HIT FACTORY CRITERIA GRAND OPENING IS A HIT
The Hit Factory Criteria Miami held its grand opening bash on April 23. The lavish party, held in the newly resurfaced parking lot of...
ACOUSTIC MAINTENANCE FOR SUBSCRIBER STUDIOS
THE MAN FROM DISC The music industry has no shortage of consultants who offer, for a fee, to guide the uninitiated and veterans alike...
Design FX Remote Recording
Design FX Remote Recording came into being in 1991 when Design FX Audio, one of the professional audio industry's leading equipment rental companies,
REPLItech 2001
REPLItech, the media manufacturing show, celebrated its 10th anniversary at the Los Angeles Convention Center in February. Ironically, the Grammys were
Studio on Wheels
Studio on Wheels' CEO John Falzarano started in remote recording while still in his teens, literally learning the trade from the ground up. A...
Skyelabs Mobile Recording & Broadcast
Skyelabs Mobile Recording was conceived from the beginning as a balance of high technology and human comfort. as Skyelabs' highly customized GMC motor
CSP Mobile Productions
The latest addition to CSP Mobile Productions' remote recording fleet is Unit Six, a cutting-edge, dedicated audio truck. This state-of-the-art studio
Sheffield Remote Recording
The name Sheffield has been synonymous with high-end professional audio for over 30 years, and as part of the larger Sheffield Audio Video Productions,
Aura Sonic Ltd.
Aura Sonic Ltd. (ASL) was established in the late 1970s by Steve Remote to provide a variety of location recording and broadcast production facilities.
Native Country Studios
Mobile Disk sets a new benchmark for the future of integrated, disk-based multimedia remote production and post-production. The truck, which was nearly
•Remote Recording: Where the Media Meets the Road
They are the last of the professional audio cowboys. Whether in an independently owned rig or a corporate tractor-trailer, remote recording specialists
Eurosound Mobiles
Eurosound Mobiles has truly broadened the definition of the term mobile recording. Since its founding by veteran live sound engineer Jan de Groot in...
Artisan Recorders Mobile
Founded in 1977 by president and chief engineer Peter Yianilos, Artisan Recorders Inc. is the oldest continuously operated remote recording company in
Remote Recording Services
Founded in 1979, Remote Recording Services is one of the longest-running, top-tier, independently owned remote operations in North America, and owner
Classic Tracks: Bob Seger’s “Night Moves”
'Night Moves' was a good move for Bob Seger—both the Number One single and the title track of his album released in 1976.
Crawford Makes the Move
Hollywood's special effects wizards are experts at getting 600-pound gorillas to move onscreen, but when it comes to moving around 6 million-pound gorillas,
THE MAIN ATTRACTION
MEN IN BLACK Soundelux Showorks was involved in all of the above-mentioned themed attractions, and then some. The latest effort from the Orlando-based
Karl Richardson
We were bouncing and submixing all of this stuff every step of the way. And we wanted each part perfect, so it became a...
Rudy Perez
I really believe that the Latin market in the U.S. is still relatively untapped. There's something way bigger here than we can see yet....
Linda Ronstadt
GOTTA SING! It is the hottest day of the summer so far in Nashville - 102 degrees - and Linda Ronstadt is in town...
Classic Tracks: The Four Season’s “Rag Doll”
The Four Seasons were part of America's last Caucasian bulwark against the British invasion of the early 1960s. The group, who formed on the...
5.1 FORENSICS
SURROUND AUDIO MIGHT REQUIRE SOME DETECTIVE WORK - AND HAVING A GOOD LAWYER'S NOT A BAD IDEA, EITHERAs the major labels gear up to...
Classic Tracks: The Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive”
Written while on vacation in Bermuda and recorded on a terrible console, the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" became a disco classic.
Boston’s Soundscape Books ‘Em
How big can a project studio get and still remain a project studio? Soundscape tests the limits of the definition, with as many as...
Classic Tracks: Boston’s “More Than a Feeling”
To get Boston's 16-million-selling debut done, producer John Boylan and leader Tom Scholz had to pull the wool over Columbia Records' eyes.
New Media, New Opportunity
A business born along with the talking era of the cinema, audio post-production has continuously branched out over the intervening years, applying itself
MEMORANDUM: The Wheels Go ‘Round and ‘Round…
Looking over the changing landscape of the studio business, I begin to know how Chaplin felt in Modern Times as he squirmed through the...
CROBAR PRIES ITSELF INTO SOUTH BEACH’S CROWDED CLUB SCENE
really wanted to be the first club with a resident entomologist," laments John Hood over a cocktail at Giacomo's on Espanola Way in Miami's...
THE MERGER OF TWO CLASSIC FACILITIES: The Hit Factory Criteria Miami
"We left the parking lot for last. We wanted to get the music happening." So said Troy Germano, executive vice president of The Hit...
MEMORANDUM: You Played Guitar, Now Play The Game
The competition in pro audio has increased a thousandfold in the past decade, just as it has in other industries. What had once been...
Miami Heats Up
These are boom days for the Miami recording community. The pop and Latin music renaissance that this city is experiencing has given the region...
MEMORANDuM: There’s No Business Like Show Business
Over the last two years, the "Mix Business Quarterly" has concentrated heavily on the mechanisms of studio economics, from getting paid by record companies
Stayin’ Alive
Many recording artists make the newspapers for record and concert reviews and personality profiles. A few go on and make the gossip and celebrity...
Chris Blackwell: FROM LP TO DVD, STILL LIVING THE ISLAND LIFE
As a "glamour profession," the recording industry is full of people whose names and faces are familiar to the general public. Yet for the...
FACILITY SPOTLIGHT: DAVE DOES IMAX: TORONTO STAGE POINTS TOWARD A BIG-SCREEN TOMORROW
It would not be completely off base to imagine a team of sled dogs trekking across Dome Audio Video & Effects. The two-story facility...
RECORDIN’ “LA VIDA LOCA”: THE MAKING OF A HARD DISK HIT
Ricky Martin has been stopping traffic lately. Literally. Performances on the streets of New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and elsewhere, on the heels of
NEW YORK BUSINESS
Every picture tells a story, and paging through the Mix Master Directory under the New York headings provides an interesting snapshot of the New...
Galaxy Studios, Belgium: Low Noise, High Profile
Galaxy Studios is set on a quiet lane in Mol, in Flanders in north-central Belgium. Not much happens in this bucolic suburban town. That...
GEARING UP FOR A MULTIFORMAT FUTURE
Long regarded as the most mysterious and elite of professional audio's arts, mastering is in the midst of massive change on several fronts. In...
SOUND KITCHEN: Watching the Dough Rise
For the past two years the Nashville-area studio market has been characterized by consolidation and contraction, which makes Sound Kitchen a rare success
ALTERNATE ALTERNATIVES FOR MUSIC DISTRIBUTION
The term "alternative" has gone beyond buzz word, sort of the way that "digital" did. "Alternative music" is about the vaguest term in use...