You'll usually find artists either recording or on the road—but Jam in the Van, a mobile, solar-powered recording studio does both, too. Aiding the facility's unusual mission, Audio-Technica is now Jam in the Van's exclusive microphone/headphone-category sponsor.
by Clive Young Arif Mardin was a recording icon, producing and arranging hits for decades as he created career-defining songs for Hall & Oates, Phil Collins, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, the Bee Gees, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan and many others. More than 50 million records were sold with Mardin's name on them, and he took home 12 Grammy Awards in the process. While he spent most of his life behind the scenes, the producer now takes centerstage in the documentary The Greatest Ears In Town: The Arif Mardin Story.
"I got to mix Prince twice, once at an American Idol finale and the second time at the Billboard Awards. Both times it was an absolutely exhilarating experience—one of those rare "wow" moments that remind you why you got into the business. At the Billboard Awards show [as] he played with Third Eye Girl, I remember thinking at the time that it would be the closest I could get to mixing Jimi Hendrix. " —FOH Engineer Andrew "Fletch" Fletcher