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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...
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Mix Live Blog: Meanwhile… Ticketmaster Was Hacked!
Now Ticketmaster is battling not only with the government, but with the cyber underworld as well.
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Mix Live Blog: You Can’t Make This Up, Ep. #1
A pre-show load-in wherein Steve required some consoling—or actually just consoles.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: A Perspective on Perspectives
Maybe people just have a hard time reconciling that two opposing viewpoints can both be correct....
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Mix Live Blog: A Nail in the Coffin of MI Retail
At some point or another, just about any musician who ever picked, plucked, strummed, plinked, blew or banged an instrument made a purchase at...
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Mix Blog: Clarence Kane 1926 – 2024
Remembering Clarence Kane, who showed countless valuable, vintage microphones some TLC to keep them running for decades to come.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Can You Negotiate With AI?
The music industry desperately needs revisions to the copyright laws to take AI changes into account—but it can’t just stop there.
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Mix Live Blog: Inside The Eastern in Atlanta
Our ever-traveling blogger/FOH engineer Steve La Cerra sets up inside Atlanta's The Eastern, and likes what he finds.
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Editor’s Note: Pause. Rewind. Fast Forward.
We are living in an amazing time! And once in a great while, when I run into a genuine blast from the past, I’m...
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Mix Live Blog: Bob Heil, 1940 – 2024
The audio industry received sad news last week when we learned of the passing of Bob Heil, a true pioneer of the live sound...
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Mix Live Blog: All in TWO Days’ Work
In which our erstwhile blogger (and production manager/FOH guy for Blue Oyster Cult) Steve La Cerra heads to the Great White North.
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Blog: How To NAMM
Use strategy and common sense to have a blast this week at the NAMM Show 2024.
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Mix Live Blog: Keith Richards Keeps on Rollin’
Hot on the heels of the well-received Hackney Diamonds album, the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards just turned 80.
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Mix Live Blog: Person of the Year…Who Else?
If you’re Taylor Swift, 2023 has shaped up to be a pretty good year.
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Editor’s Note: Looking From the Inside Out
Here's a couple of things to be excited about from a Big Picture point of view, from the inside out.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: An Open Letter to Santa Audio…
I’m convinced Santa Audio exists, so I’m writing a “Dear Santa Audio” letter about what I would like to see in 2024.
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Mix Live Blog: Recommended Reading — ‘The Extraordinary Journey of Jason Miles’
Grammy Award-winning producer Jason Miles has penned an autobiography packed with insights, stories and heart.
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Editor’s Note: To Those Who Show Us the Way
I told the audience a story about the three sound designers/re-recording mixers who would soon be joining me onstage to talk about “Sound, Story...
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Mix Studio Blog: Fairchild 670 — A Legend Reborn
At AES, I was on the lookout for interesting gear, and one of the notable items I saw on display a few weeks ago...
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Mix Live Blog: Financial Fallout
The height of the COVID pandemic may have passed, but its financial impact on live sound pros continues to reverberate.
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Building The Last Beatles Song
Next week's release of The Beatles' final track, "Now And Then," completes a 30-year quest to finish a nearly 50-year-old song.
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Mix Live Blog: Ticket Madness
The FTC is proposing a ban on hidden 'junk' fees related to tickets, including for concerts. Can they make it happen this time?
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Mix Live Blog: Enter the Sphere
Is Las Vegas' new Sphere venue the next big thing in live concert production? Well, it definitely is big.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Dear Screenwriters and SAG-AFTRA
Columnist Craig Anderton pens an open letter from the music industry to the Hollywood unions on strike.
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Mix Live Blog: How Loud Is Too Loud?
"Wait a minute—130 dBC at front-of-house? Are they out of their minds?"
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From the Editor: The Stuff of Stories
The Future becomes the past in the blink of an eye, but there is one thing that endures.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Hitting the Ceiling
The past few years have seen multiple MI company acquisitions, but can the industry maintain the kind of growth that private equity often demands?
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Mix Live Blog: Christmas In July
Taylor Swift gave out bonuses of $100,000 to more than 50 truck drivers on her tour, but it's not only generous; it's good business.
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Mix Live Blog: This Is Not OK
The recent trend of throwing increasingly weird -- and often dangerous -- stuff on stage during concerts has gotten out of hand.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Music Technology? Or, the Technology of Music?
Craig Anderton explores whether our fascination with the technology of music distracts us from the art of music technology.
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Mix Live Blog: Astroworld 2021 Revisited
Lawsuits still abound around the 10 deaths and 300 injuries at Houston's 2021 Astroworld Festival, but at least some positive safety changes are coming...
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Mix Blog: Keeping Things Eventful
2023 is going to be a big summer for events -- so let's consider what eventful actually means.
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Mix Live Blog: A Different Perspective
It was a gig much like any other gig, but insight afterwards recast everything in a different light.