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Mixing It Up With Andy Bradfield: MULTI-TASKING BRIT HAS GOT IT GOING ON
Twenty-eight-year-old engineer/mixer/producer Andy Bradfield is one of the new breed of British engineers-a busy independent who has his hands full doing
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Classic Tracks: John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things”
Legendary producer Tom Dowd sheds light on the recording of John Coltrane's classic rendition of "My Favorite Things."
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Euphonix System 5: Automated Digital Mixing Console
The fact that Euphonix has been developing a digital console is no secret. In fact, the company first announced its plans to build a...
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Tascam MX 24-24: Disk-Based 24-Track Recorder/Editor
An overriding trend in audio over the past decade has been that studio recorders keep getting better, faster and more affordable. In line with...
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The Play’s the Thing-If You Can Hear It: SOME THOUGHTS ON THEATER SOUND
The other night I went to the opening of a production of a very hip Broadway musical, put on by the students at the...
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THE FOURTH ANNUAL Mix L.A. Open
Monday, June 14, dawned foggy and cool as intrepid golfers headed out, revved and ready, for an early start at the Malibu Country Club,...
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Jimmy Douglass: FROM CLASSIC ROCK TO HIP HOP, THE VETERAN ENGINEER STAYS IN SYNC WITH THE TIMES
Jimmy Douglass seems too young to have done so much. His past credits include work on sessions with icons such as the Rolling Stones,...
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IRVING’S PLACE
When Chris McHale and his partner Joe Barone drew up plans for their new facility, Irving's Place, they kept the ad market firmly in...
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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 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,
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Heart’s “Barracuda”
The first time I saw Heart perform, in 1975, they were second or third on the bill at a show headlined by the recently...
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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