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We're starting the year off strong! Not only will
MixLine be sent to your inbox every Tuesday, but we're adding in more
original content: more cool spins, product features, tips, "audio in the
news" and much more! Let us know what you think by e-mailing us at mixeditorial@mixonline.com.
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Sennheiser's MKH 8000 series has top audio
professionals smiling. With its incredible accuracy and tremendous range
of accessories, it's adaptable to any requirement-from live sound to
studio recording to score-mixing. Bob Fernandez and Claudia Engelhart
talk more about the MKH 8000...watch the
video.
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What is your game platform of choice—Xbox,
PlayStation, Nintendo/Wii or PC? Let us know by answering our poll at www.mixonline.com!
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Mix Honors
the Grammy Nominees
Clear the decks Sunday night—it's Grammy time! This year marks the
50th anniversary of the Grammy Awards, and Mix honors the
Recording Academy and all of the nominees with a special Grammy
Website. Check out our profiles on the production nominees (Best
Engineered Album, both Classical and Non-Classical; Producer of the
Year, both Classical and Non-Classical) and Surround Sound Projects, as
well as this year's Technical Grammy Award winners. Sample music from
the nominees in our iMixes. And after the show, come back for a virtual
tour of the production truck, and chats with the show's audio producers
on the 5.1 surround sound broadcast.
While we can't get you a physical front-row seat to one of the year's
hottest awards shows, we can ensure that you get a virtual VIP pass,
with video of the truck, photos of past winners and so much more! Click
here for
more.
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Focusrite
Liquid4Pre
This 4-channel mic preamp from Focusrite ($3,499.99) marries an analog
front-end with dynamic convolution DSP, outputting the sounds of 40
vintage and classic preamps across all four channels. Digitally
controlled and remotely controllable over Ethernet via dedicated
Liquid4Control software, the unit offers 99 setup memory slots and total
recall of every parameter. A Pro Tools TDM/RTAS plug-in allows
integrated remote control via Pro Tools and Icon/Venue systems. A
harmonic distortion circuit accounts for variance in the vintage
originals, while Session Saver -- an AGC circuit -- intelligently
reduces the input level to help avoid critical overs. Every channel has
independent controls for highpass filter, phantom power and polarity
reverse. AES and ADAT optical digital inputs/outputs are provided as is
an optional EtherSound 8-channel card. For more information on new
products announced at Winter NAMM 2008, click here.
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CELEBRATE
50 YEARS OF GRAMMYS
Check out mixonline.com/grammys for profiles on this year's
Grammy nominees! Coming soon: video from the production truck and so
much more!
Missed Winter NAMM?
Then check out http://emusician.com/ms/namm08, where you'll find
the editors of EM, Mix and Remix's top
hits—from video to podcasts, new product announcements to blogs and
much more!
Mix's New Nashville Columnist, Peter Cooper
The editors of Mix are happy to announce that Peter Cooper has
signed on as the new writer of our "Nashville Skyline" column. Cooper
will be reporting on all the studio business/session news from Music
City, and he couldn't be more qualified for the job! Cooper is a
talented music writer for the Nashville Tennesean, as well as a
country music-history teacher, and a performing musician who can often
be seen out playing bass for singer/songwriter Todd Snider.
Cooper's first column for Mix appears in our March issue, in
which he reveals a few more details about his own career and then digs
into one of the biggest projects to come out of Nashville in recent
months: Vince Gill's Grammy-nominated, multidisc/multigenre album
These Days. Check out "Skyline" in our March "Coast to Coast"
section, and find out how Gill and producer/engineers Justin Niebank and
Gill Hobbs managed to recording and mixing the album's 43 tracks!
Game Audio Digital Magazine
Hey, game lovers! Put that Wii remote down before you sprain a thumb
again and check out the latest in Mix's new Game Audio
digital magazine. This new monthly mag brings you behind the scenes on
creating sounds for today's hottest titles, from Guitar Hero to
Splinter Cell and Call of Duty, plus hot gear news, tech
pages and spotlights on audio pros like you who've made it big. And if
that's not enough to make you look, we've thrown in some cool giveaways,
if you can find 'em! To check out the current issue, click here!
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Live
Recording: Mixing a Room Mic with Stage Mics
When recording live to a digital audio workstation and
mixing a room mic from front of house together with the stage mics,
there will be a natural delay between the feeds, which makes for a
confusing listening experience. To fix this, go to the tracks in your
DAW's time line and slide the FOH feed forward in time, lining it up
with the loudest thing from the stage. This negates the delay created by
the mic's placement, cleaning up the slappy delay and giving the
listener and mixer a more realistic idea of what's going on in the room.
—Kevin Becka
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Tchad
Blake
Expect the unexpected. Nominated for what could be his second Grammy in
the Best Engineered Album Non-Classical category, Tchad Blake is an
extraordinary producer/engineer whose approach to sonics is always out
of conventional bounds. This latest Grammy nod is for his work on
Suzanne Vega's Beauty and Crime, an album that matches unusual
beats with the singer/songwriter's intimate voice, giving her music an
almost otherworldly quality. During his longtime association with
producer/musician (and Vega's ex) Mitchell Froom, whom Blake met at
Sunset Sound in the early 1980s, Blake helped established artists such
as Sheryl Crow and Paul McCartney break new ground. Known for his
unorthodox recording and sound creation methods, Blake's talents have
fit perfectly with the aesthetic of avant-garde artists such as Los
Lobos, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits.
Several years ago, Blake moved to the UK, and now does most of his
projects in the Big Room at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios.
Mix has covered many of the milestones in Blake's uncompromising
career. To learn more, see the past features "Working in the Real World," a 2002 interview with
Crowded House's Neil Finn and Maureen Droney's "Radical Recording" story, as well as a new article about Blake's contributions to Vega's
Grammy-nominated release.
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We're guessing you didn't always work in videogames; we know a lot of
you have roots in music and post. Tell us why you made the switch to the
game world, and the name of the first title you worked on. E-mail us at
From lavish big-screen budgets to the seemingly limitless capabilities
of
next-gen platforms, it's a great time to be in game audio. This month,
we
take you behind the scenes for sound design on top titles.
