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Mix Blog Live: Muscle Memory
After a long hiatus, Steve La Cerra settled in at FOH for his first gig of 2021 and, for a brief moment, found that...
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New Products
Product of the Week: Avid VENUE 7 Software
Users can now share I/O between three Avid VENUE | S6L consoles, allowing for the addition of a broadcast desk or second monitor desk...
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Mix Blog Live: Vegas Reopens at 50 Percent
While not a long-term solution, the move in Las Vegas to open venues at up to 50 percent capacity (or 250 people, whichever is...
New Products
Product of the Week: Martin Audio TORUS
Constant curvature array, with 12-inch neodymium LF transducer and three 1.4-inch neodymium Polymer-dome HF compression drivers. addresses applications requiring a throw between 50 and...
Reviews
Review: Beyerdynamic TG 151 and TG D70 Mics
Touring Gear Series Expands to Kick Drum, More Instruments
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Mix Blog Live: GRAMMY Time
Grammy Week and Music's Biggest Night will look a lot different this time around, but as Steve La Cerra points out, the performers are...
New Products
Product of the Week: Audio-Technica ES945O/XLR and 947C/XLR Boundary Microphones
Omnidirectional and caridoid models contain their own power modules, with XLRM output connectors, and feature RFI shielding technology.
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Mix Blog Live: Well, At Least Someone Cares
While the public cheered recent announcements of limited-capacity venue reopenings, Steve La Cerra looks at the economics and calls it a non-starter; meanwhile, he...
New Products
Product of the Week: Mackie Onyx24 Analog Mixer
From 8 to 24 channels, and equally at home in studio, live or production applications, the Onyx Series proves versatile, affordable and loaded with...
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Mix Blog Live: RTFM
In teaching a lesson to a student about following the proper steps for a project, Steve La Cerra ends up following his own advice...
New Products
Product of the Week: Electro-Voice EVOLVE 50M
A new top-of-the-line column P.A. with effects, 16-channel mixer and QuickSmart Link to make it all stereo with a simple Ethernet cable.
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Mix Blog Live: Virtually NAMM
Steve La Cerra really wanted to go to Anaheim this year to find new products and catch up with some colleagues, but mostly he...
New Products
Product of the Week: NEXO P15 and L18 Loudspeakers
The two new models round out the P+ Series of compact high-output speakers from NEXO, a series that includes the P8, P10, and P12...
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Mix Blog Live: It Ain’t The Gig, It’s the Commute
Steve La Cerra just had his second gig since the Covid outbreak, and while it went better in the house, the same could not...
New Products
Product of the Week: Danley SM90 Loudspeaker
Powerful coaxial design can be used as a smaller-scale P.A. or as a fill speaker in larger sound reinforcement systems.
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Mix Blog Live: Sending Out an SOS
Steve La Cerra reports in on the latest from Congress in Covid relief to help venue operators and those involved in live sound and...
Microphones
Review: Earthworks SR314 Handheld Vocal Microphone
Smooth Off-Axis, Extended LF Response for Stage and Studio
New Products
Product of the Week: Audix A133 and A131 Condenser Microphones
Two new large-diaphragm condenser models suitable for vocals, instruments and podcasting.
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Mix Blog Live: My First Indoor Gig, Front to Back
In his first indoor gig of the Covid era, Steve La Cerra finds that while the crew and backstage areas followed protocol, it was...
New Products
Product of the Week: Bluesound BSW150 Powered Subwoofer
Sub can be network-paired with other Bluesound speakers for playing and distributing content from local network storage or streaming services.
New Products
Product of the Week: d&b audiotechnik 44S Loudspeaker
Ultra-compact monitors are the in-thing these days, and d&b has designed a flexible, powerful companion to its xS Series line of loudspeakers.
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Mix Blog Live: Memories of Bruce Swedien
Steve La Cerra recalls the human side of Bruce Swedien, how they met over a story about Neumann M49s and how he ended up...
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Tech Spotlight: Adamson Systems Engineering CS-Series
Adamson has Released its Latest Line of Powered Intelligent Loudspeakers, the CS-Series
New Products
Product of the Week: Sennheiser 445 and 435 Vocal Microphones
Two new dynamic, handheld, large-diaphragm vocal microphones for stage and studio include new aluminum-copper voice coils.
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Mix Blog Live: Holding My Breath
With only a few weeks to go in the semester, Steve La Cerra is crossing his fingers that the classrooms at Mercy College stay...
New Products
Product of the Week: JBL IRX115S Subwoofer
A new, powerful, 15-inch subwoofer produces bass response down to 35 Hz at an affordable price, filling out the popular portable P.A. IRX Series.
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Mix Blog Live: The Weirdest AES Show Ever
Steve La Cerra went online instead of driving into Manhattan this year for the AES Show Fall 2020, and he found a wealth of...
New Products
Product of the Week: Nugen Audio Paragon
Convolution reverb models the sound of real spaces and provides the type of parameter control normally associated with algorithmic reverbs, in configurations of up...
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Audio Education in a Pandemic World
Hybrid Models of Remote Production, Instruction Take Root on Campus
Reviews
Review: MXL Revelation II Microphone
Versatile, Affordable, Multipattern Large-Diaphragm Tube Condenser
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Mix Blog Live: Business as Unusual
Steve La Cerra jumped on a plane last week, headed for Pittsburgh on his first fly-date since the shutdown in March. The airports, he...
New Products
Product of the Week: beyerdynamic Touring Gear Series Microphones
The Touring Gear Series of microphones has expanded with the addition of the TG D70 and TG 151. both dynamic models that work...
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Mix Blog Live: A Steep Climb
With The Met canceling its entire Fall Season, along with others across the country, it's looking more and more like mid- to late-2021 for...
New Products
Product of the Week: Mikme Pocket
This tiny wireless transmitter is designed to capture audio on the go, primarily for videographers, at up to 96k to a smartphone; its applications,...
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Mix Blog Live: Which Group Am I In?
Steve La Cerra returned to school last week, and everything you've been reading about education during the pandemic is true; but he's making it...
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Mix Blog Live: Surviving Sturgis
To find out what concert one-offs are actually like these days, Steve La Cerra called a friend who mixed front of house in mid-August...
New Products
Product of the Week: Adamson IS219 Subwoofer
High-power, high-SPL, passive subwoofer can handle 3,200 watts continuous and is able to withstand peak power up to 12,800 watts... in case you ever...
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Mix Blog Live: We Need the Good Kind of PR
With uncertainty growing ever greater in the concert touring industry, Steve La Cerra finds that cluster parties and pop-up live events can be damaging...
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Mix Blog Live: Check Your Wireless Inventory
As of July, time's up on the 600 MHz band for wireless system users, and Steve La Cerra looks at options out there as...
New Products
Product of the Week: Waves FIT Controller for eMotion LV1
Hands-on control for the Waves eMotion LV1 software-based mixing platform, with touch-sensitive, 100mm faders and 16 channel strips.
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Mix Blog Live: Flash Your Headlights
Steve La Cerra worked last weekend! And he found that while the logistics of prepping for a live "drive-in concert" were a bit nerve-racking,...