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All Things Internet: You don't need to be a think tank resident to see the impact that the Internet is having on all facets...
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Since 1947, AKG Acoustics has pioneered the development and advancement of state-of-the-art wired, and today, wireless microphone and headphone systems
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Virtually everything can now take place virtually. The transfer of audio data via copper wire and, increasingly, the ether, has been a growing trend...
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Partnerships are rare in the recording studio business. Studio ownership seems to be a highly personal, highly passionate pursuit. It's one of the few
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16th ANNUAL TEC AWARDS VOTER’S GUIDE
The Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards is your chance to vote for the best products, facilities and production professionals of the past year. Beginning
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I. OUTSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
A. Acoustics/Facility Design Company Russ Berger Design Group, Dallas, TX: During the eligibility period RBDG provided design on over 50 projects for
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TravelWise: YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU
It's the height of summertime, and everyone who isn't stuck behind a front-of-house position under a shed every night is either on or thinking...
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III. OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
A. Ancillary Equipment Audio Precision System 2 Cascade: The next generation for AP's industry-standard System Two series, Cascade provides approximately
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UP-GRADES AND UP-DATES
Just released: Waves' C4 multiband parametric processor for native platforms, including RTAS, Premiere, MAS and VST on Macintosh and DirectX and VST for
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PREVIEW: HOT OFF THE SHELF
Now available from sound effects creator Frank Serafine, The Serafine SFX Collection is a 16-disc set of unique effects including such categories as Ambience,
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NEWS BYTES
SDMI Membership Passes 200 The Secure Digital Music Initiative recently announced that its participant list now includes more than 200 companies and organizations.
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II. OUTSTANDING CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT
A. Audio Post-Production Engineer for Film Richard Beggs: Film sound design projects for the qualifying period are Galaxy Quest, a sci-fi comedy directed
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UNIQUE RECORDING STUDIO
Unique Recording got its start back in 1978 as the brainchild of Joanne and Bobby Nathan. The facility began as a one-room, 8-track recording...
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Electrix MODS: MODULAR PERFORMANCE EFFECTS
Canadian manufacturer Electrix, a division of IVL Technologies, expands its line of performance-oriented analog effects with the half-rackspace Filter
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Neumann Series 180: CONDENSER MICROPHONES
Neumann's new Series 180 condenser microphones consist of three models: the KM 183, KM 184 and KM 185. Available in either matte black or...
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MEMORANDUM: The Wheels Go ‘Round and ‘Round…
Looking over the changing landscape of the studio business, I begin to know how Chaplin felt in Modern Times as he squirmed through the...
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Classic Tracks: Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Joan Jett turns 40 this September, a milestone that seems almost unimaginable to anyone who still remembers her at 17 strutting the stage, all...
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6 VIEWS ON 5.1
ADVENTURES IN SURROUND MIXING Everybody in the industry seems to be talking about 5.1, but how many engineers out there are actually doing surround...
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Glen Kolotkin:THE COAST-TO-COAST CAREER OF A RECORDING JOURNEYMAN
Long Island-based Glen Kolotkin is hardly a household name in the recording business, but over the course of more than three decades as an...
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SEK’D Samplitude 2496 V. 5.57: MULTITRACK AUDIo, MIDI AND CD MASTERING FOR THE DESKTOP
It's a tired subject, but the Windows vs. Macintosh debate comes up every time an audio or music program pushes either platform's envelope with...
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Zapex ZP-100: AC-3 5-Channel Surround Encoder
Despite a growing surround mastering and production market for HDTV, audio and DVD releases, the number of available encoding products is relatively small.
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Event Electronics Ezbus: USB Interface/Controller/Digital Mixer
Digital recording systems keep getting more affordable, and the new EZbus from Event Electronics is an excellent example of that trend. Priced at $849,
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Doctor, It Hurts When I Do This!: WHY YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT RSI
A friend of mine who writes for one of the computer magazines, and who also happens to be a wonderful musician, gave me a...
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THE SQUIRREL WILL SAVE THE WORLD: CARTOON MEETS
Film sound professionals are always trying to outdo themselves. But, during the making of the soundtrack for The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, supervising
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Pierre Foldes: POST-PRODUCTION WITH PARISIAN STYLE
Composers heading to New York to find work in this town's audio post market are often cowed by the number of well-appointed project studios...
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THE BASS BROTHERS AND EMINEM
Marshall Mathers-better known to his legion of fans as Eminem-is the music industry equivalent of basketball player Jason Williams. The Sacramento Kings
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Time for a Change In the Orchestra Pit
Musical theater has been strikingly successful in adapting and refining the modern sound reinforcement technologies that blossomed in the '70s. In fact,
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Designing the Large-Format DIGITAL Console
Back in the good ol' days of analog, mixing consoles all shared a common characteristic-the bulk of the circuitry per channel was built into...
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Return to “Mermaid Avenue”
Woody Guthrie left behind such a large body of unpublished lyrics that Billy Bragg and Wilco could probably spend the rest of their careers...
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Fostex NF-1A: ACTIVE NEAR-FIELD STUDIO MONITOR
Monitors with internal amplifiers offer the luxury of bringing a fairly compact and familiar playback system to every studio in your engineering travels.
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Analog Tape 101: PART ONE
Since 1995 I've focused on the repair of digital tape machines-4mm, 8mm and S-VHS-but it wasn't always that way. Recently, three projects jolted me...
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Are You on or off the Bus?
THE STATE oF THE STANDARDS Right off the bat, let's dispel the lack of respect for our elders that we brazenly exhibit here in...
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BACK TO MONO: DON’T FORGET THE CENTER
Since this is the 5.1 issue, I'd like to remind everyone that mono isn't quite dead yet. Heck, its not even pining for the...
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Reap Benefits Suround Projects
Following a decade in which the studio industry was threatened by an economic recession, an explosion in home recording and rising costs in the...
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Digidesign Bruno/Reso: REAL-TIME EFFECTS PLUG-INS FOR PRO TOOLS
There are a lot of great TDM plug-ins available, but most of these are designed as day-to-day work tools (compressors, EQ, gates, tube emulators,...
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TOUR PROFILE: Slipknot AGGRESSIVELY HEARD
When Slipknot first em-erged from Middle America in 1998, the press had a field day with the fact that its nine bandmembers, with their...
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HALL OF FAME
Proceeds from the 16th Annual TEC Awards will be distributed to the following organizations: * Sound Partners, co-founded by Mix magazine and the House
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Lab Analysis: Fostex NF-1A Active Monitor
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS The Fostex NF-1A active monitor's enclosure is a two-way, bass reflex design with dual, flared elliptical ports. The enclosure