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6 VIEWS ON 5.1
ADVENTURES IN SURROUND MIXING Everybody in the industry seems to be talking about 5.1, but how many engineers out there are actually doing surround...
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Glen Kolotkin:THE COAST-TO-COAST CAREER OF A RECORDING JOURNEYMAN
Long Island-based Glen Kolotkin is hardly a household name in the recording business, but over the course of more than three decades as an...
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Zapex ZP-100: AC-3 5-Channel Surround Encoder
Despite a growing surround mastering and production market for HDTV, audio and DVD releases, the number of available encoding products is relatively small.
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Event Electronics Ezbus: USB Interface/Controller/Digital Mixer
Digital recording systems keep getting more affordable, and the new EZbus from Event Electronics is an excellent example of that trend. Priced at $849,
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Doctor, It Hurts When I Do This!: WHY YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT RSI
A friend of mine who writes for one of the computer magazines, and who also happens to be a wonderful musician, gave me a...
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THE SQUIRREL WILL SAVE THE WORLD: CARTOON MEETS
Film sound professionals are always trying to outdo themselves. But, during the making of the soundtrack for The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, supervising
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THE BASS BROTHERS AND EMINEM
Marshall Mathers-better known to his legion of fans as Eminem-is the music industry equivalent of basketball player Jason Williams. The Sacramento Kings
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Designing the Large-Format DIGITAL Console
Back in the good ol' days of analog, mixing consoles all shared a common characteristic-the bulk of the circuitry per channel was built into...
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Return to “Mermaid Avenue”
Woody Guthrie left behind such a large body of unpublished lyrics that Billy Bragg and Wilco could probably spend the rest of their careers...
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Fostex NF-1A: ACTIVE NEAR-FIELD STUDIO MONITOR
Monitors with internal amplifiers offer the luxury of bringing a fairly compact and familiar playback system to every studio in your engineering travels.
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Analog Tape 101: PART ONE
Since 1995 I've focused on the repair of digital tape machines-4mm, 8mm and S-VHS-but it wasn't always that way. Recently, three projects jolted me...
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Are You on or off the Bus?
THE STATE oF THE STANDARDS Right off the bat, let's dispel the lack of respect for our elders that we brazenly exhibit here in...
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BACK TO MONO: DON’T FORGET THE CENTER
Since this is the 5.1 issue, I'd like to remind everyone that mono isn't quite dead yet. Heck, its not even pining for the...
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Reap Benefits Suround Projects
Following a decade in which the studio industry was threatened by an economic recession, an explosion in home recording and rising costs in the...
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Digidesign Bruno/Reso: REAL-TIME EFFECTS PLUG-INS FOR PRO TOOLS
There are a lot of great TDM plug-ins available, but most of these are designed as day-to-day work tools (compressors, EQ, gates, tube emulators,...
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HALL OF FAME
Proceeds from the 16th Annual TEC Awards will be distributed to the following organizations: * Sound Partners, co-founded by Mix magazine and the House
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August 1, 2000
August 1, 2000 Technology Event Electronics Ezbus: USB Interface/Controller/Digital Mixer Microtech Gefell M 930 Fostex NF-1A: ACTIVE NEAR-FIELD STUDIO MONITOR Lab Analysis: Fostex NF-1A...
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My Legacy Soapbox
I'm a pretty literate guy, capable of maintaining several computers on a network. The downside of the Wintel platform is that it is a...
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WGBH: LIVE ON THE WEB
Boston's WGBH stations are among the most active public stations in the country in terms of producing original programming, which includes concert broadcasts
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It’s Alive!: A LOOK AT SOME RECENT LIVE RECORDING PROJECTS
When Mix first decided to investigate the making of a few new live CDs from different musical genres, we didn't know how each had...
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RIDING THE I/O EXPRESS
Like busy train stations, digital audio I/O cards today shuttle more incoming and outbound tracks than ever before. Whether you're riding the Toslink
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BIAS Peak 2.1: SOUND-EDITING SOFTWARE FOR MACINTOSH
Four years ago, a small Northern California company called Berkley Integrated Audio Software (named for its president, not the city), or BIAS, came out
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How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?: ADVENTURES IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST CONCERT SPACES
The first weekend of April, no joke, I got to take part in a concert in one of the great performing spaces on Earth,...
