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Pierre Marchand: Producing Sarah McLachlan, on Land and on Sea
Pierre Marchand calls his approach to production "disorganized" and "chaotic," but his results sound the exact opposite. He is the producer who has made
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Biograph:Milan bogdan
Faaantastic! Life offers few guarantees, and we should be thankful for the ones we get. The sun will always rise in the east, E...
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STUDIO WEB SITES
Everybody has a Web site- companies, organizations, freelance engineers and, yes, recording studios. But it seems the conventional Web site is evolving
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Mobile Opportunities
Increased competition, costs put pressure on remote vehicles They are, perhaps, the last of the romantics in an increasingly corporate professional audio
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CROBAR PRIES ITSELF INTO SOUTH BEACH’S CROWDED CLUB SCENE
really wanted to be the first club with a resident entomologist," laments John Hood over a cocktail at Giacomo's on Espanola Way in Miami's...
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Miami Heats Up
These are boom days for the Miami recording community. The pop and Latin music renaissance that this city is experiencing has given the region...
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MEMORANDUM: You Played Guitar, Now Play The Game
The competition in pro audio has increased a thousandfold in the past decade, just as it has in other industries. What had once been...
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THE MERGER OF TWO CLASSIC FACILITIES: The Hit Factory Criteria Miami
"We left the parking lot for last. We wanted to get the music happening." So said Troy Germano, executive vice president of The Hit...
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Cool Spins: The Mix Staff Members Pick Their Current Favorites
The Cure: Bloodflowers (Fiction/Elektra) For the "pale and tragic" children of the '80s, the Cure were the backdrop to dreary autumn afternoons, endless
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moe.: L (Fatboy)
Call 'em a jam band, a groove band, whatever-moe. mostly plays really long (10- to 20-minute), highly rhythmic jams loaded with lots of lead...
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ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL BRINGING BOB WILLS TO A NEW AUDIENCE
Making Ride With Bob, Asleep at the Wheel's Grammy-winning all-star tribute to the legacy of Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, wasn't too much...
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No Doubt Takes the Long Road to “Saturn”
It isn't easy to go back into the studio to record a follow-up album to the kind of smash that No Doubt had with...
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David Kershenbaum:Cenhancing the Artist
Based on his youthful appearance and boyish exuberance, it's hard to believe David Kershenbaum's career spans more than two decades. The Springfield,
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New Audio And Recording Books
MAGIC MUSIC FROM THE TELHARMONIUM Reynold Weidenaar Scarecrow Press 800/642-6420; 301/459-3366 In 1893, a 26-year-old lawyer and inventor named Thadeus
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JOEY LEVINE Television POP and Crushing music
Remember Ohio Express and their bookend hits "Yummy Yummy Yummy" and "Chewy, Chewy"? Joey Levine does. As a teenage singer/songwriter Levine penned and
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What’s Next in Power Amps
Let's face it, power amps are the Rodney Dangerfield of pro audio equipment. They're not particularly interesting to look at, they all sound great...
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OCEAN VU STUDIO
Ocean VU Studio owner/engineer/producer Victor Di Persia started out as a technician for MCI/Sony-but don't expect him to be shackled to the toolbox at
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Los Zafiros: Bossa Cubana (Nonesuch)
This gem of a reissue by Los Zafiros (The Sapphires) truly shines. Comprising 17 songs cut from 1963 to '67, Bossa Cubana just percolates...
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COMPLETE GUIDE TO FILM SCORING: THE ART AND BUSINESS OF WRITING MUSIC FOR MOVIES AND TV by Richard Davis
617/747-2146 -- www.berkleepress.com Ever stepped out of a movie theater, humming the music, and thought, "I could do that! That could be my music...
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Sleater-Kinney’s Hands-On Approach
It's hard to be a riot grrrl in a world where everyone from Britney Spears to the Spice Girls has appropriated the term "girl...
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Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Matador)
Always unearthing the remarkable in the mundane, Yo La Tengo creates the perfect aural counterpart to the artwork on its latest CD, And Then...
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Keeping Up With Technology
Last month I began a summary of the keynote session at the November 1999 Parsons Audio Expo, an annual event in Wellesley, Mass. The...
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Arboretum Ionizer for MAS
EQ AND DYNAMICS-PROCESSING PLUG-IN Agush of new plug-ins has recently flooded the market in support of Mark of the Unicorn's MAS platform and its...
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HOW TO RUN
A RECORDING SESSION Jayce De Santis MixBooks 800/543-7771; www.mixbooks.com First published in 1997 and now in its second edition, this book, written
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LANs, WANs, NASs & SANs
OR WHY NETWORKS ARE BORN ANEW was at a industry schmoozefest last night, meeting and greeting while munching on salmon thingies. Our small industry...
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SYSTEM Four Case Studies TUNING
When it comes down to tuning an audio system for its intended environment, there are essentially two ways to approach the task. The first...
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Down Home With Jermaine Dupri
Jermaine Dupri is one of the most successful hip hop/R&B producers working today. He has created Platinum hits for the likes of Jay-Z, Mariah...
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Burning the Midnight Monitor Oil
Speaker components have improved considerably during the past 20 years. Distortion is lower, power hand- ling is higher, and bandwidth is wider. Despite
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Network Systems 2000
THE STATE OF THE ART OF COMPUTER-CONTROLLED AUDIO Around 1992, the idea of computer-controlled sound systems struck a resonant note in the audio industry.
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Bomb Factory Digital: “CLASSIC CoMPRESSoRS” PLUG-INS FoR PRo TooLS
Bomb Factory Digital's growing family of 12 (so far) plug-ins support Digidesign Pro Tools TDM systems running under 4.x.x and 5.0, AudioSuite processing
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Dixie Dregs: California Screamin’ (Zebra)
Fusion, anyone? During their heyday in the late '70s and early '80s, the Dixie Dregs were one of the most electrifying bands in America-a...
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Classic Tracks: Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”
When Warren Zevon emerged in the midst of L.A.'s vibrant singer/songwriter scene in the mid-'70s, he was like a breath of...well, strange air. As...
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Hui Aloha (Dancing Cat) and Various: Honolulu to Hollywood (The old Masters)
Hui Aloha might be called a Hawaiian "supergroup": It includes two of the Islands' finest contemporary slack-key guitarists/singers-George Kuo and Dennis
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Buddy Miller
Homemade Buddy Miller's music has strong roots, in more ways than one. He has made three solo albums for the oakland, Calif.-based HighTone Records...
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Rising Sun Holophone: Surround Sound Microphone System
New microphone designs don't appear very often. If one looks at the subcategory of multichannel mic systems, such as the "Decca tree," the Calrec...
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Fairlight Prodigy: Integrated Digital Audio Production System
For more than two decades, Fairlight has been an innovator in disk-based recording/editing/DSP systems. From its CMI sampling instruments that-years before
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Alesis M20: MAKING MDM MAGIC
MAKING MDM MAGIC offering 20-bit record resolution with a solid transport in a SMPTE-syncable package, the Alesis M20 is compatible with more than 150,000
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Aphex Model 1100 Thermionics: TUBE MIC PREAMP WITH 24-BIT A/D CoNVERTER
There are lots of mic preamps on the market, and rather too many of them are "me-too" products that offer little more than repackages...
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Dave Way: MIXER ON A HOT STREAK
Dave Way is no stranger to hot streaks. He's had more than a few in his career, from his early days with kingpin hip...
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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...