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PRODUCER TOMMY LIPUMA: MAKING MAGIC WITH DIANA KRALL
Although Tommy LiPuma has been in the record business for nearly 40 years and has 18 Gold and Platinum records, 30 Grammy nominations and...
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Craig Street: STUDIO ENVIRONMENTALIST
In his emergence as one of the most creative producers of the day, Craig Street has worked on a string of projects with artists...
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THE CARE AND FEEDING OF Classic Gear
Sound recording is unusual among the technical arts in that today's artists and technicians often combine current, state-of-the-art technology with equipment
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John T. Mullin: THE MAN WHO PUT BING CROSBY ON TAPE
Audio and video engineer John T. (Jack) Mullin-who introduced America to high-fidelity magnetic tape recording, built the first prototype videotape recorder
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UNDERSTANDING AND PRESERVING DYNAMIC RANGE
Over the past 20 years, digital media has made possible the economical delivery of music with very high dynamic range. Dynamic ranges above 90...
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Akai DD8 Digital Dubber: TIPS FROM TODD-AO EAST
The Akai DD8 random-access digital film dubber is designed to be used in place of traditional mag machines and as a plug-and-play replacement for...
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COMPLETE SOUND
It turned into a package deal straight out of Hollywood: On Monday, July 26, Andre Perreault joined Complete Sound, along with the Miles O'...
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Studio Pro99
More than 200 audio professionals descended on the Universal City Hilton in mid-June for StudioPro99, Mix magazine's second annual technical and business
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Walt Disney Studios Post Production Services
Since its opening in 1940, the Disney Sound Department has created and mixed the sound for most of the classic animated and live action...
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AudioControl Industrial MP-200: MEASUREMENT PREAMPLIFIER
Thanks to the portability and power of laptop computers, many live sound engineers are now able to carry their own acoustical analysis tools wherever
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Remote Engineering: VIEWS FROM THE TOP
The 1999 slate of nominees for a TEC Award in the category of Remote/Broadcast Recording Engineer includes some familiar names: Guy Charbonneau, Ed Greene,
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Classic Tracks: Heart’s “Barracuda”
The first time I saw Heart perform, in 1975, they were second or third on the bill at a show headlined by the recently...
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Living Large
Nearly 50 new large-diaphragm condenser mics have been released during the past 18 months. One microphone can re-create any polar pattern or mic angle,
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GATEMOUTH BROWN
"There's no way in the world that I would spend months and months making a record," says multi-instrumentalist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. "When I listen
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Digidesign Pro Tools 5.0
In recent years, most of the big news and developments in Digidesign's Pro Tools system have centered around hardware. First there was the move...
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Capturing the Keyboards
Keyboards have always provided an endless array of colors and nuance for music projects, adding tone to an underbed or singing solo in an...
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Twenty Years of Writing: AND THEY PUT YOU ON THE DAY SHIFT
This month, I mark my 20th anniversary as a professional audio writer. Okay, stop yawning. I know you don't want to read another deadly...
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David Darling
It's not surprising that producer David Darling has the kind of cozy, comfortable project studio where musicians immediately feel at home-after all, he
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COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT: PARODI/FAIR
Maybe it's a feng shui thing, but "harmony" is the word that comes to mind when entering the Pacific Palisades home studio of Starr...
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Dane Davis and DANETRACKS: JACKED INTO THE MATRIX AND WIRED FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
With the out-of-the-box success of The Matrix, and its provocative soundtrack, it's a given that sound designer Dane Davis and his company, Danetracks
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STANLEY CLARKE AND LENNY WHITE
Wind back the time machine to 1976 and you'll find the classic jazz/rock fusion recording Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever, a group then...
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Westlake Audio Lc3w12
The Lc3w12 three-way passive monitors are the latest and largest additions to Westlake Audio's Lc Series, which includes four smaller monitors and a subwoofer.
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FACILITY SPOTLIGHT: NOW HEAR THIS
Many people would say Carlos Chafin is one of the more affable people in the audio business. But don't take his easygoing nature to...
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Jewel: Capturing The Spirit
Jewel's story is one of perseverance. The press has filled volumes with her rags-to-riches saga; so, many of us know by now that she...
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BEHIND THE STRINGS WITH BELA FLECK: RECORDING TALES FROM THE ACOUSTIC PLANET, VOL. 2
Back in the spring of 1983, the great banjo player Bela Fleck and I teamed up for the first time to record his album...
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IT WAS 31 YEARS: REMIXED IN 5.1 FOR YELLOW SUBMARINE
No doubt, there will be purists who scream, "Sacrilege!" And debates will rage about the simple-yet-detailed beauty of the original mono mixes. But The
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Long Live the Long Ball
A record-breaking rookie draft of no less than 90 new power-sluggers have made it to the "Show" since Winter NAMM 1998, the cutoff point...
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ROCKING WITH THE REMIXERS, CAPTURING THE CHOIR
The situation is no different for digital audio artisans. We spoke with a number of digital creators-ranging from an experimental choral sound artist
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KIDS ON STAGE: A TENNESSEE MIRACLE
Williamson County, immediately south of Nashville, is the fastest growing and most affluent county in Tennessee. It's a place where commercial and residential
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Making the Most of Audio 101: AN ADDRESS TO THE INCOMING CLASS OF 2003
First of all, don't worry about the sunscreen. For the next four years, where you're going to be spending all your time, you're not...
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Oh, Behave!: Shagadelic Sound for the Austin Powers Sequel
Comedy, to quote Woody Allen, is timing and delivery-a pregnant pause that lends anticipation, an infectious giggle to lighten the double entendre or
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WHAT’S NEW IN SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARIES
As the information superhighway fulfills its promise of speeding sound effects to us at a moment's notice, it's sometimes hard to believe that there...
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Browsing With mSoft: ServerSound Brings Intranets to Audio Production
Most media coverage of the Internet and its Intranet offspring has focused to date on applications involving consumers or corporate users. But the client/server
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Club Sound 101: A PRIMER FOR SOUND MIXERS WHO SKIPPED A GRADE
As a broad generalization, it can be said that most sound mixers get their start in live sound by one of three routes: with...
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SOUNDS IN SPACE, SPACE FOR SOUNDS: DIALOG MEETS MATH AT M.I.T.
One of the beauties of the academic world is that research in one area often has cross-disciplinary benefits in another. Mechanical engineering breakthroughs
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BIAS Peak 2.0: DIGITAL 2-TRACK AUDIO EDITING SOFTWARE
Over the past two years BIAS Peak from Berkeley Integrated Audio Software (www.bias-inc.com) has emerged as a popular 2-track editor for the Macintosh.
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Zen and the Art of the First Gig: A Little Advice for Those Caught Between School and a Workplace
A recording school graduate journeyed to a multiroom facility in a major market. He sought out the studio manager and said earnestly, "I have...
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Fullersound
Fullersound was founded in Miami in 1986 by Michael Fuller, and in a few short years established itself as South Florida's leading mastering facility.
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Oceanview Mastering
Oceanview Mastering was born ten years ago, but that provides few clues to the depth of professional experience that resides within this two-suite facility
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Masterfonics
Masterfonics, a well-known recording studio, started as one of the most well-known and well-regarded mastering facilities in the world over the past two-and-a-half
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HOTELS WITH STUDIOS
Tom Burdett will leave the light on for you at Motel 6. But for those in the music business who need a slightly higher...