January 1, 2010
Features
Avatar
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Blair Jackson
If you’ve seen James Cameron’s epic 3-D film, Avatar, or even just the trailers and commercials, you know that the director has gone to incredible lengths…
Desert Island Mixing Tools
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Steve La Cerra
Whether it’s because of the state of the economy in general or a struggling music industry in particular, more tours are carrying less gear. Reduced trucking…
Staging Green Day’s American Idiot
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Sarah Benzuly
Don’t wanna be an American idiot/Don’t want a nation under the new media/And can you hear the sound of hysteria?/The subliminal mind-f*** America. So…
Top-of-the-Line Handheld Mics
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By George Petersen
Every day, thousands of bands and artists around the world are getting ready to perform. With any show, there are a lot of details that need to be just…
Tech
Tech: New Products, January 2010
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Hybrid I/O MOTUUltraLite-mk3 Hybrid Interface The UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid ($595) from MOTU (www.motu.com) promises to be the world’s first dual FireWire…
JZ BT-201 Condenser Microphone Review
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Barry Rudolph
The BT-201 is Latvian manufacturer JZ Microphones’ take on a small-diaphragm pencil studio condenser mic. Its unique appearance is reminiscent of a ’60s…
Universal Audio UAD-2 Solo/Laptop Card Review
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Brandon Hickey
Whether Universal Audio is focused on developing analog gear or software emulations, the company has always been dedicated to sonic excellence. Its UAD…
iZotope Alloy Channel Strip Plug-In Review
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Michael Cooper
Most channel strips include EQ, compression, phase inversion and perhaps limiting and gating. iZotope Alloy does all this and more, adding transient shaping,…
Focusrite Scarlett Plug-In Suite Review
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Barry Rudolph
Focusrite’s Scarlett plug-in suite is a set of professional processors selling at the decidedly non-professional price of $99. Available in boxed or downloadable…
IK Multimedia AmpliTube Fender Modeler Review
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Brandon Hickey
In the studio, variety is the spice of great tracks. You can never have too many guitar amps/effects and IK Multimedia’s Amplitube Fender offers a versatile…
Tech’s Files: Battery Power—Conventional or Rechargeable?
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Eddie Ciletti
Batteries have a language all their own. At the heart of all batteries is a single electro-chemical device called a cell. Examples are the AAA, AA, C…
Music
Music: The Joy of ‘Glee’
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Sarah Jones
What do I Could Have Danced All Night and The Thong Song have in common? Musically, not a lot. But they’ve all been covered on Fox’s smash hit show Glee,…
Music: Bonamassa’s ‘Black Rock’
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Barbara Schultz
Joe Bonamassa has built his career on the foundation laid by white blues/rock guitar legends like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton. He fell in love…
Classic Tracks: The Runaways “Cherry Bomb”
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Barbara Schultz
Here’s your headline, says musical genius Kim Fowley, who occasionally refers to himself in the third person. Kim Fowley and the Runaways recorded Cherry…
Sound for Picture
Post: Trying to Save Lives With Sound
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Blair Jackson
Ezra Dweck has been working in post-production for some 18 years now, and he’s amassed quite a r for himself. He started his career recording FX at a…
Post: ‘Nostalgia’
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Arlan Boll
As an advocate of newness in sound and film, I am constantly looking for art that has no repetitive boundaries. We are bombarded today with the same old…
Live Mix
The Bravery Tour Profile
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By David John Farinella
Photos: Steve Jennings
Front-of-house engineer/tour manager Keith Danforth explains The Bravery’s touring strategy simply: Keep things light. After all, this is a band that’s…
Paramore Tour Profile
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Sarah Benzuly
Photos: Steve Jennings
For front-of-house engineer Jason Decter (previously with Panic at the Disco!) and monitor engineer Travis Bing (Little Big Town), who are both Paramore…
Grammy Museum Exhibits Roland
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Sarah Benzuly
The newest permanent installation at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles (www.grammymuseum.org) is Roland Live, which lets visitors participate in the music-making…
FixIt: Tori Amos FOH Engineer Mark Hawley
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Marcel [Van Limbeek, monitor engineer] and I make all of Tori’s albums using an analog desk, and this is the setup we’ve used over the years [live]; we…
Road-Worthy Gear: New Sound Reinforcement Products, January 2010
