June 1, 2007
Features
Class of 2007
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Great Divide Studios Jamie Rosenberg’s Great Divide Studios in Aspen, Colo., is the fourth facility to bear the Great Divide name, and it’s a huge upgrade…
The Other Class of 2007
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Sarah Benzuly
While it may seem our industry’s main source of revenue is being jam-packed into a three- or four-month touring season, more venues are opening, attracting…
The Taming of the Room
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Robert Hanson
In an ideal world, all audio would be produced in purpose-built studios that would allow for perfect isolation and accurate monitoring across the entire…
Three-Quel Spring
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Blair Jackson
Ch-ching! The bean-counters will doubtless be happy with the box-office returns from the third installments of these four franchises: Spider-Man 3, Ocean’s…
Technology
Tools of the Trade
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
STUDER 42-FADER VISTA 5 Studer (www.studer.ch) has released a larger version of its Vista 5 console ($150k to $200k). An additional bay of 10 input faders…
Field Test: Tannoy Precision 6 iDP Monitors, TS112 Sub
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bobby Frasier
With studios, broadcasters and post houses hungry for speaker designs that can help tame an angry acoustical space and provide network ability, a range…
Field Test: Bag End E-Trap Electronic Bass Trap
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bob Hodas
With more than 1,000 room tunings under my belt, I’ve developed a wish list of tools to help me do a better job. For years, a tunable bass trap has been…
Field Test: Studio Projects T3 Microphone
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Jason Scott Alexander
Since PMI Audio Group acquired Studio Projects, they have worked at improving upon the low-cost condenser lines being made by 797 Audio in Beijing from…
Field Test: Apogee Symphony Native Recording System
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Kevin Becka
Considering the recent advent of affordable, fast and powerful multi-processor computers hitting the market, and DAW applications with drivers that can…
Field Test: Buzz Audio essence Opto Compressor
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Barry Rudolph
Buzz Audio’s essence is a single-channel opto compressor module with many custom features usually found on larger, rackmounted compressors. One essence…
Field Test: Korby KAT RED, KAT BLUE Tube Mics
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Kevin Becka
Korby Audio Technologies is a Nahville-based boutique mic shop whose practice of doing all the work in-house and by hand sets the company above the crowd….
Universal Audio UAD Series
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Robert Hanson
No matter how much heavy lifting the latest dual- and quad-core processors can handle, users of native DAW systems will always look for a way to add a…
Live Mix
Iggy Pop & The Stooges
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Photos and Text by Steve Jennings
It’s been more than 30 years, but they’re back: Iggy Pop & The Stooges played two sold-out shows at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater in mid-April. Audiences…
News
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Aerial Enterprises’ (Whitmore Lake, MI) Jim Lillie and Jeff Jones spec’d an Electro-Voice P.A. for recent concerts (Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra with…
Fixit: Tom Young
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Grammy Award?winning engineer Tom Young is currently working with Tony Bennett; he was also the longtime live mixer for Frank Sinatra. One of the most…
On the Road
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
The Smithereens Currently out promoting their latest album, Meet the Smithereens a nod to The Beatles’ first album The Smithereens are juicing up each…
Now Playing: Mercy Me, Static-X
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Mercy Me Sound Company: Pro Audio Group Inc. (Ooltewah, Tenn.) FOH Engineer/Board: Ryan Rettler/Digidesign VENUE Monitor Engineer/Board: Bobby George…
Rehearsal Space Gets New Board
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Sunderland, UK-based High Fidelity Studios’ (www.hifistudios.net) new, fully equipped pre-touring rehearsal suite features an Allen & Heath GL2800M monitor…
All Access: Muse
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Photos and text by Steve Jennings
With a recent nomination for Best Rock Group at the Brit Awards (the UK’s version of the Grammys) and a sold-out international tour for their latest release,…
Local Crew: Bauder Audio Systems
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Sarah Benzuly
To maintain a competitive edge against larger touring companies, local sound providers must often look beyond just audio spec’ing backline, lighting,…
New Sound Reinforcement Products
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
AKG IVM 4 IEM SYSTEM Using the same expansion components as its WMS 400/WMS 4000 products, the IVM 4 system from AKG (www.akg.com) offers an all-in-one…
Sound for Picture
BBC/Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth Series
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mark R. Smith
Planet Earth is a production that can surely be called : Five years in the making, it was shot on more than 200 locations worldwide by 40 specialist film…
Artists Take Center Stage
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bud Scoppa
The sprawling layout of CenterStaging, Burbank, Calif.’s largest rehearsal facility, boasting 11 rehearsal studios, a massive equipment warehouse and…
Recording Notes
Bryan Ferry
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bryan Reesman
Cover albums are a dime a dozen these days, often providing an artist an excuse to fulfill an album contract or a break between studio albums when he…
Kings of Leon
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bud Scoppa
