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A Couple of Audio Moments: FIDELITY ISN’T ALWAYS IN THE SPECS
How do you define audio fidelity? Is it the signal-to-noise ratio, the frequency response, the distortion? Is it the number of channels, bits or...
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ROY SEGAL RETIRES: HEAD OF FANTASY STUDIOS, SAUL ZAENTZ FILM CENTER
On February 8, after more than a half-century in professional audio, Roy Segal quietly stepped down as the head of Fantasy Studios and the...
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PHISHING At Home in Vermont
The Toy Specialists has been a Manhattan fixture for the past 15 years, supplying major studios in the area with the equipment that top-shelf...
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COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT: STEVEN GOLD
Steven Gold jumped into the music business early on, singing jingle dates with his two brothers while still attending grade school in the Bronx....
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Did You Hear That?
With so much attention paid to new recording systems these days, it's easy to forget that getting "your sound" is more than just what...
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Douglas Spotted Eagle’s Native Restoration
Out on the beautiful, barren expanses of rural Utah, Douglas Spotted Eagle has been making a name for himself as a Native American flutist,...
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STUDIO SPOTLIGHT: MR. TOAD’S RECORDING
How can a former rehearsal space for garage, punk and noise pop bands survive amid the escalating rents of the IPO-fueled San Francisco business...
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Preps Pros for Sound Careers
Since its birth more than 100 years ago, the audio industry has always been a multifaceted field, serving diverse areas such as prerecorded music,...
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Small Things Come In Lossy Packages
It's no surprise to most of us that, by adopting digital acquisition, processing and distribution, we've settled for audio that is audibly degraded relative
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DUY DSPider: TDM PLUG-IN CREATOR SOFTWARE FOR THE MACINTOSH
Gates, compressors, delays, reverbs, EQs: We keep seeing the same TDM plug-ins over and over again. It's about time for something really different, something
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FACILITY SPOTLIGHT: MUCH-MUSIC, TORONTO
Canada has been in the entertainment news a lot over the past year, usually because some Hollywood facility owner or representative in Congress is...
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Dallas Austin: PRODUCING MUSIC, PERIOD
Dallas Austin has found success in the music biz by coupling his love of music with an understanding of the listener's ear. His approach...
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CHALLENGES F SOUND DESIGN FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
In the spring of 1995, I had no inkling as I entered the world of game sound design that I was about to experience...
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March 1, 2000
March 1, 2000 Technology Sony DMX-R100: Compact Digital Console Lexicon 960L: Multichannel Digital Effects System Audio-Technica U100 Marshall Electronics MXL2001-P and MXL2003: STUDIO CONDENSER...
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UK Music Recording: STUDIOS ADAPT AS MARKETS CHANGE
Napoleon once disparaged the English as "a nation of shopkeepers," and the London studio industry is increasingly a business of small boutiques, often
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BIOGRAPH: MARTIN BENGE
The headlines generated by the wave of consolidation that's swept the recording industry in recent years might make it seem as though such turmoil...
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New Markets for a New Age
One message has become increasingly clear in the studio business during the past decade: Providing conventional recording services is often not enough.Many
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FACILITY SPOTLIGHT: Studios 301 Reopens in Sydney
You could say that evolution and history combine in the reopening of Studios 301 in Sydney, Australia. Behind the studio's brand-spanking-new facade is
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Consolidation
It's become a multibillion-dollar sport on Wall Street to watch American Airlines swallow Reno Air, or Exxon buy Mobil, or any of the dot-coms...
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DACS FREQUE
Ring Modulator/Frequency Shifter One of the FwS Series of analog effects made in England by DACS, FREQue (pronounced "freak") is a dual ring modulator
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MEMORANDuM: There’s No Business Like Show Business
Over the last two years, the "Mix Business Quarterly" has concentrated heavily on the mechanisms of studio economics, from getting paid by record companies
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Earthworks SR71: CARDIOID CONDENSER MIC
Just when you thought you could close the lid on the mic case, satisfied that your inventory is complete, something new comes along to...
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Cycling ’74 Pluggo: PLUG-IN SUITE AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Cycling '74's retro bike seat logo is a throwback to its namesake decade and quite apropos for their $74 Pluggo plug-in suite: For the...
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Walking the High Wire
In many ways, professional audio performs as a microcosm of the capitalist system: The market picks the winners and, with some exceptions, tends to...
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HOLLYWOOD SOUND FACTORY WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS
SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY Founded by former Hollywood Edge head Scott Whitney a year ago, Hollywood Sound Factory was created to provide high-quality sound
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SOUND IDEAS OPEN & CLOSE AND AuDIENCE REACTIONS
SOUND-EFFECTS LIBRARIES Over the years, Sound Ideas has established itself as a leading provider of sound effects, with an impressive number of "firsts."
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The Mix Suite: SPIKE STENT FINDS THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
Anyone who runs a studio-project or public-soon realizes there's much more to the process than simply buying and installing gear. As your needs grow,
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“BRAZIL” ON DVD: Criterion reintroduces the 1985 cult favorite
Big-time recording artists receive the box-set treatment from record labels, but it takes quite a movie to receive the same level of attention. The...
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Support Yourself!: MAKING YOUR CALLS FOR HELP COUNT
Last month, I decried the problems of dealing with tech support lines at companies whose hardware and software we expect-often unrealistically-to work
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Alan Moulder: FROM TRIDENT TO NINE INCH NAILS
An ochre harvest moon rises over the eastern rim of New Orleans. It rotates smoothly across the black sky, and just before it sinks...
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PRACTICAL ART OF MOTION PICTuRE SOuND
Film sound is not quite a Black Art, but it can feel that way sometimes when you read the magazines or are introduced to...
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INVENTOR OF STEREO: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ALAN DOWER BLuMLEIN
Don't let the title fool you into thinking this is a dry textbook about arcane microphone facts. On the contrary, Inventor of Stereo: The...
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Facility Spotlight: GOOD MORNING, TIMES SQUARE!
If you were looking to broadcast your morning news show from a location that registers "center of the world" to millions of people around...
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COMPOSER spotlight: ANNE DUDLEY
Anne Dudley, the Oscar-winning composer of the score for The Full Monty, took a cue from the title of the standard English hymnal when...
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THE MIXING ENGINEER’S HANDBOOK
Throughout his 30 years of experience in studios, Bobby Owsinski interviewed many well-known engineers, from Bruce Swedien to George Massenburg, and the
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SOUND CONSTRUCTION AND SUPPLY
ISO BOX Computers have added a great deal to my studio: creative control, new capabilities and copious quantities of...fan noise. Thanks to the Iso...
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February 1, 2000
February 1, 2000 Technology DACS FREQUE Shure E5: PERSONAL MONITOR EARPHONE Cycling ’74 Pluggo: PLUG-IN SUITE AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS TC Works Spark: REAL-TIME DIGITAL...
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Why Louder Sounds Better
All too often we hear complaints that the sound is too loud at concerts. Further, widespread enactment of sound control regulations often requires concert
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STAN RIDGWAY THE MuSIC IS THE MoVIE
Stan Ridgway has always been a keen observer of modern life. From his days as the frontman of the unusual but always compelling Los...
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PROJECT STuDIO PROJECTS
The tip-off that Marshall Crenshaw recorded his latest CD, enigmatically titled #447, in his own project room is the name of the studio in...
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Dolly Parton: The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill)
It's no surprise that Dolly Parton could make a fine album of acoustic string band music; the wonder is that it's taken her so...