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Keeping Everclear Sounding Clear
The 2015 edition of The Summerland Tour—Everclear’s annual package jaunt—has proven a success, clicking with critics and audiences alike. Making the rounds with with...
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M3 Captures The Touring Dead
Music Mix Mobile (M3) recently recorded the Grateful Dead's final excursion—the "Fare Thee Well" (Dead 50) five-date concert tour.
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Ears Behind 85 Million Albums Adopt PMC
Musician, producer and songwriter Greg Wells has installed PMC MB2S-XBD speakers at his facility in Los Angeles.
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Fortifying An FOH Demo Room
Furman is protecting Dallas-based Sound Productions’ new sound, lighting and video products demo room against the vagaries of the Texas weather.
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Mix Nashville Eyes Tracking Vocals, Gear Giveaways
Capturing vocals is the most critical aspect of modern recording. Going beyond the mechanics of the signal path, the interaction between the engineer/producer and...
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Selecting SSL in Singapore
Leo Studio opened in Singapore two months ago with a full complement of high-end recording gear, including a 24-channel SSL Duality mixing console.
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Ice Rink Transforms Into 7.1 Cinema
The Telluride Film Festival in Colorado has always been aimed at true cineasts, but the annual event takes over a variety of spaces that...
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CMM-Focused Gen. Exodus Relaunched
CMM touring company Generation Exodus Foundation has re-launched, naming James “Jamie” Nixon—formerly director of Touring and Marketing at Blackhawk Audio—as its new general manager
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IndiMusic Marks First Anniversary
IndiMusic Studios, a recording studio and soundstage on Long Island near New York City, recently celebrated it first anniversary.
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DPA Key to IKOF Sound
Engineer and producer Mirko Canji, tasked with recording the intensive five-day International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival (IKOF), made use of DPA microphones.
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Growing Congregation Gets RCF
Thanks to a growing congregation, Bonita Valley Community Church recently added a new auditorium that seats 1,400, with Texas-based Building God’s Way handling design...
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Inside the Audio of QuakeCon
With a following as fervid as any band’s (and in most cases, far larger), the Quake videogame franchise has been the focus of QuakeCon...
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Sound Devices Record a Hero
When production sound mixer Frank Stettner needed a new digital audio recorder with sufficient tracks for HBO’s new mini-series, Show Me a Hero, he...
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Csaba Petocz Remembered at Conway
A private service honoring noted producer/engineer/mixer Csaba Petocz, who passed away on July 17 after a long battle with cancer, was recently held at...
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Kalimba Takes Dangerous to #1
"Estrellas Rotas" from recording artist Kalimba, which has topped Monitor Latino's Plays and Audience Reach charts for seven consecutive weeks, was mixed by Michael...
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Caesar’s Goes All In On Martin Audio
Put the words “Las Vegas” and “Martin” next to each other, and visions of celebrity roasts might come to mind, but when Caesar’s Palace...
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Wisycom’s Got Talent in Asia
Location sound specialists Mic Check One Two Pte Ltd utilized Wisycom RF products to cover the large venue where Asia’s Got Talent, the regional...
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Yorkville Rides Jersey Surf
Founded in 1990, Jersey Surf has become an institution in New Jersey, drawing marching band members from numerous high schools around the region together...
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New Auro-3D Albums Announced
Ultra-high-fidelity record label Sono Luminus and Auro Technologies have announced three new Pure Audio Blu-ray album releases featuring music recorded in Auro-3D alongside stereo...
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RRF Offers Access to Legends
The Recording Radio and Film Connection (RRF) has announced the introduction of its Learn from Legends master apprenticeship program.
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Studio Ponders SSL Preamps
PonderRosa Studios, a 2,600-sq.-ft. studio located an hour outside of New York, recently upgraded its control room with the addition of an SSL XL...
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RF Venue Fills The Bill For Will
New York City’s Central Park is known for a lot of things; one of the most positive is the long-running Free Shakespeare in the...
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Getting Good Audio From Bad Girls Club
Oxygen network’s Bad Girls Club follows the antics of seven girls living together under one roof, day and night, all of which requires a...
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Inside AES’ Project Studio Expo
The days of the big studios are gone, but today’s era of the modern project studio has brought with it a wealth of opportunities....
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Gearhouse Races with Wisycom
Gearhouse Broadcast’s Wisycom equipment enabled the company to comply with Australia’s new wireless licensing requirements in time to cover the V8 Supercars race season.
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Women’s Audio Mission Aims For AES
The annual Audio Engineering Society Convention, coming up soon in New York City on October 29-November 1, is the highlight of the year for...
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Sound Image, SSE Audio Team For UAC
Bringing together the combined strength of two sound companies known around the world, Sound Image in the US and SSE Audio Group in the...
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AES LA Chapter Digs Into Networking
The AES Los Angeles Section will dig deep into use of digital audio networking for a broad spectrum of communities at its monthly meeting...
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Carlson Monitors PreSonus
Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum engineer, producer, and songwriter Smith Carlson favors PreSonus Sceptre S8 CoActual two-way studio monitors, and recently added the company’s ADL 700 preamp/channel...
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New Beat Fund Gets Weird at Grundman
Engineer Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering has mastered the debut LP by New Beat Fund, which was co-produced by the band...
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Meeting The Challenge Of Red Rocks
If you’re talking Americana, the Avett Brothers are always one of the first acts to get mentioned. Touring the country this summer, barnstorming through...
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Mix Nashville To Analyze Studio Biz
The brick-and-mortar commercial facilities of the 1990s have evolved down multiple branches on the family tree. These days, an engineer may be owner and...
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The Studio Behind God Bless Louisiana
Stephen Arnold Music has scored every spot in the long-running "God Bless Louisiana” PSA campaign for New Orleans ABC affiliate WGNO-TV, which this year...
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Covering 1 Million Kenny Chesney Fans
Kenny Chesney’s current tour has sold more than 1 million tickets—just like his previous 12 tours did. That kind of fan following is rare...
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Ash Drummer Keeps Time, Eye On Mixes
After 20-plus years of hard-charging power pop, smash albums overseas and antics like releasing 26 singles in one year (one for each letter of...
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P&E Wing Panel Set For Mix Nashville
Mixing in the box is something most sessions involve to some degree in today’s DAW-centric studio environment. When to go outside the box is...
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Golfers Support Music Program
The 2015 Recording Industry Golf Tournament (RIGT) at MountainGate Country Club in L.A. brought together the southern California recording community to support the music...
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Going Wireless In Front of 400,000
Modern-day troubadour Ed Sheeran has made a name for himself in the US, but that’s nothing compared to back home for him, where his...
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All-Star Panel Set For Mix Nashville
Nashville’s unique emphasis on live tracking, in the studio, with a full band playing off one another, will be the topic of the session,...
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Muscle Shoals Renovations Set To Start
Long-planned renovations for the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio at 3614 Jackson Highway in Muscle Shoals, AL will begin later this month as part...
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Recording Broken Instruments for Nike
New York-based full-service music company Pull has scored “Inside Small-Sided," Nike’s new online film series on soccer games with fewer players competing on a...
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Marsalis Studio Ready in New Orleans
Walters-Storyk Design Group has completed a recording studio control room for the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music (EMCM) located in the Musician’s Village in...