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A Gun at Front of House
House engineers hate it when touring engineers try to revamp their audio systems. Touring engineers hate using poorly assembled house systems that barely function....
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Networking Headlines In Live Touring [Online Extra]
Networking is becoming ubiquitous in live sound, both for install and for portable/touring applications. What are the challenges and practical implications as end users...
Studio Sense
Review Previews: First Impressions with ADAM and Sennheiser
In my job as Reviews Editor, I listen to a lot of different studio monitoring systems in my workspace. When this ADAM AX...
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Musicians Institute Hits The Ebooks
There's more to Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA than musical training. With that in mind, the venerable college has released an ebook, Want A...
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VIDEO: Recalling Recording Springsteen’s “Born To Run”
Forty years ago, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded some of their breakthrough Born To Run album at 914 Sound Studios...
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Austin Signal Cuts to the Chase
It’s no secret that record pressing plants are heavily backlogged these days. Aiming to help out bands and simply learn something new, Texas-based Austin...
2015
Everybody Loves a Good Story
I’m of mostly Irish descent, and I come from a large family. My undergrad degree is in history and my master’s is in journalism....
2015
Pick Up Your Pro Tools Pace
While attention to detail and organization are vital elements in professional session workflow, speed can often make or break a session.
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Guest Post: What Audio Should You Feed to the Assistive Listening System?
Brian Davidson, Production Director at Dallas, TX-based Park Cities Baptist Church, shares his thoughts and experience as to how best to make the most...
Studio Sense
PAR Advice: An affordable mic for singer/songwriters
As it happens from time to time, I get requests for advice from fellow engineers. Sure, there's questions about compressors or methodologies, but the...
Mr. Bonzai's Music Smarts
Stan Freberg 1926 — 2015
This interview with the remarkable Stan Freberg, from the Lunching With Bonzai series of 167 interviews, first appeared in Mix magazine in 1983. I...
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VIDEO: Sinatra in the Studio
Frank Sinatra knew his way around a recording session, as this seven-minute, fly-on-the-wall clip of the singer recording “It Was A Very Good Year”...
2015
Where Legacy Becomes Future
When we last featured Capitol Studios on the Mix cover, in November 2012, we invited a whole gang of L.A.’s finest engineers and producers...
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In The Studio with Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal
How metal is guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal? The guy has played with Guns n’ Roses and Lita Ford, and co-wrote and performed the theme...
2015
Tales From the Client Side
The ink was barely dry on my January 2015 column about the dynamics of dealing with artists when I found myself in a situation...
2015
What Kind of User Are You?
Last month I wrote about new subscription/membership models that are now being offered by Avid, Slate Digital, Cakewalk and Audionamix.
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Immersive Sound: New Tools Of The Trade [CONTINUED]
The April, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News features a special report, Immersive Sound: New Tools Of The Trade (which can be read HERE)....
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VIDEO: Students Invent Sound Wave Fire Extinguisher
“All About That Bass” may have been a hit song last summer, but it’s also the basic concept behind a prototypical fire extinguisher that...
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Auto-Tune: The Controversy That Will Not Die
Auto-Tune hit the world in 1997, and Antares has continued to update its software since then.
Studio Sense
Reviewing Monoprice
If you’re on Facebook and are public about your musical habit, you’ve likely seen ads from Monoprice. They sell their own branded musical...
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Book Review: Glyn Johns’ ‘Sound Man’ a Breezy Read
One of the first studio engineers in England to break through into producing, Glyn Johns worked with the greatest acts of the Classic Rock...
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VIDEO: The Ramones’ Smartphones-at-Shows Solution
Back in the early days of punk rock, FOH engineers had to make sure the console didn’t get hit by The Three Bs: Beers,...
2015
Never Settle for Good Enough
Toto could have easily phoned this one in and nobody would have blamed them, or even criticized them.
2015
Subscriptions Anyone?
It’s nothing new. You’re likely reading Mix because you have a subscription. It’s based on a mutual agreement.
2015
Redemption and the Personal Studio
The semester was nearing its end when one of my students showed up after missing class for most of the term.
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Martin Audio’s Massive Lego Glastonbury
The Glastonbury Festival is legendary in the UK festival world; founded in 1970, the five-day event has become the premiere music event of the...
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Oldies and Broadcasters: No Longer Happy Together?
The Turtles, a California rock group that performed from 1965 to 1970, had their first hit record in 1965, a cover of Bob Dylan’s...
Studio Sense
Touchscreen Mixing Looks Good In Print
Above the slogan "People who don't have time make time to read the Wall Street Journal" is will.i.am: "producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist and Wall Street...
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A Look Inside Universal Audio’s Heritage Studio
At the NAMM Show, Universal Audio took visitors back in time via the UA Heritage Studio, a photo op area filled with ...
Studio Sense
There’s More: Touchscreen Mixing Arrives
Additional insights and observations shared by some of the interviewees in the Pro Sound News March, 2015 cover story, "Touchscreen Mixing Arrives."
2015
The Industry and the Engineer
There is a long tradition of artist-industry collaboration in professional audio, and it comes in many, many forms
2015
When Do You Trash Your Preferences?
At the risk of sounding like a VO in a movie trailer (“In a world, where everything is everywhere...), when you have unlimited tracks,...
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Lines Being Drawn in U.S. Music Licensing Battle
With the release by the U.S. Copyright Office of its 245-page study, "Copyright and the Music Marketplace," the lines are being drawn in the...
Studio Sense
RadioShack Goes The Way of American Leisure
Personal, not-for-profit projects require blocks of free time—to think, to experiment, to create. And electronic projects—whether one, 150-in-one or literally thousands over...
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Seen on the Scene: P&E Wing Honors Nile Rodgers
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing celebrated its eighth annual Grammy Week with an event at The Village Studios on February 3, 2015,...
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Audiobooks Bounce Back
Vinyl records aren’t the only recorded format rebounding these days; the often overlooked world of audiobooks, too, has been experiencing a renaissance...
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SeisMic Shake Up In Music City (extended article)
The following is an extended version of this article, which first appeared in the February, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News.The mid-1990s saw...
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Seen on the Scene: NAMM 2015 – Part 2
The Pro Sound News team was all over this year's NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA. Here's some of what was seen on the...
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Seen on the Scene: NAMM 2015 – Part 1
The Pro Sound News team was all over this year's NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, sharing the sights with followers through an...
Studio Sense
Android Meets Pro Audio At NAMM 2015
This evening, I’m only one day into NAMM 2015 and I’ve already seen “Android” on literally dozens of manufacturer booths, banners and promotional materials,...