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Streisand Dedicates Renovated Sony Scoring Stage
Sony Pictures Entertainment (Culver City, Calif.) threw an elegant afternoon soiree on February 9, 2004, to celebrate the renaming of its recently renovated
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The New Means of Production
Last May, Mix presented What Can Save the Music Industry, a highly read and talked-about themed issue that rocked the audio community. A year...
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Ardent Brings Education Into the Studio
Ardent Studios and Visible School (both based in Memphis) have formed an educational initiative that creates the first recording and music business school to...
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Pedant In a Big Box: Part 1
Just before the end of the year, I received an e-mail from my editor that read, “We have a feature on network storage systems...
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Sacramento Music Circus Finds New Home
The Sacramento Music Circus, a destination for more than 100,000 patrons a year and the site of some of the city's most creative theater...
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Mi Casa Multimedia
Tucked away in the Hollywood Hills in a cozy 1920s-era house, the busy studios of Mi Casa Multimedia Inc. are dedicated to the art...
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New York Guitar Center Opens
For anyone used to the logistical difficulties of being an engineer or musician in Manhattan, one of the most puzzling has been the lack...
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Henninger Media Services Opens Digital Suites
Combining the equipment and talent of the former 1150 Post and Henninger Capital locations, Henninger Media Services' (Arlington, Va.) new digital suites are now...
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Built by Musicians, For Musicians
Just imagine: guitar players slinging Sheetrock; mandolin players gripping onto belt sanders; and singers, pianists, bassists and percussionists hammering
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Hitmaking Studio Gets Into Label Biz
Avatar Recording Studio's Harvey J. Rosen (president, COO) and Kirk Imamura (chairman, CEO) have formed 441 Records Corporation (www.441Records.com) within the studio's 441 West...
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Trutone Hosts Shmoozefest
For the October grand opening of Trutone's new mastering facility in midtown Manhattan (the studio spent 25 years in New Jersey and has moved...
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Business Chops Gets a Rocket Start
On September 15, at Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, Calif., nearly 100 top record producers, engineers and music business owners attended the first Business...
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New School Openings
On July 25, 2003, the SAE Institute (www.sae.edu) brought together 400 guests from around the world for the grand opening of its 1 million-square-foot...
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Shrinking the Classroom
Back when I was in college, audio production education was something you did on your own. If you wanted to learn how records were...
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Getting Smart
There are many ways to acquire knowledge. I asked a friend who teaches audio at a community college for his perspective on audio education...
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What I Wish I’d Learned In School
During the summer before my final semester of college, I managed to talk my way into a highly sought-after internship at one of the...
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Audio Recording Technology Institute
These days, it seems like audio engineering schools are opening their doors in virtually every major market. While there used to be few programs...
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Olympic Studios Expands Facility
Producers Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths/Morrissey, The Cranberries) and Cenzo Townshend (U2, Skin, Lightning Seeds) have moved into London-based Olympic Studio's (www.olympicstudios.co.uk) new programming/pre-production...
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Former Digi Employees Open Mindlab
The Mindlab Learning Center (www.themindlab.us) offers Pro Tools software and hardware training, Digidesign Operator and Expert Certifications, and courses on specific audio plug-ins for...
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Forging a New Look
orge Recording (Oreland, Pa.; www.forgerecording.com) has moved to a state-of-the-art, Walters-Storyk Design Group-designed complex.
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KAS Reopens KAS Music & Sound
Opening its doors on September 20, 1920, as the Famous Players/Lasky, Kaufman Astoria Studios (as it is known now) later went on to be...
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More Comfort, More Efficiency!
When the idea of a studio is first conceived, the initial discussion will invariably dwell on the console, recording devices, outboard, DAW, microphones and...
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The Road to Angel Mountain
It is always inspiring, no matter the industry or field of creative endeavor, to find a story of someone who is living his or...
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The Old School Is New School
I often find myself with one foot in the past and one in the present. Well, almost. In the repair biz, even the “present”...
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Chick Corea Upgrades for Box Set
In less than three weeks, Audio One Inc. completed two high-end audio and video projects for jazz pianist Chick Corea to support Corea's box...
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Genex Throws a DSD Surround Playback Party
On May 12, Genex hosted a special playback session in Cello Studios' (Hollywood) Studio 1, where attendees got a glimpse into the rarefied world...
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From the Ashes
The fire at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island was the worst music-related disaster in New England in over 60 years. One hundred people...
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You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Think of a small, picturesque island in Vancouver, and the phrase "hard rockin' town" probably doesn't come to mind. But maybe it should, for...
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Paragon Studios
It was a long time coming. Engineer Fred Paragano's Paragon Studios, a new, ground-up facility in Franklin, Tenn., just outside of Nashville, was the...
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Hit Factory/Criteria
Last winter, I had a speaking engagement that gave me the opportunity to visit my old stomping grounds in Miami. Back in the early...
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Guitarvolution!
Some have argued that rock 'n' roll was born some half-century ago with the debut of Bill Haley & His Comets' Rock Around the...
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Webcasting Royalties
The fight to get public-performance royalties for sound recordings in the U.S. has a history that is long, distinguished and largely unsuccessful.
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The Class of 2003
Mix magazine class of 2003 is a collection of new recording studio acoustic design projects. Learn about acoustics and design in these new recording...
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Getting Noticed
Fresh talent is what keeps the music industry vital and, ultimately, profitable. The paradox? There's more and more music being made, but fewer and...
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Grass-Rooted Creativity
In Nashville, but off of the beaten path both geographically and client-wise is Alex the Great Recording, a residential, rock-oriented studio owned by
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Up, Down, All Around
The theory goes like this: If people buy fewer CDs, then record company budgets shrink and recording studios make less money. This means that...
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WNET/thirteen
Production for public television. It brings forth images of dingy rooms with frayed carpet and exposed wires, perhaps a leftover radio studio, where somehow
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Todd-AO Revamps Post Stages
Todd-AO (Los Angeles) has completely renovated its two identical stages at the Burbank and Santa Monica media centers. Pro Tools/Focusrite Control 24s
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B1 Goes B5.1
Design and production studio B1 (Burbank, Calif.) has added a 5.1-capable suite for sound design, mixing and mastering clients, as well as for its...
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Networking NPR West
National Public Radio, headquartered in Washington, D.C., needs little introduction. At a time when many news companies are reducing operations, NPR News has expanded...
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DibS on EngineRoom Audio
Mixer/tracking engineer David Shackney has opened the doors to DibS Reaction, an independent Pro Tools-based mixing suite inside New York City-based EngineRoom