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Avid World and Pro Tools Conference Rescheduled
Due to the recent tragic events in New York City, the Avid World & Pro Tools Conference, which was to be held on October...
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XTA Speakers Find New Homes
ATK/Audiotek has begun adding new XTA DP224 speaker management systems to its massive P.A. systems inventory. Along with the XTA DP200 processors already
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Telex Announces Proposed Debt Restructing Plan
Telex (Burnsville, Minn.) has announced a proposed debt restructuring plan intended to reduce its outstanding debt, increase its financial flexibility
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A message from the Editor to our friends and colleagues.
Dear Readers, Like all of you, we at Mix were shocked and horrified by the hijackings and unspeakable carnage in New York City, Washington,...
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HHB Appointed Distributor for Millenia
HHB Communications Canada Limited, a subsidiary of HHB UK, has become Millenia's exclusive distributor in Canada. HHB Canada will distribute Millenia's
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Professional Systems Network Names New Affiliates, Board of Directors
Professional Systems Network Inc. (PSNI), a 15-year-old nationwide network of audio and visual system integrators who design, develop and install A/V
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AES 20th International Conference Announced
The AES 20th International Conference on archiving, restoration and new methods of recording is taking place on October 5-7, 2001, in Budapest, Hungary.
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Symetrix Turns 25
Manufacturer of analog and digital audio signal processing, Symetrix Inc. (Lynnwood, Wash.) celebrates 25 years in business this fall. With Symetrix gates,
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Bag End Signs First Distributor For India
Bag End (Barrington, Ill.) has signed Sound of Music (New Deli, India) to distribute Bag End products in India. "India is an immense untapped...
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Future Media Concepts Debuts Streaming Seminar
Future Media Concepts, a digital media training center, and Sorenson Services USA, a streaming media encoding, consulting and training provider, have
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JBL Names Three New VPs
JBL Professional (Northridge, Calif.) announced the appointment of two new VPs of sales for the company's worldwide sales efforts and a new VP of...
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Mick Whelan Joins Telex
Telex Communications (Burnsville, MN) has appointed Mick Whelan to the position of general manager for U.S. concert sound. In this role, Whelan will be
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EAW Redesigns Website
Eastern Acoustic Works (Whitinsville, Mass.) has redesigned its Website (www.eaw.com) with added features, easier navigation, streamlined graphics and
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NOW PRESENTING
THE NEW MEMBERS OF THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME The CMA announced the 12 newest inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame,...
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ALLEN & HEATH LEAVE HARMAN INTERNATIONAL
In early July, the Cornwall, England-based mixer manufacturer announced a 9 million management buyout, with lead investment coming from 3I, a European
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SURFIN’ AROUND
www.akgusa.com: AKG Acoustics' official U.S. Website, with links to product info, customer service, corporate and breaking news, and dealer locator. www.thefaro.com:
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DAVID BYRNE
David Byrne is on tour to promote Look Into the Eyeball, his latest CD, and will be playing around the U.S. and Europe until...
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Billy Bob Thornton
If you are going to add music, the key is that it should support the emotion that you are already feeling. When you get...
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Mix Sixth Annual L.A. Open
This year's sold-out event included 37 foursomes, who vied for glory and prizes, including a brand-new BMW roadster earmarked for the player who could...
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5.1 Entertainment Group
Things are busting out all over at 5.1 Entertainment. Positioned as a key player in the world of DVD-Audio, the company has mixed and...
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Denis Hannigan
Home studios are the norm these days. But the evolution of music composer Denis Hannigan's home studio was a little different from most. When...
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Sony Pictures’ Cary Grant Theatre
The largest of Sony Pictures' 10 rerecording stages, the 367-seat Cary Grant Theatre strives to meld the future with the best of the past....
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Vintech Audio X73
The Vintech X73 is a single-channel microphone preamp/equalizer based on the venerable Neve 1073 channel strip module. Vintech Audio has been in the business
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The Human Element
For the music listener, lead vocals are the human element. The voice is like no other instrument in its ability to convey emotion, and...
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RAY BARDANI AND LUTHER VANDROSS
It's hard to believe that 20 years have passed since a busy New York jingle singer named Luther Vandross shook up the recording industry...
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Daytime Drama
A tormented Sonny Corinthos laments his wife's betrayal at the same time as he imagines her enticing figure on their staircase, accompanied by the...
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Taking the R Out of Audio!
Economists have an old joke about defining the difference between a recession and a depression. If someone else gets downsized, sacked, canned or laid
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Living on Borrowed Culture
In one recent week, I could have seen the following shows within 10 miles of my home: A Beatles tribute band who sold out...
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Max Graham
Max Graham has quietly spent the last several years as Canada's premier ambassador of dance music. Often compared to other progressive house acts like
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Audient ASP8024
HIGH-RESOLUTION ANALOG MIXING CONSOLE These days, new professional analog consoles don't appear very often, especially in the price range for mid-sized
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Which Witch?
I cringe every time someone mentions that some improvement to digital audio technology will finally make it sound more like analog. To them I...
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RIGHT TRACK SETS A NEW COURSE, Part 1
He's doing what?! That was the reaction from the owner of one major Manhattan studio to the news that Simon Andrews, principal owner of...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love”
Tom Dowd recalls recording "Sunshine Of Your Love" as an exercise in "protecting" Ginger Baker's drums from Eric Clapton's Marshall stacks.
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Yamaha AW4416
The Yamaha AW4416 ($3,799 with internal 13GB and CD-RW drives) is a digital workstation that combines a very 02R-like, 8-bus mixer with moving fader...
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Waves MaxxStream
Plug-ins from Waves Native Power Pack have resided in both my Mac and Windows computers since 1997, and I would be in a world...
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Dave Hard Drive Pensado
I try every day to remember the things that got me going, the things that I liked, when I was a kid buying records....
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Antares Auto-Tune
The Antares Auto-Tune plug-in has become an indispensable recording tool. The tips presented here are based on Version 3.0, but many also work with...