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Apple Acquires Emagic
From www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html#069. Apple today announced it has acquired Emagic, a leading provider of professional software solutions for
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Philips, Crest National Bring SACD Plant to U.S.
Royal Philips Electronics and Crest National announced a partnership agreement to develop a Super-Audio CD hybrid disc production line to be installed
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CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG
Only two years after their first reunion tour in a quarter-century, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young played 40 shows in the U.S. and Canada...
Live Gear
YOUR Tech RIDER Part 1
How often does out-of-date stage documentation cause last-minute panic, doubled efforts and wasted time? Enough that when working for a sound vendor at
Films-TV
Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo supervising sound editor Michael Wilhoit seems like a pretty normal guy. Still, you have to figure that to work on this kind...
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Jeff Balding
Nashville can be deceiving. With all that low-key style and relaxed attitude, people from the rest of the country can sometimes get fooled into...
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The Sum of All Fears
Although filming was completed before September 11, one might have expected some concerns at Paramount Pictures about the release of The Sum of All...
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Willkommen zu Mnchen!
There were some hot new products at AES Munich, but you had to dig a little to uncover the gems....
New Products
Aphex Model 207
Aphex has a decades' long legacy in developing industry-standard dynamics controllers for critical recording, broadcast and mastering applications. And,
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BRING ON THE REVOLUTION!
If a time capsule took you to a recording studio on Jan 1, 1977, you'd be in an alien, yet strangely familiar world. You...
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25 Years of Film Sound: Making Movies in the Digital Era
Mix magazine had the wit and wisdom to publish its first issue in 1977, the 100th birthday of Edison's invention of recorded sound. If...
Daw -Recorders
MOTU Digital Performer
Have you ever wished for a way to record takes without cluttering up your hard drive with files? Many of today's best digital audio...
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Audio Ease Altiverb 1.4
The ability to sample the reverb of an environment and then use that sample to recreate the location's reverb in your studio is an...
2002
Alesis ADAT HD24
It's been almost two years since the first modular, 24-bit/24-track hard disk recorders were introduced to the pro audio world. The Alesis ADAT HD24...
Microphones
Royer R-122
Until now, fans of ribbon mics have had to put up with the historic drawbacks of such transducer designs, including low-output level (usually requiring
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Field Test: AKG Acoustics C 900
Introduced last winter, AKG's newest Emotion performance microphone is the C 900 condenser vocal mic. It closely resembles the handheld dynamic mics in
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Dumbing Down the Dial
It isn't often that I can, in the space of a few days, learn about a new application of digital technology in audio, connect...
Monitors
Mackie HR624/HRS120
It's no secret that near-field monitoring has its limitations. Creating an accurate listening environment in less-than-ideal surroundings can be a maddening
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Sven, Where’s My Mead?
Imagine having an Internet connection all the time as you tote your computer hither and yon. Imagine the power of sharing files, directories and...
Live Sound
Alanis Morissette
In 1995, Alanis Morissette released Jagged Little Pill, which went on to become one of the best-selling records ever by a solo artist. The...
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Sleep Like an Egyptian
I am not the first person to write about tape restoration; Phil De Lancie documented his treatment for sticky shed way back in May...
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MDM, CD, DASH, AIT, FireWire Pro Meets Consumer
In the 100 years between Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877 and the launch of Mix, recording and playback systems took gradual,...
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Music Recording: Moving Forward Together
Obviously, a lot has changed in the past 25 years, both in terms of the equipment we use and the way we work. I...
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Producer Billy Sherrill
The modern country music establishment in Nashville meaning since Hank Williams died in 1952 can be traced back to a triumvirate of producers who...
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Trade Show Fever
The soul of any trade show is the people who attend it. Conventions are an important part of our industry, providing a forum for...
Live Sound
The Live Sound Industry Grows Up (and Slims Down)
Twenty-five years is a long time. The scary thing is, I've been involved with sound for a lot longer. It's amazing to stop and...
New Products
New Digital Effects Processors
Eighteen new or significantly upgraded digital hardware multi-effects processors have been released in the 18 months since January 2001's Winter NAMM.
New Products
Top-of-the-Line Wireless Microphone Systems
As new digital television (DTV) broadcasters' and emergency response units' signals continue to eat up wireless frequencies each year, wireless mic manufacturers
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Happy Birthday to Us!
I can still vividly recall the day in 1978 when Mix founders David Schwartz and Penny Jacob trudged up the stairs next to my...
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CH-CH-CH-CHANGES
When Mix was launched in 1977, founding editor David Schwartz didn't know whether to show up at work wearing a skinny tie to show...
Films-TV
Minority Report
After working on five Steven Spielberg films, three of which have garnered Academy Awards for sound effects editing, sound designer Gary Rydstrom and
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Mastering the Music: A Dark Art No More
The main thing that I notice about the time I've been in the mastering business is that the technology has gotten so much more...
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THE CIRCLE REMAINS UNBROKEN
During the course of one week in the late summer of 1971, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and a who's who of Nashville's greatest...
2002
July 1, 2002
July 1, 2002 Features Abbey Road at 70 New Digital Effects Processors Top-of-the-Line Wireless Microphone Systems Willkommen zu Mnchen! Technology Tools of the Trade...
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Founders, CEO Regain Control of Audio Precision
Nearly two years after selling the company to a small group of private investors, two Audio Precision Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.) founders and the current
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Tributes Flow in for Who Bassist John Entwistle
LONDON (Reuters) -- Tributes flowed in on Friday for John Entwistle, bass guitarist with rock group The Who, who died of a suspected heart...
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West L.A. Musics Present Pro Tools Seminars
West L.A. Music invites interested parties to learn about the Digidesign's Pro Tools at the Apple Education Center, located at 2401 Colorado Ave., Suite
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French CBC Radio Rents Out Rooms
Since April, six out of the 34 studios of the CBC French radio network (Montreal) are available for rental, including famous Studio 12, which features
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D.A.S., Sennheiser Part Ways
D.A.S. Audio (Valencia, Spain) has expanded its Miami office's sales responsibilities from only handling Canada and South America, to include all U.S.
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SSL Adds New VP To Its Staff
Solid State Logic has appointed Steve Zaretsky to the position of VP, Broadcast for the East Coast. In this position, he will be responsible...
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Studio Mega Orders “Extra-Large” XL Console
Studio Mega (Suresnes, France) announced that it has ordered the largest XL 9000 K SuperAnalogue Series Console in Europe. The 96-channel console, supplied