Facilities
Clay Blair Builds Boulevard Recording, Part 2
Clay Blair revives the facility that helped bring classics by everyone from Liberace to Pink Floyd to Blink-182 to life.
Steve Harvey is senior content producer for Mix and also contributes to other Future titles. He has worked in the pro audio industry — including as a touring musician, in live production, installed sound, and equipment sales and marketing — since November 1980.
Facilities
Clay Blair Builds Boulevard Recording, Part 1
Clay Blair revives the facility that helped bring classics by everyone from Liberace to Pink Floyd to Blink-182 to life.
Live Sound
Inside the Audio Sphere, Part 2
U2 FOH engineer Joe O'Herlihy recounts his first impressions of Sphere's incredible audio.
Live Sound
Inside the Audio Sphere, Part 1
Advanced technologies make for seamless flexibility, from chest-thumping rock ‘n’ roll to 360-degree multimedia extravaganzas
Business
How IMES Automated The Archive
Iron Mountain Entertainment Services stores millions of music recordings, but decades of incompletely captured metadata made finding everything difficult and expensive; now AMICS is...
Live Sound
Mixing U2’s Mighty Sound for the Sphere, Part 2
In Part 2 of our U2 Sphere coverage, Joe O'Herlihy, the band's legendary FOH engineer, shares how he prepped for the Sphere shows, recounts...
Live Sound
Mixing U2’s Mighty Sound for the Sphere
A team of legends—U2, FOH engineer Joe O’Herlihy and producer Steve Lillywhite—re-imagine ‘Achtung Baby’ for Las Vegas' multi-billion-dollar Sphere.
Business
Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New Record
Once again, Will Page, former Spotify chief economist, has crunched the numbers to calculate the global value of music copyright.
Facilities
Matt Ross-Spang Finds His Groove, Part 2
Grammy-winning producer/engineer Matt Ross-Spang has opened Southern Grooves, stocked with vintage gear and sensibilities.
Facilities
Matt Ross-Spang Finds His Groove, Part 1
Grammy-winning producer/engineer Matt Ross-Spang has opened Southern Grooves, stocked with vintage gear and sensibilities.
Music Production
Inside Producer Carter Lang’s Eclectic, Creative Enclave
The SZA, Doja Cat, Post Malone and Lil Nas X producer uses gear of the past to serve the sounds of the future.
Live Sound
Exclusive: Inside The Audio of Blackpink’s ‘Born Pink Encore’ Tour
Blackpink tore up the record books when it settled into Los Angeles' 56,000-seat Dodger Stadium for the final North American show of its Born...
Live Sound
The Sound of U2’s Vegas Show: A Spherical Miracle?
Mix was inside Las Vegas’ new $2.6B venue, Sphere, for opening weekend of U2’s groundbreaking residency.
Business
Inside NBCUniversal StudioPost’s New Hitchcock Theatre
The legendary re-recording stage has been reimagined, rebuilt and re-opened as the showpiece of NBCUniversal’s lot makeover.
Live Sound
The Bellwether Opens, Ready to Rock L.A.
The latest cool club in L.A. is The Bellwether, a 1,600-capacity, 45,000-plus-square-foot, multi-room complex with an audio system that's ready to rock.
Facilities
Twenty One Pilots’ Josh Dun Builds His Dream Studio, Part 2
Drums rule inside the Boom Boom Room, the new home facility of Twenty One Pilots drummer Josh Dun and his wife, voice artist Debby...
Facilities
Twenty One Pilots’ Josh Dun Builds His Dream Studio, Part 1
Drums rule inside the Boom Boom Room, the new home facility of Twenty One Pilots drummer Josh Dun and his wife, voice artist Debby...
Live Gear
To Hear The Sphere: First Peek at Landmark Vegas Venue’s Immersive Sound
With the opening of the 18,000-seat Sphere in Las Vegas only weeks away, we take a look at its unique immersive sound system.
Live Sound
Touring’s New Efficiencies – Part 2: Consoles
Desire to cut costs and reduce carbon footprint is driving the move toward compact, lightweight, power-efficient concert system packages
Business
Touring’s New Efficiencies – Part 1: Loudspeakers
The need to cut costs and reduce carbon footprint is driving the industry toward more compact, lightweight, power-efficient concert system packages.
