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SESSION SPOTLIGHT: MARK AMBROSINO GOES GLOBAL
Drummer Mark Ambrosino has worked with some of the best, including Michael Brecker, Whitney Houston, Leonard Bernstein, Michael McDonald and Michael Bolton.
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Baci Studio: CHIELI MINUCCI’S MIDTOWN SANCTUARY
Bloodlines run deep in the music business, as Queens native Chieli Minucci readily acknowledges. His father, Ulpio, was a composer ("Domani") and arranger
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CIBO MATTO: BEYOND STEREOTYPES
Whether it's the stress of following up a big hit or finding one, there always seems to be some obstacle in the path of...
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FLAMING LIPS PRESENT THE MUSIC AGAINST BRAIN DEGENERATION REVUE
Thanks to the Flaming Lips, headphones were on everyone's minds, and ears, at a San Francisco stop on the Music Against Brain Degeneration Revue...
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A Tale of Two Voices: AUDIO PRODUCTION FOR SPOKEN WORD
With prerecorded music sales essentially stagnant over the past several years, and many music-oriented productions moving from commercial studios to garages
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MASTER PRESERVATION
The mainstream record industry traditionally has lived very much in the present, with the value of a recording only as high as its current...
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Millenia NSEQ-2: TWO CHANNEL PARAMETRIC EQ WITH TWIN TOPOLOGY
Since Millennia (then known as Millennia Media) introduced its acclaimed HV-3 high-voltage mic preamp several years ago, the company's name has been synonymous
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Tour Profile: The Boss is Back!
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Hit the Road Again Bruce Springsteen worked with the E Street Band for close to 20 years...
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PRODUCER TOMMY LIPUMA: MAKING MAGIC WITH DIANA KRALL
Although Tommy LiPuma has been in the record business for nearly 40 years and has 18 Gold and Platinum records, 30 Grammy nominations and...
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NEW YORK POST: SURROUNDED BY PRIME TIME
It doesn't take an insider to see that the New York post-production industry is booming. New shops are opening up, commercial mixing facilities are...
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Craig Street: STUDIO ENVIRONMENTALIST
In his emergence as one of the most creative producers of the day, Craig Street has worked on a string of projects with artists...
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TC Works MasterX TDM Plug-In: MULTIBAND DYNAMICS PROCESSING FOR TOOLS
There's nothing like multiband dynamics processing to pinpoint and control troublesome frequencies. The ability to target a specific bandwidth gives you
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THE CARE AND FEEDING OF Classic Gear
Sound recording is unusual among the technical arts in that today's artists and technicians often combine current, state-of-the-art technology with equipment
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John T. Mullin: THE MAN WHO PUT BING CROSBY ON TAPE
Audio and video engineer John T. (Jack) Mullin-who introduced America to high-fidelity magnetic tape recording, built the first prototype videotape recorder
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UNDERSTANDING AND PRESERVING DYNAMIC RANGE
Over the past 20 years, digital media has made possible the economical delivery of music with very high dynamic range. Dynamic ranges above 90...
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Akai DD8 Digital Dubber: TIPS FROM TODD-AO EAST
The Akai DD8 random-access digital film dubber is designed to be used in place of traditional mag machines and as a plug-and-play replacement for...
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Lab Analysis: Alesis M1
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS The Alesis M1 Active Monitor's enclosure is a bass reflex design with dual, elbowed ports. The 1.5-inch-diameter ports are flared
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October 1, 1999
October 1, 1999 Technology Tascam MX 24-24: Disk-Based 24-Track Recorder/Editor Alesis M1 Lab Analysis: Alesis M1 Summit Audio MPE-200: ELEMENT 78 SERIES MIC PREAMP/EQUALIZER...
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COMPLETE SOUND
It turned into a package deal straight out of Hollywood: On Monday, July 26, Andre Perreault joined Complete Sound, along with the Miles O'...
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Studio Pro99
More than 200 audio professionals descended on the Universal City Hilton in mid-June for StudioPro99, Mix magazine's second annual technical and business
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Walt Disney Studios Post Production Services
Since its opening in 1940, the Disney Sound Department has created and mixed the sound for most of the classic animated and live action...
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AudioControl Industrial MP-200: MEASUREMENT PREAMPLIFIER
Thanks to the portability and power of laptop computers, many live sound engineers are now able to carry their own acoustical analysis tools wherever
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Remote Engineering: VIEWS FROM THE TOP
The 1999 slate of nominees for a TEC Award in the category of Remote/Broadcast Recording Engineer includes some familiar names: Guy Charbonneau, Ed Greene,
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Living Large
Nearly 50 new large-diaphragm condenser mics have been released during the past 18 months. One microphone can re-create any polar pattern or mic angle,
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GATEMOUTH BROWN
"There's no way in the world that I would spend months and months making a record," says multi-instrumentalist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. "When I listen
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Tannoy PS 110-B POWERED STUDIO SUBWOOFER
Whether you're looking for more bottom end for dance, rock or rap-or need the ".1" subwoofer source for 5.1 surround sound playback-chances are compact
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Digidesign Pro Tools 5.0
In recent years, most of the big news and developments in Digidesign's Pro Tools system have centered around hardware. First there was the move...
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Capturing the Keyboards
Keyboards have always provided an endless array of colors and nuance for music projects, adding tone to an underbed or singing solo in an...
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Twenty Years of Writing: AND THEY PUT YOU ON THE DAY SHIFT
This month, I mark my 20th anniversary as a professional audio writer. Okay, stop yawning. I know you don't want to read another deadly...
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David Darling
It's not surprising that producer David Darling has the kind of cozy, comfortable project studio where musicians immediately feel at home-after all, he
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COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT: PARODI/FAIR
Maybe it's a feng shui thing, but "harmony" is the word that comes to mind when entering the Pacific Palisades home studio of Starr...
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Dane Davis and DANETRACKS: JACKED INTO THE MATRIX AND WIRED FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
With the out-of-the-box success of The Matrix, and its provocative soundtrack, it's a given that sound designer Dane Davis and his company, Danetracks
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STANLEY CLARKE AND LENNY WHITE
Wind back the time machine to 1976 and you'll find the classic jazz/rock fusion recording Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever, a group then...
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Westlake Audio Lc3w12
The Lc3w12 three-way passive monitors are the latest and largest additions to Westlake Audio's Lc Series, which includes four smaller monitors and a subwoofer.
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More and More Music Libraries
There's something very "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" about the world of music libraries. Is it the world of pop music...
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FACILITY SPOTLIGHT: NOW HEAR THIS
Many people would say Carlos Chafin is one of the more affable people in the audio business. But don't take his easygoing nature to...
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MOTU AudioDesk Software
A significant part of the MOTU 2408 Hard Disk Recording System's appeal lies in the powerful AudioDesk software, a sophisticated and feature-laden multitrack
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Summer NAMM ’99
When the massive heat wave swept over the U.S. this summer, we at the Mix offices in foggy San Francisco didn't know what all...
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Jewel: Capturing The Spirit
Jewel's story is one of perseverance. The press has filled volumes with her rags-to-riches saga; so, many of us know by now that she...
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BEHIND THE STRINGS WITH BELA FLECK: RECORDING TALES FROM THE ACOUSTIC PLANET, VOL. 2
Back in the spring of 1983, the great banjo player Bela Fleck and I teamed up for the first time to record his album...
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IT WAS 31 YEARS: REMIXED IN 5.1 FOR YELLOW SUBMARINE
No doubt, there will be purists who scream, "Sacrilege!" And debates will rage about the simple-yet-detailed beauty of the original mono mixes. But The