Editor’s Note

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 08/01/2016

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...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 07/01/2016

Until very recently, Conway Recording Studios was something of a mystery to me.

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 06/01/2016

I spent more time in museums, and thinking about museums, over the past month than I typically do.

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 05/03/2016

We use the term “golden ears” every now and then in the pages of Mix, usually to describe an engineer whose taste and talents...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 04/07/2016

Three things struck me immediately after two separate days of walking through the stunning new Dolby Building at 1275 Market Street in San Francisco....

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 03/01/2016

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...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 02/09/2016

I write this in the Thursday early morning from Room 335 of the Anaheim Marriott, just a football field and a few hours away...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 01/08/2016

Pensado’s Place is highly entertaining.

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 12/04/2015

John Davenport, owner of this month’s cover studio, is quite a character.

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 11/05/2015

Sometimes a ready-made story, a good one, just falls into my lap.

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 09/25/2015

By the time I joined Mix in 1988, the heyday of true “residential recording” seemed to have passed.

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 09/03/2015

My first real assignments at Mix, once I was finished copyediting and proofreading for the day, were writing about Sound for Film, starting with...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 07/31/2015

I’ve said it before in these pages: I’ve always wanted to go out on summer tour.

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 07/02/2015

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......

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 06/02/2015

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...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 05/05/2015

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....

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 04/03/2015

When we last featured Capitol Studios on the Mix cover, in November 2012, we invited a whole gang of L.A.’s finest engineers and producers...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 03/06/2015

Toto could have easily phoned this one in and nobody would have blamed them, or even criticized them.

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 02/11/2015

There is a long tradition of artist-industry collaboration in professional audio, and it comes in many, many forms

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 12/30/2014

You can’t talk about recording studios without talking about their “vibe.”