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Mix Regional Canada: Big Move for Deluxe
Media Complex Decamps to New Location, Upgrades Facilities
Tech // New Products, August 2015
SyncPro Production Resource File Sharing Direct Access Without the Cloud For those wanting to speed up their workflow, GetSync.com ($39.99/year per user) offers peer-to-peer...
Jaga Jazzist Records ‘Starfire’
Jaga Jazzist is a prog-rock band, a jam band, a jazz ensemble and an electronic outfit all in one. The eight-piece Swedish group records...
Jungle Room Studios Mobile
Throughout his 25-year career in music, Brian Tarquin—guitarist, recording artist, Emmy Award–winning TV music composer, label owner and book author—has depended upon his recording/mixing...
James Taylor, ‘Before This World’
James Taylor’s Before This World, out this month on Concord Records, is the Grammy Award–winning singer/songwriter’s first album of original music since 2002’s October...
George and Chico Freeman at Southport for ‘All in the Family’
Guitarist George Freeman has crossed paths with Southport Records owner/engineer Bradley Parker-Sparrow many times since Sparrow founded the label in 1977. Freeman’s latest album,...
Cool Spin: Foals, ‘What Went Down’
For What Went Down (Warner Music), the follow-up to Foals’ career-defining album, Holy Fire, the Oxford, UK quintet decamped to Saint-Remy-de-Provence in the South...
Corsica Arts Club Releases Self-Titled Debut
What you hear is not what you see with Corsica Arts Club. The Los Angeles-based duo of Arash Parsee and Brendan Thompson (expanded to...
Asleep at the Wheel, ‘Still the King’
Beloved Texas swing group Asleep at the Wheel have been carrying the torch for the late Bob Wills’ legacy almost as long as Wills...
Top New & Updated Live Mixers: Big & Small
This baker’s dozen represents the most interesting and promising new live mixing products in 2015, whether big, small or somewhere in between. While widely...
Mix Regional Sessions: Bay Area
25TH STREET RECORDING, OAKLAND, CALIF. Oxbow was with producer/engineer Joe Chiccarelli finishing up mixing their newest record. All basic tracks were recorded at 25th...
Mix Regional News: Bay Area
STUDIO TRILOGY HOSTS STEVE HOROWITZ AND THE GUERRILLA COMPOSERS ENSEMBLE Steve Horowitz and the Guerrilla Composers Ensemble recently assembled at Trilogy in San Francisco...
Mix Regional Bay Area: Women’s Audio Mission Moves Into Bigger, Better Studio
After spending several years at an 850-square-foot space on Bryant Street in San Francisco’s Mission district, Women’s Audio Mission has moved into new—and much,...
Compact Line Arrays for Installation
It’s not uncommon to see the same sound reinforcement gear found on major tours used in large churches and other fixed installations where great...
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015
Inspired by the spirit of Mahalia Jackson and the Eureka Brass Band back in 1970, and originally produced by jazz impresario George Wein, the...
Ben Lee, ‘Love Is the Great Rebellion’
Ben Lee has released 11 solo albums, in addition to his band work with Noise Addict. The newest, Love Is the Great Rebellion, is...
Leon Bridges, ‘Coming Home’
“The clothes make the man,” the saying goes. In the case of 25-year-old Forth Worth, Texas native Leon Bridges, clothes kicked off his career....
Cool Spin: Penguin Prison, ‘Lost in New York’
In the four years since Penguin Prison’s self-titled debut, New York-sprung dance-pop has become all the more established by the likes of MGMT and...
Jillian Speer’s ‘Daggers & Suede’
The urban-meets-singer/songwriter sound of Jillian Speer’s wonderful new EP gives the singer’s soulful songs just the right edge, and it all starts with her...
Calexico’s ‘Edge of the Sun’
When people know your band particularly for mixing musical styles from myriad decades and cultures, and you’re about to start your ninth studio album...
59th International AES Conference on Sound Reinforcement
The first AES International Conference to focus on Sound Reinforcement in more than 25 years takes place from July 15-17, 2015, in Montreal, Quebec,...
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Endless Summer’
Sound provider Sound Image, based in Escondido, Calif., carried a full L-Acoustics system on Lana Del Rey’s North American “Endless Summer” tour, with opener...
The Boxmasters Times Two
Some people might call it schizophrenic, some might call it bi-polar. Heck, Billy Bob Thornton has even called the new Boxmasters project ‘Somewhere Down...
All Access: U2 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour 2015
U2 has brought it back inside arenas, playing multiple dates in various cities, again with huge, stellar production values. Mix caught the fourth date of...