| Mix Presents Sound for Film | Immersive Sound: From Production to Playback
Coming September 6: 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 | Join us on Sunday, September 7, 2014 for the 6th Annual MPSE Charity Golf Tournament benefiting the MPSE Ethel Crutcher Scholarship Fund, providing student scholarships to tomorrows filmmakers.
The fiesta themed event is hosted at the bea...utiful Angeles National Golf Club! Come play on the greens or off, you are sure to enjoy fun games, contests, great wines, new friends and your chance at cash prizes. If nothing else, play the Fireman's Ball Drop; participants need not be present to win!
Reserve your spot/team today! |
| | TechTalk | My Little Helpers
I remember the first time I heard the term "mobile apps." It was 2005, in the pre-smartphone era when Mix editor Tom Kenny asked me to hunt down some candidates for a feature. After much searching, and trying to imagine the potential for portable audio companion apps that in large part hadn't yet been defined, I found there wasn't much that was useful or mobile. Now, I don't go a day without using one or more as a helpmate for engineering, writing, teaching or just living life. |
| | Top Stories | | Morrissey's Flair for the Dramatic: 'World Peace Is None of Your Business'
When producer Joe Chiccarelli describes the Morrissey album he produced last winter as "musical theater," he doesn't mean it in the Showboat way. It's a record full of original stories, with dramatic productions that frame the iconic artist's creations in theatrical settings. Many of the 18 tracks begin with some kind of strange and powerful intro—some longer than others—and they're more or less related to the overall sound and feel of the arrangement.
Classic Tracks: "Life in a Northern Town," Dream Academy
Every once in a while a song comes totally out of left field, far away from the mainstream, and for some inexplicable reason becomes a huge hit. One such tune was the 1985 Top 10 smash "Life in a Northern Town," by an unknown new English band called Dream Academy. It's such a pretty, pastoral song. The instrumentation is dominated by ringing acoustic guitar, oboes, alternately swooning and insistent strings, various keyboards, and booming and cracking percussion.
Networked Audio Track at 137th Audio Engineering Society Convention
Scheduled for Thursday, October 9, through Sunday, October 12, 2014, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, the AES137 Convention will present a dedicated Networked Audio Track, featuring a comprehensive set of presentations and professional opportunities dealing with the latest developments and technologies in networked audio, as well as applications for system integration, broadcast, live sound, recording, contractors and more.
Abbey Road Studios, Chandler Limited Announce Long-Term Agreement
Chandler Limited in Shell Rock, Iowa, announces that it has entered into a new long-term agreement with Abbey Road Studios in London, UK, to continue Chandler Limited's development and marketing of EMI/Abbey Road Studios' vintage recording equipment. With this new agreement, Chandler Limited's homage to original EMI/Abbey Road equipment is set to grow well into the future. Cinema Audio Society Accepting Applications for Inaugural CAS Student Recognition Award
The Cinema Audio Society is accepting applications for the inaugural CAS Student Recognition Award. The award comes with a $2,500 grant and is intended to encourage students' interest in production or post-production sound mixing, and to recognize individual students with exceptional demonstrated passion for the field.
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas at Sonic Ranch
Producer Milo Froideval spent a month in Detroit, working on pre-production with Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas before bringing the band to residential Sonic Ranch Studios (El Paso, Texas) to make their new album, Secret Evil. "It takes time to figure out the sounds because Jessica likes a lot of things: folk music, mountain records, Detroit influences, old surf rock," says Froideval.
Meyer Sound Adds To Its Constellation Team
To build on the growing demand for Constellation acoustic systems, Meyer Sound in Berkeley, Calif., has bolstered its team with the appointment of Mac Johnson to Constellation Program Manager and Melody Parker to Associate Acoustic Engineer.
Canada News & Notes 2014
Revolution Recording in Toronto, Ontario, has ordered a Neve Genesys G96—with 48 1073 mic preamps, 24 1084 equalizers, 24 88RS EQs, full dynamics, full recall, DAW control, and Encore automation—to be installed in Studio C this fall.
North American Distributor Audio Plus Services Adds Pro Audio Sales Manager for West Coast »
World Wrestling Entertainment Installs SSL C10 HD Compact Broadcast Console In Its Audio 5 Studio »
Blake Mills Records 'Heigh Ho' at Ocean Way »
Producer/Engineer Tommy Vicari Uses Mojave Audio MA-100, MA-101fet Small Condenser Microphones »
Riptide Music Group Artist Helen Austin Wins 2014 John Lennon Songwriting Contest 'Song of the Year' for her Original Tune 'Colour It' » |
| | Featured Products | | AwTAC Channel Compressor
AwTAC's 500 Series FET Channel Compressor ($1,099) features transformer-balanced I/O and a unique drive pot that sets the level of the FET-controlled amp into the compressor's circuit. Other features include a HPF Switch that engages a 6dB/octave highpass filter to the side chain at 375 Hz, GR control, three-position attack switch, Fast (1.5 ms), Medium (15 ms) and Slow (40 ms), and an Auto switch that engages an auto release circuit. Other features include a blend pot for parallel compression, makeup gain control and a true bypass, which also works with the rack off so there's no need to un-patch the unit. Metering is via an 8-segment peak detecting LED; the meter is always on, even with the unit in bypass.
Fairlight 3D Audio Workspace
At IBC 2014, Fairlight will showcase 3D Audio Workspace (3DAW), a new platform for immersive and object oriented 3-D sound production. |
| | Announcements From Mix | 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. » ARGOSY 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. » GameSoundCon Game Music and Sound Design Conference will take place October 7-8, 2014, in Los Angeles at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel »
Registration for 137th AES Convention, October 9-12 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is open. » Westlake Pro's September Sweepstakes offers 30 prizes from top pro audio brands. » 15th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival will be held Thursday, September 11 through Sunday, September 14, 2014. »
Producer Eyal Levi of Audiohammer Studios will host three-day CreativeLive course 'GearGods Presents: Mastering Metal Mixing,' streaming live September 29 through October 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific Time. » |
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