| Event Safety Summit 2014 | The Event Safety Alliance will host the industry's first Event Safety Summit from December 2-4, 2014 at the Tait Towers' campus in Lititz, Pennsylvania. The three-day symposium and hands-on workshop, which is funded in part by Fireman's Fund and its managing agent, Take1 Insurance, is designed to increase awareness of the many event safety risks present at live events and teach event producers to address those risks more effectively. It will also focus on the importance of making sure that every live event has the right insurance coverage supporting it. Visit ESA's Website for a complete schedule and more information. |
| | SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of 'Interstellar' | In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile we talk with Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Richard King about the sound teams extensive work on Director Christopher Nolan's immersive sci-fi film Interstellar. Watch the new video now! |
| | Top Stories | | 'Gone Girl': David Fincher's Tense Mystery Derives Power From Its Unconventional Sound Design and Score Nick and Amy Dunne, attractive New Yorkers who have moved to heartland Missouri, certainly don't have a perfect marriage. But is that any reason to suspect that Nick (played by Ben Affleck) might be involved in the disappearance of his wife (Rosamund Pike)? Director David Fincher's latest hit film, Gone Girl, is a taut thriller that masterfully doles out clues to the central mystery, as it also explores the complicated dynamics of the couple's troubled pairing, and how their friends, relatives, community and the media respond to Amy's vanishing. WSDG Studio a Key Resource for PreSonus High Tech Complex Motivated by ongoing growth and committed to providing their expanding market with innovative new products, in August 2012, PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc. commissioned an $8 million-plus, 44,000-square-foot complex to be built in the company's home town of Baton Rouge. Following almost two years of design and construction, the leading manufacturer of professional digital and analog audio hardware and integrated software officially opened its new high-tech headquarters and research facility in April 2014. Producer Niko Bolas Reflects on Neil Young's New LP 'Storytone' Niko Bolas has been producer and/or engineer on a dozen or so of Neil Young's LP's over the last three decades, including Freedom (1989), Ragged Glory (1990), Living With War (2006) and several others. An artist as driven, restless and prone to creative detours as Young is thrives with a sympathetic collaborator, and Bolas has proudly served as such for the mercurial songwriter on and off since the mid-1980s. The latest chapter of this collaboration is Young's most recent release Storytone, for which Bolas and Young share producer credit. Question de Son Studios in Paris Choose Amadeus for Acoustic Design, Custom Monitor Speakers When researching how to capture the much sought-after sound and vibes of classic 1970s studios, Question de Son owners Jordan Kouby and Frederic Vetol reached out to Amadeus for both the acoustic design and custom studio monitors for both Studio A and Studio B. The team at Amadeus, led by designer Michel Deluc, satisfied all their needs. RTW and IRT Announce New Partnership RTW, the market leader in visual audio meters and monitoring devices, and the Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT), the main research and development center of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland's governmental broadcasters, are proud to announce today at Tonmeistertagung 2014, that RTW will implement the IRT's newly patented Continuous Loudness Controller into its future broadcast-focused audio equipment. Red TX Standardizes Harman Studer Consoles in OB Vans for 96kHz Format A little more than three years after commissioning its second mobile recording unit, with 3-D and 7.1 surround sound, premier location recording company Red TX has upgraded its original Red 1 OB to give it 96kHz capability. Guitarist Eric Johnson Relies On ATC SCM25A Reference Monitors » UK Mix Engineer Mark Rosser Acquires API BOX Console » Riptide Music Group's Angela McCluskey is Featured on the New Azealia Banks Song 'Ice Princess' » Keyboardist Derek O'Neill Adds Solid State Logic Sigma to His Personal Studio » Right Coast Recording in Columbia, Penn., Offers Harman's Lexicon Plug-Ins, Processors » | | | Featured Products | | Lynx Studio Technology Introduces E44, E22 PCI Express Cards Lynx Studio Technology introduced the new line of PCI Express Cards at the Los Angeles Audio Engineer Show. These cards combine the connectivity of the Lynx AES16e PCI Express card with the audio quality of the Lynx Aurora converters. The first two offerings are the E44 and E22 cards. The E44, available December 2014, has a suggested retail price of $1,095. The E22 suggested retail price is $795 and will be available in Q1 2015. Black Lion Audio Releases B12A MKII Black Lion Audio, an independently owned company in Chicago, announces the release of the B12A MKII, a single-channel microphone preamp in the style of an API 312A. Metric Halo Production Bundle Plug-Ins, Version 2 Starting with the world-renowned ChannelStrip, the Production Bundle adds TransientControl, Character, HaloVerb, Dirty Delay, Multiband Dynamics, Multiband Expander, and the Precision DeEsser. | | | Announcements From Mix | | | For Advertising Information, contact: | | |  | |  | |