We’re willing to take risks playing it safe hasn’t done anything for us, says Kings of Leon frontman/rhythm guitarist/lyricist Caleb Followill about his…
Classic Tracks: Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'”
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Robyn Flans
In 1981, Journey was coming into its own. Although the Northern California unit had been together since 1973, it wasn’t until a couple of years after…
Cool Spins
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
Patti Smith twelve(Columbia) Ever since she fearlessly deconstructed on the opening track of her 1975 debut album, Patti Smith has brought her utterly…
Coast to Coast
L.A. Grapevine
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bud Scoppa
Since taking over this column 14 months ago, I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonopah. Okay, I’m quoting a Lowell George lyric, but I’ve…
Nashville Skyline
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Rick Clark
I was in Santa Monica, Calif., awhile back, visiting with producer/manager Jim Phelan someone I consider to be one of the good guys in the industry, someone…
New York Metro
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By David Weiss
New York City presentsA Tale of Two Albums. The setting is Stratosphere Sound, a low-key studio in West Chelsea where two of this year’s future-classic…
Prism Productions
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Barbara Schultz
In our annual design issue, Mix focuses a lot of attention on big-budget, big-name studio installations, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge D.I.Y.’ers…
Down to Earth
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Barbara Schultz
Just after putting together our Class of 2007 design feature, we learned of more refurbished studios such as musician/engineer Drew Youngs’ Earthwire…
End of Autumn
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Barbara Schultz
Josh Payne and Paul Gasparro designed new studio End of Autumn (Marietta, Ga.) to cater to local and indie artists such as Lil Flip, Big Moe, East Side…
Brubeck Goes Solo
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Barbara Schultz
Jazz piano legend Dave Brubeck was in Avatar Studios (New York City) recording a new solo piano album for Telarc. The sessions took place in Studio A…
‘Hello’ Sessions
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Barbara Schultz
Indie rockers Via recorded their latest EP, Hello Operator, at Catalyst Recording (Charlotte, N.C.). Studio owner Rob Tavaglione, who engineered the project,…
Track Sheet
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Barbara Schultz
SOUTHEAST Producer Phil Ramone brought five-sister group The Hastings to Saint Claire Recording Company (Lexington, KY). The session was engineered by…
Insider Audio
What Makes a Great Space?
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Paul D. Lehrman
When Symphony Hall in Boston opened in 1900, says Tony Hoover, an acoustician and principal with the firm Cavanaugh Tocci, it got terrible reviews. The…
Project Studio
A Home for Mavericks
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Rich Wells
In the heart of New York City’s Chinatown you’ll find a comfortable and well-appointed studio called Mavericks (www.mavericksrecording.com). Named after…
Tech’s Files
Vintage Mic Repair Never Really Ends
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Eddie Ciletti
I wasn’t planning to write three articles about vintage AKG mics before summer kicked in, but what’s on the bench trickles down. This month, the problems…
AudioNext
Technicolor Interactive
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Alexander Brandon
There are many great houses of game audio production that deserve attention, and in due course I’ll cover all of them. The first of these has the gusto…
From the Editor
Designers Are Your Friends
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Thomas A. D. Kenny Editorial Director
David Schwartz, co-founder of Mix and the original author of this space, used to say, If you want to know where the industry is headed, talk to the designers….
Feedback
Letters to Mix
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
BACK IN THE DAY I appreciated Gary Eskow’s nice piece on Booker T and The MG’s’ Time Is Tight (Classic Track, April 2007). There didn’t seem to be much…
Current/Industry News
Soul Celebrated
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
The city of Memphis has launched a national campaign to help celebrate 50 years of soul music. The events (www.MemphisSoul50.com) turn the spotlight on…
WSDG En Espanol
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
The Walters-Storyk Design Group has opened a full-service office in Mexico City. Developed under the guidance of Sergio Molho (CEO), longtime head of…
Music on the Delta
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
Jimbo Mathus, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, has reopened his Delta Recording Service (www.deltarecordingservice.com) in Como, Miss….
Fox Hosts Bash
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bud Scoppa
On March 29, Neve and Audio Agent threw a party at the Newman Scoring Stage on the 20th Century Fox lot in Century City, Calif., celebrating the installation…
Hello, Cleveland
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
The Cleveland Institute of Music cut the tape on its new state-of-the-art control room (a recital hall is still in the works), designed by Dr. Peter D’Antonio,…
Notes From the Net
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
JAM WITH STRANGERS eJamming AUDiiO beta, a real-time Internet collaboration technology and service for musicians, and eJamming AUDiiO portal a community…
Industry News
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
Jon Tropea Jr. joined Ear Goo Inc. (NYC) as creative director, where he will compose, sound design and mix, as well as oversee the creative and production…
Notes From the P&E Wing
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM
While The Recording Academy is best known for presenting the Grammy Awards (the industry’s only peer-to-peer awards, by the way), it’s also a busy membership…
