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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The Seismic Hardware/Software Shift
After decades of software/hardware couples counseling, let’s step back and see how that relationship is faring.
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Mix Live Blog: Rocking The Rock Legends Cruise XIII—Part 2
When Blue Öyster Cult recently played a cruise, it was all smooth sailing, right? Wrong—but that didn't stop the band or TM/FOH engineer Steve...
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Mix Live Blog: Rocking The Rock Legends Cruise XIII—A Gig Diary
Blue Öyster Cult recently took to the high seas to play the Rock Legends Cruise XIII and now FOH pro Steve shares the experience...
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Has Music Technology Made Us…Lazy?
Is AI making your production work effortless, less effort or no effort?
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Mix Blog: I Hate to Say “I Told You So…”
Sometimes you know how something is going to end before it even begins.
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Mix Live Blog: Don’t Sell Yourself Short
There's a thin line between breaking into the industry and letting the industry break you.
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From The Editor: Back to the Future of AI Music
A look back at a music tech revolution from 86 years ago can shed some light on what may lie ahead for AI music.
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Mix Live Blog: Fear of (Not) Flying
The government shutdown may be over, but the PTSD from touring during it will follow Steve for a while....
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Mix Live Blog: Audio Dreamin’
It was unusual for me to be home on a weekend, but my work schedule a few weeks ago was rather odd....
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Mix Blog: Maintenance Issues
A new customs law has led more than 30 countries to suspend shipments to the U.S., and a ripple effect will affect repairs.
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Mix Blog: If It Sounds Too Good to Be True…
Scammers have infiltrated many parts of our online lives, and the pro-audio portion is no exception.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: AI and the Fingerprint Factor
Craig shares how to verbally smack down anyone who suggests that AI scraping the web for examples is the same as musicians drawing on...
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The Sound Company at Ground Zero on 9/11
When the Twin Towers came down on September 11, 2001, one sound company was particularly affected: RSA Audio of Edgewood, NY, which had been...
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Mix Live Blog: What I Did On My Summer “Vacation”
As he returns to teaching production at Mercy College in New York, Steve La Cerra looks back at a crazy four months on the...
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Mix Live Blog: This Is Progress?
Mixing on a new live console for the first time is always a challenge—and this time was no exception.
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Tom’s Travels: Audio Along the Hudson, Day 1
Join Mix co-editor Tom Kenny on his once-in-a-lifetime road trip with legendary studio designer John Storyk of WSDG!
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From The Editor: A Restoration Supreme—Saving John Coltrane’s Home and Studio
20 years after being rescued from demolition, the home—and home studio—of jazz legend John Coltrane is being restored.
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Mix Live Blog: Freddie Mercury and a Night to Remember
Peabody, set the Wayback machine for July 13, 1985....
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Are We Having Fun Yet?
Some AI evangelists think musicians feel it's "not really enjoyable to make music." Craig sets 'em straight.
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Mix Live Blog: Where’s My Credit Card??!
Heading to JFK Airport to start a two-week run of dates in the U.K. and Europe with Blue Öyster Cult seemed like a simple...
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From the Editor: A Voyage to the Vinyl Frontier
At Mix, we write about the start of music’s journey, but selling at a vinyl fair revealed a different part of the voyage.
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Mix Live Blog: Pardon the Delay
File this one under “we almost didn’t make the gig.” Here’s the setup…
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Did Someone Say “Workflow?”
As you navigate the maze of dizzying changes in studio technology, step back and ask yourself whether something encourages good workflow.
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Mix Blog: Ampex 351 Resurrection, The Sequel — Part 2: Rectifying an Age-Old Problem
After a few tweaks to bring the power connection up to modern AC standards, my refurb of a second Ampex 351 electronics module continues…
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Blog: Let’s Hear It for the Crews!
The show must go on. Downbeat at 7. That’s what drives a crew.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The New Gig Economy—Studio Edition
These days, artists have to do it all themselves and be their own manager, producer, mastering engineer, merch maven and more. How do we...
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Mix Live Blog: A Birthday Look Back at the SM57 and SM58
Shure hits 100 this year, and in its honor, the Mix blog takes a look back at some of the company's best-known mics.
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Mix Live Blog: When Things Go Wrong
I’m finding it difficult to come up with something meaningful to say in the wake of what’s going on in Southern California.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The AI Cesspool Has Arrived
Not only is the AI genie out of the bottle, the genie has acquired tactical nuclear weapons. Welcome to 2025.
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Mix Blog: If You Don’t Have It in Two Places…
Sometimes things are clichés because they're true.
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Talking Technology, Thinking About Gear
Year-end lists are one of the long-standing staples of journalism, whether it’s the "Top 10 Films of the Year," "2024's Best Backpacks" or "5...
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Mix Live Blog: If It Sounds Too Good to Be True…
The holidays are supposed to bring out the best in people, but they also bring out the worst scammers, even in pro audio.
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Mix Live Blog: This Won’t Work
Right gate, wrong airport — and that was only how the day started for tour manager/FOH engineer Steve La Cerra.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The Race Against Time: In Search of the Lost Chords
Preserving vintage recordings that were created on analog tape has become a challenging race against time.
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Mix Live Blog: The End of An Era
Yamaha announced that it would be discontinuing its CL Series, and the QL Series desks will also be retired.... I have to confess, I’m...
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Audiobooks Take Centerstage at NYCC
Audiobook service Audible brought some of its top creative talents to the stage last week at New York Comic Con for an ear-opening panel.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Vanishing Voices
In this first part of a three-part series, we’ll cover what we’ve lost when it comes to recent-era audio, and why we lost it....
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Mix Live Blog: A Fountain of Youth?
On the road mixing classic rock, Steve pauses to appreciate the skill and good will of the co-headlining legend, Carl Palmer.
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Mix Blog: Fake Art. Real Money
Well, it had to happen sooner or later… AI-generated “art” being used to scam money out of the music industry.
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Bill Schnee Returns to Hollywood’s Boulevard Recording Podcast
Award-winning recording engineer Bill Schnee recently returned to the studio where he worked on "Aja" and earned a Grammy for Best Engineered Album.
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Mix Live Blog: 3 Days, 3 Shows, 3 Cities, 2 Bands: Where’s My Pillow?
In which Steve takes on mixing three shows in three days in three cities with two different bands. What could go wrong?
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The Complete ‘Aha Moment’ Columns of Peter Janis
After Peter Janis retired from Radial Engineering, he quickly became a columnist for Pro Sound News; over the next two-and-a-half years, the business leader...