Live Sound
AES67, AVB/TSN, Dante Power AoIP’s Rise
By Steve Harvey. With live sound, post production and, increasingly, music production facilities now routinely utilizing audio-over-IP networks, 2018 looks like it could be...
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.
Live Sound
Cool Tools Track T-Mobile’s 600 MHz Coverage
By Steve Harvey. Crowdsourced data tools can help determine if you can still use that 600 MHz wireless mic system in a given area.
Post and Broadcast
New Audio Offerings at VRLA 2018
By Steve Harvey. The annual gathering of the VR production world returned to L.A. with eyes and ears wide open.
Business
Global Recorded Music Revenues Continue to Grow
By Steve Harvey. The global recorded music market in 2017 was $17.3 billion.
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: deadmau5
By Steve Harvey. Joel Zimmerman, known to EDM fans as deadmau5, presented his music orchestrated for strings, brass and woodwinds—but no percussion—at the Wiltern...
Business
House Votes to Modernize Music Compensation
By Steve Harvey. Passing by unanimous vote, a bill aiming to reform compensation for music licensing heads to the Senate.
Music Production
Striking Gold at Eldorado Recording Studios
By Steve Harvey. Eldorado Recording Studios sports gear from the 1950s and a track record that includes seminal albums by My Chemical Romance, The...
Music Production
Hogarth Guides First Rita Coolidge Album in 25 Years
By Steve Harvey. Producing, recording and mixing Rita Coolidge's first album of new material in 25 years was an enjoyable challenge for multi-Grammy-winner Ross...
Business
The Unlikely Return of Quadraphonic Vinyl
By Steve Harvey. Is the world ready for the return of quadraphonic vinyl records? KamranV believes the answer is yes; now he's spearheading what...
Business
Canada To Follow US with 600 MHz Auction
By Steve Harvey. March, 2019 will see Canada follow in the U.S.'s footsteps as it auctions off its 600 MHz spectrum—but pro-audio wireless users...
Live Sound
T-Mobile Tweets Deets on New 600 MHz Coverage Expansion
By Steve Harvey. T-Mobile CTO's tweet details new cities covered in 600 MHz expansion; regional audio pros must stop using any RF mic and...
Recording
A Studio with Social Media in Mind
By Steve Harvey. "If you’re not feeding the social media channel, you just about don’t exist as an artist,” says Scott Dupre, chief audio...
Recording
Concentrix’s Story Comes Full Circle
By Steve Harvey. With the impact of evolving production technologies, changes in the studio business model and the advent of the gig economy, Fred...
Business
T-Mobile 600 MHz Game Plan Gets Aggressive
By Steve Harvey. RF users in these 30 cities have to get out of the 600 MHz band this year or risk a $10,000...
Business
UK’s Music Producers Guild Awards Announced
By Steve Harvey. A sign of the changing times, five women took home top honors at the UK’s Music Producers Guild Awards on March...
Gear and Technology
IEM Mixing Matures for Houses of Worship
By Steve Harvey. Houses of worship may share timeless insights, but their audio systems are increasingly expected to be modern by congregations used to...
Recording
Studio Showcase: Virtue and Vice
By Steve Harvey. Who among us has not suffered from gear lust and the certainty that acquiring that one piece of equipment will, well,...
Post and Broadcast
Building La-Rocc-A-Fella Center
By Steve Harvey. Scoring mixer, engineer and producer Jason LaRocca has recently been working on "A Series of Unfortunate Events" for Netflix, but it...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Touring with Tori Amos
By Steve Harvey. In December, Amos wrapped up the North American leg of her tour with three sold-out nights at The Theatre at Ace...
Business
Surprise! T-Mobile Expands 600 MHz Services
By Steve Harvey. T-Mobile's rapid deployment continues to push wireless mic, IEM and comms users out of 600 MHz band across the U.S.
Music Production
A Hot Time in Havana: Recording in Cuba’s Areito Studios
By Steve Harvey. The signature sound of Areito’s Estudio 101 infuses the grooves of Daptone Records’ first Spanish-language release, Orquesta Akokán.
