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It’s a fact that lower budgets mean shorter production cycles and, ultimately, more no-nonsense mixing, but engineers working with experimentally inclined artists find ample opportunity in the mixing process...
Iwork with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in their Flyte Tyme Productions studios, in Santa Monica, Calif. When we began thinking about gear for...
In geekville, there are those pesky pieces of gear that don't want to be fixed, and then, the mystery is solved. A year ago, a 12-input, 1970s-era Raindirk...
Engineers are creatures of habit. They like to use certain consoles, certain effects, certain mics, certain techniques. Now throw in the urgency inherent in a live environment, and you can see why many sound reinforcement mixers rely on their tried-and-true gear. They know it works.
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U2's monitor engineer, Dave Skaff (Alicia Keys, Shania Twain), recently picked up a Digidesign VENUE digital board for the band's current tour; when Mix caught up with Skaff on the U2 tour in April 2005, he was using an ATI Paragon II. Here are some tips he picked up on making the switch to a digital console.
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Monitor engineers have a tricky task at hand. It's hard enough to please everyone onstage, and as stage monitoring continues to evolve, the majority of shows now require both wedge-based and in-ear monitoring — mixed from a single desk. A few monitoring truisms apply: In-ear monitors are not for everyone. ...
With more than 1,000 units sold, thousands of engineers have used the Yamaha PM5D. This year’s TEC Award–winning digital live console—a cross between an SPX and a PM5000—has a relatively smooth learning curve, but here are a few tips to get you started.
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