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Audio Basics & Troubleshooting: PART TWO: STUDIO MONITORING SYSTEMS
True monitors are necessary tools in any studio. Yet, as with any component in the signal chain, monitors need attention, and occasionally a tweak...
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GTC Industries Tone and Noise Plugs: Compact Test Genarators
The Tone Plug-essentially a tiny audio generator built into a Neutrik XLR connector-is a dream tool for live sound engineers. And for project studio...
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Classic Tracks: Supertramp’s “The Logical Song”
"When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful..." That's the memorable opening line of Supertramp's "The Logical Song," an ode to...
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Recording Nuptials: Something Old, Something New in Networking Your Studio
Ye olde saw about wedding accoutrements, "something old, something new..." loosely fits our theme this month. Not that I'm planning on tying the knot.
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Rocking in the Studio With The Stooges: Inside “The Complete Fun House Sessions”
In late 1970, The Stooges' raucous LP Fun House was released to a nearly unanimous critical drubbing, poor sales and virtually no radio play....
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Digidesign SoundReplacer: AUDIOSUITE PLUG-IN FOR PRO TOOLS
The number of mind-blowing, incredibly useful plug-ins flooding the market continues to amaze me. It seems there are plug-ins for almost every task, from
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Hot News, Cool Products
TC Electronic (www.tcelectronic.com) news: The company is joining up with IVL Technologies Ltd. (www.ivl.com) to create Helicon Vocal Technologies, which
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WAVE MECHANICS ULTRATOOLS: PLUG-IN SUITE FOR PRO TOOLS
UltraTools is a suite of plug-ins by Wave Mechanics that works with Digidesign's Pro Tools TDM system, as well as third-party programs that utilize...
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Euphonix System 5: DIGITAL MIXING CONSOLE
Known primarily for its large-format, digitally controlled analog mixing consoles, Euphonix unveiled the System 5, its first all-digital console at the
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MOTU DIGITAL PERFORMER: STILL PERFORMING MIRACLES AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Performer, Mark of the Unicorn's flagship sequencer, has been around for a long time. Today, however, Performer is not just for MIDI sequencing but...
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Pierre Marchand: Producing Sarah McLachlan, on Land and on Sea
Pierre Marchand calls his approach to production "disorganized" and "chaotic," but his results sound the exact opposite. He is the producer who has made
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NAB 2000: Audio in the Age of Media Convergence
From April 8-13, a record-setting 113,000 attendees packed into Las Vegas for NAB2000, appropriately subtitled "The Convergence Marketplace." What a convergence
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June 1, 2000 Technology Euphonix System 5: DIGITAL MIXING CONSOLE GTC Industries Tone and Noise Plugs: Compact Test Genarators RODE Classic II: LARGE DIAPHRAGM...
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Biograph:Milan bogdan
Faaantastic! Life offers few guarantees, and we should be thankful for the ones we get. The sun will always rise in the east, E...
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TravelWise: THE CRACK AUDIO TRAVEL SQUAD
Let's face it: Just as the paperless office turned out to be a myth, so did the notion that digital audio technology would give...
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STUDIO WEB SITES
Everybody has a Web site- companies, organizations, freelance engineers and, yes, recording studios. But it seems the conventional Web site is evolving
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Mobile Opportunities
Increased competition, costs put pressure on remote vehicles They are, perhaps, the last of the romantics in an increasingly corporate professional audio
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CROBAR PRIES ITSELF INTO SOUTH BEACH’S CROWDED CLUB SCENE
really wanted to be the first club with a resident entomologist," laments John Hood over a cocktail at Giacomo's on Espanola Way in Miami's...
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Miami Heats Up
These are boom days for the Miami recording community. The pop and Latin music renaissance that this city is experiencing has given the region...
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MEMORANDUM: You Played Guitar, Now Play The Game
The competition in pro audio has increased a thousandfold in the past decade, just as it has in other industries. What had once been...
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THE MERGER OF TWO CLASSIC FACILITIES: The Hit Factory Criteria Miami
"We left the parking lot for last. We wanted to get the music happening." So said Troy Germano, executive vice president of The Hit...