Business
Global Sound Reinforcement Market to Exceed $9B by 2023, Says Report
By Steve Harvey. Digital equipment, wireless mics and system upgrades expected to help drive market.
Live Sound
Santa Rosa’s House of Rock Gets on a Roll
Owners of the multipurpose facility recently installed a 48-channel SSL Duality Delta SuperAnalogue console in House of Rock’s recording studio.
Music Production
More on Mastering with Maor Appelbaum
By Steve Harvey. More insights offered by the namesake of Maor Appelbaum Mastering.
Recording
Sacrificing a Ferrari for Halo Studio’s Sound
By Steve Harvey. Roman Marcone gets the sound he wants, whether it means finding Prince’s tape machine, bolting mics to the ceiling or selling...
Business
More Wireless Mic Users Affected as T-Mobile Expands 600 MHz Coverage
By Steve Harvey. T-Mobile has kicked off the year by announcing its plans to aggressively expand its 600 MHz services.
Live Sound
MyMix Takes On Pete Tong at the Hollywood Bowl
By Steve Harvey. Musicians heard themselves on the complicated Pete Tong's Ibiza Classics tour via MyMix systems.
Music Production
Rethinking the Mastering Studio
By Steve Harvey. Mastering guru Maor Appelbaum talks gear and why change is good.
Live Sound
TPG Bows Bose Rig at Surprise Kendrick Lamar Show
By Steve Harvey. Total Production Group fielded its new Bose ShowMatch system for a surprise Kendrick Lamar / Rihanna charity event.
Music Production
Sound On Sound Eschews NYC for New Jersey
By Steve Harvey. After 30 years of owning studios in Manhattan, resilient recorder Dave Amlen had to close MSR (formerly Right Track) in Times...
Business
Nashville Producer Sues City
By Steve Harvey. Elijah “Lij” Shaw, owner and operator of The Toy Box Studio in East Nashville and the man behind Bonnaroo’s Hay Bale...
Music Production
Hit House Moves Home, Leads in Trailers
By Steve Harvey. When Sally House, executive director of The Hit House, and her husband, creative director Scott Miller, realized that clients were no...
Live Sound
Moroccan Lounge: More Rock than Lounge
By Steve Harvey. The team behind New York’s Mercury Lounge and Bowery Ballroom opened a new music venue in downtown Los Angeles in September....
Music Production
Petocz Master Class Offers Inspiration
By Steve Harvey. Sunset Sound Recording Studios hosted the inaugural Csaba Petocz Master Class Scholarship at the end of August, where GRAMMY Award-winning producer...
Music Production
In This Studio, It’s Newton’s Law
By Steve Harvey. Nearly 30 years ago, commercial recording studio owners in Los Angeles banded together and tried to close down the city’s dozen...
Music Production
At AES: Heyser Lecture Says ‘Pay Attention’
By Steve Harvey. Leslie Ann Jones, a recording and mixing engineer for over 35 years and currently director of music recording and scoring with...
HOW Sound
At AES: RF Panel: ‘Scan Early and Often’
By Steve Harvey. The successful completion of the FCC's Incentive Auction earlier this year set the countdown clock ticking for wireless mic operators, who...
Music Production
W Hotels Goes Pro for Sound Suites
By Steve Harvey. “Sleep. Eat. Record. Repeat” is the tagline for a global network of music production facilities launched by W Hotels Worldwide, initially...
Live Sound
Packing Pershing Square with Sound
By Steve Harvey. Burbank, CA-based CenterStaging recently acquired a ShowMatch DeltaQ line array system from Bose Professional, and immediately found itself deploying the PA...
Blog
Book Review: CarAlity…A Tribute in New Orleans
Authors are advised to write about what they know and, lucky for us, J. Daniel Jones knows plenty. In his first novel, CarAlity…A Tribute...
Music Production
Making a Mountain Out of Media
By Steve Harvey. “If I was going to say one thing, it would be, hello, hard drives!” says Barry Cardinael, project manager for Iron...