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Mix Blog Live: Put a Toll Booth in It
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...
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Mix Blog Studio: Two for One?
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...
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Facing Festival Fatigue?
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...
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Mix Blog Live: Back to School, Put Down the Phone
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...
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Mix Blog Studio: We’re All Gonna DI
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...
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Mix Blog Live: You Want Fries With That?
Obnoxious Drunk Person interrupting me at FOH: “Are you the soundguy? It sounds like %#&@.” I refrain from telling this annoying, inebriated individual where...
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Mix Blog Studio: Truly Mobile
The idea of being able to record anywhere is compelling. Whether you do field recording or just want to be able to work on...
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Mix Blog Studio: Farewell to Noise
Recently, two innovative noise-reduction plug-ins, Audionamix IDC (Instant Dialogue Cleaner) and McDSP NR800, have hit the market. Though quite different in design and application,...
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Mix Blog Live: How Big Does a Kick Drum Really Need to Be?
In the past year or so, I’ve witnessed several major internationally acclaimed artists get murdered by their sound person. I won’t mention names because...
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The Other ‘Analog Vs. Digital’ Battle
By Clive Young. The internet has moved into every aspect of our lives, but advancing your pro-audio career is still best done in the...
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Mix Blog Studio: Residual Knowledge
Recently, a fledgling twenty-something composer named Darren visited an old-folks home outside of New York City to talk to a man we’ll call Grandpa,...
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Mix Blog Live: Find Someplace Else to Live
My cousin Frank sent me a message and a link to an online article published last week that discussed the reorganization of the wireless...
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Mix Blog Studio: Cool Plug-Ins from the Land of the Euro
There’s no shortage of music-software developers out there, and sometimes because of the glut of companies, it’s hard to keep up with them all....
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Birth of a Record: Jackson Browne’s ‘Running on Empty’
Watch the video: Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Russell Kunkel and Craig Doerge joined moderator Mr. Bonzai in an exploration of the creation of Jackson...
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Mix Blog Live: Sometimes The Show Doesn’t Go On…
August 3, 2018, 3:15 AM Alarm number one goes off. *&^%$!! Why didn’t I listen to my parents when they tried to steer me...
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Mix Blog Studio: Mixing on the Long and Winding Road
For me, mixing is the most fascinating, challenging and rewarding part of the music production process. It’s like a long, multifaceted story that unfolds...
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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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Mix Blog Live: Where’s My Rack?
The amount of processing that’s built into digital consoles these days is staggering. If you look at even the most inexpensive digital mixer, you’ll...
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Mix Blog Studio: Yo, Merge This!
For a long time there were rumors about Apple wanting to eventually merge iOS and Mac. There have been some developments in that direction,...
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Timbaland’s VA Studio Hits the Market
By Clive Young. The R&B megaproducer's Virginia Beach studio complex is up for sale, along with its gear.
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Sonic Aging: Pro Audio’s Next Untapped Market?
By Clive Young. Over the last few years, a movement has sprung up within the spirits industry championing a process called “sonic aging,” which...
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Mix Blog Live: Just A Little Bit…
When my guys headline a show and there’s a support act, we make every effort to make them feel welcome. We do however have...
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Pro Audio and Machine Learning: Ready for Prime Time?
By Craig Anderton. Will machine learning make audio engineers obsolete?
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Conjuring Up a Dead Session
I had an interesting lesson this week in why it’s important to do more than just hit Save—or even hit Save and make a...
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Mix Blog Live: Don’t Cut Off Your Nose…
Any gear nut can tell you that one of the issues in dealing with vintage gear is the availability of parts. You may be...
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The Digital Tail Wagging the Vintage Dog
For many recording musicians and home-studio engineers in the digital age, the sound and behavior of vintage hardware is defined largely by digital emulations...
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If You’re Not 15 Minutes Early…
July 6, 2018 My first alarm goes off at 6:15 AM, which is pretty late for a gig day. I’ve inherited the “I don’t...
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Mix Blog Studio: Test Your Gear Obsession
Have you ever wondered if your love of audio gear goes beyond just normal professional curiosity? Could you be… gear-obsessed? It’s a serious condition...
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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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Mix Blog Live: The Yamaha NS10 Reborn
Just when you thought that Yamaha NS10Ms were going the way of the dinosaur, Avantone has introduced what appears to be a redux. Engineers...
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The Silicon Mic Locker
It strikes me as a wee bit odd that last week in this space I was talking about commercial studios with real consoles and...
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Mix Blog Live: A Tale of Two Cities
Here’s a tale of two gigs that we did last week. Four hundred miles away from each other, yet light years apart. We’ll call...
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Software Tech: Apple Drops Intel? What Does It Mean for Us?
By Craig Anderton. The latest Apple rumor is that the company is going to replace Intel’s chips with their own starting in 2020.
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Mix Blog Studio: Survival Strategy—Move to the Suburbs
It certainly won’t come as news to you as a Mix reader that the commercial studio industry has dwindled over the last 20 years...
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Mix Blog Live: What’s All the Hub-bub?
Audio-Technica announced that they have upgraded their entire line of Network Microphones and Devices. For the unfamiliar, the Network Microphones and Devices series of...
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The Next Wave of Urban Studios Is Not Quite What You’d Expect
By Clive Young. Recording studios have been disappearing from major cities for years; now an unexpected trend may be changing that.
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The Creative-Control Conundrum
When mixing your own music in your own studio, you have complete creative control. You can experiment with different ideas, try weird stuff and...
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Engineer Steve Albini Wins WSOP 2018 Seven Card Stud Event
By Clive Young. Noted musician/recording engineer/studio owner Steve Albini took home over $100,000 on June 14 when he beat 309 other entrants in the...
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Detroit’s Historic United Sound Systems Recording Studios for Sale
By Clive Young. Legendary Detroit facility hits the market with a $1.5 million price tag.
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Mix Blog Live: I’m Surrounded
Last week at InfoComm in Las Vegas there was a noticeable presence of product geared toward “live immersive audio.” The point of immersive live...