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In-House Full Sail Band Releases COVID-19 Relief Single
Comprised of alumni or co-workers at Full Sail University, The Grouper Cheeks are donating proceeds of their first single to MusiCares.
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Mix Blog Studio: The Spigot Turns Off
The pandemic and the adoption of social distancing measures has hit the music industry hard, and the uncertainties about when, how and even if...
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Recording Car-To-Car to Outwit the Pandemic
Working from home because of the pandemic, audio post engineer Frank Verderosa had to record a voiceover artist but didn't want to use his...
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When Will the Gigs Come Back?
The segment of pro audio most visibly hit by the pandemic has been the sound reinforcement industry, with thousands of live sound pros out...
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Dolby Atmos Music Special Issue: It’s Time for a Brand New Experience
Immersive music is coming to the recording industry, no question about it.
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Mix Blog Live: The Quietest of Moments
You know that moment at a concert when the band is killing it, the emotions and movement winding along in sync, and the entire...
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The Aha Moment: Settling Supply Chain Issues
Peter Janis, former owner of Radial Engineering, shares hard-earned lessons on settling supply chain issues.
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The METAlliance Report: METAlliance on Lockdown
Chuck Ainlay shares the surprising ways he and fellow recording legends Al Schmitt, Elliot Scheiner, Frank Filipetti and George Massenburg are making the most...
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Mix Blog Studio: Getting the Band Back Together (Sort of)
Live streaming a performance from home is one thing, but recording a song for digital release while each band member in his or her...
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Software Tech: Livestreaming in the Age of Pandemic
With venues closed and artists stuck at home, livestreamed performances have taken center stage during the pandemic; Craig Anderton shares how to join in.
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Mix Blog Live: Zooming High(er)-Quality Audio
Besides spending many weekends on the road at front of house, Steve La Cerra is an audio educator; over the the last month he...
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Westworld Improvises ADR Process During Lockdown
Actress Thandie Newton follows shelter-in-place rules as she improvises in a makeshift vocal booth at home to provide ADR for HBO’s Westworld series.
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Mix Blog Studio: Live-Streaming Music—A Case Study
With everyone at home, touring has been postponed and staples such as record-release parties either canceled or delayed. So Mike Levine's daughter-in-law and his...
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Mixing Consoles—Beyond the Capture
Having contributed to the broadcasting of hundreds of live events, Dennis Baxter discusses why digital mixing desks are a TV studio's audio control center
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Mix Blog Live: A Concert in Your Living Room?
The coronavirus COVID-19 has essentially shut down the 2020 summer touring season—and cost Steve La Cerra his usual weekend gig. So are stay-at-home, "intimate"...
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Software Tech: Safeguarding Your Software Tools
You may be self-isolating at home with your computer right now, but that doesn’t mean someone can’t steal your files. Craig Anderton explores how...
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Mix Blog Studio: Time on Your Hands? Record!
Now that he has plenty of enforced time at home, Mike Levine is coping by heading into his studio more often, taking care of...
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Record Made of Soap Plays a Song for our Times
Soap store chain Lush has created a record ideally suited for our times: a playable 7-inch record made of soap that plays "Happy Birthday."
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‘When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn Pro’
In his Editor's Note for the April issue, Mix Editor Tom Kenny looks around the coronavirus landscape and wonders who is going to help...
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Mix Blog Live: Coronavirus Fallout
“All New York City Public Schools are closed.” When I hear those words, it usually means there’s a significant snowfall in the area and...
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Come Back Better, Stronger and Smarter
What do you do when the work dries up and all your gigs are cancelled? Daniel Shatzkes, founder & CEO of Gig Gear, rethinks...
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Mix Blog Studio: Write It Down!
There's a simple feature in every DAW that just might the most useful one in the whole set... as long as you take the...
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Discovering the Sound of Hamilton with Adam Savage
FOH engineer Kevin McCoy shares with Adam Savage what it takes to mix the hit show 'Hamilton.'
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Mix Blog Live: What’s With the Tape on the C#?
Frustration with a show’s backline provider led to a couple trips back to the warehouse, an angry phone call and, ultimately, resolution. A normal...
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Where Tradition Meets the Modern
About halfway through writing this month’s cover story on the revamp of the Newman Scoring Stage at Fox Studios, it dawned on me that...
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Software Tech: The 2020 Anderton Awards
Sizing up the NAMM Show with a moderately bloodshot eye, the Anderton Awards return.
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The Aha Moment: Money Matters, Part Two
Peter Janis, former owner of Radial Engineering, continues his two-part look at the bad old days of his career, and how they taught him...
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Mix Blog Studio: Green Stories From the Music Biz
Small bits of eco-friendly practices are popping up all over the audio industry, from solar panels at studios to recycled plastic for acoustic treatment...
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Mix Blog Live: Rack Toms for Everyone
When a Rack Tom channel on a rented digital console started showing up across multiple scribble strips during soundcheck, Steve La Cerra did everything...
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The METAlliance Report: Why We Do This
Grammy and TEC Award-winner George Massenburg shares some highpoints of the METAlliance's journey so far, and shares what can still be accomplished.
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Mix Blog Studio: The 7 Phases of Gear Lust
Do you suffer from gear lust? Many recording musicians do. I happen to have a particularly severe case. For example, I have lately found...
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Chasin’ The Dream
One busted truck driver recently discovered that the cab of a semi is no place for mobile recording.
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A Different Time, a Different Place
With no traffic, Montauk is only a little more than a two-hour drive from New York City, two-forty-five if you take the Long Island...
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Mix Blog Live: TLC for an XK-1c
Steve La Cerra knows that after years on the road, gear can take a beating. So when possible, he likes to take out some...
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The METAlliance Report: Grid Versus Groove
The art of recording multiple instruments together in a room is becoming a dying art.
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Home Recording, Beverly Hills-Style
This spacious home studio in Beverly Hills has been used to record Ozzy, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others.
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The Aha Moment: Money Matters, Part One
Peter Janis recounts how the not-so-good old days at the start of his career taught him perseverance and that money matters.
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Mix Blog Studio: Home Sweet Home
The Billie Eilish-Finneas sweep at the Grammys put the spotlight back on home-based, bedroom studios, proving that a good song is a good song,...
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Being The Sound Engineer For Slipknot In The Early 2000s
We stumbled across this good-natured comedy clip picturing a Slipknot soundcheck in the early 2000s, and naturally we had to share it.
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Software Tech: MIDI 2.0 Comes Into Focus
Additional aspects of the MIDI 2.0 spec have fallen into place, and the first pieces of gear with elements of MIDI 2.0 are working...
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Eye To The Past, Ear To The Future: How FAME Recording Studios Reinvented Studio B
"There was glory in this room that needed to be resurrected, but we also knew that every bit of the renovation process had to...
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Mix Blog Live: Lessons From The Professor
Steve La Cerra mourns the loss of one of his real heroes, the drummer Neil Peart, who lived life with passion and grace, not...