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Cool Spins: The Mix Staff Members Pick Their Current Favorites
The Cure: Bloodflowers (Fiction/Elektra) For the "pale and tragic" children of the '80s, the Cure were the backdrop to dreary autumn afternoons, endless
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moe.: L (Fatboy)
Call 'em a jam band, a groove band, whatever-moe. mostly plays really long (10- to 20-minute), highly rhythmic jams loaded with lots of lead...
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ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL BRINGING BOB WILLS TO A NEW AUDIENCE
Making Ride With Bob, Asleep at the Wheel's Grammy-winning all-star tribute to the legacy of Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, wasn't too much...
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No Doubt Takes the Long Road to “Saturn”
It isn't easy to go back into the studio to record a follow-up album to the kind of smash that No Doubt had with...
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David Kershenbaum:Cenhancing the Artist
Based on his youthful appearance and boyish exuberance, it's hard to believe David Kershenbaum's career spans more than two decades. The Springfield,
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Tsunami Technologies HQ2002S
2,000-WATT STEREO POWER AMPLIFIER Tsunami Technologies' first foray into the pro audio world was at this year's Winter NAMM in Los Angeles, where the
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New Audio And Recording Books
MAGIC MUSIC FROM THE TELHARMONIUM Reynold Weidenaar Scarecrow Press 800/642-6420; 301/459-3366 In 1893, a 26-year-old lawyer and inventor named Thadeus
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JOEY LEVINE Television POP and Crushing music
Remember Ohio Express and their bookend hits "Yummy Yummy Yummy" and "Chewy, Chewy"? Joey Levine does. As a teenage singer/songwriter Levine penned and
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What’s Next in Power Amps
Let's face it, power amps are the Rodney Dangerfield of pro audio equipment. They're not particularly interesting to look at, they all sound great...
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OCEAN VU STUDIO
Ocean VU Studio owner/engineer/producer Victor Di Persia started out as a technician for MCI/Sony-but don't expect him to be shackled to the toolbox at
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Los Zafiros: Bossa Cubana (Nonesuch)
This gem of a reissue by Los Zafiros (The Sapphires) truly shines. Comprising 17 songs cut from 1963 to '67, Bossa Cubana just percolates...
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COMPLETE GUIDE TO FILM SCORING: THE ART AND BUSINESS OF WRITING MUSIC FOR MOVIES AND TV by Richard Davis
617/747-2146 -- www.berkleepress.com Ever stepped out of a movie theater, humming the music, and thought, "I could do that! That could be my music...
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MARK SNOW "THE X-FILES" COMPOSER BRINGS CINEMATIC EMOTION TO THE SMALL SCREEN The truth is out there, as The X-Files catchphrase goes. But for...
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Sleater-Kinney’s Hands-On Approach
It's hard to be a riot grrrl in a world where everyone from Britney Spears to the Spice Girls has appropriated the term "girl...
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Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Matador)
Always unearthing the remarkable in the mundane, Yo La Tengo creates the perfect aural counterpart to the artwork on its latest CD, And Then...
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Keeping Up With Technology
Last month I began a summary of the keynote session at the November 1999 Parsons Audio Expo, an annual event in Wellesley, Mass. The...
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Arboretum Ionizer for MAS
EQ AND DYNAMICS-PROCESSING PLUG-IN Agush of new plug-ins has recently flooded the market in support of Mark of the Unicorn's MAS platform and its...
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The Truth About Loudspeaker Arrays
There is no shortage of published and anecdotal advice on the most effective way to array loudspeakers. More or less useful, but often biased,...
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HOW TO RUN
A RECORDING SESSION Jayce De Santis MixBooks 800/543-7771; www.mixbooks.com First published in 1997 and now in its second edition, this book, written
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LANs, WANs, NASs & SANs
OR WHY NETWORKS ARE BORN ANEW was at a industry schmoozefest last night, meeting and greeting while munching on salmon thingies. Our small industry...
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Synchro Arts VocALign AS
AUDIO ALIGNMENT SOFTWARE Is it my imagination or does life in audio production land just keep getting better with each new plug-in that comes...