Blog
Rat-Packed with History, Rare UA Console Hits the Market
Built for Ceasars Palace in 1966, the Universal Audio tube mixing console has a lineage stretching from Frank Sinatra to Vincent Gallo.
Business
inMusic Brands Acquires Moog Music
Moog Music has been acquired by Rhode Island-based DJ and pro-audio music production conglomerate, inMusic.
Business
Restoration and Integration: Paul Cox on Studio Design and Setup in a Hybrid World
Paul Cox's design and integration clients include Stevie Wonder, Trent Reznor, Harvey Mason, Jr., Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and Beyoncé,...
Post and Broadcast
Getting RodeoHouston Live and On-Air
RodeoHouston includes all things audio, from mics in the bull-riding chute to concerts for up to 70,000 people.
Business
The Left-Right Brain of Shadow Hills Industries’ Peter Reardon
The Shadow Hills founder talks punk rock, product design and ‘what a record sounds like’
Live Gear
Las Vegas Takes Immersive Live, Part 2 — Aerosmith and Adele
Find out how Adele and Aerosmith are pushing the audio envelope, using spatial music mixing in their Las Vegas residencies.
Live Sound
On The Cover: Las Vegas Takes Immersive Live, Part 1
Immersive live sound has taken hold in Las Vegas, driven by artist residencies and cutting-edge technologies.
Music Production
Creating ‘Divine Tides,’ 2023’s Grammy-Winning Best Immersive Audio Album
The immersive version of 'Divine Tides' was the work of immersive mixer Eric Schilling and immersive producer Herbert Waltl.
Business
IFPI Releases 2022 Global Music Revenue Report
The recorded music industry worldwide had total revenues of $26.2 billion in 2022, a 9% increase over the previous year, according to the IFPI.
Business
Falling Tree Destroys Ronan Chris Murphy’s Recording Studio
The studio—and home—of noted producer/engineer Ronan Chris Murphy was destroyed by a massive tree that fell on the structure.
Business
United Recording Studios Revamps Business Model
Historic United Recording Studios in Hollywood is changing its business model to strengthen the studio's financial position.
Business
95th Annual Oscars for Sound and Music Winners Announced
The 95th annual Academy Awards ceremony saw a mix of expected and surprise wins for the sound and music Oscars.
Business
Dr. Michael Santucci: A Lifetime of Researching Hearing Health—for Musicians and Engineers
Audiologist Dr. Michael Santucci, president of both Sensaphonics and ASI Audio, discusses the cutting edge for hearing health for audio pros.
Business
Streaming, Vinyl Sales Drive RIAA Revenue Record
The RIAA is reporting all-time high recorded music revenues for the seventh straight year, fueled by streaming and the vinyl revival.
Music Production
Mixer Pedro Calloni at Home…in the World of Immersive Music
Engineer Pedro Calloni -- Atmos mixer for the likes of Keith Urban and Gayle -- shares how he builds an immersive music mix.
Business
Saving Legacy Music Media? First Step: Remediation
At Iron Mountain, Kelly Pribble fights the elements, sticky shed and—worst of all—time as he rushes to save and prepare legacy music media for...
Facilities
Greg Miner Builds His Dream Complex, Philharmonic Studios
After decades of planning, producer/engineer Greg Miner has built his 7,000-square-foot, three-room, Russ Berger-designed dream facility.
Business
Grammy Awards’ Engineering and Production Winners Announced
The Recording Academy announced the winners of the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, including those categories honoring recording and mastering engineers, mixers, remixers and record...
Music Production
John Cale Returns Bearing ‘Mercy’
The legendary John Cale just can’t stop making new music, and guitarist/engineer Dustin Boyer is there.
Facilities
Cover Story: The Bigger, Bolder Mansion Sound
Mansion Sound retools with SSL/Genelec/Atmos studios, including the only 96-input Solid State Logic Duality Fuse SuperAnalogue console.
Facilities
Evergroove Loving Life With Atmos
With the immersive reinvention of Evergroove Studio in Colorado, Brad Smalling is as busy as ever.
Facilities
Creating and Capturing Daniel Tashian’s ‘Night After Night’
The Grammy-winning producer/songwriter used his new studio to create a new solo album with the help of Paul Kennerly and a few talented friends.