2015
Subscriptions Anyone?
It’s nothing new. You’re likely reading Mix because you have a subscription. It’s based on a mutual agreement.
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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,...
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Book Review: The Sound Book
With a title like The Sound Book (W.W. Norton & Co.), you might expect Trevor Cox’s new tome to be a dry textbook full...
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40 Years Of Gear
The music industry suffered a loss in December, 2014, when Ardent Studios and label founder John Fry suffered a cardiac arrest and died at...
Studio Sense
PAR for the Course: First Impressions on the Mackie DL32R
From an applications standpoint, the DL32R covers the broadest range of audio tasks in the simplest way of any single product I’ve reviewed, ever.
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Is The Vinyl Revival No Longer A Fad?
Left for dead in the early Nineties as consumers switched to compact discs, the lowly vinyl LP has bounced back in recent times, adopted...
2014
It’s All About the Experience
You can’t talk about recording studios without talking about their “vibe.”
2014
Don’t Forget to Stretch
At the start of every new year, I like to take an assessment of my studio life, looking at both the gear I have...
2014
Fundamentals
As often as possible, we need to remind the people we mentor that the fundamentals of audio apply to both studio and stage.
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Perry Margouleff on Supporting Music “for the Right Reasons”
Located about an hour outside of Manhattan in Glen Cove on the North Shore of Long Island, Pie Studios has attracted an impressive list...
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Sounding Off On ‘Unbroken’
The sound team at NBCUniversal StudioPost recently completed work on Unbroken, based on author Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 best-selling biography of long-distance runner Louis Zamperini...
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Setting Up SoundGirls.Org
Given that women have better hearing than men and also comprise more than half the professional workforce in the U.S., you’d think they’d be...
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B-Side Studio: A ’70s Throwback Sitcom
Remember B-Side Studio, that wacky 1970s sitcom about a struggling Chicago recording studio? No? Well, maybe that’s because it wasn’t really a hit. Or...
Mr. Bonzai's Music Smarts
Studio Life: The Other Side of the Tracks
Join the crew at Ryan Recording—Mr. Bonzai, chief engineer Cart, receptionist and apprentice engineer Layla, and chief tech Smilin’ Deaf Eddie—as they...
2014
Education Through Teamwork
Although the major stars don’t often admit it in public (except, perhaps, on the awards podium), success in the music business is the result...
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Book Review: ‘Sound Man’ Is 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...
2014
Professional Development
One question I hear most often from students who want a career in pro audio is how can they break into the business.
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Pro-Audio Gift Help: PSN’s 2014 Book/DVD Reviews
Finding something for the pro audio person in your life is never easy, so here’s a compendium of books and DVD/Blu-rays we’ve reviewed this...
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10 Things We Learned From Glyn Johns’ “Sound Man”
Legendary producer/engineer Glyn Johns’ autobiography Sound Man is filled with cool stories about creating classic albums with dozens of household names. The tales are...
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FCC Wireless Changes on Horizon [Expanded Edition]
The following is an expanded version of the cover story for Pro Sound News, November 2014.On September 30, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released...
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VIDEO: Mastering Iron Maiden
When Iron Maiden re-released all eight of its albums from the 1980s on 180-gram black vinyl, Parlophone Records interviewed Abbey Road mastering engineers Sean...
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DVD Review: LFO Brings Suspense to Audio
When Scandinavian director Antonio Tublen’s 2013 film LFO came across my desk, I wasn’t sure what to expect—the film’s synopsis gives you a brief...
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City Winery Bounces Back After Earthquake
When a 6.1 earthquake hit Napa Valley this summer, the region’s wine industry was left shaken, but not destroyed. Among the business affected was...
Studio Sense
Studio Sense: Pro Audio Review – The Future Is Now!
PAR has recently launched “PAR-Tube,” our new video initiative that commences our move into the future. The digital revolution has just begun...