| Mix Regional | | The Mix Regional section for Mix's December 2013 issue visits the Northeastern U.S. (Boston, New Jersey, Maine, and more). Send us your studio news: updates, sessions, new rooms, club performances and installations. Let the Mix audience know what is going on! Send photos and descriptions to mixeditorial@nbmedia.com. |
| | TechTalk | The Conversation is Changing
I've talked about quality more than a few times in this column. I'm a firm believer that quality is cheaper when buying gear, and that great gear can help make great-sounding records. I'm not fooling myself; I know that the best tracked and mixed recording of badly performed or written music will always be an awful experience. But that's not the point here—it's the quality mindset. |
| | Top Stories | Electric Lady Studios
You'd be hard-pressed to find a place anywhere in the world more inexorably connected with its founder than Electric Lady Studios. The name Jimi Hendrix is bound to come up, whether the conversation is about this iconic studio's tomorrow, yesterday or today. Lee Foster has been the General Manager of Electric Lady since 2004, and it seems that the heavenly approval of Hendrix is never far from his mind.
John Storyk on the Birth of Electric Lady
"There's always going to be a first one," says architect John Storyk, reflecting matter-of-factly on the first studio he ever designed. In other words, everybody has to start somewhere. Storyk was fortunate enough to start with Jimi Hendrix and Electric Lady.
Eddie Kramer and the Early Days of Electric Lady
When Jimi Hendrix and his manager, Michael Jeffries, decided to buy the recently closed Generation Club in Greenwich Village in mid-1968, the plan was to redesign the space from top to bottom and also have a small 8-track studio on the premises.
The Clash 'Sound System'
The Clash—the seminal English punk band comprising guitarist/singers Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, drummer Topper Headon and bassist Paul Simonon—only made five albums, but they recorded an immense amount of material, some of which is just seeing the light of day on Sound System, a 15-disc box that's out this fall.
Jimmy Jam to Present Keynote at 135th AES Convention on October 18 »
P&E Wing To Pay Tribute to Phil Ramone at AES Convention on October 19 »
AES Announces Historical Events for 135th Convention »
Producer/Engineer Ed Cherney Discusses New Projects, New Artists »
Focusrite's RedNet Showcase at Vintage King Audio Los Angeles Hailed as Success »
San Francisco Post-Production Pro Eric Eckstein Teams Up with Studio Trilogy »
Audio Engineering Society Announces Berlin as Location for 136th AES International Convention, April 2014 »
Trew Audio Relies on Optocore to Streamline Audio Transport for Live, Reality TV Productions »
Brooklyn's Strange Weather Studio Installs API 1608 Console » |
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| | SoundWorks Collection | 'Gravity' Sound for Film Profile
In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection profile we talk with Director Alfonso Cuarón and Re-Recording Mixer Skip Lievsay about the sound team's work to create a dramatic sound scape to a dark and vast outer space environment. Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) and George Clooney (Syriana) star in Gravity, a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. The film was directed by Oscar nominee Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men).
Watch the video now! |
| | Featured Products | Electrodyne 2501 Preamp, 2511 EQ
The Electrodyne 2501 ($2,095.50) and 2511 ($2,300) are dual mono-channel, 19-inch rack-mounted versions of the company's 500 Series 501 discrete 2-stage studio preamp and 511 2-band inductor EQ. Both products will be shown October 17-20 at the AES Convention in New York City's Javits Center at A-Designs Audio's stand #3130, and represent a continuing joint venture between Electrodyne and Pete's Place Audio.
elysia xfilter Stereo EQ, museq Plug-In
elysia's new xfilter is a true stereo equalizer ($1,679 MSRP) with a 100-percent Class-A signal path and the latest addition to the company's line of 19-inch rackmount hardware. Plugin Alliance LLC announces the elysia museq equalizer plug-in ($249), which offers the features found on the original museq hardware unit.
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