| 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, 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 | Gavin DeGraw: High-Energy Show With a Responsive Mix
Multi-Platinum selling singer/songwriter Gavin DeGraw is in the middle of a hectic summer touring schedule, co-headlining with singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson in across the U.S. before heading to Europe in September. DeGraw is touring behind his fifth studio album, Make a Move, released last fall on RCA. |
| SSL to Host Free Live Console Training at Its UK Headquarters
Solid State Logic announces its Live Console Operator Training Days. Aimed at serving as an introduction to the SSL Live console, these free one-day courses will include hands-on experience for all participants. The training sessions will take in Oxford, England, on September 17 and 18, October 1 and 2, and November 5 and 6. The number of attendees will be limited. |
| A/V Specialist Rupert AG Murray Is EDMMC Sound Co-Creative Consultant
Rupert AG Murray, a specialist in A/V systems and acoustics, is co-creative consultant with Todd Konecny at the 2014 Electronic Dance Music Master Classes (EDMMC) in Las Vegas, one of the hottest EDM locations in the country, in conjunction with LDI. EDMMC will explore the artistic, technical, and practical challenges of designing and programming for this burgeoning musical phenomenon. | | | Sound Image Carries Full L-Acoustics Rig for Lady Antebellum Tour
"Take Me Downtown" is Lady Antebellum's third headlining tour, taking the Grammy Award-winning trio across North America and into a wide range of venues, including casinos, civic centers and amphitheaters, both indoors and outside. It began in January in Peoria, Illinois and ran nearly nonstop through June, when the band began its summer state fair itinerary. | | | Krasnodar Music Festival Relies On Adamson Energia System
The Stairway to Heaven Festival, held in the Krasnodar Region of Russia, made its debut this summer. Live Master, located in Krasnodar City, provided lighting and an Adamson Energia sound reinforcement system for the event. | | | | RapcoHorizon Joins the 'Soundtrack of Summer Tour' with Foreigner, Styx and Don Felder » | | | | Ironman Sound Industries Supports A Sold-Out Sammy Hagar Concert with Martin Audio W8LC System » | | | New Products | CAD Audio 1600 Series UHF Wireless
The new 1600 UHF Series system from CAD Audio ($399) provides 100-channel frequency agile UHF operation for maximum operating range. It also features CAD ScanLink technology to precisely scan, select and link to the optimum channel in any RF environment, and True Diversity operation to minimize multipath interference, along with CADLock Automatic Tone Encoded Squelch, which eliminates unauthorized transmissions in the signal path. The WX1610 Bodypack System features the Equitek E19 miniature condenser ear-worn mic, a Cardioid Lavalier and guitar cable. The TX1600 handheld and TX1610 bodypack transmitters have SoftTouch multi-function On-Off/Mute/Low Battery/ScanLink status switches with multi-color LED indicators. The WX1600 receiver is housed in a durable metal chassis with ¼-inch and XLR outputs for additional flexibility. System specs include a frequency response of 40 Hz to 15 kHz, and dynamic range greater than 105 dB. | | | More Live Sound Products »
| | | | Announcements From Mix | | On August 24-25, Shure will present 'QLX-D: An Overview of the Newest Digital Wireless System from Shure'. Join Gino Sigismondi from Shure as he provides a comprehensive overview of QLX-D. » | | | | Clearwing's Vendor Showcase takes place in Milwaukee on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. » | | | | Master Mix Live in Las Vegas offers a premier recording and soundstage facility for touring and recording artists. » | | | | Meyer Sound presents user training videos for LYON Line Array System. » | | | | Eighteen Sound offers 'Loudspeaker Lyceum' educational videos. » | | | | 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. » | | | | 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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