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By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

Sting, one of the music industry's most popular and creative talents, was presented with the coveted Les Paul Award, and Tom Dowd, who engineered...

By Barry Rudolph ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

A clear case of "more than the sum of its parts," the VT-747sp from Avalon Design combines a tube-based, opto-stereo compressor, sidechain processor and

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

As a "glamour profession," the recording industry is full of people whose names and faces are familiar to the general public. Yet for the...

By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

A few lucky road dogs are going to get a little something extra in a few months. Their money back. From the Government.If you've...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

In the last couple of years, veteran engineer Elliot Scheiner has become one of the recording world's most passionate and articulate advocates of 5.1

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

Precision Mastering, based in Hollywood, Calif., is celebrating 20 years as one of the top mastering houses in the industry. Founded in 1979 as...

By Robyn Flans ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

To Clint Black, challenge is the name of the game. "You gotta have some of that going or you're just going to go through...

By Rick Clark ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

Eric "Roscoe" Ambel is regarded by many fans of Americana and roots-influenced rock music to be one of the most inspirational and sensitive producers

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

Keeping on last month's topic of travel, the great thing about getting out of your own country for a while is that you realize...

By Maureen Droney ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

There's a real art to making successful transitions, whether in a career or in a life. Brian Malouf has managed to gracefully make more...

By Gary Eskow ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

Growing up in Queens, N.Y., Irwin Fisch gave little thought to a career in music. After high school, he earned a degree in journalism...

By Kimberly Chun ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

Hundreds of hardcore, punk and metal bands have fueled Big Blue Meenie Recording Studios since its inception a decade ago in the basement of...

By Philip De Lancie ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

As we close out the '90s, it's instructive to think back on all the changes we've seen over the course of the decade. In...

By Philip De Lancie ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

They say in the entertainment business that you're only as good as your last hit. But poised as we are at the end of...

By Eric Rudolph ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

When Natalie Merchant decided to end her 13-month Ophelia tour with a week on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theater, it seemed a good...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

If the name Alien Soundscapes Incorporated conjures up some nightmare vision out cf The X-Files or the paintings of H.R. Geiger, rest assured the...

By Barry Rudolph ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

The Crane Song Trakker is a single-channel, all-Class-A analog compressor-limiter that uses all discrete components in the signal path. Housed in a single-rackspace

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

It would not be completely off base to imagine a team of sled dogs trekking across Dome Audio Video & Effects. The two-story facility...

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

Ricky Martin has been stopping traffic lately. Literally. Performances on the streets of New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and elsewhere, on the heels of

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

Forget the introductory hoo-hah (see last issue). We continue our conversation with recording legend Tom Dowd.How did Otis Redding strike you?Oh, he was

By Robyn Flans ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

Time should not be a luxury in the recording process, yet so often it is. Sometimes time is short due to budget, and other...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

No one speaks English, and everything's broken...- Tom Waits, "Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)"There is not a more self-centered

By Roger Maycock ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

Promising a fresh perspective with a creative approach, 48 Windows officially opened its doors this summer with a gala celebration attended by several

By Roger Maycock ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

For more than a decade, Apogee Electronics has been a pioneer in digital audio technology, releasing numerous products such as state-of-the-art digital

By David John Farinella ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

Mixer Dave Way is standing in front of an SSL 9000E listening to the mix he finished the night before. Next to him, producer...

By David John Farinella ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

Tucked away in Chicago's arty Wicker Park area is Abyssinian Sons Studio, the creative launch pad for Filter's Richard Patrick. It's more than just...