| Sound for Film: For Your Consideration
It was a banner year for film sound in 2014, as one of the biggest technology jumps in decades made its way into the vernacular: Immersive Sound! Read all about Immersive Sound for Cinema, profiles of the 11 Top Contenders for Best Sound Editing and Mixing, and more in Mix magazine's special Sound for Film issue.
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| | TWICE Live @ CES
NewBay Media announces the launch of TWICE Live @ CES, sponsored by LG, a new social media tool that was developed by NewBay Plus on behalf of Twice for the CES show. TWICE @ CES delivers the best social media posts from around the Web related to the CES show. The Twice editors filter out nonessential content to bring you interesting, engaging and fresh information about the largest Consumer Electronics show in the world. Be sure to see all the latest news on gadgets, gear, and everything happening in Las Vegas this week!
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| | Top Stories | | Sweetwater Studios: A New Production Model With Fort Wayne Roots
It would be difficult to overstate or overdramatize the success story embodied in the rise of Sweetwater over the past 35 years. By any measure—financial, educational, professional, ethical, philanthropic or creative—the company and its people have a story to tell. And most of them at some point will involve the company's enigmatic, confident, committed, optimistic and quietly driven founder/CEO Chuck Surack. Classic Tracks: The Making of LeAnn Rimes' 'Blue'
The story of the recording of "Blue" by LeAnn Rimes is one with many twists and turns, and has now become part of country music lore. Sometimes lost in the tale is that the heart of the story runs through the legacy of producer Norman Petty and his studio in Clovis, N.M. Bettye LaVette: Breaking the Rules for 'Worthy'
"I've worked as a producer with a lot of legacy artists—people who have enough history and mean enough to us as listeners, whether that's Solomon Burke or Harry Belafonte or Allen Toussaint or Mavis Staples—and it's important to know how to honor the artist's legacy but not be trapped by it," says Joe Henry, discussing his latest production of Bettye LaVette.
Swing House Studios Relocates
To mark its 20th year in business, Swing House Studios will be relocating from West Hollywood to a 21,000-square-foot facility in the Atwater neighborhood. The new location will be situated between Downtown L.A., Silver Lake, Glendale and Burbank off the 2 and 5 freeways. The grand reopening of the studio is scheduled for late January 2015. Dave Maswick Acquires First Millennia HV-35P
Millennia Media began shipping its Portable Preamp Series during the second week of December 2014, and reports that the first unit found its way to engineer/producer/songwriter/musician Dave Maswick.
ARGOSY Presents Video Interview with Engineer, Producer, Musician and Songwriter John Alagia » |
| | Featured Products | | PMC twotwo sub2 Active Subwoofer
At Winter NAMM in Anaheim (January 22-25), UK-based reference monitor manufacturer PMC will launch its twotwo sub2 active subwoofer, a new addition to its twotwo range of active near-field monitors, in Hall A, booth #6598. The new sub2 is a low-distortion, active subwoofer featuring PMC's ATL bass-loading technology, Class-D amplification and DSP-based filtering and bass management, which extends bass output significantly with negligible harmonic distortion. Ocean Way Audio Sausalito High-Resolution Reference Loudspeaker System
At CES 2015 in Las Vegas (January 6-9), Ocean Way Audio (Venetian Tower Suite 29-334) is introducing its Sausalito reference loudspeaker system ($35,000 MSRP), designed by Allen Sides, the Grammy Award-winning engineer/producer and founder of Ocean Way Recording. After having received positive responses to their larger speaker systems, the team at Ocean Way Audio was asked for a design to fit smaller spaces yet still deliver full-range accurate reproduction. With that in mind they developed Sausalito, the newest member of the company's high-bandwidth speaker systems. Each cabinet is 42x16.5x 22.75 inches (HxWxD) and weighs 148 pounds.
Shure MOTIV Digital Product Line, iOS Recording App
Shure introduces MOTIV digital products, a new plug-and-play microphone line designed for vocal/acoustic recording, podcasts, YouTube videos, field recording and more at 24-bit/48 kHz. MOTIV products include four new Apple MFi (made for iPhone, iPod, iPad) Certified devices, including three condenser microphones and a digital audio interface that can connect directly to any iOS device without additional adapters or connection kits. The MOTIV line features the MOTIV MV5 digital condenser microphone, MOTIV MV88 iOS digital stereo condenser microphone, MOTIV MV51 digital large-diaphragm condenser microphone, MOTIV MVi digital audio interface, and the company's newest iOS app, ShurePlus MOTIV mobile recording app.
Sound Radix Drum Leveler
The Drum Leveler from Sound Radix ($149) is a beat detection-based downward and upward compressor/expander, which selectively applies gain to single drumbeats. Unlike traditional envelope-followers and VCAs, Drum Leveler runs an advanced algorithm that allows unparalleled control over your drums' dynamics. Features include transparent, upward and downward compression/expansion, dual threshold levels allowing processing any level range to affect only specific beats within a track such as ghost notes or bleed, mono, stereo, dual mono and M/S operation modes, plus an intuitive user interface.
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| | Announcements From Mix | Winter NAMM, January 22-25
The NAMM Show, held in in the Anaheim Convention Center, is one of the world's largest global music industry trade events annually attracting 96,000 members of the music industry to Anaheim. One component of NAMM's Educational Sessions, the H.O.T. (Hands-On Training) Zone provides live educational sessions and innovative ideas for professionals in the pro audio, recording, live sound, DJ, entertainment technologies, music business, and stage and lighting industries. It takes place on Level 2 of the Anaheim Convention Center.
P&E Wing to Participate in Hi-Res Audio: CES Power Panel, 2:15 to 3 p.m., Thursday, January 8, at CES 2015
This panel will give attendees the chance to meet and mix with some of the biggest names in consumer electronics and music entertainment as they exchange ideas about the key issues that are facing the industry today. Marc Finer, Senior Director, DEG, will serve as moderator, with panelists Robert Heiblim, Vice Chairman, CEA Audio Division Board; and Maureen Droney, Managing Director, The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing.
Vintage King and H.O.T. Zone to Present 'Meet the Makers' at Winter NAMM on Friday, January 23, at 4 p.m.
Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer Jack Joseph Puig will moderate an hour-long panel discussion featuring the leaders of Barefoot Sound, Shadow Hills Industries, Slate Digital, and Manley Labs.
Prism Sound offers special price reduction at Winter NAMM
Customers who purchase a Prism Sound Atlas, Titan or Lyra audio interface between now and January 31, 2015, will receive an automatic 5% discount on the published list price. Anyone interested in taking up this offer may email sales@prismsound.com or visit the company at NAMM in booth #7120 where these products—and many more from Prism Sound, SADiE and Maselec—will be on show.
Avid Webinar: In the Studio with Pro Tools | S3
Want the power to create a big mix in a small package? In Avid's exclusive new Webinar, see how Ken Andrews—guitarist of the critically acclaimed band Failure—uses the powerful new Pro Tools | S3 console to record a track from start to finish. |
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