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Explore the new Mix Master Directory now! | | | SoundWorks Collection | 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Sound for Film Profile Directors Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Featured interviews include Executive Music Producer T Bone Burnett, Production Mixer Peter Kurland, and Re-Recording Mixer Greg Orloff.
Watch the video now! » | | | Top Stories | | Sound for Picture: 'Ender's Game' Ender's Game, director/screenwriter Gavin Hood's ambitious and arresting film version of the best-selling 1984 science fiction book of the same name, has deservedly received rave notices for its imaginative depiction of life on enormous space stations, mock battle exercises in a zero-gravity geodesic sphere and intergalactic wars involving thousands of spaceships. Those are just three of the environments and situations that challenged the sound team. Mastering Engineer Ron McMaster Ron McMaster's life has come full circle twice over, intersecting in the intimate setting of the George Augspurger-designed room he has worked in for almost 30 years at Capitol Mastering. First, the resurgence of vinyl has made Capitol's sole disc-cutting engineer as busy as he was when he started cutting lacquers in the 1980s. This past year, he worked on a project he never would have dreamed of doing for Jack White's label, Third Man. Stephanie Blythe Records Album with Meyer Sound Constellation System Meyer Sound in Berkeley, Calif., collaborated with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and pianist Craig Terry for the album release As Long As There Are Songs, a collection of America's greatest classics. This is the first full album to be recorded using a Meyer Sound Constellation acoustic system and features a proprietary recording technique developed by company CEO and co-founder John Meyer. Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School in Nashville Adds Harman Professional Equipment In late 2012 Pearl-Cohn partnered with the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy's Producers and Engineers (P&E) Wing to build a fully functioning, world-class recording studio, which is equipped with Harman Professional's newest JBL studio monitors, AKG headphones and microphones, Lexicon effects and Crown amplifiers. The Recording Academy Nashville Chapter, P&E Wing Present 'Lost In Translation' Panel Discussion » The Recording Academy, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Update QualitySoundMatters.com » | | | | Featured Products | | Earthworks 521 ZDT Preamp Based on ZDT Preamp technology designed by David Blackmer, the Earthworks 521 promises to bring the exacting standards of the ZDT Zero Distortion Preamplifiers to the 500 Series format ($999 street price). The solid-state 521 features switchable phantom power, polarity invert and peak amplitude clip detection. The transformerless output stage of the 521 will easily drive long cable runs without loss of quality, and gain is switchable from 5 dB to 60 dB in 5dB steps. Cakewalk Announces SONAR X3 Now Available on Steam Cakewalk's flagship program now becomes the first major professional digital audio workstation to debut on Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC, Mac, and Linux games and digital entertainment. Created by Valve, makers of best-selling game franchises like Portal and Counter-Strike, Steam has more than 50 million users around the world and offers more than 2,000 titles. Apogee Announces Compatibility with Apple's New Mac Pro Apogee Electronics in Santa Monica announces that its multichannel Thunderbolt audio recording solution featuring Symphony I/O and Symphony 64 | ThunderBridge is fully compatible with the new Apple Mac Pro. Find more new products from The Wire. » | | | Announcements From Mix | | |  | |  | |