2017
Lettuce Brings The Funk
Withmorethan20 yearsonthe roadandinthestudio,Lettucebrought their horn andrhythm-loadedseven-piecefunktothe FoxTheater in Oakland,Calif.,inmid-March, pluggingintothe MeyerSoundhousesystemandfillingthestagewithagroove-laced yet dynamicperformance. Supportedonthisclubandtheatertourby MusicMattersProductions and UnderlyingThemes Productions,thebandcarriedconsoles,IEMs, Mics, DIand cabling, relyingonhouse-suppliedwedges,subs,stacks/ racks, powerandstands....
2017
On The Cover: Mount Olive High School, New Jersey
There’s a nationally recognized robotics department, with associated old-style and new-style machine rooms and electronics stations. There’s a high-def television station that rivals a...
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From the Editor: Never Enough Beatles
This month’s cover story started out as a simple half-page assignment on the release of a DVD-Blu-ray. A notice had gone out to journalists...
2016
From the Editor: Bouncing off of the Masters
The importance of sharing ideas in the studio world.
2016
From the Editor: Audio Education and the Binary Construct
We get an education so that we learn how to think, how to solve problems, how to advance our art.
2016
On the Cover: Fantasy Film Center Reborn
It is rare that a story about an iconic, large-scale, world-class studio closing is followed—in this case nearly a decade later—by a story of...
2016
Control Theory
Control Theory doesn’t often come up in casual conversation. But it’s come up for me lately, quite a bit actually, and I still have...
2016
Thanks for the Dinner, David
Last night, in Santa Fe, I had a nice dinner with David Schwartz, co-founder of Mix and the man who hired me as an...
2016
VUE Debuts Two at BottleRock
It’s not easy to debut new live sound products in real world situations. Few engineers want to risk the introduction of new technologies with...
2016
Living the Good Life
Until very recently, Conway Recording Studios was something of a mystery to me.
2016
On the Cover: Conway Recording Studios, 40 Years at the Top
The lush, tropical gardens are both striking and comforting. The palms and ferns and flowers in rich, vibrant colors stand in contrast to the...
2016
SFMOMA: Sound in a Space
I spent more time in museums, and thinking about museums, over the past month than I typically do.
2016
Carlos Rodriguez-Quiros
Carlos Rodriguez-Quiros is a renowned classical guitarist with an affinity for sound. From what he hears in his brain to his fingers on the...
2016
Stop. Look. Listen.
We use the term “golden ears” every now and then in the pages of Mix, usually to describe an engineer whose taste and talents...
2016
‘The Art of Listening’
It is fitting that producer Andrew Scheps is featured prominently in the new music documentary, The Art of Listening, advocating the experiential benefits of...
2016
Bringing It All Back Home
Three things struck me immediately after two separate days of walking through the stunning new Dolby Building at 1275 Market Street in San Francisco....
2016
Producer/Engineer Ian Schreier
There was a moment a few years back, and again a few years before that, where Ian Schreier faced the career dilemma a lot...
2016
Monitoring Reality
So many speakers. And they’re everywhere. In your living room, kitchen and bedroom. In your car, on the plane, on the bus, on the...
2016
Gear, With Personality
I write this in the Thursday early morning from Room 335 of the Anaheim Marriott, just a football field and a few hours away...
2016
On the Cover: The Pensado Media Center
New Production Space Adds Radio, Photography, Library, Culture
2015
In the Room Where It Happens
John Davenport, owner of this month’s cover studio, is quite a character.
2015
The Making of a Belmont Story
Sometimes a ready-made story, a good one, just falls into my lap.
2015
All Music, No Distractions
By the time I joined Mix in 1988, the heyday of true “residential recording” seemed to have passed.
2015
On the Cover: Breaking Sound Barriers
Pilot Recording Studios Finds a New Home in the Berkshires
2015
Big or Small, It’s All Sound for Picture
My first real assignments at Mix, once I was finished copyediting and proofreading for the day, were writing about Sound for Film, starting with...