| Mix Regional | | The Mix Regional section for Mix's June 2014 issue focuses on Chicago. 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. |
| | Top Stories | | Classic Tracks: "First We Take Manhattan," Jennifer Warnes
With 20/ 20 hindsight, it makes perfect sense that Jennifer Warnes' exquisite 1986 album, Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, became a critical and commercial success. After all, Cohen is now widely regarded as one of the great songwriters and poets of the modern era, and the always-underrated Warnes was enjoying a hot streak that included singing two Best Original Song Oscar winners—"It Goes Like It Goes," from Norma Rae, and her inescapable chart-topping duet with Joe Cocker on "Up Where We Belong," from An Officer and a Gentleman—and another nominee, "One More Hour," from Ragtime.
American Public Media Updates Radio Facility
There are no Aeron chairs or hardwood floors at the newly revamped Frank Stanton Studios in downtown Los Angeles. These are radio studios, where all the rooms are small and dry, and the machine room is loaded with floor-to-ceiling racks of networking equipment. It's where American Public Media supports local station Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) and produces the daily Marketplace series of business news and economic life programs, heard nationally on more than 500 public radio stations by almost 11 million listeners a week.
'Beyond the Jingle: How to Get Your Music into Film Trailers and Commercials' on Tuesday, May 6
The Asbury PR Agency of Beverly Hills has teamed with the Music Business Association (formerly NARM and digitalmusic.org) to produce a special panel entitled "Beyond the Jingle: How to Get Your Music into Film Trailers and Commercials." The special panel will be presented on Tuesday, May 6, at 5 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, in Century City, Calif., during Music Biz's three-day Music Biz 2014 conference. Southwest News & Notes
Las Vegas studio The Tone Factory recently acquired a Trident series 80 (32x24), to be installed in Studio A. "It's an early series 80, not an 80B, which are much more common," says studio owner Vinnie Castaldo. "We actually purchased it a year ago in April. Ed Evans—the original technician from the Hit Factory in New York—is servicing the Trident and going through it for us." Castaldo says the studio also upgraded the power supplies, ICs and caps. Jim Williams of Audio Upgrades did mods to the main stereo module as well.... Soundfirm Installs Australia's First Meyer Sound Cinema System for Dolby Atmos Dubbing Stage
Australian audio post facility Soundfirm has selected a Meyer Sound cinema loudspeaker system for its Dolby Atmos dubbing stage in its new Melbourne location. Meyer Sound reports that the large mixing room is the country's first to feature an all-Meyer Sound screen channel and surround loudspeaker system. The new mixing theater also includes a Harrison Trion mixing console with 240 inputs, five Avid Pro Tools systems, a 10-meter-wide screen, and a Christie 4K projector with 3-D capability. 136th International AES Convention Makes Grand Opening in Berlin » Professional Monitor Company (PMC), Vintage King Audio Present 'Producer and Composer Session' at ASCAP Expo » Engineer Ronan McHugh Records Def Leppard with PreSonus ADL 700 Channel Strip » Memphis Dawls Cut New LP With Producer Jeff Powell at Ardent » Indonesian Exhibitor Cinemaxx Taps JBL Loudspeakers, Crown Amplifiers for Cinema Audio Systems » |
| | Cool Spin | | Lake Street Dive, 'Bad Self Portraits' (Signature Sounds)
East Coast quartet Lake Street Dive blends elements of jazz, soul and Americana to create an eclectic pop that's hook-y yet deep. There are echoes of early Supremes, Jackie Wilson and maybe even Supertramp in the rhythmic arrangements behind the full-throated voice of singer Rachael Price. And there are plenty of unexpected moments, too—the odd spacey synth tone, trash-can drum solo or psychedelic guitar riff. Everything's on the table musically, and it all comes together in the bandmembers' smart pop songs, sung with both nuance and power.
Produced and mixed by Sam Kassirer. Studio: Great North Sound Society (Parsonfield, Maine). Mastering: Jeff Lipton/Peerless Mastering (Boston, Mass.) —Barbara Schultz |
| | Featured Products | | Fairlight CC-2 Digital Audio Engine
At the 2014 NAB Show earlier this month in Las Vegas, Fairlight released its second generation digital audio engine, CC-2, which is based on Fairlight's Crystal Core Technology, powering the company's entire range of high-speed digital audio mixing, recording and editing systems for large, complex productions. Providing 1,000 hard disk playback channels, 100 live inputs and more than 100 output buses, the CC-2 system is compatible with surround sound formats including Dolby Atmos, DTS MDA and NHK's 22.2. Sound Devices 970
The half-rackspace, 2U 970 is the company's first-ever dedicated audio-only rack-mounted recorder. The 970 records 64 channels of monophonic or polyphonic 24-bit WAV files from any of its 144 available inputs, to any of four attached drives. Inputs available include 64 channels of Ethernet-based Dante, 64 channels of optical or coaxial MADI, 8 channels of line-level analog and 8 channels of AES digital. Any input can be assigned to any track. In addition, 32-track recording at 96 kHz is supported. Lightning Boy Audio 1401 Stereo Microphone Amp, Ghost Box
Lightning Boy Audio (LBA) in Hamburg, New York, builds recording studio equipment and offers equipment modifications. On April 1, LBA released its 1401 Stereo Microphone Amp and the Ghost Box, a combination that forms a versatile all-tube stereo microphone preamp. Radial Engineering JR2-DT Desktop Remote Switch » Find more new products from The Wire. » |
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