| Mix Presents Sound for Film | Immersive Sound: From Production to Playback
Immersive sound—Taking Hollywood by storm and rapidly spreading around the world, Dolby's Atmos and Auro Technologies' Auro-3D advanced surround sound formats are impressing audiences with fully enveloping, more natural sound environments for cinema and home theaters. And audiences love it! Speakers in the ceilings, all around the room. Music and effects like you've never heard them! Not since the advent of 5.1 discrete surround in the early 1990s has there been a more exciting technological breakthrough in film sound production and playback. And it's just getting started. Join Mix in the only event of its kind, as we break down the technology and art of Immersive Sound.
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| | Mix Regional | | The Mix Regional section for Mix's September 2014 issue focuses on Miami. 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 | Do Nothing
I'm always looking for something to do. Call it OCD, OMG, WTF or whatever you'd like—one of my dearest friends calls me her "favorite overachiever." But over time, I've learned that sometimes the best move to make is no move: do nothing. One early lesson in the art of "let it be" came when I was assisting on a Ray Charles session. |
| | Top Stories | | Marvel's Avengers Come Alive in New Interactive Exhibit
There seems to be no limit to the number of spinoffs that can be generated from the world of Marvel Comics superheroes. The flood of successful movies, TV shows, videogames and toys derived from the venerable Spider-Man and X-Men franchises shows no signs of subsiding any time soon. But that doesn't even factor in what's known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which includes three smash Iron Man films, two Thors, two Captain Americas, The Incredible Hulk and, the Big Kahuna of them all, 2012's Marvel's The Avengers—featuring all four of those titans—which has racked up worldwide sales of more than $1.5 billion alone.
Full Compass To Host Recording Clinic with Leslie Ann Jones on September 11
Sennheiser and Full Compass Systems are co-sponsoring a special audio recording clinic on Thursday, September 11 at the Full Compass facility in Madison, Wisconsin. The event will feature Grammy Award–winning audio engineer Leslie Ann Jones, who will demonstrate recording techniques and best practices when recording in the studio, and Wolfgang Fraissinet, president of Marketing and Finance at Neumann, who will discuss microphone choice and techniques for recording large orchestras, among other topics.
TransAudio Group To Distribute Bettermaker Analog Equalizers
TransAudio Group in Las Vegas, U.S. distributor of high-end professional recording equipment, announces its partnership with Bettermaker, the creator and manufacturer of the world's first analog equalizers that can be controlled, automated and recalled from a plug-in or Eprom.
Composer, Sound Designer Richard Devine Switches to Dangerous DAC, Monitor ST Controller » Producer, Engineer Ethan Mates Installs SSL Matrix SuperAnalogue Console in His Personal Studio »
Dreamsound Is Poland's First Post-Production Studio to Adopt Dolby Atmos »
MixGenius LANDR Service Wins Its Third Major Award of 2014 at SXSW V2V »
Lee Boylan Joins the PreSonus Europe Team » Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida, Completes Its First Year with an API Vision Analog Console » UK-Based Mixing Engineer Michalis 'MsM' Michael Opts for Metric Halo Plug-Ins » |
| | Featured Products | MOTU 1248, 8M, 16A Thunderbolt Audio Interfaces
MOTU in Cambridge, Mass., announces three new Thunderbolt audio interfaces—the 1248, 8M and 16A ($1,495 each)—with complementary I/O configurations, AD/DA conversion with very high dynamic range, 48-channel mixing, DSP effects and AVB Ethernet audio networking for system expansion. Based on a new, shared technology platform, the 1248, 8M and 16A differ only in their analog I/O configurations.
Universal Audio Releases Three New UAD Plug-Ins
Universal Audio announces UAD Software Version 7.8, which includes three new UAD Powered plug-ins: Thermionic Culture Vulture, Valley People Dyna-mite (developed by Softube) and Tonelux Tilt EQ. The Thermionic Culture Vulture Plug-In ($299) models the original hardware's three distinct all-tube circuit topologies and features Universal Audio's first ever pentode tube circuit model.
Flux IRCAM SPAT Version 3
Flux Sound and Picture Development of Orleans, France, announces the release of SPAT Version 3, a positional audio plug-in combining three independently definable surround reverbs in a single plug-in with the ability to position and animate, with full automation, mono and stereo sound sources within these reverberant spaces. SPAT may also be used to position and animate sources with all reverbs disengaged.
Sound Magic Neo Dynamic, Neo Imager Version 1.3
Sound Magic in Beijing, China, offers Neo Dynamic as a new concept in dynamic processing technology, stating that the Windows plug-in can provide a greater sonic variety than traditional compressor/limiters along with greater ease of use. Neo Imager is a hybrid tool that combines a stereo enhancer and an imager.
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| | Announcements From Mix | Yamaha NUAGE Demo and Nuendo Master Class will be hosted by RSPE Audio Solutions in Universal City, Calif., on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event is free of charge, and space is limited. »
CreativeLive will broadcast a free course on the Fractal Audio Axe-Fx on August 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific/12 noon to 7 p.m. Eastern »
Special introductory pricing on ATC SCM20PSL MkII near-field reference monitors until September 1, 2014: $2,990/pair »
GameSoundCon Game Music and Sound Design Conference will take place October 7-8, 2014, in Los Angeles at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel » RTW offers legacy trade-in program for newest-generation devices, which provide loudness metering in compliance with worldwide standards, through October 31, 2014. » M-Audio, Toolroom Records team up for international competition for Trigger Finger Pro users. » |
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