| 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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| | Sixth Annual MPSE Charity Golf Tournament | | Whether you play golf or not, join the Motion Picture Sound Editors on Sunday, September 7, 2014 for Fiesta on the Green at Angeles National Golf Club for a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start. The fiesta-themed event will feature fun holes, lunch, drinks, mariachi, raffles, silent auction and a fiesta dinner! The golf tournament is a fundraiser to help fund scholarships for student filmmakers. Stay tuned for ticket and sponsor information. More |
| | 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. |
| | Robair Report | The Eternal Swap Meet
Do the products we use for music production ever become obsolete if they still work? It seemed portentous that the day Mark Vail's new book, The Synthesizer (Oxford University Press), arrived in the mail I would be asked to host "Setting Up a Second-Hand Studio" at the Recording Academy's Producers & Engineer's Wing swap meet here in my own Bay Area chapter. |
| | Top Stories | | Chris Pelonis: Music, Design, and a Life of Truth and Passion
There are people who know Chris Pelonis the Musician, and he is a monster guitar player. Others know him as Chris the Engineer/Producer or Chris the Singer-Songwriter. Closer to home, he might be known as Chris the Martial Arts Guy, Chris the Surfer, Chris of Chris & Pits BBQ or Chris the Choir Director. Lately it's been Chris the Photographer. In our industry, he is known as Chris the Studio Designer or Chris the Speaker Maker.
Formosa Group To Re-Open Former POP Sound Facility
Formosa Group, the talent-based post-production sound company serving film, broadcast, commercial and interactive clients, will re-open the facility formerly known as POP Sound (Pacific Ocean Post), as announced today by Robert C. Rosenthal, President and Chief Operating Officer. The Santa Monica-based facility shuttered on July 7, 2014.
Canadian Cred: Garth Richardson & Mike Fraser
With nearly eight decades of experience between the two of them—including seminal projects for Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Van Halen, Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Biffy Clyro, as well as a number of Juno Awards—Garth "GGGarth" Richardson and Mike "The Fraze" Fraser are two of Canada's finest, most well-respected producer/engineers.
OK Go's Electronic Art: EP Previews the Elegant Pop Noise of 'Hungry Ghosts'
Out this month is Upside Out, a four-song OK Go EP that coincides with the use of one song, "The Writing's on the Wall," in the soundtrack for The Amazing Spiderman 2. This selection of bright, distorted synths and beat-heavy, yet diverse, electronic tracks comprises only a few of the songs upcoming on the band's next full-length. SIA's Todd Konecny Is Co-Creative Consultant For EDMMC Sound
Todd Konecny of Sound Investment Audio, Ltd. (SIA) will be the co-creative consultant with Rupert AG Murray 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.
Railroad Earth Hits Its Stride with 'Outlaws'
Those who describe the music of Railroad Earth as "jamgrass" are to be forgiven. After all, the band's sound is often dominated by a front line of mandolin, fiddle and acoustic guitar, and their improvisational savvy definitely puts them in jam-band territory.
Westlake Pro Hosts Mixing Master Class with Andrew Scheps »
Fairlight Shows Range of Products at IBC 2014 »
Solid State Logic Showcases C100 HD Plus and C10 HD Plus Digital Broadcast Consoles at IBC 2014 »
The Music Producers Guild Declares Nominations Open for its 2015 Awards »
Nashville Studio The Casino Installs API The Box Console »
Icon Collective in Burbank, Calif., Acquires KRK Systems Monitors » |
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| | Cool Spin | MacManus Brothers, 'Elephant in the Room'
As I write this, the MacManus Brothers are playing onstage at Kew Gardens, London, opening for their brother, Elvis Costello, and fans who scored tickets to see Costello solo are lucky and then some. Younger siblings Ronan and Ruairi have a marvelous new batch of original songs to share, Everlys-style. Their harmonies are sweet and gritty; the arrangements are guitar-centric, layered but very rhythmic and solo-free: This is all about the songs and the singers. Every vocal performance on Elephant in the Room is full of heart, from tender songs like the ballad of family life "SpiderMan and DangerMouse," to jangly rockers like "Nothing Matters When You're Young." After a couple of listens, I'm still not sure what the Elephant in the Room is, but that doesn't seem to be necessary to be smitten by the music. —Barbara Schultz |
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| | Announcements From Mix | Registration for 137th AES Convention, October 9-12 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is open. » GameSoundCon Game Music and Sound Design Conference will take place October 7-8, 2014, in Los Angeles at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel » Sweetwater's Monthly Giveaway features an AEA A440 ribbon microphone. » Special audio recording clinic on Thursday, September 11, at the Full Compass facility in Madison, Wisconsin, featuring Grammy Award–winning audio engineer Leslie Ann Jones. » Arogosy Console's "Transformed!" contest offers a $5,000 Dream Studio Grand Prize to celebrate the company's 20th anniversary. The deadline for entries is September 27, 2014. » 15th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival will be held Thursday, September 11 through Sunday, September 14, 2014. » Sonnox offers 35% discount on plug-ins and bundles until August 31. »
Native Instruments offers READY.SET.PRO. limited-time TRAKTOR special until August 31. »
Special introductory pricing on ATC SCM20PSL MkII near-field reference monitors until September 1, 2014: $2,990/pair » The first Production Music Conference will be held in Los Angeles on September 12 and feature keynote speakers Stewart Copeland and Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal. »
RTW offers legacy trade-in program for newest-generation devices, which provide loudness metering in compliance with worldwide standards, through October 31, 2014. » |
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