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The Nexus of Art, Architecture and Technology
Acclaimed architect John Storyk reflects both the consistency of his work over five decades and the changes in his style in adapting to modern...
Editor’s Note
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Dolby Atmos Music Special Issue: It’s Time for a Brand New Experience
Immersive music is coming to the recording industry, no question about it.
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‘When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn Pro’
In his Editor's Note for the April issue, Mix Editor Tom Kenny looks around the coronavirus landscape and wonders who is going to help...
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Where Tradition Meets the Modern
About halfway through writing this month’s cover story on the revamp of the Newman Scoring Stage at Fox Studios, it dawned on me that...
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A Different Time, a Different Place
With no traffic, Montauk is only a little more than a two-hour drive from New York City, two-forty-five if you take the Long Island...
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Hearing the Music in ‘Found Sounds’
My introduction to writing about sound for film and television, and most of the emphasis over the years, has been through post-production.
2019
The Spirit of Independence
I’ve only met Linda Perry once, and it was for no more than two or three minutes last January at NAMM.
2019
The Scientist and the Bard
I still can’t believe that 40 years after first being mesmerized by Apocalypse Now as a 16-year-old, Mix is featuring the legendary director Francis...
2019
The TEC Awards and Leslie Ann Jones
I will always have a soft spot for the TEC Awards. They’re now the NAMM TEC Awards, and they’ve grown in size, stature and...
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From the Editor: Learning When to Take Control
I wrote two stories this month about two artists—Carrie Underwood and Esperanza Spalding—strong women from two very different backgrounds and two very different places...
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From the Editor: The Ghosts in the Walls
In putting together this December issue, the past came rushing back during my conversation with producer Eric Valentine and the legacy of the room...
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From the Editor: The Wide, Wide World of Audio Education
I was introduced to a couple of remarkably disparate yet somehow similar experiences in audio education on the path to this month’s issue. In...
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From the Editor: So Many Ways to Play the Game
Every single month, in putting together issues of "Mix," I am reminded of just how many and varied styles there are to bring music...
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From the Editor: All My Best Memories
So many, many great memories, and they all involve music.
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Musicians in the Studio, Let Them Play
By Tom Kenny. Times have changed, certainly, and few artists today have the luxury to book a high-end studio for more than a week...
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
Living the Good Life
Until very recently, Conway Recording Studios was something of a mystery to me.
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
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
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
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...
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
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...
2015
MixTrips: Finding a Groove on the Road
I’ve said it before in these pages: I’ve always wanted to go out on summer tour.
2015
This One’s for My Buddy Dwight
You don’t know Dwight. There’s really no reason you should. He’s not a recording engineer or live sound professional. He doesn’t make audio products......
2015
What Is a Recording Studio?
Back in 1989 when I walked into John Mellencamp’s Belmont Mall Studios off Highway 46 east of Bloomington, Ind., I had no idea that...
2015
Everybody Loves a Good Story
I’m of mostly Irish descent, and I come from a large family. My undergrad degree is in history and my master’s is in journalism....