Mix Blog Live: Dumpster Diving? Crate Digging?
In which our intrepid live sound reporter visits a record store in Sacramento and walks out reminded once again why he loves music.
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In which our intrepid live sound reporter visits a record store in Sacramento and walks out reminded once again why he loves music.
For amateurs and pros alike, the tools to produce slick-looking 3D, 4k content with post-produced audio are here.
I just had a valued hard drive fail. I know it happens, but I still went through the eight emotional stages after data loss.
It wasn’t that long ago that we started trusting digital enough to be all-in. Since then, and especially lately, the evolution of digital products...
Unless you just woke from a 20-year sleep, you know that digital recording and the Internet have pushed us into a multi-level world of...
In the past, I’ve written about the growing similarities between live sound and recording studio workflows.
The part of my job that excites me the most is when I come across new technologies and approaches that change the way I...
I regularly come across tech, music and general info that I immediately put in my “remember this” folder. Recently, I hit the Mother Lode...
There are “aha” moments in life when you realize that a change doesn’t simply affect you, but rather is a tide that raises all...
It’s great when you find things that make your life easier, things that become such a part of your day-to-day world that it’s hard...
When it comes to tuning your product news, music, sports, and more, streaming is king.
I’m a tech-loving geek—my ceiling fan talks to my thermostat and coordinates my house temp. But high-end tech doesn’t need to be that crazy,...
Audio pros are passionate about gear, and our tastes tend to be broader than most.
Certain words bring certain images to mind. In music, when you think of “Grammy” you probably think of the February awards show at the...
This summer I was tapped to teach a Sound for Picture course, which provided an opportunity for me to not only review the range...
Although “videographer” is a job classification I’ve never put on my resume, in the new age where anyone can broadcast to the world, I’ve...
On Saturday, July 11, Chris Pelonis picked me up in Los Olivos in his Porsche convertible and said, “You wanna go get a beer...
Chris has been a longtime friend and I’ve thought from day one that he had one of the great creative/technical minds in our industry.
I’ve been at Mix since 1988, and I’ve seen a lot in this world of professional audio.
If there is one thing you can say about the digital age so far it’s that there has been a remarkable level of indifference...
When I was a kid, I used to play a daydreamer’s game of “where will I be?”—when I’m 20, 30, in the year 2000,...
“It is represented to us that the universal suffrage, as now existing throughout the Union, is abused; that fraud and corruption prevent a fair...
I always look forward to reading Mix’s “Class Of” issue.
While attention to detail and organization are vital elements in professional session workflow, speed can often make or break a session.
The ink was barely dry on my January 2015 column about the dynamics of dealing with artists when I found myself in a situation...
Last month I wrote about new subscription/membership models that are now being offered by Avid, Slate Digital, Cakewalk and Audionamix.
It’s nothing new. You’re likely reading Mix because you have a subscription. It’s based on a mutual agreement.
The semester was nearing its end when one of my students showed up after missing class for most of the term.
At the risk of sounding like a VO in a movie trailer (“In a world, where everything is everywhere...), when you have unlimited tracks,...
At the start of every new year, I like to take an assessment of my studio life, looking at both the gear I have...
As often as possible, we need to remind the people we mentor that the fundamentals of audio apply to both studio and stage.
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...