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Embrace the Future
From April 23 to 26, some 112,000 production pros packed into Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters convention. Even with four days,
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A SAMPLING OF INSTANT AUDIO ENVIRONMENTS
When four walls, a ceiling, a floor and a door just won't do, and those dreams of floating the floors and triple-walling the new...
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Dave Matthews Band
What a difference a day makes. Jazz singer Dinah Washington first crooned about those 24 little hours more than four decades ago, but to...
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Bunny Brunel
Bunny Brunel's reputation as a virtuoso fusion bassist was cemented with the lightning solos and solid timekeeping he laid down for band leaders Chick
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FROM THE EDITOR
It's ironic, but for all of the time many of us spend creating audio, we spend very little time listening. Sure, we hear things...
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2001 TEC Awards Nominees Announced by the Mix Foundation
New Format to Spotlight Creative Audio Teams The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio has announced the nominees for the 17th Annual Technical Excellence
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Firehouse Productions 6500
Known for its custom stage monitors, Bryan Olson's New York sound hire company, Firehouse Productions, quietly introduced their Firehouse 6500 two-way
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Morons, Oxymorons and Technology Patents
If you want to see just how totally out of control the high-tech universe is, then go to your favorite Internet search engine and...
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I’m Networking, Baby
'Twas nigh on a year ago that I spent a bit of time with the subject of networking. A fair amount of progress has...
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Impedance 101: Part Two
Research for this two-part series reinforced the value of experience. My math skills might have been better in college, but impedance is one of...
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Classic Tracks: Prince’s “Kiss”
Charged with turning a half-written Prince demo into a full-fledged track, David Z went to sleep one night and woke up to find Prince...
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I’m Mac. I’ll be Your Server Tonight.
The proliferation of hard disk recording has made the adoption of the central server model for music recording an inevitability.
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Akai S5000 and S6000
Believe it or not, it's been three years since Akai unveiled its two flagship samplers. Now, with Version 2.12 software and some of the...
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MIX’S 2001 GUIDE TO ACOUSTICAL MATERIALS
STUDIO DESIGNERS AND ENGINEERS MUST AGREE THAT, FOR BEST RESULTS, A RECORDING SPACE STANDS OR FALLS ON ITS ACOUSTICAL CHARACTERISTICS. Studio designers
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JAMES CARTER
The first all-electric outing by acclaimed multi-reedman James Carter is a brilliant, earthy modern jazz recording of integrity and substance, by a cast
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Audio Collaboration in the Network Age
In the two decades since entered the pro audio vocabulary, digitized sound has become integral to nearly every segment of the industry. Initially, the
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Practical Acoustics
Many small- to medium-sized concert venues in urban settings started out as something else. For business purposes, almost any room can be converted into
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STUDIO CONSTRUCTION
TEN QUESTIONS TO ANSWER BEFORE YOU HEAD TO THE BANK As with any major financial endeavor, a studio construction project requires careful planning and
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June 1, 2001
June 1, 2001 Technology Otari ND-20 Network Audio Distribution Unit New Sound Reinforcement Products New Software/Hardware for Audio Production Preview Tascam SX-1 Lexicon 960L...
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India’s First Pro Audio Show
The PALM 2001 Show is being held in Mumbai, India's entertainment capital, at the prestigious Nehru Centre, September 11-13, 2001, organized by Studio
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Sony Music Nashville Revamps Website
Sony Music Nashville has relaunched its Website with a comprehensive redesign to better reflect the diversity of its artists and their audience, adding
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Transamerica Audio Group Distributor for Soundelux Mics
Soundelux Microphones (Los Angeles) has signed a contract with Transamerica Audio Group (Las Vegas) to be the exclusive distributor of the Soundelux microphone
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NAMM To Fund ‘Music For Suzy’ Program
Genz Benz Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.), manufacturer of sound reinforcement enclosures, cabinets and tube amplification systems, announced that
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JBL Pro Offers Online Leasing
Working with finance professionals around the world, the financial services department of JBL Professional (Northridge, Calif.) offers a wide range of
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D. Pagan Communications Moves Headquarters
D. Pagan Communications Inc. has moved its corporate headquarters to a new location in the metropolitan New York area. The public relations, advertising
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TC Electronic Increases Global Presence
TC Electronic (Westlake Village, Calif.) announced the appointment of two new members to the international sales and marketing team. Victoria Gao Jian
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Maxell Promotes Brinkman To VP of Marketing
Maxell (Fair Lawn, N.J.) promoted Peter Brinkman to VP of marketing, with responsibility for consumer products, data storage products and professional/industrial
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Spoiled By Technology Awarded Rep Awards
Spoiled By Technology (Naperville, Ill.) announced that in the past year, this professional audio manufacturers' rep firm has received five industry awards.
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Solid State Logic Debuts New ‘Plus’ Consoles at AES Europe
Solid Stage Logic recently introduced significant and substantial enhancements to its range of application-specific digital consoles at AES Amsterdam.
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Julio Iglesias Named 2001 LARAS Person of the Year
International recording legend Julio Iglesias will be honored as the 2001 Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Person of the Year. The honor...
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New Studio Selects Neve 88R For Music Production
Chalice Studios, a new L.A.-based recording studio scheduled to open in July, has purchased a Neve 88R analog console for music recording. The 88R,...
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Tascam, TimeLine Vista Receive Award
Tascam (Montebello, Calif.) and TimeLine Vista Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.) each received a Scientific and Technical Academy Award from the Academy of Motion
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TEF Sound Lab Training Class Offered
Gold Line Inc. (West Redding, Conn.), parent company of TEF, is holding its quarterly TEF Sound Lab Training Class on June 8-10, 2001, just...
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New Hip Hop Library Launched
Created through a joint venture between MPCsounds.com and Syntaur Productions, and produced by Kyle Kee (aka, "KeeMaster") of MPCsounds.com, a new hip
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Korg Received Multiple Awards at Musikmesse 2001
At the 2nd Annual Musikmesse International Press Award (MIPA) Ceremony held in Frankfurt, Germany, Korg received three press awards for its Triton/Triton
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E-Mu Paris Pro DAW Announces Version 3.0 Software
E-mu (Scotts Valley, Calif.) has unveiled its Version 3.0 software for its PARIS Pro Digital Audio Workstation, which adds new features such as 24-bit
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Management Changes At Celestion
Richard Wear, former director and general manager at Celestion International Limited (Ipswich, England), announced his departure from the company to pursue
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Crown Audio Names Touring Sound Company of the Year
Crown Audio (Elkhart, Ind.) named Baltimore-based Maryland Sound Industries its touring sound company of the year. Deb Frantom, Crown Audio director of
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David Cassidy Files Complaint Against Arista/BMG
In a complaint filed on May 10 in the Los Angeles Superior Court, David Cassidy seeks material damages in excess of $1 million (amount...
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SADiE News From AES Amsterdam
SADiE, U.K. manufacturer of professional digital audio and video equipment for the broadcast, film and CD mastering industries, announced two new products
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RIP Douglas Adams: So Long and Thanks for All the Books!
Douglas Adams, creator of the four (or was it five?) books of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, has died of a heart...
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Thorburn Continues Post At ICIA
The International Communications Industries Association (ICIA), located in Fairfax, Va., board of governors announced that Steven J. Thorburn, PE, principal,