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A long time ago a very long time ago I was a poor college student. I scraped by doing technical jobs, like repairing electronics,...
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A long time ago a very long time ago I was a poor college student. I scraped by doing technical jobs, like repairing electronics,...
A simple musical performance can change your life. In the summer of '68, I went with a couple of friends to Rome for a...
A little bit of all of us died last week. I went by Mike Quinn's Electronics in Oakland, Calif., and saw the Closed Out...
Not too long ago, studio computer simply referred to a CPU/monitor/keyboard setup either built into an SSL or used as an outboard automation controller.
As an industry, we work with pretty complex stuff. And once we think we know it all, some breakthrough arrives and the learning process...
Walk around any pro audio/MI convention, and you'll see lots of vintage gear or vintage-looking gear. Some of it is close to the real...
This week, I listened to some of the worst tracks I've heard in years. It was a standard (guitars/bass/drums/vox) rock project that any pro...
Technology doesn't appear overnight. The first commercial sampling tools for digital audio go back some three decades with pioneering systems from Fairlight
The other day, I heard a radio ad about Wi-Fi G4 iBooks with Tiger and BlueTooth, and it occurred to me that very little...
Certain milestones stand out as rites of passage, such as getting a driver's license at 16 or turning 18 and registering to vote. At...
There's an old saying in the recording biz that everything's a demo until it's released. Demos range from a quick sketchpad of a tune...
Whether working in clubs, bars, studios, stadiums, boardrooms or bedrooms, we deal with a lot of imperfect acoustical spaces, and making it right is...
Lately, the pro audio community has been abuzz about the closing of key major recording studios across the country. In a matter of weeks,...
NAB 2005 is here, and thousands of audio and production pros from around the world will pack into the Las Vegas Convention Center (April...
Once upon a time, record labels were run by musicians and producers rather than lawyers and accountants. In those near-bygone days, labels had A&R...
The focus of this month's Mix is on Desktop Production. Beyond the value of this phrase as a cool marketing hook, there's a whole...
Happy New Year! After weeks of nonstop partying and egg nog, the holiday season comes to a close with New Year's Eve, a night...
During my brief 51 years on this planet (including 23 years with Mix), I've traveled to dozens of countries on six continents and thought...
As a kid, I had an acute awareness of the effects of history. I suppose that growing up in Naples, Italy, had something to...
The May 2004 Mix focused on The New Means of Production. To counterbalance all of the technology in that issue, the closing page featured...
As I write this, it's the July Fourth weekend. Corn is knee-high, but the music touring biz which should be showing a healthy growth...
There's nothing that compares to seeing your favorite artist or band perform live. Yet with the advent of multitracking and editing systems, live recordings
Most of us took some kind of first-aid class, where we learned about applying direct pressure to a deep cut and whether we should...
Last May, Mix presented What Can Save the Music Industry, a highly read and talked-about themed issue that rocked the audio community. A year...
We've been hearing about the so-called in the industry for so long that it's become a tired cliche. Even the word itself brings up...
Game audio? Why in the world is Mix covering game audio? To answer that, we pose our own question: Have you driven a game...
Much has been said (and written) about the desktop studio and with good reason. Given the state of modern DAWs, 24-bit sampling libraries, plug-ins...
If there's a slow season in live sound, it's January. Oh sure, there were a bazillion one-offs on New Year's Eve, but between Christmas...
If you haven't noticed by now, I'll clue you in on a not-so-secret secret: DVD-Video releases are hot. Hollywood has certainly noticed, especially with
To find work as a waiter or teamster, you need experience. However, to work in most other professions, whether it's as governor of California,...
By now, just about everybody in the music biz has heard about the passing of Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records the seminal...
One of the wonderful things about modern recording technology is that it accommodates a wide range of studio production styles. At one time, was...
Some have argued that rock 'n' roll was born some half-century ago with the debut of Bill Haley & His Comets' Rock Around the...
Since the invention of the wheel, Gutenberg's movable type, the Wright brothers' flying machine and helium-filled Mylar balloons with special-occasion
The biggest gamble in Vegas isn't in any casino. This year, I lucked out in the NAB hotel lottery and got a room in...
In the never-ending quest for dominance in the my surround format can beat up your surround format struggle, proponents of DVD-A, SACD and DVD-Video...
Long ago, Albert Einstein was correct when he told us about relativity and the various relationships between energy, matter, space and time. But back
Twenty years ago this month, a quiet revolution began. Standards never come easily, but after years of backroom meetings between U.S. and Japanese manufacturers,
According to a recent study, CD sales are down 11% over this same period a year ago. Finding the reason is simple enough: A...
Over the years, the TEC Awards has been host to many special moments, and the Hall of Fame award to Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick...
New products can be wonderful, often offering improved audio in smaller, less-expensive, lighter (or in the case of tube stuff, heavier) and more reliable
There are a lot of tough jobs in the recording industry, but the life of the production mixer is surely the most difficult, most...