Michael Cooper has logged over 60,000 hours at the console working with music acts in the West and multimedia production houses on the East Coast and in Asia. He has composed music for feature-length film and worked with singer/songwriter Ashley Cleveland, Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt and former weekend anchor of ABC World News Barry Serafin (the latter for PBS).
A Contributing Editor for Mix since 1996, Michael has written more than 500 pro-audio hardware and software reviews, as well as how-to articles on recording engineering, mixing, mastering, and post-production. His journalism has also appeared in Wired, Electronic Musician (for which he also served as a Contributing Editor for nine years), Keyboard and other pro-audio magazines.
A trailblazing wilderness explorer and mountaineer in private life, Michael’s critically acclaimed, action-packed memoir Miscalculated Risks: Attacked, Crippled, Paralyzed, Drowning, Unconscious and Freezing in The Wild (Just Not All at Once) chronicles the more than a half-dozen times Michael nearly lost his life while navigating eight thousand miles of wild country—including places where nobody in recorded history had gone before. Go to https://michaelcooperadventurer.com and https://soloist.ai/larreapress for more info.
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Field Test: MOTU HD192 High-Definition I/O Core System
MOTU’s new flagship DAW I/O box, the HD192 High-Definition I/O, is available as part of a core system ($1,895; reviewed here) that includes the...
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Field Test: TC Electronic Native Bundle 3.0
TC Electronic’s Native Bundle 3.0 adds an adventurous plug-in called Filtrator and new functionality to the suite of production tools previously offered. In addition...
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Take Me to Your Master
Anyone who has worked with Waves Masters Bundle knows that the included plug-ins present a depth of functionality beyond what is offered by similar...
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Yamaha 02R96
Nearly seven years ago, the Yamaha 02R revolutionized the recording industry by bringing affordable digital mixing to small commercial and project studios. Shortly thereafter,...
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THE UNIVERSAL TONY BROWN
Nashville has a new record label, Universal South Records. Tony Brown (former president of MCA Records/Nashville) and Tim DuBois (former president of
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VINCE GILL, AMY GRANT HEADLINE BENEFIT FOR SCHOOLS
Sometimes a worthy cause can attract the big names, with no MTV exposure, no Entertainment TV. Recording artists Vince Gill (MCA) and Amy Grant...
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ANTHONY DEMARIA LABS ADL 100-G
The ADL 100-G is a single-channel tube DI featuring two Sovtek 6922 twin triodes in its all-tube audio path. The unit has all of...
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Surround Sound Consoles
With this issue’s focus on mixing, we thought we’d look into some recent products and time-proven consoles designed for surround sound production in both...
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Metric Halo SpectraFoo Complete
Metric Halo's SpectraFoo Complete adds a Transfer function, signal generator, 24-bit Audio Capture function and three sample code metering tools (a bit
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Multichannel POWER Amplifiers
The recent release of the first DVD-A titles from Warner Music Group has spurred renewed interest in multichannel amplifiers for surround sound applications.
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Millennia TCL-2
TWINCOM OPTOCOMPRESSOR/LIMITER Over the years, Millennia Music & Media Systems has built an enviable reputation for its extremely accurate microphone
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Universal Audio LA-2A
LEVELING AMPLIFIER There are few pieces of equipment, new or vintage, that inspire as devoted a following as the Teletronix LA-2A. Ever since production
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Beyond De-essing
Adventures in Frequency-Conscious Compression Like most other people, engineers are creatures of habit and convention. When we think of frequency-conscious
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Panasonic WZ-AD96M
8-CHANNEL A/D CONVERTER AND MIC PREAMP Now that high-resolution digital audio workstations and modular digital multitrack recorders have arrived, issues
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Alesis MasterLink ML-9600: MASTER DISK RECORDER
As 16-bit audio continues its slide into obsolescence, the pro audio industry looks for an inexpensive, high-resolution replacement for DAT. Listed at
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Arboretum Ionizer for MAS
EQ AND DYNAMICS-PROCESSING PLUG-IN Agush of new plug-ins has recently flooded the market in support of Mark of the Unicorn's MAS platform and its...
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Millenia NSEQ-2: TWO CHANNEL PARAMETRIC EQ WITH TWIN TOPOLOGY
Since Millennia (then known as Millennia Media) introduced its acclaimed HV-3 high-voltage mic preamp several years ago, the company's name has been synonymous
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MOTU AudioDesk Software
A significant part of the MOTU 2408 Hard Disk Recording System's appeal lies in the powerful AudioDesk software, a sophisticated and feature-laden multitrack
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Yamaha 02R Version 2: SHORTCUTS FOR FAST AND FURIOUS MIXDOWNS
Of all the hundreds of audio products I've had the pleasure to review and use over the years, none has excited me as much...
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dbx DDP: DIGITAL DYNAMICS PROCESSOR
The last couple of years have seen the birth of several cost-effective, all-in-one digital dynamics processors loaded to the gills with algorithms for
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