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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...
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Mix Blog Studio: Sweating the Details
DAWs are incredible pieces of technology, combining most of the functions of a hardware-based recording studio into a single piece of über-software. If you...
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From the Editor: Sound Science in the Real World
If you want to know what’s going on in the audio industry, talk to the studio designers—they’re usually a step or two ahead of...
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Back Page Blog: June 2018
Thoughts from Mix technology editors Mike Levine and Steve La Cerra on downtime, musicians v. loops, etiquette and analog sound
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Peek Inside Tommy Lee’s Home Studio
By Clive Young. Motley Crue drummer/occasional producer Tommy Lee asks $4.65M for home and home studio space.
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Mix Blog Live: SSL Gave Me Brain Overload
My brain hurts. I just returned from visiting the folks at SSL’s New York office where SSL Support Engineer Andrew Hollis was kind enough...
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Working Without a Net Is Becoming Passe
Infocomm 2018 takes place this week in Las Vegas, and there will be plenty of talk on the show floor about AOIP (audio over...
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Mix Blog Live: VIPu
Take a look at the picture above and tell me what’s wrong… I’ll go out for a bite while you study it. Okay, I’m...
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How Pro Audio Trade Shows Rebounded
By Clive Young. After a few wilderness years, pro-audio trade show attendance has rebounded, and in some cases the conventions are bigger than ever....
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Mix Blog Studio: “Fade” Accompli
The Fade-out. It was once ubiquitous and is now almost as rare as a whooping crane, a snow leopard, or even a large-antlered muntjac....
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Software Tech: Can Pro Audio Software Sustain?
By Craig Anderton. The lessons of Cakewalk, Emagic, Steinberg, Digidesign and Syntrillium are instructive because each presents possibly sustainable economic models for pro audio...
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Are You Gonna Show Up?
My friend Rob has a saying that goes something like this: “Are you gonna show up, or are you gonna stay home?” It’s become...