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By George Petersen ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

Several years ago, when AKG unveiled its C 3000, it was nearly an instant success, providing decent performance at a price that is quite...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

How do you define audio fidelity? Is it the signal-to-noise ratio, the frequency response, the distortion? Is it the number of channels, bits or...

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

On February 8, after more than a half-century in professional audio, Roy Segal quietly stepped down as the head of Fantasy Studios and the...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

The Toy Specialists has been a Manhattan fixture for the past 15 years, supplying major studios in the area with the equipment that top-shelf...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

Steven Gold jumped into the music business early on, singing jingle dates with his two brothers while still attending grade school in the Bronx....

By Roger Maycock ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

With so much attention paid to new recording systems these days, it's easy to forget that getting "your sound" is more than just what...

By Ty Ford ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

UHF WIRELESS SYSTEM

By Kimberly Chun ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

Out on the beautiful, barren expanses of rural Utah, Douglas Spotted Eagle has been making a name for himself as a Native American flutist,...

By Philip De Lancie ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

Since its birth more than 100 years ago, the audio industry has always been a multifaceted field, serving diverse areas such as prerecorded music,...

By Oliver Masciarotte ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

It's no surprise to most of us that, by adopting digital acquisition, processing and distribution, we've settled for audio that is audibly degraded relative

By Erik Hawkins ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

Gates, compressors, delays, reverbs, EQs: We keep seeing the same TDM plug-ins over and over again. It's about time for something really different, something

By Jeff Johns ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

Canada has been in the entertainment news a lot over the past year, usually because some Hollywood facility owner or representative in Congress is...

By Mark Hopkins ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

Dallas Austin has found success in the music biz by coupling his love of music with an understanding of the listener's ear. His approach...

By Larry The O ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

In the spring of 1995, I had no inkling as I entered the world of game sound design that I was about to experience...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Napoleon once disparaged the English as "a nation of shopkeepers," and the London studio industry is increasingly a business of small boutiques, often

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

The headlines generated by the wave of consolidation that's swept the recording industry in recent years might make it seem as though such turmoil...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

One message has become increasingly clear in the studio business during the past decade: Providing conventional recording services is often not enough.Many

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

You could say that evolution and history combine in the reopening of Studios 301 in Sydney, Australia. Behind the studio's brand-spanking-new facade is

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

It's become a multibillion-dollar sport on Wall Street to watch American Airlines swallow Reno Air, or Exxon buy Mobil, or any of the dot-coms...

By Barry Rudolph ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Ring Modulator/Frequency Shifter One of the FwS Series of analog effects made in England by DACS, FREQue (pronounced "freak") is a dual ring modulator

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Over the last two years, the "Mix Business Quarterly" has concentrated heavily on the mechanisms of studio economics, from getting paid by record companies

By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Just when you thought you could close the lid on the mic case, satisfied that your inventory is complete, something new comes along to...

By Randy Alberts ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Cycling '74's retro bike seat logo is a throwback to its namesake decade and quite apropos for their $74 Pluggo plug-in suite: For the...

By Randy Alberts ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

In many ways, professional audio performs as a microcosm of the capitalist system: The market picks the winners and, with some exceptions, tends to...

By George Petersen ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY Founded by former Hollywood Edge head Scott Whitney a year ago, Hollywood Sound Factory was created to provide high-quality sound

By George Petersen ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

SOUND-EFFECTS LIBRARIES Over the years, Sound Ideas has established itself as a leading provider of sound effects, with an impressive number of "firsts."

By George Petersen ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Anyone who runs a studio-project or public-soon realizes there's much more to the process than simply buying and installing gear. As your needs grow,

By Rick Clark ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Big-time recording artists receive the box-set treatment from record labels, but it takes quite a movie to receive the same level of attention. The...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Last month, I decried the problems of dealing with tech support lines at companies whose hardware and software we expect-often unrealistically-to work