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Joni Mitchell With Strings
"Standards" Tour Includes Full Orchestra Afour-time Grammy winner, Joni Mitchell has consistently stretched her prodigious talent and many of the 20 albums
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Analog Tape 101
PART TWO, RECORDER DEBUGGING AND ALIGNMENT In Part One of this series, I made some assumptions: Machines are older while users and technicians are...
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Infini-What?
IMPROVING THE NETWORK BUS Ah, September. A time when latent color emerges from behind the green of summer. When the latest retro tube gear...
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The Hollywood Edge Premiere Edition 4
CD SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY Several years ago, I saw an ad for a sound effects demo CD by The Hollywood Edge. I sent in...
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Apple’s Final Cut Pro
PREPARING AUDIO FOR POST Audio editors and mixers in film and broadcast post have established simple processes for working with sound from Avid systems.
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YOU CAN’T MAKE 5.1 OUT OF STEREO …OR CAN YOU?
A VISIT TO QUAD TECK DIGITAL/FDS LABS The consumer rush to buy home theater systems and DVDs has been one of the great retail...
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Outboard Gear: Who Uses What, and Why?
OUR PANEL OF EXPERTS NAME THEIR FAVORITE OUTBOARD PROCESSORS Every month, Mix devotes a large portion of its editorial pages to new product announcements
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Turning up the Heat
HOT PRODUCT HITS FROM SUMMER NAMM In 1993, a slumping Summer NAMM show came to Nashville as a local expo focusing on guitars and...
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September 1, 2000 Technology Tri-Tech Audio TS-24 Event PS6 Studio Monitors And 20/20/15 Subwoofer Panasonic WZ-AD96M Soundelux U99 Kind of Loud Technologies SmartPan Pro,...
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Wherever there's an audio professional, there's Intertec. With more than a quarter-million subscribers in entertainment technology, Intertec Publishing's
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All Things Internet: You don't need to be a think tank resident to see the impact that the Internet is having on all facets...
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Since 1947, AKG Acoustics has pioneered the development and advancement of state-of-the-art wired, and today, wireless microphone and headphone systems
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Virtually everything can now take place virtually. The transfer of audio data via copper wire and, increasingly, the ether, has been a growing trend...
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Hey, Partner
Partnerships are rare in the recording studio business. Studio ownership seems to be a highly personal, highly passionate pursuit. It's one of the few
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16th ANNUAL TEC AWARDS VOTER’S GUIDE
The Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards is your chance to vote for the best products, facilities and production professionals of the past year. Beginning
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I. OUTSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
A. Acoustics/Facility Design Company Russ Berger Design Group, Dallas, TX: During the eligibility period RBDG provided design on over 50 projects for
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TravelWise: YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU
It's the height of summertime, and everyone who isn't stuck behind a front-of-house position under a shed every night is either on or thinking...
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III. OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
A. Ancillary Equipment Audio Precision System 2 Cascade: The next generation for AP's industry-standard System Two series, Cascade provides approximately
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UP-GRADES AND UP-DATES
Just released: Waves' C4 multiband parametric processor for native platforms, including RTAS, Premiere, MAS and VST on Macintosh and DirectX and VST for
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PREVIEW: HOT OFF THE SHELF
Now available from sound effects creator Frank Serafine, The Serafine SFX Collection is a 16-disc set of unique effects including such categories as Ambience,
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SDMI Membership Passes 200 The Secure Digital Music Initiative recently announced that its participant list now includes more than 200 companies and organizations.
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II. OUTSTANDING CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT
A. Audio Post-Production Engineer for Film Richard Beggs: Film sound design projects for the qualifying period are Galaxy Quest, a sci-fi comedy directed
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UNIQUE RECORDING STUDIO
Unique Recording got its start back in 1978 as the brainchild of Joanne and Bobby Nathan. The facility began as a one-room, 8-track recording...
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Electrix MODS: MODULAR PERFORMANCE EFFECTS
Canadian manufacturer Electrix, a division of IVL Technologies, expands its line of performance-oriented analog effects with the half-rackspace Filter
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Neumann Series 180: CONDENSER MICROPHONES
Neumann's new Series 180 condenser microphones consist of three models: the KM 183, KM 184 and KM 185. Available in either matte black or...
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MEMORANDUM: The Wheels Go ‘Round and ‘Round…
Looking over the changing landscape of the studio business, I begin to know how Chaplin felt in Modern Times as he squirmed through the...
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6 VIEWS ON 5.1
ADVENTURES IN SURROUND MIXING Everybody in the industry seems to be talking about 5.1, but how many engineers out there are actually doing surround...
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Glen Kolotkin:THE COAST-TO-COAST CAREER OF A RECORDING JOURNEYMAN
Long Island-based Glen Kolotkin is hardly a household name in the recording business, but over the course of more than three decades as an...
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SEK’D Samplitude 2496 V. 5.57: MULTITRACK AUDIo, MIDI AND CD MASTERING FOR THE DESKTOP
It's a tired subject, but the Windows vs. Macintosh debate comes up every time an audio or music program pushes either platform's envelope with...
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Zapex ZP-100: AC-3 5-Channel Surround Encoder
Despite a growing surround mastering and production market for HDTV, audio and DVD releases, the number of available encoding products is relatively small.
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Event Electronics Ezbus: USB Interface/Controller/Digital Mixer
Digital recording systems keep getting more affordable, and the new EZbus from Event Electronics is an excellent example of that trend. Priced at $849,
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Doctor, It Hurts When I Do This!: WHY YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT RSI
A friend of mine who writes for one of the computer magazines, and who also happens to be a wonderful musician, gave me a...
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THE SQUIRREL WILL SAVE THE WORLD: CARTOON MEETS
Film sound professionals are always trying to outdo themselves. But, during the making of the soundtrack for The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, supervising
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Pierre Foldes: POST-PRODUCTION WITH PARISIAN STYLE
Composers heading to New York to find work in this town's audio post market are often cowed by the number of well-appointed project studios...
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THE BASS BROTHERS AND EMINEM
Marshall Mathers-better known to his legion of fans as Eminem-is the music industry equivalent of basketball player Jason Williams. The Sacramento Kings
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Time for a Change In the Orchestra Pit
Musical theater has been strikingly successful in adapting and refining the modern sound reinforcement technologies that blossomed in the '70s. In fact,
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Designing the Large-Format DIGITAL Console
Back in the good ol' days of analog, mixing consoles all shared a common characteristic-the bulk of the circuitry per channel was built into...
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Return to “Mermaid Avenue”
Woody Guthrie left behind such a large body of unpublished lyrics that Billy Bragg and Wilco could probably spend the rest of their careers...
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Fostex NF-1A: ACTIVE NEAR-FIELD STUDIO MONITOR
Monitors with internal amplifiers offer the luxury of bringing a fairly compact and familiar playback system to every studio in your engineering travels.