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Soundcraft Vi2 Digital Console Built in a frame that’s barely 33 inches wide, the Vi2 handles up to 96 channels using the standard stage box and local…
Skillet Tour Profile
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Derek Toews, Skillet Hard-rockers Skillet (singer/bassist John Cooper, keyboardist/vocalist Korey Cooper, guitarist Ben Kasica and drummer/vocalist Jen…
Delicate Productions Expands
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Sarah Benzuly
Delicate Productions, a full-service event production company based in Camarillo, Calif., has opened a new South San Francisco office and warehouse to…
Load In: Sound Reinforcement News, January 2010
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Front-of-house engineer Marc Jacob Hudson is using Sennheiser evolution 900 Series microphones and ew 300 IEM G2 wireless personal monitors on the current…
All Access: Snow Patrol and Plain White T’s
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Steve Jennings
Pop-rockers Snow Patrol and openers the Plain White T’s warmed up the San Francisco Bay Area in early November to the delight of their increasing fan…
Sessions
Battle Born Studios
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Barbara Schultz
The Killers Battle Born Studios profile in Mix January 2010 issue…
Project Studio: Cake Facility Goes Solar
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Matt Gallagher
Alternative pop-rock band Cake first gained widespread attention in the mid-’90s for ironic, iconoclastic music that flew in the face of mainstream trends….
King Crimson Meets Tool
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Barbara Schultz
The Human Experimente (www.thehumanexperimente.com) is a music collective started by Emmy Award-winning musician/composer/executive producer Jeffrey Fayman…
Track Sheet, January 2010
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Compiled by Barbara Schultz
Jon Langford the vocalist/guitarist leader of The Mekons, Waco Brothers and Pine Valley Cosmonauts brought his Bloodshot Records labelmates The Sadies…
L.A. Grapevine, January 2010
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Bud Scoppa
A recent addition to the A-list of mix engineers, Joe Zook is on a roll, having scored chart-topping singles and albums with OneRepublic, Katy Perry and…
Nashville Skyline, January 2010
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Peter Cooper
Ricky Skaggs’ fascination with recording studios began in the late 1970s, when he joined Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band and began studying the techniques of…
New York Metro, January 2010
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By David Weiss
Musicians need extra inspiration today, and not just when they’re playing their instruments. In New York City, where overhead is high and the competition…
Gear Stories
Gear Stories With Sylvia Massy
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Sylvia Massy
How many times have we set up a fire hazard of Mexican prayer candles and tapestries to give an anxious vocalist just the right to spit out a decent vocal…
From the Editor
Magic From Stage to Studio
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Tom Kenny, Editorial Director
For the past couple of years, I’ve been meeting my brother Kit and his daughters in the Tennessee countryside for some good times at Bonnaroo. He’s a…
Current/Industry News
Sound Recording Encyclopedia
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
The first six exclusive scenes from Alan Parsons’ Art and Science of Sound Recording are available for streaming and digital download at artandscienceofsound.com….
Opera Goes Au Natural
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
Situated in the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts (New York City), the David H. Koch Theater (which hosts the New York City Ballet and New York City…
On the Move: Sarah Jones
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
Sarah Jones, Women’s Audio Mission associate director Main Responsibilies:guide the growth of WAM’s educational programs for women through industry outreach,…
Industry News, January 2010
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
Music/sound design company Expansion Team (NYC) welcomes Jean Kouremetis, producer, and Carter Butler, assistant music supervisorJonathan Firstenberg…
Harman Goes to The Grammys
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
Harman will serve as an Official Sound Partner to the Grammy Awards, beginning with the 52nd Annual Grammy Week festivities this month. Harman will sponsor…
Bookshelf
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
Bob McCarthy’s Sound Systems: Design and Optimization Second Edition outlines how sound is spread over a listening area, looks at the physics of speaker…
TalkBack | Letters to Mix, January 2010
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Another Les Paul Memory In the August and September editions of the MixLine e-newsletter, we asked readers if they have a Les Paul memory or a great photo…
Back Page
John Meyer Q&A
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By George Petersen
What inspired you early on? In the 1950s, I grew up with KPFA [public radio, Berkeley, Calif.]. I got my third-class-restricted FCC license at age 12;…