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By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

DAVE (Dome Audio Video & Effects) bills itself as "one of North America's largest integrated audio and video post-production facilities," and the marquee

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Combining leading-edge technology and the highest levels of expertise with the pristine preservation of some of the film community's most historic structures,

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Not many facilities in the world achieve the kind of balance found throughout Signet Studios. Built on the site of the famous Motown Hitsville...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

The Rainmaker, in myth, brings life to the earth and fortune to the living. Rainmaker Recording & Creative, in reality, is an audio post-production...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

The name Sound Station Seven sounds like it was inspired by science fiction, but it actually comes from the studio's real-life history. The Providence,

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Since opening in 1995, Digital Audio Post has become one of the audio post-production powerhouses of the Southeast, and it has done so by...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Networking continues to weasel its way into every facet of business, including audio. So get hip to IP and IB networking jargon...The InfiniBand Trade

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Warner Bros. Studios Post Production Services has secured its place in the history of film and media post. At two locations - Warner Bros....

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Sound One is the largest, most comprehensive audio post-production facility on the East Coast. Housed in two midtown Manhattan facilities - Sound One's

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Founded in 1973, Music Annex is one of the Bay Area's premier audio facilities, with studio complexes in San Francisco and nearby Menlo Park....

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Soundtrack helped revolutionize the area audio post-production industry when commercial music composer Rob Cavicchio opened his first facility in Boston

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

In a single word, the name "Disney" evokes the entire history of the film production and post-production industry. As if to underscore this heritage,

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

A business born along with the talking era of the cinema, audio post-production has continuously branched out over the intervening years, applying itself

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

How big can a project studio get and still remain a project studio? Soundscape tests the limits of the definition, with as many as...

By ROBERT HANSON ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

This Machine Is Obsolete Only a handful of contemporary musicians have left as indelible a footprint on popular music as Trent Reznor - the...

By George Petersen ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Split-Monitoring Analog Recording Console As more console makers concentrate their product development efforts toward compact digital designs, it is somewhat

By Rick Clark ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

For fans of those bands whose music can best be described as pomp rock or heavy metal, an undoubted part of the appeal is...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT RSI, PART II Since I wrote last month's "Insider Audio" on repetitive strain injuries in the recording studio, I...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

A STUDIO PRO FINDS HIS HOME Growing up in Old Greenwich, Conn., the son of a professional trumpet player who headed off to New...

By Roger Maycock ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

THE LATEST & GREATEST WAYS TO KEEP YOUR DAW ROCKIN' The personal computer continues to gain acceptance in virtually all sectors of music and...

By HUNTER PIPES ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

5.1 SYSTEM With the PS6 Active Direct Field Monitor, Event Electronics has introduced professional-quality powered monitoring to the project studio market.

By Kimberly Chun ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

EMPEROR OF TECHNOPOP Not many film composers break into the field by appearing on the other side of the camera. But Ryuichi Sakamoto has...

By Philip De Lancie ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Soundelux Joins in Sound-for-Picture Consolidation The sound-for-picture market has traditionally had room both for facilities operated by the major studios

By Michael Axinn ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

Capturing Performance in Effects Recording It's six weeks into a project and suddenly you realize the performance is not where it needs to be....

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

"Standards" Tour Includes Full Orchestra Afour-time Grammy winner, Joni Mitchell has consistently stretched her prodigious talent and many of the 20 albums

By Eddie Ciletti ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

PART TWO, RECORDER DEBUGGING AND ALIGNMENT In Part One of this series, I made some assumptions: Machines are older while users and technicians are...

By Oliver Masciarotte ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

IMPROVING THE NETWORK BUS Ah, September. A time when latent color emerges from behind the green of summer. When the latest retro tube gear...

By ROM ROSENBLUM ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

CD SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY Several years ago, I saw an ad for a sound effects demo CD by The Hollywood Edge. I sent in...

By JOSH ROSEN ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

PREPARING AUDIO FOR POST Audio editors and mixers in film and broadcast post have established simple processes for working with sound from Avid systems.

By Glen O'Hara ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

A VISIT TO QUAD TECK DIGITAL/FDS LABS The consumer rush to buy home theater systems and DVDs has been one of the great retail...

By Sarah Jones and George Petersen ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

HOT PRODUCT HITS FROM SUMMER NAMM In 1993, a slumping Summer NAMM show came to Nashville as a local expo focusing on guitars and...