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ENGINE MUSIC STUDIOS
Nestled in Chicago's booming, funky "Bucktown," a studio has emerged from the landscape of Generation X clubs, bustling restaurants and the screech of
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How to Choose an Audio Education Program
CHOOSING THE RIGHT SCHOOL Welcome back, prospective students. It's been a year since Mix last published a directory of audio education programs. This
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CHOOSING A Digital Audio Workstations
CONSIDERATIONS FOR GETTING IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) have become the Swiss Army Knife of professional audio. In the past
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Digidesign 001
INITIAL SETUP AND USER TIPS The following tips are based on my experiences using a Digi 001 with a new 500MHz G4 Mac, and...
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Universal Audio LA-2A
LEVELING AMPLIFIER There are few pieces of equipment, new or vintage, that inspire as devoted a following as the Teletronix LA-2A. Ever since production
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The Bill Price Interview
PART 2 Guns N' Roses, The Sex Pistols, Elton John and more...We continue our two-part interview with engineer/producer Bill Price. See October Mix for
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B.B. KING BLUES BAR AND GRILL, NEW YORK
B.B. King is not your average 75-year-old blues guitarist. Now entering his seventh decade as a recording artist, King marked the new millennium by...
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The FireWire “Standard”
MOVING TOWARD INTEROPERABILITY Once upon a time, in my City By The Bay, where Green Street hits Telegraph Hill, there was a warehouse. On...
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THE Changing Landscape of Orchestral Recording
Once upon a time, orchestras were recorded using two or three microphones. No mixing was ever done after the fact, so the entire production...
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TC Electronic System 6000
MULTICHANNEL PROCESSING PLATFORM It must be said that mixing in surround can be a pain; it seems to require mounds of stereo reverbs in...
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Steve Dahl at Home and On-Air
To Chicagoans, Steve Dahl is a classic radio personality. An irreverant guy in a Hawaiian shirt who makes a living poking fun at things...
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November 1, 2000
November 1, 2000 Technology TC Electronic System 6000 Amek Pure Path Channel in a Box Drawmer 1969 Mercenary Edition Universal Audio LA-2A Quested VS3208...
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Sheffield Remote Recordings
Sheffield's truck is the largest SSL audio truck in North America. Add to that a Genelec 5.1 surround sound monitor system, analog or digital...
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Artisan Recorders Mobile
For over 20 years, Artisan Recorders has been providing excellence in remote recording and broadcast. Along with an extensive array of equipment in a
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Gravity Studios
Featuring Chicago's only vintage Neve...- Neve 8058 (modified by Pat Schneider to accommodate 60 inputs at mix)- Studer 827- Uptown moving faders- Loads
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MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
MACKIE BUYS ACUMA LABS LTD. Mackie Designs Inc. announced the completion of the purchase of Victoria, BC-based Acuma Labs Ltd. According to executive
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Record Plant Remote
Record Plant Remote has been an industry leader in location recording for over 20 years. We've kept abreast of new developments in audio technology...
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Laughing Tiger Productions
Located 15 minutes from San Francisco in Marin County, Laughing Tiger Produc- tions offers two beautiful 48-track studios designed with the artist in
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Turtle Recording Studios
A beautiful new ocean-front studio lo-cated in White Rock, B.C., 30 min. south of Vancouver near the U.S. border. With the renovation of a...
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Stepbridge Studios
Stepbridge features SSL/Total Recall and Neve consoles, a beautiful Santa Fe-style recording environment with onsite accomodations. Recent clients include
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DigiNote-Miami.com
Record in South Beach, Miami. Strictly specializing in Pro Tools. Described in EQ mag as, "The best Pro Tools studio in the world." We...
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Wave Mechanics Speed
PRO TOOLS PITCH AND TEMPO PROCESSING PLUG-IN Wave Mechanics was formed by three design engineers who, between them, designed the Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer
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UNDERWORLD LIVE
RICK SMITH TAKES IT WITH HIM Few bands in recent memory have managed to stay as close to the bleeding edge of trend and...
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M WORKS RULES BOSTON
FACILITY SPOTLIGHT Over the past eight years, Jonathan Wyner's Cambridge, Mass., M Works mastering studio has established itself as the one of the top
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An Interview with Sam Phillips
THE BIRTH OF ROCK 'N' ROLL When a baby is born, everything kick-starts in that first breath: heart thumping, lungs pumping, feet kicking, voice...
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The Mix 2000 AES New Products Guide
Digital Converters ADC DA 4050 4-Channel SRC Single module compatible with NV4000 Series rack frames, two 2-channel AES inputs and outputs, 20-bit resolution.
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AMS Neve 88R Large-Format Analog Recording Console
For the first time in nearly 20 years, AMS Neve is launching an all-new analog console. "For years, studios have been asking for a...
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Milestones
25 YEARS OF INNOVATION AT NEUTRIK In 1975, Bernard Weingartner founded Neutrik with two employees in a barn in Liechtenstein - a small country...
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Tascam MX-2424
DISK-BASED, 24-TRACK RECORDER/EDITOR On October 1, 1992, Tascam unveiled its DA-88 8-track, 16-bit, tape-based MDM, which at $4,499 represented a revolution
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Studer D950 M2 Digital Mixing System
During the past two years, Studer's D950 flagship digital production console has been an enormous success for the company, as more than 80 systems...
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Universal Audio LA-2A and 1176: The Return of Two Audio Classics
In the audio industry, the terms "legendary" and "classic" have become overused to the point that they have lost all meaning. However, certain products-such
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THE MIX L.A. OPEN 5th Annual Tournament Draws Sellout Crowd
L.A.'s traditional "June gloom" weather was nowhere in sight on Monday, June 19, as 40 foursomes teed off at the Malibu Country Club for...
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Jack Joseph Puig
Words like "dull" and "ordinary" are never found in the same sentence with the name Jack Joseph Puig. A sonic
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JBL VerTec Line Array System
Introducing a new P.A. system always involves an element of risk. Yet, to introduce its new VERTEC line array speaker system, JBL Professional picked
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DIXON VAN WINKLE
POP TO CLASSICAL TO POETRY Engineer/producer Dixon Van Winkle has traveled many miles in a career that spans three decades, but his story begins...
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HOLLYWOOD BUSINESS
CONSOLIDATION HITS THE POST-PRODUCTION SERVICES INDUSTRYFor the past few years, the global business economy has experienced an almost nonstop metamorphosis.
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BLUE Dragonfly
CONDENSER MICROPHONE In recent years, BLUE (Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics) has achieved recognition as a manufacturer of high-quality, handcrafted
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Beyond De-essing
Adventures in Frequency-Conscious Compression Like most other people, engineers are creatures of habit and convention. When we think of frequency-conscious
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True Systems Precision 8
EIGHT-CHANNEL MIC PRE One of the most important links in the recording chain is the microphone preamplifier, and many engineers recognize that console
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Electro-Voice X-Line Line Array System
In their constant quest for higher fidelity, better coverage and greater SPLs, the designers of large-scale sound reinforcement systems have often had
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Analog Tape 101, part 3: Bias Magic
Welcome to the final part of this series on analog tape recorder maintenance. Wrapping up each section has been a bit like making yogurt...
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Caps AND Op Amps
ANALOG MAINTENANCE AND UPGRADE CONSIDERATIONS I get plenty of e-mail regarding "modifications and upgrades" to recording consoles and other pieces of