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Software Tech: Will Your Hardware Rack Move to the Cloud?
Craig Anderton considers whether it's feasible to expect hardware processes to follow software processing into the cloud.
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The Aha Moment: When Life Gets in the Way
By Peter Janis. Every business faces challenges, but sometimes the greatest obstacle isn’t knowledge, the marketplace or technology; it’s time.
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Mix Blog Studio: The Benefits of Actually Being There
It wasn’t that long ago, maybe 10 years or so, when there was talk bout trade shows being on their way out. People speculated...
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At AES: Being About Close Encounters on the Exhibit Floor (and with Howard Schwartz!)
By Tom Kenny. The editor of Mix shares the insights and inside info he’s gleaned from his travels on the AES show floor.
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At AES: Capricorn Records, Dolby Atmos Music and a Few Black Boxes
By Tom Kenny. The editor of Mix shares the insights and inside info he’s gleaned from his travels on the AES show floor.
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A Few of My Favorite Things
By Tom Kenny. The editor of Mix editor shares “a few of his favorite things” at this year’s AES
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Mix Blog Live: Newberry Opera House
Eighteen eighty-one, United States. President James Garfield is assassinated. Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. Billy the Kid escapes...
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Mix Blog Studio: When Bad Sounds Good, and Vice Versa
There’s a certain irony to the fact that we put so much time and energy into getting the best fidelity possible in our recordings,...
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The Mix Consultancy: We need to talk about money…
By Dom Morley. Getting a great engineering gig can be hard, but sometimes getting paid for it at the end can be even harder....
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Mix Blog Live: Back to the Future
Most audio engineers are familiar with the term snapshot memory, a method by which all (or at least most) of the settings of a...
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From the Editor: Excitement Builds for AES
By Clive Young. Every AES show delivers new surprises, people, gear and experiences, and this year’s edition, taking place Oct. 16–19 at the Jacob...
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The Aha Moment: Good People
“Hire good people and give them the space to thrive.” It seems obvious, but if you’re the boss, it’s not that easy to do....
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Software Tech: Is Inexpensive Pro Audio Software Over?
By Craig Anderton. Before the turn of the century, keyboards were on a race to the bottom in terms of cost, before they managed...
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Mix Blog Studio: Before You Press That Upgrade Button…
In October, Apple will release Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina, and when it does, my Mac will start bugging me to upgrade—and it can...
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The METAlliance Report: Staying Healthy in the Studio
By The METAlliance. The pros of the METAlliance—including legendary Grammy-winning engineers Al Schmitt, Chuck Ainlay and Elliot Scheiner—share how to take care of yourself...
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Mix Blog Live: Is It Live, Or Is It???
A few nights ago, some of my coworkers were discussing the song “Bad Guy” by Billie Eilish, the video for which has collected more...
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Mix Blog Studio: Get Smart
Over the weekend, I read a fascinating op-ed in the New York Times called “How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.” Its basic...
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Should the South’s First Studio Be Saved?
By Clive Young. The site where the first country music hit was recorded stands at the center of a legal battle in Atlanta that...
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Real-World Review: ‘Listen Up!’
By Steve Harvey. This book by Grammy-winning producer, engineer and mixer Mark Howard and his brother, Chris Howard, is an album-by-album account of working...
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Mix Blog Live: Best Show Ever
I’m lucky to have a close-knit family and we often find excuses to get together, whether it be for a holiday, a birthday or...
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Mix Blog Studio: Of Moods and Mixing
Here’s a thought exercise. Imagine you had to mix the same song twice, in different studios with different monitors (I know that sounds like...
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Software Tech: The Services Industry?
Craig Anderton ponders whether the music software industry will take the services route to offset maturing sales.
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The Aha Moment: You Are Either Growing or You Are Dying
Peter Janis explains why first-class manufacturing, a well-oiled administration and excellent customer service are important, but mean nothing without sales.
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The METAlliance Report: Make the Most of Your Room
By Frank Filipetti. These days, any space can suddenly become a recording studio. If you’re working in an up-and-coming facility also known as the...
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Mix Blog Live: The Expensive Seats Aren’t Always the Best
One of the issues that I deal with on a constant basis is making a P.A. sound good for the front rows of a...
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Mix Blog Studio: Something Is Rotten in Copyright Land
A couple of weeks ago, Katy Perry and some members of her production team were hit with a $2.8 million copyright-infringement verdict, which stated...
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What’s the Buzz? How to Knock Unwanted Noise Out of Your System
That hum in the system has got to go—here’s how to banish it to audio oblivion.
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Mix Blog Live: No Excuses
I almost never have the luxury of touring with production, so on any given show there are a ton of variables in the P.A....
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The Mix Consultancy: The Psychology of Mixing
The Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer shares some thoughts on keeping an ear to your mix and an eye on yourself.
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Mix Blog Studio: Separation Anxiety
I have a modular music system in my house that has speakers in three different rooms. It’s super-convenient, allowing me to listen to the...
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The Aha Moment: Creating Demand
Peter Janis, former CEO of Radial Engineering, discusses ways to get creative when it comes to creating demand for your pro audio product.
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The METAlliance Report: Modern Loudness
By George Massenburg. The multi Grammy-winning METAlliance co-founder explores the perils and pitfalls of modern loudness and explains why mastering engineers and artists who...
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Software Tech: The New Mac Pro
By Craig Anderton. Deep dive into the new Mac Pro and discover what it means for audio pros.
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Mix Blog Live: Resurrecting an Audio Dinosaur, Part 3
When last we left my Ampex 351 Audio Dinosaur, I had installed a newly rebuilt power supply, ensuring that all sections of the 351...
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Live Sound Gets Environmentally Sound
By Clive Young. Concerts are scientifically proven to be good for your health; now they're becoming less bad for the Earth, too.
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Mix Blog Studio: Master of Some
Back in the analog era, it was easier to fully master the gear in your studio because, unless you were working in a large...
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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.
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Mix Blog Live: The Power of Chicken Nuggets
July 5, 2019, 11:30 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time I return to my hotel room after a gig at the Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Ariz....