November 1, 2009

Features

New Classrooms 2009

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Barbara Schultz

There’s an art to creating a space that serves the dual purpose of professional-level studio and classroom. Pictured here are a selection of new and redesigned…

Setting the Course | Distance Learning

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Sarah Jones

Distance learning has come a long way. Once the domain of dubious as seen on TV correspondence courses promising diplomas in such arcane disciplines as…

A Semester Tracked In Eight Hours

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Tim Hall

At a chance meeting at our Mix Nashville event in May, we learned of this real-world recording project going on at Middle Tennessee State University….

Streisand At the Vanguard

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Dan Daley

Mix magazine’s behind-the-scenes access to Barbra Streisand’s performance at the Village Vanguard came from Jim Flynn, whose Jim Flynn Rentals (JFR) provided…

On the Cover: Odds On Records & Studios

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Tom Kenny

The recording studio scene in Las Vegas has always been something of a puzzle. Big town, lots of entertainment, very few high-end studios. That made sense…

Tech

Sony Acid Pro Version 7 DAW Review

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By David Weiss

Acid Pro has long served as validation for music producers who work on the PC platform, or at least have a PC integrated somewhere into their studio setup….

Roland Systems Group M-48 Personal Mixer Review

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Kevin Becka

Whether in studio or live settings, providing performers with control of their monitor mixes increases productivity while positively affecting the musical…

AEA RPQ Ribbon Mic Preamp Review

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Barry Rudolph

Audio Engineering Associates, purveyor of both single- and double-ribbon passive and active microphones, offers the RPQ a preamplifier designed specifically…

Brainworx bx_dynEQ Plug-In Review

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Michael Cooper

Unlike typical equalizers, the Brainworx bx_dynEQ applies EQ dynamically, but only when the audio signal exceeds a user-adjustable threshold. Mid-side…

Tech’s Files: To EE or Not EE? That Is the Question

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Eddie Ciletti

Time travel has always been possible at least in print journalism. In this case, I’m writing about an AES panel discussion that’s happening in a few days,…

Live Mix

Erykah Badu and The Cannabinoids Tour Profile

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By David John Farinella
Photos: Steve Jennings

To prepare for previous tours, Erykah Badu would get the band and sound engineers Kenneth H. Williams and Kenny Nash together in Dallas for a couple of…

Lady Antebellum Tour Profile

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Carolyn Maniaci

Lady Antebellum recently finished up an opening slot for the Kenny Chesney 2009 tour, and Mix caught up with the group (vocalists Charles Kelley, Hillary…

Dan Black Tour Profile

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Sarah Benzuly

Mix talked with engineer Steve Pattison about Black’s current tour. What’s your setup? Dan’s shows are wide ranging from large festivals to clubs and…

FixIt: Renato Carneiro’s “X Plain”

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Monitor engineer Renato Carneiro works with Brazilian artists Zeze di Carmargo, Luciano and Os Mutantes. On the L/R bus of the desk, I build a full mix…

Yamaha PM1D Retires

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Sarah Benzuly

Ten years after its debut (September 22, 1999, at Carnegie Hall in New York City), the Yamaha PM1D SR digital mixing system is going into retirement….

Load In: Sound Reinforcement News, November 2009

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Linkin Park’s European tour saw the band carrying their own board group, stage set and monitor package that comprised Adamson M15 wedges and SX18 stage…

Road-Worthy Gear: New Sound Reinforcement Products, November 2009

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Cadac Live1 Series Incorporating many amenities of Cadac’s large-scale theater and touring consoles, the Live1 offers a cost-effective choice for FOH…

All Access: Chickenfoot

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Steve Jennings
Photos: Steve Jennings

Rock supergroup Chickenfoot (former Van Halen member Sammy Hagar, vocals/guitar; Joe Satriani, guitar; former Van Halen member Michael Anthony, bass/vocals;…

Sessions

Program Changes at Peabody Institute

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Barbara Schultz

The Peabody Institute (www.pea body.jhu.edu/recordingarts) the music school within Johns Hopkins University has been a respected training ground for musicians…

Project Studio: Axis Sound

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Barbara Schultz

Jim Anderson, current AES president and a professor in the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University, pointed us to this month’s…

Pool Party

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Barbara Schultz

This past September marked the grand re-opening of London’s unique The Pool studio (www.miloco.co.uk/studios/pool). The facility was redesigned and rebuilt,…

Track Sheet, November 2009

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Compiled by Barbara Schultz

Singer/songwriter Andrea Nardello visited Range Recording Studios (Ardmore, PA) to begin work on her new full-length album with a band of musicians from…

New York Metro, November 2009

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By David Weiss

Imagine if they’d had the Internet available at the same time that the masters of classical were in full swing how would a good Website have helped out…

Nashville Skyline, November 2009

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Peter Cooper

There were a couple of ways to look at the situation. Well, I knew it was going to be a challenge, says acoustician David Rochester, who runs Technical…

L.A. Grapevine, November 2009

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Bud Scoppa

North Hollywood’s Track Records, built in 1980 by producer Brian Ahern for his then-wife Emmylou Harris, is under new ownership. In early 2008, the facility…

From the Editor

Audio Education

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Tom Kenny, Editorial Director

A couple of months ago, Mix conducted a focus group at Ex’Pression College for Digital Arts (Emeryville, Calif.). We were looking to find out a couple…

TalkBack | Letters to Mix, November 2009

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

Bob and Sarah Heil on Les Paul Les and I share adjoining displays in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland. I have seen and met him throughout…

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