2017
Placid Audio Copperphone Microphone
Engineers and music producers are always looking for that certain something in a production that sets their tracks apart from the rest. It could...
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2017
Bay 8 Studios
Bay 8 is owned and operated by engineer Matthew “Formatt” DeFreitas. The Providence, R.I., native moved to Miami in 2009 after several years in...
2017
Update From Criteria Studios
No visit to Miami’s studio scene is complete without checking in with Criteria Studios (formerly Hit Factory), the home of unforgettable recordings by Derek...
2017
Live From Big Wall Studios
This multi-studio complex in north Miami’s theater district has kept its big rooms booked by opening them up for band rehearsals and video shoots,...
2017
The Best Of Multichannel Preamplifiers With I/O
Most audio processing takes place today within a CPU. So our most relied upon hardware (other than the CPU itself) is often a comprehensive...
2017
Game Composer Winifred Phillips
If composition terms like “horizontal resequencing” or “vertical layering” aren’t familiar, that’s understandable. They’re not necessarily film-composing terms, but they are part of a...
2017
Composer John Lunn
Every so often the theme that colors the opening credits of a television series works its way into the collective consciousness. Digging all the...
2017
Build Your Own Studio: The $100,000 Studio
That time of year has come again, where Markkus Rovito and I take a look at how to improve on your current setup. In...
2017
Build Your Own Studio: The $35,000 Studio
Rather than presenting an entire soup-to-nuts studio this time, we’re looking at a targeted upgrade to a project studio dedicated to sound design and...
2017
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks, the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll, performed a two-hour show at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif., in December. The set...
2017
Cherub: Live Sound And Samples
Engineer Hunter Gifford mixed FOH and monitors for electro-pop/rock group Cherub on the band’s recent fall tour, using a DigiCo SD9 for the house...
2017
Classic Tracks: Mr. Mister’s “Kyrie”
The band decided to create "Kyrie" part by part, yet endeavor to make it sound live, keeping that objective throughout the entire process.
2017
A Salute To Leonard Cohen
The setting: Toronto’s Luminato art festival. The venue: a gigantic, long-disused industrial building called The Hearn Generating Station. The performers: Rufus Wainwright and 1,500...
2017
Rose Cousins And Natural Conclusion
The beauty of Rose Cousins’ new album, Natural Conclusion, is practically on a Joni Mitchell level. She’s a poetic and precise yet fearless artist...
2017
Entrance’s Book Of Changes
“As a musician who gets to write and play the music and sing and produce the album, there are so many artforms that go...
2017
On The Cover: Mount Olive High School, New Jersey
There’s a nationally recognized robotics department, with associated old-style and new-style machine rooms and electronics stations. There’s a high-def television station that rivals a...
2017
JBL Celebrates 70 Years
At this year’s NAMM show, monitor developer JBL marks its 70th anniversary—definitely cause for celebration. In its October issue, our sister publication Electronic Musician...
2017
Technology Developer and Teacher Saul Walker to Be Honored at NYU Event
The life and professional legacy of the late API co-founder Saul Walker will be honored at a celebration to be held at 10:30 a.m....
2017
Tech Talk: Production Hacks
Making sure you have top gear and proper gain staging along the signal chain goes a long way to assure you have great sounding...
2017
HYDE STREET STUDIOS, SAN FRANCISCO
Hyde Street Studios recently completed an overall technical revamping of Studio A and is under way in building an annex studio in San Francisco’s...
2017
Prairie Sun Recording
Among the many gifts of life in the San Francisco Bay Area is the proximity of urban arts and culture to a beautiful natural...
2017
Regional: SF Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area has been Mix’s home since the magazine was founded more than 40 years ago, and the tragic loss of...
2017
Portable P.A. Systems 2017
Portable P.A. systems have experienced perhaps the most dramatic growth of any pro audio product category over the past couple of years. Supported by...
2017
Pacifique Studios
There is an inconspicuous brick building, one with no identifying markers that looks abandoned, with twin doors, the right hand one with an ancient...
2017
The Beatles at Shea—How the First Stadium Concert Was Recorded
When the Beatles played the first stadium concerts ever at Shea Stadium in 1965, a team of recording pros—and 55,600 screaming fans losing their...
2016
Tech Talk: The Year in Gear
Here we are again at the end of another year in audio. How’s the weather? I live in Nashville, which is growing at an...
2016
Genelec 8350A SAM and 7360ASAM Monitors
Smart active monitors with sophisticated correction software
2016
The ‘Asheville Symphony Sessions’
Echo Mountain leads the way on homegrown, full-blown production
2016
AOIP-Ready Hardware Processors (& More)
Dante-enhanced gear from mainstream manufacturers and boutique shops
2016
Classic Tracks: Rockpile’s “Teacher Teacher”
Rockpile—Nick Lowe (lead vocals, bass), Dave Edmunds (lead vocals, guitar), Billy Bremner (backing vocals, guitar), and Terry Williams (drums)—had a classic track on their...
