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The Mix Consultancy: Creating Space in a Mix
Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer Dom Morley kicks off his new quarterly column sharing insights about how to create more space in your mix.
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Pro Audio Veteran Goes Viral (on YouTube)
A playful cover of the Eighties hit "Easy Lover" has gone viral, bringing a group of L.A. session players into the limelight, including bass legend Leland Sklar and, on vocals, pro-audio industry vet Gussie Miller.
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The Aha Moment: Settling Supply Chain Issues
Peter Janis, former owner of Radial Engineering, shares hard-earned lessons on settling supply chain issues.
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The METAlliance Report: METAlliance on Lockdown
Chuck Ainlay shares the surprising ways he and fellow recording legends Al Schmitt, Elliot Scheiner, Frank Filipetti and George Massenburg are making the most of their time during the pandemic.
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Mixing Consoles—Beyond the Capture
Having contributed to the broadcasting of hundreds of live events, Dennis Baxter discusses why digital mixing desks are a TV studio's audio control center
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The Aha Moment: Money Matters, Part Two
Peter Janis, former owner of Radial Engineering, continues his two-part look at the bad old days of his career, and how they taught him creativity and perseverance.
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Home Recording, Beverly Hills-Style
This spacious home studio in Beverly Hills has been used to record Ozzy, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others.
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The Aha Moment: Money Matters, Part One
Peter Janis recounts how the not-so-good old days at the start of his career taught him perseverance and that money matters.
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Software Tech: Amp Sims Go Pro
Craig Anderton explores how amp sims are winning over the normally conservative world of pro guitar players, both in the studio and for live performance.
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Peek Inside Craig David’s Home Studio
Peek inside Grammy-nominated rapper Craig David's well-appointed home studio, located inside his $4.3 million Miami, FL penthouse.
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The Aha Moment: Make It Easy!
Former CEO of Radial Engineering Peter Janis explores why companies have to make life easy for the client, even if it’s hard to do.
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The Mix Consultancy: We need to talk about money…
By Dom Morley. Getting a great engineering gig can be hard, but sometimes getting paid for it at the end can be even harder. Grammy Award-winning engineer/producer Dom Morley shares his time-tested methods for getting what you deserve.
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Software Tech: The Services Industry?
Craig Anderton ponders whether the music software industry will take the services route to offset maturing sales.
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The METAlliance Report: Make the Most of Your Room
By Frank Filipetti. These days, any space can suddenly become a recording studio. If you’re working in an up-and-coming facility also known as the Guest Bedroom, Grammy-winning producer/engineer Frank Filipetti has smart, inexpensive and easy-to-implement ideas that will improve...
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What’s the Buzz? How to Knock Unwanted Noise Out of Your System
That hum in the system has got to go—here’s how to banish it to audio oblivion.
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The Mix Consultancy: The Psychology of Mixing
The Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer shares some thoughts on keeping an ear to your mix and an eye on yourself.
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The METAlliance Report: Modern Loudness
By George Massenburg. The multi Grammy-winning METAlliance co-founder explores the perils and pitfalls of modern loudness and explains why mastering engineers and artists who ignore its downsides do so at their own peril.
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Software Tech: The New Mac Pro
By Craig Anderton. Deep dive into the new Mac Pro and discover what it means for audio pros.
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Live Sound Gets Environmentally Sound
By Clive Young. Concerts are scientifically proven to be good for your health; now they're becoming less bad for the Earth, too.
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Software Tech: Will Podcasts Elevate the Small Studio?
By Craig Anderton. While podcasting started out with homegrown audio, listeners’ expectations are rising fast—creating a new opportunity for audio pros.
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Hearing It—Believing It
By Dennis Baxter. After talking to many of my colleagues, I will confidently say that if a sound mixer can reasonably hear immersive sound, they can mix it. The question is: How do we get there?
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The METAlliance Report: Let’s Not Lose the Art in Engineering
By Chuck Ainlay. METAlliance co-founder and multiple Grammy-winning producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay discusses what the art in engineering is and can be, offering suggestions on how to develop one’s engineering chops while finding inspiration along the way.
