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WELCOME TO THE NEW MIXLINE
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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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Producers,
Engineers Triumph at 50th Annual Grammy Awards
Producer/engineer Mark Ronson (pictured) received Record of the Year for
Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" and Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, for his
work on Winehouse's Back to Black and Lily Allen's Alright,
Still, at the 50th annual Grammy Awards ceremony held on February
10. MORE.
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MXL Genesis
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MXL's new flagship microphone, Genesis, exhibits the clarity and warmth
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vocals, this large-diaphragm cardioid condenser features a 1.2-inch
diameter capsule with a 6-micron, gold sputtered diaphragm and a
hand-selected Mullard 12AT7 tube—known for its clean, rich tone and
a silky high-end. The mic has a -10 dB pad, a 100Hz 6 dB/octave roll-off
switch and operates with 48-volt phantom power. Genesis will be supplied
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and tube cables housed in a high quality flight case. Each Genesis mic
is serialized and supplied with QC verification of excellence
documentation. MSRP is $799. For more information, visit www.mxlmics.com. For
more information on new products announced at Winter NAMM 2008, click here.
VirSyn Releases First VST3 Plug-in
SM Pro Audio Release iNano
MORE NEW PRODUCTS FROM THE BRIEFING ROOM
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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!
Get All Geared Up for GDC 2008!
Take a look at Mix's new Game Developers Conference 2008 site,
where you'll get access to our blogs from the showfloor, videos of hot
products and announcements, our special "survival guide" to getting in
and around San Francisco, and much more:
http://mixonline.com/ms/gdc08.
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!
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!
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!
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Using
High-Quality Reference Headphones
Three-time Grammy Award winning producer/engineer David
Isaac stresses the importance of using high-quality reference headphones
when tracking and mixing. While working on bassist Marcus Miller's
latest album project, Free at Firehouse Recording studios
(Pasadena, Calif.) and Titan Music and Film Works (Downey, Calif.),
Isaac used a pair of Ultrasone ProLine 650 headphones—which
incorporate Ultrasone's patented S-Logic System—and was pleased with
their performance.
"I felt like I was in the middle of the music again," Isaac says. "I
could hear everything, and the dynamics and placement of everyone. Now I
carry them with me everywhere as a point of reference. With other
headphones, there were always things that distracted me: the low end
would be boomy, or the high end or midrange would be harsh. With the
Ultrasones, the definition is there, the low-end translates, the
midrange is not harsh, and the high end is clear. As a result, the space
and mix that I'm sculpting in the speakers also translates in the
headphones. Also, for closed environment listening, they work great for
making sure that I'm not missing anything."
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Cool Spins
— New Releases!
Shelby Lynne: Just A Little Lovin' (Lost Highway)
Musical interpretation is a difficult art; you're always walking the
delicate line between reverent re-invention and mere imitation. Nearly
40 years ago, Dusty Springfield released the landmark Dusty in
Memphis, which, with its throaty, bluesy vocals and open sensuality,
completed her evolution from a British pop sensation to a soul
chanteuse. Shelby Lynne, herself having transitioned musically from
Nashville rebel to a crossover pop success, honors the Springfield
songbook with Just a Little Lovin'... MORE
Chris Vallillo: Abraham Lincoln in Song (Gin
Ridge)
And now for something completely different: genuine early
American folk music! February 12 marked Abraham Lincoln's 199th birthday
(back when I was a kid, February 12 was a school holiday; now Lincoln's
and Washington's birthdays have been shmushed together into a single ski
weekend), so I though it would be nice to give a little virtual ink to
this fine album of folk songs, most of them from Lincoln's time; a few
are even about Lincoln... MORE
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Digidesign
On 'Late Show with David Letterman'
A recent Late Show with David Letterman broadcast
included a segment called "Technical Maintenance Minute," in which the
series' technical maintenance crew reports its "Digi-tastic" purchase of
a Digidesign ICON D-Control console and upgrade to Pro Tools Version
7.4. Watch the video
here.
Mastering Engineer Greg Calbi on 'Mastering vs.
Remastering'
Check out this blog from c|net that was posted
today, an interview with Greg Calbi of Sterling Sound in New York City,
who explains the mastering process and comments on rumors that The
Beatles' catalog will be remastered for iTunes; click
here.
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