Recording

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

Whenever a Wal-Mart or Home Depot rolls into a town, it often sweeps away the independently owned and operated retailers who served those communities,

By Gregory A. DeTogne ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

At the outset of 1986, few among the music industry's trendspotters and prognosticators cared to predict that three white guys from NYC would become...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

There is a scene in the film Moscow on the Hudson in which Robin Williams' character, a defecting Russian circus musician, stumbles into a...

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

Fletcher was brought up in Brooklyn and Queens, until he was old enough to run away to the circus, which is how he describes...

By Larry The O ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

In 1996, Earthworks came seemingly out of nowhere with the TC30K, an omnidirectional microphone that featured response up to 30 kHz and got rave...

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

Surround audio: Read about it, learn about it, prepare for it, experiment with it, buy a few more speakers. But don't bank on it....

By Arthur Bloom ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

At one time, reviewers often concluded that self-powered near-field monitors costing $1,500 or less rivaled the quality of ones costing twice as much.

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

Leasing business equipment and technology has become a standard way of life for a majority of American companies. An estimated 80% of all U.S....

By Dan Daley ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

Bruce Springsteen's impressive career was launched with Greetings From Asbury Park in 1973. He was signed based on demos supervised by the legendary John

By Russell H. Tice ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

In the fall of 1970, Black Sabbath mounted an aural assault on the music world with the release of their second album, Paranoid, storming...

By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

All of our interviewees value the experienced staff and freelancers they employ, and offered the following tips to young would-be sound engineers.Ken

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

There are more famous producers than Chris Thomas, but few, if any, can match his incredible string of artistic and commercial successes since he...

By George Petersen ⋅ Published: 01/01/1999

Simplicity is an art unto itself. A master chef can cook an amazingly complex dinner requiring hours of work, but sometimes a simple meal-made...