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...
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.
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...
Live Sound
Wrangling RF at Festivals Just Got Harder
For years, certainly since the transition to DTV in 2010, when wireless audio equipment operators had to vacate the 700 MHz band, RF coordinators...
Music Production
Rocking the Studio with Kevin Shirley
MALIBU, CA—For the past 37 years, Kevin “Caveman” Shirley has worked with some of the biggest artists on the planet, including Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith,...
Music Production
Huber Debuts Unique Album in Auro-3D
By Steve Harvey. With the emergence of new audio tools from Auro Technologies, Dolby Laboratories and others in recent years, artists working in surround...
Recording
Studio Showcase: Sound City’s Urban Renewal
By Steve Harvey. Contrary to the popular misconception spread by Dave Grohl’s 2013 documentary chronicling the purchase and relocation of the studio’s iconic Neve...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Jean-Michel Jarre
By Steve Harvey. Jean-Michel Jarre has performed for the largest crowds ever assembled, in Moscow (3.5 million) and Paris (2.5 million), both acknowledged by...
HOW Sound
Congress Writes to FCC About Wireless Mics
By Steve Harvey. A letter to the Federal Communications Commission from a bipartisan Congressional group could potentially make more frequency spectrum available to wireless...
HOW Sound
FCC Issues 600 MHz Consumer Disclosure
By Steve Harvey. The Federal Communications Commission has issued an Order that provides the specific language for the Consumer Disclosure notice to be displayed...
Music Production
Robert Margouleff in the Hear360 and Now
By Steve Harvey. For the past two years, Margouleff, well known for his long association with Stevie Wonder in the recording studio, has been...
Music Production
Interacting with the Sounds of Simon
By Steve Harvey. Paul Simon: Words & Music, a traveling exhibition organized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, is currently...
Blog
Giles Martin Dissects The Sgt. Pepper 50th Anniversary Remix
At a playback event at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, producer Giles Martin talked at length about remixing the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club...
Music Production
Producing The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper Re-Release
It has been called the greatest album ever made. So when tasked with remixing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for its fiftieth anniversary...
Recording
Studio Showcase: RND’s Multifunctional Space
Rupert Neve Designs (RND), the Wimberley, Texas-based pro audio firm of truly legendary proportions, recently converted a conference room at its headquarters into an...
Music Production
The Mastering Palace Turns 10 in Harlem
Location is everything in real estate. So when Dave Kutch found a suitable building for his Mastering Palace in 2007 in an area of...
Music Production
Al Schmitt Captures Bob Dylan in Triplicate
Less is most definitely more for Al Schmitt, who recorded Bob Dylan’s latest 30-song release, Triplicate, at Capitol Studios using just seven microphones.
Music Production
He Masters Voice
By Steve Harvey. With season 12 of NBC’s The Voice now underway, Grammy-winning mastering engineer Evren Göknar’s Saturday nights are about to get busy....
HOW Sound
HOWs Bring Cabling Up to Date
By Steve Harvey. Copper is dead, long live glass. That’s an exaggeration, of course; copper cable as a transport for both analog and digital...
Music Production
The Bakery Serves Up Vinyl and More
By Steve Harvey. “The power of this system is how it remembers everything,” says Eric Boulanger, at the controls of the “RoboLathe” at his...
Music Production
The Return of Jean-Michel Jarre
ANAHEIM, CA—Over his 45-year career, French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre has racked up some impressive feats: an estimated 80 million albums sold; a Guinness...
Recording
Studio Design: Resolving Acoustics
Acoustic treatment and sound isolation are two critical issues when designing and constructing a project studio.
Music Production
The Road to Produce Like A Pro
LOS ANGELES, CA—L.A.-based English record producer, engineer, mixer, musician and composer Warren Huart has a well-deserved reputation for turning music into gold—or, not infrequently,...
Music Production
P&E Wing Honors Jack White
Jack White was fêted by The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing at its annual Grammy Week celebration at The Village Studios on Feb....
HOW Sound
RF Mics Face Altered Landscape
The Federal Communications Commission’s Incentive Auction came to an end on January 18, 2017 when telecommunications companies met the closing criteria for a clearing...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Toruk
Cirque du Soleil’s Toruk—The First Flight, an immersive live multimedia spectacle inspired by James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster movie Avatar, has been touring arenas throughout...
Music Production
Audio Archiving: Taking the Long View
Thirty-five years after the launch of the compact disc and 30 years after the Macintosh II computer’s expansion capabilities birthed the DAW revolution, audio...
Music Production
Pachyderm Studio Back From Near Extinction
Listen to Nirvana’s 1993 In Utero album, from “Serve the Servants” to “All Apologies,” and you will be transported to the storied Pachyderm Studio,...
Music Production
Atmos Album Rocks in Romania
Cristian Ştefănescu, a multi-talented composer and producer from Bucharest, Romania, who releases music under the moniker Electric Brother, wanted to make a big splash...
Music Production
Cool Tools Propel Personal Studios
Everything began to change in record production in 1990, give or take a couple of years, when audio I/O connectivity became available for the...
Live Sound
OSA Fields MLA at Cavernous Event
Chicago’s Navy Pier is a unique venue, particularly due to its Aon Grand Ballroom, which is inspiring to look at but a challenging audio...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Switchfoot in Dallas
DALLAS, TX—Multi-platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning band Switchfoot recently wrapped up its 10-week Looking for America Tour with Grammy-nominated alt-rockers Relient K co-headlining all 51 shows.
Music Production
Wherefore, Art House America?
NASHVILLE, TN—Art House America, a non-profit/collection of studios in Nashville, has returned, following a massive refurbishing.
Music Production
All-Stars Weigh In on Album Production
LOS ANGELES, CA—The era of putting a microphone up, passing the signal through a mixing console and into a tape recorder has largely gone...
Music Production
Oufitting a Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Mount Olive High School (MOHS), rated among the top schools in the nation, made some major upgrades to its facilities over its summer recess,...
Music Production
Mastering Rock’s Past for the Future
For mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum, good communication is the key to any successful project.
Music Production
Bernie Grundman: Back in the Grooves
HOLLYWOOD, CA—Much has been written in the trade and mainstream media about vinyl’s comeback and its role in helping to keep the record industry...
HOW Sound
Tune In: Religious Broadcasting Today
Religious broadcasting has come a long way since Pittsburgh radio station KDKA aired the very first service on January 2, 1921, from Calvary Episcopal...