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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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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.
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Wild Sky studios
The collaboration between Sarah McLachlan and Pierre Marchand goes beyond her albums; they've also built a studio, Wild Sky. Marchand explains how the
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1176 REVISION HISTORY
Founded by the late Bill Putnam in the attic of Universal Recording in Chicago, Universal Audio later moved into the attic of United Recording...
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Focusrite ISA 110: MICROPHONE PREAMP AND EQUALIZER
The Focusrite ISA 110 Original Mono Mic-Pre & Equalizer is a limited-edition version of the famed single-channel ISA 110 EQ module. The original ISA...
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MDFMK: Electro-Industrial Pioneers Shed Their Old Skin
Electronic music is just a different beast altogether. Generally, anything that falls under the headings electronic or industrial is seen as the obsessive
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Current: McCartney, Phillips to Be Honored at TEC Awards
Sir Paul McCartney will be presented with the prestigious Les Paul Award by Les Paul himself at the 16th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity...
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Untangling the Web: HOW TO AVOID EMBARRASSING YOURSELF IN CYBERSPACE
Like too many people these days, I spend way too much time on the Internet. One of the reasons is that the new rules...
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Don Henley: Getting Inside his long-Awaited Solo Album
It's a tough assignment: an interview with He-Who-Hates-To-Be-Interviewed. That sharp-tongued, laser-eyed, hypercritical guy who's been there, done that,
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What’s New in Powered Studio Monitors
Not too long ago, powered monitors were considered unworthy of a place in the commercial or project studio environment. In recent years, however, this
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David Lowery: The Cracker Frontman Is an Indie Producer, Too
For the majority of his career, David Lowery has lived somewhere just outside the norm. Whether it was his early days as a member...
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Acoustic MAKEOVERS
The vast array of tools now available for recording, editing, processing and otherwise manipulating sound shows how far the applied science of audio-particularly
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Audio Basics & Troubleshooting: PART TWO: STUDIO MONITORING SYSTEMS
True monitors are necessary tools in any studio. Yet, as with any component in the signal chain, monitors need attention, and occasionally a tweak...
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GTC Industries Tone and Noise Plugs: Compact Test Genarators
The Tone Plug-essentially a tiny audio generator built into a Neutrik XLR connector-is a dream tool for live sound engineers. And for project studio...
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Classic Tracks: Supertramp’s “The Logical Song”
"When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful..." That's the memorable opening line of Supertramp's "The Logical Song," an ode to...
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Recording Nuptials: Something Old, Something New in Networking Your Studio
Ye olde saw about wedding accoutrements, "something old, something new..." loosely fits our theme this month. Not that I'm planning on tying the knot.
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Rocking in the Studio With The Stooges: Inside “The Complete Fun House Sessions”
In late 1970, The Stooges' raucous LP Fun House was released to a nearly unanimous critical drubbing, poor sales and virtually no radio play....
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Digidesign SoundReplacer: AUDIOSUITE PLUG-IN FOR PRO TOOLS
The number of mind-blowing, incredibly useful plug-ins flooding the market continues to amaze me. It seems there are plug-ins for almost every task, from
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WAVE MECHANICS ULTRATOOLS: PLUG-IN SUITE FOR PRO TOOLS
UltraTools is a suite of plug-ins by Wave Mechanics that works with Digidesign's Pro Tools TDM system, as well as third-party programs that utilize...
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Euphonix System 5: DIGITAL MIXING CONSOLE
Known primarily for its large-format, digitally controlled analog mixing consoles, Euphonix unveiled the System 5, its first all-digital console at the