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5.1 FORENSICS
SURROUND AUDIO MIGHT REQUIRE SOME DETECTIVE WORK - AND HAVING A GOOD LAWYER'S NOT A BAD IDEA, EITHERAs the major labels gear up to...
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Classic Tracks: The Four Season’s “Rag Doll”
The Four Seasons were part of America's last Caucasian bulwark against the British invasion of the early 1960s. The group, who formed on the...
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AKG C 2000B
CARDIOID CONDENSER MICROPHONE Not to be left off the low-cost condenser bandwagon, AKG has climbed aboard with the AKG C 2000B. The 2000B is...
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MASTER HOUSE
Over the past few years, Miami has emerged as one of the top second-tier recording scenes in the country - a nexus for homegrown...
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A RIGHTEOUS RETURN
It's been five years since the release of Joan Osborne's Top 10, multi-Platinum, major-label debut album, Relish, and three since she got off the...
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AMERICAN MILESTONES
NEW VERSIONS OF COUNTRY CLASSICS When Bob Irwin started dividing his time between his Sundazed label and Sony/Legacy, he not only brought his own...
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Yamaha MSP10
BI-AMPLIFIED NEAR-FIELD STUDIO MONITOR Introduced more than 20 years ago, Yamaha's NS-10M (later upgraded to the NS-10M Studio) is a standard item in
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HERE’S DVD-AUDIO! NOW WHAT?
It's been a long time coming, but DVD-Audio is finally here. DVD-A players have been dribbling into U.S. stores for months, and (reportedly) the...
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ANALOG/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
Most of us live in a world surrounded by digital converters. They're everywhere - in digital consoles, DAWs, MDMs, DASH decks, DATs and in...
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FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE IN 5.1
Recent history shows that however saleable a new entertainment delivery format may appear to manufacturers and industry pundits, the factor that usually
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ROOTS MUSIC ODYSSEY
THE COEN BROTHERS' "O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?" Films by the Coen brothers tend to be eagerly anticipated. Blood Simple and Raising Arizona have...
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THE CHARLIE WATTS JIM KELTNER PROJECT
DRUMS AND BEYOND Two drummers collaborating on a project is a fairly rare occurrence. And when those two drummers are stalwart session man Jim...
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DSP Media Postation II
DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION Originally an Australian company based in Sydney but now headquartered in the U.S., DSP Media Inc. is well-known in high-end
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Music Meets Multimedia
101001010101010101010101 Understanding The DVD-Audio Format With the world's attention riveted on the Internet, the DVD-Audio format is facing a tough
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Analog Maintenance And Upgrade Considerations
LOCATING PARTS, IMPROVING POWER AND GROUND DISTRIBUTION This is the third part in a series on analog equipment maintenance for geeks in training. Part
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Born to Crawl
ROADBLOCKS TO DVD-AUDIO It wasn't so long ago, just a few years really, that I got excited about the prospect of a really hi-fi...
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DVD-Audio Arrives!
Finally! The Wait is Over! A Special Mix Section Despite the rapid pace of technological change, the introduction of a new consumer format doesn't...
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BUILT FOR GAMES
ELECTRONIC ARTS, VANCOUVER Walking into the Electronic Arts Canada facility in Burnaby, B.C., near Vancouver, is a bit like entering a NASA research complex.
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Piano Celebrates 300th Birthday
PBS AIRS HD/5.1 SURROUND TRIBUTE When the Italian craftsman Bartolomeo Cristofori built three pianos in 1722 under the patronage of the Medici government,
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December 1, 2000
December 1, 2000 Technology Millennia TCL-2 Yamaha MSP10 AKG C 2000B DSP Media Postation II Sound for Picture BUILT FOR GAMES ROOTS MUSIC ODYSSEY...
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Club Systems
Outfitting a club system differs in many ways from other live sound installations. Clubs are seldom built from the ground up; thus, they must...
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ASK EDDIE
Have a question for our resident tech? E-mail your queries to [email protected]. Due to the volume of questions received, a personal reply
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Amek Pure Path Channel in a Box
RACKMOUNT CONSOLE STRIP The Amek Pure Path Channel in a Box is a channel strip from the Amek 9098i console with a compressor section...
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Drawmer 1969 Mercenary Edition
VACUUM TUBE DUAL COMPRESSOR PREAMPLIFIER A collaboration between Ivor Drawmer and Fletcher at Mercenary Audio, the 1969 Dual Compressor Mercenary Edition
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A FOCUS ON THE BASICS
Over the past three decades, Sheffield Audio-Video Productions has quietly grown into one of the most successful multimedia production operations in the
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IN THE GROOVE WITH NICK SANSANO
FROM PUBLIC ENEMY TO GALACTIC New York-based engineer/producer Nick Sansano has forged a solid career out of working away from the mainstream - out...
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JOE JACKSON
BACK TO NEW YORK FOR "NIGHT AND DAY II" You've got to hand it to Joe Jackson for having the guts to invite critics...
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Innovation in Education
INNOVATION IN EDUCATION Perhaps it's a natural progression, but a sizable percentage of people working in audio began their sonic journeys with musical
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Norbert Putnam
MEMPHIS MAGIC Norbert Putnam has enjoyed a long and successful career in music and audio. His incredible career has included playing bass as a...
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ENGINE MUSIC STUDIOS
Nestled in Chicago's booming, funky "Bucktown," a studio has emerged from the landscape of Generation X clubs, bustling restaurants and the screech of
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How to Choose an Audio Education Program
CHOOSING THE RIGHT SCHOOL Welcome back, prospective students. It's been a year since Mix last published a directory of audio education programs. This
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CHOOSING A Digital Audio Workstations
CONSIDERATIONS FOR GETTING IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) have become the Swiss Army Knife of professional audio. In the past
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Digidesign 001
INITIAL SETUP AND USER TIPS The following tips are based on my experiences using a Digi 001 with a new 500MHz G4 Mac, and...
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The Bill Price Interview
PART 2 Guns N' Roses, The Sex Pistols, Elton John and more...We continue our two-part interview with engineer/producer Bill Price. See October Mix for
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Classic Tracks: The Clash’s “London Calling”
For the mix of the track "London Calling," Strummer described an image of the London fog swirling off the river Thames...
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B.B. KING BLUES BAR AND GRILL, NEW YORK
B.B. King is not your average 75-year-old blues guitarist. Now entering his seventh decade as a recording artist, King marked the new millennium by...
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The FireWire “Standard”
MOVING TOWARD INTEROPERABILITY Once upon a time, in my City By The Bay, where Green Street hits Telegraph Hill, there was a warehouse. On...