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53rd CAS Award Winners
“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble take first ever CAS award for Motion Picture-Documentary John Pritchett, CAS honored with...
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API Announces Saul Walker Memorial Scholarship
API is pleased to open submissions for its tenth annual scholarship award. Formerly known as the API Visionary Scholarship, the API Saul Walker Memorial...
2017
Zynaptiq Adaptiverb
Adaptiverb uses an entirely new approach to reverb processing, and it sounds incredible. In Zynaptiq’s own words, “Rather than stacking delay/allpass nodes or convolving...
2017
Spotlight: Pro Tools | MTRX Interface
Soft-announced at AES last September and now close to release is the Avid Pro Tools | MTRX Interface. This is the highend box that...
2017
Tegeler Audio Manufaktur Crème
Tegeler Audio Manufaktur’s aptly named Crème is a 2-channel line-level audio processor designed to be a “finishing touch” for stereo mixes or across buses/stems....
2017
Placid Audio Copperphone Microphone
Engineers and music producers are always looking for that certain something in a production that sets their tracks apart from the rest. It could...
2017
Bay 8 Studios
Bay 8 is owned and operated by engineer Matthew “Formatt” DeFreitas. The Providence, R.I., native moved to Miami in 2009 after several years in...
2017
Update From Criteria Studios
No visit to Miami’s studio scene is complete without checking in with Criteria Studios (formerly Hit Factory), the home of unforgettable recordings by Derek...
2017
Live From Big Wall Studios
This multi-studio complex in north Miami’s theater district has kept its big rooms booked by opening them up for band rehearsals and video shoots,...
2017
The Best Of Multichannel Preamplifiers With I/O
Most audio processing takes place today within a CPU. So our most relied upon hardware (other than the CPU itself) is often a comprehensive...
2017
Game Composer Winifred Phillips
If composition terms like “horizontal resequencing” or “vertical layering” aren’t familiar, that’s understandable. They’re not necessarily film-composing terms, but they are part of a...
2017
Composer John Lunn
Every so often the theme that colors the opening credits of a television series works its way into the collective consciousness. Digging all the...
2017
Build Your Own Studio: The $100,000 Studio
That time of year has come again, where Markkus Rovito and I take a look at how to improve on your current setup. In...
2017
Build Your Own Studio: The $35,000 Studio
Rather than presenting an entire soup-to-nuts studio this time, we’re looking at a targeted upgrade to a project studio dedicated to sound design and...
2017
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks, the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll, performed a two-hour show at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif., in December. The set...
2017
Cherub: Live Sound And Samples
Engineer Hunter Gifford mixed FOH and monitors for electro-pop/rock group Cherub on the band’s recent fall tour, using a DigiCo SD9 for the house...
2017
Classic Tracks: Mr. Mister’s “Kyrie”
The band decided to create "Kyrie" part by part, yet endeavor to make it sound live, keeping that objective throughout the entire process.
2017
A Salute To Leonard Cohen
The setting: Toronto’s Luminato art festival. The venue: a gigantic, long-disused industrial building called The Hearn Generating Station. The performers: Rufus Wainwright and 1,500...
2017
Rose Cousins And Natural Conclusion
The beauty of Rose Cousins’ new album, Natural Conclusion, is practically on a Joni Mitchell level. She’s a poetic and precise yet fearless artist...
2017
Entrance’s Book Of Changes
“As a musician who gets to write and play the music and sing and produce the album, there are so many artforms that go...
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Nathan East
Since the early 1980s, Nathan East has been a go-to session bassist for Quincy Jones, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Daft Punk and...
2017
On The Cover: Mount Olive High School, New Jersey
There’s a nationally recognized robotics department, with associated old-style and new-style machine rooms and electronics stations. There’s a high-def television station that rivals a...
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2017 Grammy Winners
Producer of the Year, non-classical – Greg Kurstin Producer of the Year, classical – David Frost Best Engineered Album, non-classical – David Bowie, Blackstar...
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Lectrosonics to Receive 2017 Academy Award for Technical Achievement
At a ceremony to be held February 11, 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present its Technical Achievement Award to...
2017
JBL Celebrates 70 Years
At this year’s NAMM show, monitor developer JBL marks its 70th anniversary—definitely cause for celebration. In its October issue, our sister publication Electronic Musician...
2017
Technology Developer and Teacher Saul Walker to Be Honored at NYU Event
The life and professional legacy of the late API co-founder Saul Walker will be honored at a celebration to be held at 10:30 a.m....
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Harry Cohen on “Deepwater Horizon”
Veteran Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer to receive MPSE’s 2017 Career Achievement Award.
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Mix and Pro Sound News Announce NAMM 2017 Best Of Show Awards
The 2017 NAMM Show, held January 19-22 in Anaheim, Calif., was loaded with new-product introductions, from high-end monitors and microphones to bargain-bundle plug-ins and...
2017
Tech Talk: Production Hacks
Making sure you have top gear and proper gain staging along the signal chain goes a long way to assure you have great sounding...
2017
HYDE STREET STUDIOS, SAN FRANCISCO
Hyde Street Studios recently completed an overall technical revamping of Studio A and is under way in building an annex studio in San Francisco’s...
2017
Prairie Sun Recording
Among the many gifts of life in the San Francisco Bay Area is the proximity of urban arts and culture to a beautiful natural...
2017
Regional: SF Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area has been Mix’s home since the magazine was founded more than 40 years ago, and the tragic loss of...
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Sound For Film: Awards Season 2017
It’s the beginning of the year, which means it’s time to hand out the awards for the best in sound for film—the Academy Awards,...
2017
Portable P.A. Systems 2017
Portable P.A. systems have experienced perhaps the most dramatic growth of any pro audio product category over the past couple of years. Supported by...
2017
Pacifique Studios
There is an inconspicuous brick building, one with no identifying markers that looks abandoned, with twin doors, the right hand one with an ancient...
2017
The Beatles at Shea—How the First Stadium Concert Was Recorded
When the Beatles played the first stadium concerts ever at Shea Stadium in 1965, a team of recording pros—and 55,600 screaming fans losing their...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Jennifer Warnes’ “Right Time Of The Night”
“Right Time of the Night,” released in 1976, was all about firsts. It was the first hit by songwriter Peter McCann. It was artist...
Live Sound
The Beatles Live! How the Legendary Hollywood Bowl Shows Were Recorded — and Revived Decades Later
The epic saga of recording the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl -- from capturing the original shows with the tech of the day, to...
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Winter NAMM Show Welcomes Visitors
The National Association of Music Merchants is set to hold its winter conference January 19-22 in Anaheim, Calif. As always, the show will feature...
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Keegan Dewitt
Keegan DeWitt, the 34-year-old indie rock musician, also composes music for HBO’s Divorce and the upcoming Fox comedy Making History. Handling multiple scoring gigs...