| 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 August 2014 issue focuses on Canada. Send us your studio news: updates, sessions, new rooms, as well as club performances and installations. Let the Mix audience know what is going on! Send photos and descriptions to mixeditorial@nbmedia.com. |
| | Feature Story | The Cure at BottleRock Napa Valley 2014
Despite what we read in the American media, The Cure actually do tour pretty regularly, with 31 festival headlining dates, a stadium tour of South America and a number of one-offs over the past 18 months. But it was still a big deal when the band stopped in at BottleRock, the late-May Napa Valley music festival, and played to their fans in Northern California. |
| The Cure at BottleRock Napa Valley 2014 Festival Gallery
Check out exclusive photos from photographer Steve Jennings covering The Cure's appearance at BottleRock Napa Valley 2014 in late-May 2014. |
| First Aid Kit 'Stay Gold' Tour
Johanna and Klara Söderberg, sisters from Stockholm, Sweden, front the band First Aid Kit, which includes drummer Niclas Lindsrom and Melvin Duffy on pedal steel and electric guitar. Johanna plays keyboard and keyboard bass, while Klara plays acoustic guitar. The quartet, founded in 2007, puts its own spin on folk and country music and is busy touring behind their June 2014 release, Stay Gold. They played mid-sized venues in the U.S. in spring 2014, before returning to Europe for a full slate of shows in the summer and fall, returning to the States again in October. | | | Meyer Sound Launches User Training Videos for LYON Line Array System
Meyer Sound has released four online video tutorials to support users of the LYON linear sound reinforcement system, the newest addition to its LEO Family of line array products. Covering topics that range from system design and rigging to optimization, the video modules are available for viewing on the company's video page. | | | | Preliminary Technical Program for 137th Audio Engineering Society Convention Is Now Online » | | | | Martin Audio Appoints Luke Ireland as Managing Director » | | | | Harman's JBL and Crown Audio at BottleRock Napa Valley 2014 » | | | | Guitar Center Celebrates New Times Square Store with The Roots Live In Concert » | | | | Bruno Mars Performs Using Audio-Technica Wireless » | | | Third New Hope Baptist Church Purchases Harman's Soundcraft Si Expression 2 Digital Console For New Campus »
| | | New Products | CEntrance Mini-M8
CEntrance has released a slimmer version of the company's HiFi-M8 DAC. The Mini-M8 ("Mini Mate") ($699.99) portable DAC offers several enhancements, including compatibility with in-ear monitors (IEMs). The Mini-M8 is compatible with 24-bit/192k and DSD Audio formats and offers USB, iPhone/iPad/iPod, optical S/PDIF, and coaxial S/PDIF inputs. Outputs include 3.5mm (unbalanced) and a Kobiconn jack (balanced). Other features include an 11-hour internal battery, a three-position gain control for compatibility with various headphones, and an external power supply for battery charging and desktop use. | | | More Live Sound Products »
| | | | Announcements From Mix | | PreSonus and SAE Institute announce a series of free StudioLive AI digital mixer training sessions, hosted at all seven SAE locations in the U.S.; these sessions are open to the public and will be held monthly on Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. local time. » | | | | Blue Microphones offers 'Mics of Summer' promotion through July 31, 2014 at participating retailers, while supplies last. » | | | | Until August 31, Sennheiser customers can trade in old wireless gear for up to $200 cash back on select new Sennheiser Wireless Systems. » | | | | SynAudCon announces fall in-person training schedule: Sound Reinforcement for Technicians (SRT; Charlotte, N.C., on September 17-19, 2014, and again in Dallas, Texas, on October 6-8, 2014); SynAudCon Digital (Phoenix, Ariz., November 17-19, 2014) » | | | | Harman's AKG partners with Global Rockstar to award AKG microphones and wireless systems to the top three fan-voted winners of Global Rockstar's online music contest; submissions are accepted until September 30, 2014 » |
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