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Retro PSN: Taylor Swift Talks Recording ‘Fearless’
Back in November, 2008, we chatted with an emerging teen country artist about recording her second album.
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Mix Blog Studio: Take My Files, Please!
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...
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Mix Blog Live: Power Steering
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...
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The Aha Moment: Building Momentum for Your Brand
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...
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Audio Interface ‘for Females’ Sparks Outcry
By Clive Young. In mid-October, a small consumer audio interface was introduced at Prolight + Sound Shanghai without much fanfare. Now it might become...
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From the Editor: Highlighting Pro Audio’s Entrepreneurial Vibe
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...
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From the Editor: The Wide, Wide World of Audio Education
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...
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Software Tech: Can Studios Live in the Cloud?
Craig Anderton isn’t daydreaming as he looks at the future of recording studios...
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LISTEN: Studio Obstacles Fueled Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage”
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.
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The METAlliance Report: JBL 7 Series Studio Monitors
Producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay weighs in on how JBL LSR-708p monitors became the go-to speaker for his home studio.
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Mix Blog Studio: What’s in Your Archive?
I was too busy looking at new products to attend many panel discussions at the recent AES Convention, but one I did get to...
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Reality Series Shows Small Town Studio The Light
By Clive Young. When a reality TV series visited Lighthouse Sounds, the show wound up renovating the owners' business plan as much as their...
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Mix Blog Live: AES—Where Inquiring Minds Go
One of the things I like best about going to an AES Convention is connecting with friends and colleagues in the industry, and as...
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At AES: The Show Floor Shuffle—A Peek at New Products
Mix Editor in Chief Tom Kenny guest posts about his travels across the AES Convention.
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Hitting the AES Show Floor: Day 1
In this guest blog post, Mix's Editor in Chief Tom Kenny shares his thoughts from the show floor of AES.
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Mix Blog Studio: AES 2018—Let the Games Begin
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...
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Home Studio Restoration will Build on Alice Coltrane’s Legacy
Ambitious plans to restore house and home studio will fulfill Coltrane group's creative mission.
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Hurricanes, Studios and Preparing for the Worst
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,...
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A Labor of Love Supreme: Saving John Coltrane’s Home Studio
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...
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Mix Blog Live: Someone Is Listening
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.,...
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Mix Blog Studio: Tick Tock and Gridlock
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...
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From the Editor: What Makes a Brand?
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...
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Once in a While You Get Shown the Light…
By Tom Kenny. I never really know when inspiration will hit or when it will run away.
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This Destination Studio Was a Destination Before It Was a Studio; Now It’s for Sale
By Clive Young. David Bowie, MGMT, Duncan Sheik, Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, Donna Lewis and dozens of others recorded at this converted 1902 train...
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The Aha Moment: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
By Peter Janis. One of the questions most often posed to me over the years is this: How do you come up with so...
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The METAlliance Report: Desert Island Microphones
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,...
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Software Tech: 96 kHz vs. 44.1 kHz—Let’s Settle This
By Craig Anderton. Ever since we’ve had a choice of sample rates, there’s been controversy over whether higher sample rates sound better.
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Evil Audio Engineers Strike Again
Audio pros used to be the good guys in movies and TV shows, but not anymore.
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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,...