Mix Blog Live: Life Through the Lens
I’ve never mixed a Blue Oyster Cult show where the band didn’t perform “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” If I recall correctly, about 10 years...
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I’ve never mixed a Blue Oyster Cult show where the band didn’t perform “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” If I recall correctly, about 10 years...
I’ve been ambivalent about software subscriptions ever since the first plans started appearing. On the one hand, they provide access to a lot more...
Recording legends Frank Filipetti and George Massenburg explain how to accurately test for and choose the right microphone.
This past Friday I worked a show in Jim Thorpe, Penn., at a venue called Penn’s Peak. Established in 2003, Penn’s Peak kicked off...
Duck and Cover, because the Anderton Awards are back. You've been warned.
Back in November, 2008, we chatted with an emerging teen country artist about recording her second album.
Whether you’re a musician, producer or engineer, the odds are that you spend some time sharing audio files with your colleagues online. I know...
The idea of “steering” a P.A. is nothing new. Renkus-Heinz and EAW have been producing steerable loudspeaker arrays since the early 2000s (the ICONYX...
By Peter Janis. By convincing market leaders—in our case, audio engineers and guitar techs—that our product offered a better solution, they became advocates for...
By Clive Young. In mid-October, a small consumer audio interface was introduced at Prolight + Sound Shanghai without much fanfare. Now it might become...
By Clive Young. When you have a personal stake in seeing something succeed, regardless of whether it’s a product or a company, you try...
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...
Craig Anderton isn’t daydreaming as he looks at the future of recording studios...
Musicians can get stymied in the studio when they're unable to make creative decisions, as an audio excerpt from the Beastie Boys' memoir proves.
Producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay weighs in on how JBL LSR-708p monitors became the go-to speaker for his home studio.
I was too busy looking at new products to attend many panel discussions at the recent AES Convention, but one I did get to...
By Clive Young. When a reality TV series visited Lighthouse Sounds, the show wound up renovating the owners' business plan as much as their...
One of the things I like best about going to an AES Convention is connecting with friends and colleagues in the industry, and as...
Mix Editor in Chief Tom Kenny guest posts about his travels across the AES Convention.
In this guest blog post, Mix's Editor in Chief Tom Kenny shares his thoughts from the show floor of AES.
The AES Convention starts tomorrow, and it’s the organization’s 145th International Pro Audio Convention. No, that doesn’t mean that the first AES show was...
Ambitious plans to restore house and home studio will fulfill Coltrane group's creative mission.
Producer/engineer and regular PSN contributor Rob Tavaglione takes stock of what he got right—and wrong—when Hurricane Florence hit his North Carolina studio in September,...
The crumbling home—and home studio—of Jazz greats John and Alice Coltrane has been rescued and named a National Treasure, but the work has only...
You’re looking at a not-so-sexy photo of the ceiling in a venue I worked last week. The Harvester Performance Center in Rocky Mount, Va.,...
Click tracks are a given in electronic and other loop-based music styles, but when recording with live musicians, they can sometimes be more trouble...
I’ve said many times that the smartest thing that Mix co-founders David Schwartz, Penny Riker Jacob and Bill Laski ever did was name it...
By Tom Kenny. I never really know when inspiration will hit or when it will run away.
By Clive Young. David Bowie, MGMT, Duncan Sheik, Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, Donna Lewis and dozens of others recorded at this converted 1902 train...
By Peter Janis. One of the questions most often posed to me over the years is this: How do you come up with so...
This is the first in what will be a monthly series expressing the METAlliance’s views, reviews and ideas concerning audio, audio hardware and software,...
By Craig Anderton. Ever since we’ve had a choice of sample rates, there’s been controversy over whether higher sample rates sound better.
Audio pros used to be the good guys in movies and TV shows, but not anymore.
I’ve lived in New York City for my entire life and I’m noticing an alarming trend. My friend Richie puts it this way: “Take...
If you’re reading this blog, chances are you spend countless hours working in your digital audio workstation and countless applications. As you know very...
By Clive Young. The U.S. festival market has hit some speed bumps in recent times, but our festival history pales against that of Europe...
September is back-to-school time, and the start of a new semester means welcoming new students to my audio courses. The first day, we review...
As you probably noticed from the photo that appears most weeks along with this blog, I’m a guitar player. So you won’t be particularly...