Beats To Back Muscle Shoals Studios; Review—The Greatest Ears In Town

Today's Top Story - 11.29.13 Beats To Back Muscle Shoals Studios » By Clive Young Aiming to save two legendary Alabama music sites, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and FAME Recording Studio, consumer headphone manufacturer Beats Electronics has partnered with the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation for a new project, Sustain The Sound, which will restore and update the recording facilities. Read More » Today's News WI Singers Turn To Countryman » Dual Lawo Desks for Radio 24 » Steinberg Debuts DAW Gesture Control » dbx Bows DriveRack PA2 » Today's Featured Blog DVD Review: The Greatest Ears In Town by Clive Young Arif Mardin was a recording icon, producing and arranging hits for decades as he created career-defining songs for Hall & Oates, Phil Collins, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, the Bee Gees, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan and many others. More than 50 million records were sold with Mardin's name on them, and he took home 12 Grammy Awards in the process. While he spent most of his life behind the scenes, the producer now takes centerstage in the documentary The Greatest Ears In Town: The Arif Mardin Story, just released on DVD and digital services. Read More » Quote of the Week "Dave's vocal style is really based in his throat; gain before feedback is the name of the game. My mix is really based around the vocal mic; I'm limited to how much gain I can get out of him, and the mix has to be built around that. It's very tricky to introduce the kind of energy the people expect at a metal show and still get a vocal on top of the mix. There's a lot of featuring or cues happening during the show where a part is going to get really loud and it's going to come down when he's singing a verse. It's a very busy mix." —Bradley Johnson, FOH Engineer, Megadeth. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News; want to read more? Click here to subscribe to our free online edition! Sponsored Video Of The Month

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