company White Mark Ltd. (www.whitemark.com) celebrated its tenth anniversary by completing its 100th audio post-production
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TEC Call for Entries
The Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards (TEC) nominating panel is now accepting product nominations for the 24th Annual TEC Awards to be held in
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Shure Mikes Students
Students and faculty from The School of Music at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) performed at Shure's Personal Listening Center, where Shure will
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NL Adds Audio
New York City?based Northern Lights' new audio division is being headed by mixer/sound designer/composer Ted Gannon (pictured), who is currently working
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USS Goes Gaming
Universal Studios Sound (www.filmmakersdestination.com) has hired supervising sound editor Michael Geisler, expanding the department's services in animation
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All-In-One Post Shop
Academy Award-nominated sound designer Leslie Shatz and sound mixer Chris David, who united to form Los Angeles-based Wildfire Studios (www.wildfirepost.com),
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Bookshelf
Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning producer/engineer Phil Ramone takes his unimpeachable skills from behind the board and onto paper. His Making Records:
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On the Move: Avinash Avi Vaidya
Who: Avinash (Avi) Vaidya What: Shure VP of product development, CTO Main responsibilities: all engineering and configuration management functions and
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Moogfest a Scream
The B.B. King's Blues Club in New York City was the place to be on September 22, as numerous performers entertained the 4th Annual...
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Get Involved!
METAlliance (www.metalliance.com) has formed a partnership program in which professional audio and video companies will work with the alliance to help
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Avatar, Mix Throw Bash
On October 5, during the N.Y. AES Convention, hundreds of industry heavyweights traipsed through Avatar Studios to celebrate two Big 3-0 anniversaries:
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615 Music Buys Metro Music
Production music company 615 Music has purchased music library company Metro Music; owner/composer Mitch Coodley (pictured) will continue to write and
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New England Institute Hosts Student Summit
An estimated 400 students from across the Northeast Region came to see 30 presenters (including Grammy Award-winning engineer Jim Anderson) and vendors
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On the Move: Brian Dozoretz
Who: Brian Dozoretz, Ithaca College School of Music's manager of music recording technical support Previous Lives: 2001-2007, Bennett Studios engineer,
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Pyramind Expands
Pyramind: The Institute for Advanced Digital Audio Training has expanded to include a 36,000-square-foot building in San Francisco close to its headquarters.
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PAD Celebrates 15 Years
Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Professional Audio Design completed its 75th custom-monitoring system with an install at Robert Clivills'
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Neko System on Display
audioMIDI.com hosted an event on August 18th, 2007, featuring the Neko Music Production System by Open Labs. Film composer Nick O'Toole showcased Neko