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Steve Marcantonio: KEEPING IT REAL
Engineering country music is a special balancing act. Take a roomful of musicians, then double or maybe triple the guitars, add piano, stacks of...
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RECORDING SPRINGSTEEN LIVE WITH TOBY SCOTT
Engineer Toby Scott has an extraordinary memory. He can tell you the date that he did his first live recording of a Bruce Springsteen...
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DINOSAUR BY DISNEY Chris Boyes Taps Animal Kingdom For Vocal Signatures
Chris Boyes knows dinosaurs. He knows how they walk, how they look without digital skin, how they bellow in fear or anger or joy....
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A SCENE MADE FOR SOUND
A viewing tip: Watch for the scene where Colonel Tavington, on a search-and-destroy mission with a small cadre of British troops, enters the home...
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BIG MOVIE,TIGHT SCHEDULE
Clarity and detail are often sacrificed when a post-production schedule gets as tight as it was on The Patriot. In the middle of May,...
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A DAW Grows in Nashville: MARK MILLER AND BRIAN TANKERSLEY’S GBT STUDIO
Its Grand Ole image may keep outsiders from seeing Nashville as a center of technological advancement, but there's plenty of forward thinking going on
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Building Your System: EQUIPPING THE PROJECT STUDIO ON A BUDGET OF $10,000, $25,000 OR $50,000
As the price/performance ratio of recording gear continues to drop, owning a personal studio that's capable of pro-level work is a reality for more...
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Audio-Technica AT4047/SV: CARDIOID CAPACITOR MICROPHONE
For nearly 40 years, the people at Audio-Technica have been dedicated to the advancement of electroacoustic design and manufacturing, establishing an
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Walter Afanasieff: GRAMMY-WINNING PRODUCER WITH A PLATINUM SOUND
Just a shade more than 10 years ago, Walter Afanasieff's phone rang. Tommy Mottola of Sony Music was on the line asking if the...
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Patti Smith: STILL DANCING BAREFOOT
As the baby boomer generation ages, the ranks of rock 'n' roll continue to swell with rock elder statesmen, not yet ready to fade...
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Alesis MasterLink ML-9600: MASTER DISK RECORDER
As 16-bit audio continues its slide into obsolescence, the pro audio industry looks for an inexpensive, high-resolution replacement for DAT. Listed at
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TINA TURNER LISTENS TO THE MIX: VETERAN TOURING STAR APPRECIATES GOOD SOUND
While in Las Vegas for the recent NSCA Expo 2000, Mix watched Tina Turner tear up the stage at the 17,000-seat MGM Grand Garden...
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A Workstation User Goes Native…: AND LIVES TO TELL ABOUT IT
The term "Sound Card" has become a bit of a misnomer. It once referred to a generic piece of consumer-oriented hardware designed to give...
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Learn the Laws of Physics: AN ODE TO ENGINEERING
Some things just aren't right. Take, for instance, canned orange juice. Someone should really put a stop to that. Another evil that simply will...
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Digidesign Pro Tools 5.0: DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION SOFTWARE
In another step toward taking the Pro Tools platform to the next level, Digidesign offers a major revision of its Pro Tools digital audio...
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BRIAN TANKERSLEY ON THE GBT SYSTEM
A major benefit of any DAW is full reset/recall capability. I wanted to extend that concept to tracking, cue mix and overdub scenarios in...
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July 1, 2000
July 1, 2000 Technology Digidesign Pro Tools 5.0: DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION SOFTWARE TerraSonde Audio Toolbox Version 2: PORTABLE AUDIO TEST SET Alesis MasterLink ML-9600:...
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The Mix Staff Members Pick Their Current
Elliott Smith: Figure 8 (DreamWorks) Onstage, Elliott Smith cuts a deceptively slight and scruffy figure, resembling your friendly, unwashed neighborhood
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Six Slick Picks You Might Have Missed
Audio Engineering Associates (www.wesdooley.com) has taken the audio world by storm with its superb reissues of the beloved vintage RCA 44 ribbon mics.