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FACILITY SPOTLIGHT: NEW STANDARD POST
New Standard Post is a brash new company that's making big waves on the Hollywood post-production scene. Designed from the ground up to specialize...
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Jeff Bridges Primes The Pump
It's well-known to the public that Jeff Bridges is an actor with film credits both popular and critically acclaimed, including The Fabulous Baker Boys,
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STEVE TYRELL SWINGS FULL CIRCLE
Back in the day, Steve Tyrell was just another gravel-throated white guy who loved to sing R&B. He sang in two bands when he...
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Therapy?: Suicide Pact-You First (Ark21)
Irish "aggro" band Therapy? resists the straightjacket of a label on their latest album. In the past, the band seemed like a direct descendant...
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Ready for Prime Time?
Surround sound may seem relatively fresh and exotic in the world of music recording (unless you're old enough to remember mid-'70s efforts to launch...
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Dolby E: A 2-Channel Solution for Multichannel DTV
With Digital TV already into year two of its seven-year, FCC-mandated phase-in, television is undergoing its most profound transformation since the advent
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ADR-Necessary Evil or Saving Grace
To some, ADR is the dirty little secret of post-production, an insurance policy you don't want to have to collect on. For little accidents...
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Bugs in the [Tape] Machine:SIMPLE MoDS To KEEP YoUR TIMECoDE DAT HAPPY
Despite an almost endless variety of higher-performance disk and tape formats available in the market, the ubiquitous 16-bit, 44.1/48kHz DAT format is
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Can You Say Conformance?: SCRAMBLING FoR A DTV STANDARD
Choice. When it comes to living my life and spending my time and money, choice is what I want. This month, I'm putting on...
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Ginger Baker’s Parting Shots
Capturing a Legend As the music of Ginger Baker and the DJQ2o (Denver Jazz Quintet To octet) was being released to the world, praised...
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Nashville Songwriter/Producer Jon Vezner
Second Nature Nashville is a town with a big heart and open arms. For all the talented natives it has produced through the years,...
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Amek 9098i: LARGE-FoRMAT IN-LINE MIXING CoNSoLE
Almost any emphatic statement about audio will produce an equally emphatic contradiction. However, most audio engineers agree that Rupert Neve knows how
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COMMERCIAL MIX: LIFE’S A BEACH
When creating a commercial, the layers of sound can separate a great spot from a good one. But you don't need to have 48...
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KEEPING UP WITH TECHNOLOGY: A PANEL DISCUSSION, PART 1
In an age when marketing is king, when R&D goes on at an unprecedented pace, and when awareness among the general public of the...
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Recording The Voice-Over
This vintage Mix spotlight on voice-over recording shows that while some gear may change, industry-standard mics and best practices largely remain the same.
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Curtis Technology AL-2: STEREo TUBE MICRoPHoNE SYSTEM
Despite so much recent consolidation of pro audio manufacturers-with big companies being absorbed by bigger ones-some of the most interesting products
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April 1, 2000 Technology Dolby E: A 2-Channel Solution for Multichannel DTV Fairlight Prodigy: Integrated Digital Audio Production System Rising Sun Holophone: Surround Sound...
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
MACKIE TO BUY EAW On February 3, Mackie Designs Inc. and Eastern Acoustic Works Inc. announced the signing of a nonbinding letter of intent...
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Developments in Computer Control: EASE OF USE IS KEY
Measurement and analysis are essential in the design and assembly of large-scale sound systems, and most touring sound pros have developed techniques
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AKG C 3000B: LARGE-DIAPHRAGM CARDIOID MICROPHONE
Several years ago, when AKG unveiled its C 3000, it was nearly an instant success, providing decent performance at a price that is quite...
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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 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