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Mix Blog Studio: Chatty Plug-ins
Do your plug-ins have a good working relationship with your DAW? Sounds like a silly question, right? After all, plug-ins by their nature are...
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The METAlliance Report: METABollocks
By Frank Filipetti. This month, the METAlliance is taking a different tack. They call it “METABollocks,” as they sound off on all the studio...
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The Aha Moment: Controlling Your Own Destiny, Part Two
Peter Janis delves deeper into controlling your pro audio company’s destiny.
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Mix Blog Live: Resurrecting an Audio Dinosaur, Part 2
At the close of the first episode of “Resurrecting an Audio Dinosaur,” my lovely Ampex 351 tape machine channel was alive and working—though I...
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Software Tech: Will Podcasts Elevate the Small Studio?
By Craig Anderton. While podcasting started out with homegrown audio, listeners’ expectations are rising fast—creating a new opportunity for audio pros.
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Audio
By Clive Young. The new Statue of Liberty Museum makes effective use of modern AV technology, as evidenced by the lump in your throat.
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Mix Blog Studio: Audio—A Second-Class Citizen
This week, I’m going to deviate from the usual studio-related subject matter to talk about a more general issue. Have you noticed how in...
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Mix Blog Live: Resurrecting an Audio Dinosaur
You’re looking at the electronics for a single channel of an Ampex 351 tape machine that was built in the early 1950s. Ampex manufactured...
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Hearing It—Believing It
By Dennis Baxter. After talking to many of my colleagues, I will confidently say that if a sound mixer can reasonably hear immersive sound,...
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Mix Blog Studio: Rent-to-Own Gathers Steam
More than ever, you have options for acquiring music software. You can buy it, subscribe to it and, in a more recent development, rent-to-own...
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Podcasting Goes Prime Time
By Clive Young. While podcasting has been around for 15 years, it’s only in the last few that the format has exploded.
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The Aha Moment: Controlling Your Own Destiny, Part One
By Peter Janis. Change is inevitable. In business, you are either growing or dying a slow death; no business simply stays the same.
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Inside Podcasting: Who Are Podcasters?
By Chris Curran. Podcasting has exploded to become a mainstream media format, but most of its practitioners are audio engineering novices—an irony that’s creating...
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Mix Blog Live: Victor Jay Solotoff, 1945 – 2019
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1979 My friend John is a year ahead of me in the same school: John Dewey High School in Brooklyn. At the...
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Mix Blog Studio: Learning By Doing
Did you know that daisy-chaining AC power strips is considered to be dangerous? Neither did I, but when doing some research for my recent...
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Software Tech: Recovering from OS Meltdowns
Craig Anderton explores the changing ways to recover from OS meltdowns.
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The METAlliance Report: Let’s Not Lose the Art in Engineering
By Chuck Ainlay. METAlliance co-founder and multiple Grammy-winning producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay discusses what the art in engineering is and can be, offering suggestions on...
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Dreaming of a Standard Digital Mixer File
Many engineers who enjoy console du jour know how much fun it is to carry a wallet full of USB drives
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Peek Inside Twenty One Pilots’ Home Studio
By Clive Young. A perusal through social media takes the curious into the home studio of Twenty One Pilots vocalist Tyler Joseph.
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Monitoring Copyright Laws in the EU
The EU parliament passed The European Union Directive on Copyright, a new law that includes a number of provisions to protect content creators
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Mix Blog Live: O Ware, O Where
The wheels of progress never stop grinding, especially when it comes to digital audio, so it’s no surprise when manufacturers of digital gear introduce...
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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...
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Mix Blog Studio: Tear It Down and Start Over
I’ve had my home studio in its current location for about six years, and what started out as a relatively organized setup, has gotten...
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Mix Blog Live: Formation, Transformation and Deformation
On April 17, 2019, one of my classes had the opportunity to participate in a very special event. Held in the Rotunda, Mercy Hall...
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On Adopting Technology
By Clive Young. The process of getting to tomorrow’s technologies and standards is usually messy, with wrong yet logical turns and, conversely, insightful leaps...
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Mix Blog Studio: Son of a Glitch
I was at lunch recently with a bunch of veteran musician/composer/producer colleagues, and I posed this question to them: What is the thing that...
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Software Tech: Remote Possibilities
By Craig Anderton. Smartphones and tablets have fostered a veritable explosion in DAW remote control options.
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The Aha Moment: Growing Through Acquisition, Part Two
Part two of Peter Janis’ look at growing your pro audio business through acquisition.
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The METAlliance Report: Walk the Room
Multiple Grammy-winner Frank Filipetti explains why engineers starting to work in a studio for the first time should instead take a walk—around the room.
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Mix Blog Live: Cabot Theatre
This past week I visited the Cabot Theatre in Beverly, Mass., which opened on December 8, 1920, as a venue for vaudeville and silent...
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Mix Blog Studio: The Soul of a Machine?
With the continuing development of artificial intelligence, there’s been plenty of talk lately about robots replacing humans in the workplace. If you’re a musician,...
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Mix Blog Live: SDMF?
A few nights ago, I mixed a show at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Wash. We’ve played there every year since around 2000,...
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Literally Unbelievable Pro Audio Products Announced
New audio gear comes out constantly, but every spring, there’s a select few items that upon reading about them, one says (and rightly so),...
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The Aha Moment: Growing Through Acquisition, Part One
Peter Janis looks at growing your pro audio business through acquisition.
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Mix Blog Studio: Europe Revamps Its Copyright Laws
I don’t generally get to use the phrase “Here’s some breaking news,” in this space, but, well, here’s some breaking news. Today in Brussels,...
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Software Tech: New Trends in Plug-Ins
By Craig Anderton. With over a quarter-century of development, plug-ins are exploring worlds that go way beyond analog emulation.