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Peeking Inside Twenty One Pilots’ Home Studio
By Clive Young. A perusal through social media takes the curious into the home studio of Twenty One Pilots vocalist Tyler Joseph.
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Literally Unbelievable Pro Audio Products Announced
New audio gear comes out constantly, but every spring, there’s a select few items that upon reading about them, one says (and rightly so), “You gotta be kidding me.” This year's April 1st, in particular, saw a number of...
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The Aha Moment: Growing Through Acquisition, Part One
Peter Janis looks at growing your pro audio business through acquisition.
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Software Tech: New Trends in Plug-Ins
By Craig Anderton. With over a quarter-century of development, plug-ins are exploring worlds that go way beyond analog emulation.
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The METAlliance Report: What’s Next?
By Elliot Scheiner. With graduation just around the corner, the METAlliance looks at the post-audio school options for the next generation of studio engineers and suggests looking into an entrepreneurial career path.
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Remembering Hal Blaine (1929–2019)
Mr. Bonzai, co-author of Hal Blaine’s autobiography, shares insight into the legendary session drummer who passed yesterday at the age of 90.
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Software Tech: Last Year Meets Next Year
By Craig Anderton. 2018 laid the groundwork for what might be the dominant computer experience of the future for pros.
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Coming Down with Acquisition Fever
By Clive Young. Major acquisitions were a constant part of the pro audio landscape in 2018.
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The Aha Moment: Dealing with Adversity
A veteran of many a business skirmish, Peter Janis shares how to deal with setbacks in the pro audio industry.
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The 145th AES Convention Anderton Awards
Duck and Cover, because the Anderton Awards are back. You've been warned.
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The METAlliance Report: JBL 7 Series Studio Monitors
Producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay weighs in on how JBL LSR-708p monitors became the go-to speaker for his home studio.
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Hitting the AES Show Floor: Day 1
In this guest blog post, Mix's Editor in Chief Tom Kenny shares his thoughts from the show floor of AES.
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Hurricanes, Studios and Preparing for the Worst
Producer/engineer and regular PSN contributor Rob Tavaglione takes stock of what he got right—and wrong—when Hurricane Florence hit his North Carolina studio in September, 2018.
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Software Tech: 96 kHz vs. 44.1 kHz—Let’s Settle This
By Craig Anderton. Ever since we’ve had a choice of sample rates, there’s been controversy over whether higher sample rates sound better. Some claim higher sample rates add transparency to music, while others claim (with some justification) that no...
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Evil Audio Engineers Strike Again
Audio pros used to be the good guys in movies and TV shows, but not anymore.
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Peek Inside Ottmar Liebert’s Home Studio
By Clive Young. Ottmar Liebert rose to fame in the 1990s with his swoon-worthy ‘nouveau flamenco’ acoustic guitar music; in the years since, he’s amassed four Grammy nominations and 38 gold and platinum album certifications in the U.S. alone....
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Tommy Lee’s Home/Home Studio on the Market
By Clive Young. Motley Crue drummer/occasional producer Tommy Lee asks $4.65M for home and home studio space.
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Software Tech: Can Pro Audio Software Sustain?
By Craig Anderton. The lessons of Cakewalk, Emagic, Steinberg, Digidesign and Syntrillium are instructive because each presents possibly sustainable economic models for pro audio software.
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VMP Launches New ERVR Series of Vertical Equipment Racks
STEVENSVILLE, Md., March 1, 2018 — Video Mount Products (videomount.com), a leading provider of mounting solutions for the Pro AV, security, commercial, and residential markets, is proud to announce the new ERVR Series of Vertical Equipment Racks. Available in...
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Pro Audio Is on the Rise Worldwide
By Clive Young. What this year’s NAMM Show—and indeed, last year’s AES and InfoComm trade shows, too—proved is that the pro audio industry is once again confident and moving forward.