December 1, 2004 By Mix Staff Published: 12/01/2004 December 1, 2004 Features AES San Francisco 2004 TEC Awards Winners Bringing the Show Home Strictly Summing The Hidden Sony Masters Airshow Mastering Dave Harris On the Cover Rodney Jerkins Technology Tools of the Trade Technology Spotlight: Aviom A-Net Pro Field Test: Waves IR-1 Parametric Convolution Reverb Plug-In Field Test: SE Electronics SE1A, SE2 and SE3 Mics Field Test: Adobe Audition Version 1.5 PC-Based DAW Field Test: Native Instruments Guitar Rig Field Test: Blue Sky MediaDesk 2.1 Monitoring System Power Tools: Tascam DM-24 Digital Mixer Sound for Picture Sound Lounge Crazy Cars and Man-Eating Leeches Live Mix Top 10 Live Sound Picks From AES All Access: P.J. Harvey News Now Playing Iridium Jazz Club Celebrates 10 Years Tour Profile: The Pixies Recording Notes Duran Duran The Neville Brothers Alan Parsons Classic Tracks: Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Shining Star” Cool Spins Coast to Coast L.A. Grapevine Nashville Skyline New York Metro Indie Buzz Track Sheet Avatar Studios Los Super Seven Regroup for Super Third Insider Audio Virtual Stuff Tech’s Files The Sound of Vacuum Tubes, Part I From the Editor China: A Study in Contrasts Current TEC Awards 2004 Demand for Mastering Shows in New Rooms Sax Creates Own Wall of Sound Dubliners Get Baked in L.A. True Remote Recording Via the Web Notes From the Net ON THE MOVE Yamaha Merges Departments Entravision Connects With Neutrik Industry News Corrections