The Kitchen Mastering
The Kitchen Mastering is thriving in one of the country's most eclectic music centers. Located near Chapel Hill, N.C., which gave the music world...
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The Kitchen Mastering is thriving in one of the country's most eclectic music centers. Located near Chapel Hill, N.C., which gave the music world...
With seven mastering, cutting and production suites, Future Disc Systems is one of the largest mastering facilities in the U.S. Founded in 1981, the...
You want to know just how plugged-in Jeff Greenberg is? This descendant of an L.A. family with a long retail and banking tradition (his...
Bernie Grundman-the engineer and the facility-has been synonymous with quality mastering for more than 30 years. Avuncular and quietly authoritative about
MasterMix opened its doors just off Nashville's Music Row in 1983. Last year, after mastering hundreds of Gold and Platinum records for a wide...
Long regarded as the most mysterious and elite of professional audio's arts, mastering is in the midst of massive change on several fronts. In...
For the past two years the Nashville-area studio market has been characterized by consolidation and contraction, which makes Sound Kitchen a rare success
The term "alternative" has gone beyond buzz word, sort of the way that "digital" did. "Alternative music" is about the vaguest term in use...
Riding high on Jay-Z's Grammy, and back-to-back Number One albums from DMX, the 1999 Hard Knock Life tour is bringing rock 'n' roll production...
When George McCrae's smash hit "Rock Your Baby" hit Number One in mid-1974, few could have predicted that it would usher in the Age...
Sitting in his living room sipping a glass of wine, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album, Californication , blasting in the background, drummer...
There's no better illustration of the past, present and future of synthesis than the comparison of two booths spotted at the last Winter NAMM...
Among the most inspired and significant bodies of work that the reissue geniuses at Rhino Records have undertaken is the Rhino Movie Music/Turner Classic
Mackie Designs has been shipping hundreds of its $9,995 Digital 8*Bus (D8B) Consoles for more than a year. Now the Mackie D8B has a...
Alesis is no stranger to breakthrough technologies. Its 1991 debut of the ADAT digital multitrack sparked a revolution that continues to this day. And
There are lots of equalizers on the market. So, does the world really need another EQ? Having heard Manley Labs' Massive Passive, I can...
April 16, 1998, is a day etched into the memories of everyone in Nashville. It was the day that a mile-wide tornado roared over...
There's a theme found in many popular self-help books that goes along the lines of "if you want to be truly happy and prosperous,...
I ran into my buddy Grumpmeier at the local Electronics Land the other day, as I was mulling over a new microwave with more...
Radical recording. Hmm-what do you mean by that?" That's the response I got from various engineers when I broached the subject of this article....
The audio post industry is booming right now. Three-room facilities are adding more suites. One-room shops have too much work and are adding pre-production
Conventional mixing wisdom states that throwing a bird call in the left surround channel is bound to pull an audience's attention away from the...
Since the dawn of magnets, engineers and musicians alike have searched for warm-sounding, durable and affordable microphone technologies. Well, search
Many regular Mix readers are already somewhat familiar with the digital console market. This relatively new but fast-growing segment of the audio industry
Of all the hundreds of audio products I've had the pleasure to review and use over the years, none has excited me as much...
Though development of the Showconsole was initially driven by a very small group within Showco ("Only the president, the owners and myself knew about
In 1998, close to 1 million fans flocked to see the George Strait Country Music Festival, a one-day, seven-act show staged in 18 football...
Although it's true that there's no such thing as a free lunch, the DSP*FX Virtual Pack from Power Technology provides a hearty smorgasbord of...
Roy Haynes is a something of an under-appreciated gem amid the treasure trove of America's great jazz veterans. The 73-year-old drummer is not particularly
By nature, "musicians" and "organization" do not go hand in hand. But once a musician branches out and becomes either a producer or studio...
Digidesign's Pro Tools|24 MIX has arrived, and it will knock your socks off. This newest incarnation of the ever-popular Pro Tools system features a...
From a distance, the trajectory of Steve Earle's career follows a perverse but unbreakable logic: Everywhere he should have zigged, he zagged. Every time
March 26, 1999, marked the thirtieth anniversary of the first concert by the legendary Allman Brothers Band. The date fell, fittingly enough, during what
Alesis has successfully made its mark in signal processors, drum machines, sequencers, synthesizers, tape recorders (and what a mark that is) and studio
Sometimes reverb is used to enhance reality-applied, as if with an artist's paintbrush, to color, fatten, soften, smear or gel. Other times, reverb is
July 1, 1999 Technology AlterMedia Studio Suite 4.0: STUDIO MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Alesis MasterLink ML-9600: 24-bit/96kHz Hard Disk/CD-R Mastering Recorder Digidesign Pro Tools|24 Mix: CROSS-PLATFORM...
Listed below are the nominees chosen by the Nominating Panel of the 15th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards. A special TEC Awards nominees
Roger D'Arcy, 42, and Nick Whitaker, 37, started the English firm Recording Architecture in 1987, believing that, when it comes to studio design, acoustics
John Storyk has been a fixture in studio design almost since there were studios to design. At 53, he can trace his professional lineage...
This year's NSCA show (www.nsca.org) took place at Nashville's Opryland Hotel, an antediluvian biosphere where attendees could lose themselves for hours
The Aphex 1788 is a full-featured, 8-channel, remotely-controllable microphone preamplifier offering excellent sound quality plus two inventions: continuously
Howie B. has been something of a ubiquitous figure in popular music the past few years, particularly in Europe. The producer/engineer/mixer/composer/DJ