| NewBay Media Best of Show InfoComm Awards | | Time is running out! Until Thursday, June 5, NewBay Media is accepting submissions for the first annual Best of Show Awards, honoring outstanding products exhibited at the InfoComm Show. Awards will be given by NewBay Media publications Sound & Video Contractor, AV Technology, Digital Signage, ProSound News, ProAudio Review, Mix, Music Festival Business, and Government Video magazines. The program recognizes outstanding products exhibited at the InfoComm Show that are new since the prior InfoComm Show. Winners are selected by panels of professional users and editors based on descriptions provided by you via the nomination form as well as on judges' inspection at the convention. You may submit a product for consideration by one or more of these publications, and you may submit multiple products. More » |
| | Sign Up Now! Bob Clearmountain & Chris Lord-Alge Deconstructed | | On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, at 7 p.m., Vintage King Audio, Apogee Electronics and Mix magazine are pleased to present "Bob Clearmountain & Chris Lord-Alge Deconstructed", a conversational Q&A to be moderated by Mix magazine editor Tom Kenny. Seating is limited. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.More » |
| | Webinar on Event Safety Guide on July 9 | | After focusing on general and weather-related event safety issues in its first two precedent-setting Webinars, Take1 Insurance and the Event Safety Alliance (ESA) will take a more focused, practical look at how to best use the ESA Event Safety Guide. "The ABCs of the Event Safety Guide: A 60-Minute Primer on Putting the Event Safety Guide to Work for You" will take place on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 2 p.m. Eastern and once again be hosted by New Bay Media's Rental & Staging News and moderated by Editorial Director David Keene. More » |
| | Mix Regional | | The Mix Regional section for Mix's July 2014 issue focuses on Atlanta. 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 | On Being A Sponge
Everyone knows the Chinese blessing/curse, "May you live in interesting times." For me, the polarity-flipped blessing would be, "May you always be surrounded by those smarter than yourself." For most of my life I've either gotten to hang with smart people for free, or I paid for it. More » |
| | SoundWorks Collection | 'Maleficent' Sound for Film Profile
In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile we talk with Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Tim Nielsen of Skywalker Sound about his work on Director Robert Stromberg's Maleficent, which stars Angelina Jolie as the title character, as well as Kenneth Cranham, Jackson Bews, Sharlto Copley, and Elle Fanning as Sleeping Beauty. More » |
| | Top Stories | | New Ribbon Microphones
Once the mainstay of the film and studio industry, ribbon mics have ridden the roller coaster of being in favor, out, then back again. This relic revival is being led by small manufacturers who either get their stock out of China or small domestic shops. And now there's a whole new group of offerings from a range of manufacturers. The great news is that like speakers, condenser and dynamic mics, and 500 Series processors, these personality-packed transducers are more affordable and plentiful than ever. So check out our list of relatively recent introductions and consider adding to your production bag of tricks with a new ribbon mic.
Classic Tracks: 'September Gurls,' Big Star
When most of us think about Memphis music, we probably conjure the country blues singers and jug bands of the late '20s and '30s, or, even more likely, the immortal Stax and Hi Records soul acts of the '60s and '70s—Booker T., Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Rufus and Carla, Ann Peebles, Al Green, et al; it's quite a list of certified hitmakers. It's always been a music town. The early '70s Memphis power-pop band Big Star never had anything close to a hit record, yet here we are writing about them in Classic Tracks. Why?
Hummingbird at Ocean Way Nashville
Ad music and sound design creator Hummingbird Productions has contributed original compositions to campaigns from Coca-Cola, Wrigley's and others, and often collaborates with popular musicians such as Band of Joy bassist Byron House and Taylor Swift drummer Dennis Holt. But for a recent campaign for Alabama Power, Hummingbird's original music was performed by an orchestral ensemble led by David Angel. Hummingbird CEO/founder/creative director Bob Farnsworth engineered the session, recording to Pro Tools HDX in Ocean Way Nashville's Neve 8078-equipped Studio A.
The Old 97's 'Most Messed Up' »
The Old 97's new album, Most Messed Up, is a raucous, debauched rock-on-the-road concept album. Yet, the band recorded in a private, light-filled villa near Austin, Texas.
AES136 Berlin Highlights Project Studio Expo and Special Sound for Picture Programming »
Chris Lord-Alge Chooses Barefoot Sound MicroMain27 Monitors for Mix LA! » Producer Val Garay Adopts Manley CORE Channel Strip » CRAS in Gilbert, Ariz., Adds Harman Equipment to Broadcast Audio Program » Record Factory Music Academy in Seoul, South Korea, Installs SSL AWS 924 Hybrid Console/Controller » |
| | Cool Spins | Dolly Parton, 'Blue Smoke' (Sony Masterworks)
Dolly Parton has put out a whopping 42 studio albums since her 1967 debut, and to her credit, she's still giving her all—her voice is the fantastic instrument it's always been, and she has not lost her knack for writing strong, heartfelt country songs. More » |
| | Featured Products | SSL Duende Plug-Ins
These three new plug-ins from SSL complement the company's existing range with two (X-Saturator and X-ValveComp) designed to bring some analog saturation and distortion emulation to a DAW and the third (X-Phase) delivering high-precision frequency-specific phase correction. X-Phase ($329) is an all-pass filter plug-in that offers manual control and benchmark audio quality for applying phase shift at a specified frequency within a signal. X-Saturator delivers a range of analog-style distortion effects ($85). The X-ValveComp ($85) is a fully featured mono or stereo channel compressor with a full set of classic channel compressor controls and an added valve emulation stage, which sits after the compressor in the signal path and adds a variable degree of primarily second-order harmonic saturation and distortion that thickens and colors the sound. Sound Magic Neo Preamp
The Neo Preamp from Sound Magic ($70) offers clipping shape and Non-Linear Dynamic Response flavor controlled from a plug-in. Features include internal 64-bit, double-precision floating-point processing; six variable flavor controls; two clipping types; low CPU usage; and both Tube Metering and Volt Meter for users to monitor the working states. Icon Digital USA, Magix P3 Professional Production Package
Icon Digital has teamed up with Magix to create the P3 (Professional Production Package; $1,111), which includes Icon Digital's Pro-Series QCon Pro USB MIDI controller and Magix Samplitude Pro X.
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