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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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03/15/11 08:20 AM,
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Zac Brown and his bandmates know that you don’t build a fanbase just by making an album. You earn it—one show at a time. The two-time Grammy Award winners have spent years putting miles under their wheels, playing more than 200 dates annually to increasingly larger audiences of country music fans. Veteran live engineer Eric Roderick mans the FOH position for the band, relying on their VENUE D-Show system to handle up to 96 inputs from the stage. “I’ve been…
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
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09/23/10 11:00 AM,
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Avid has introduced a set of tools—including the new Pro Tools Mbox family, the M-Audio MobilePre, Pro Tools SE bundles and M-Audio Oxygen 88 keyboard controller —for a range of musicians who are seeking to create, record and mix music at home or on the road. Pro Tools Mbox Family: Premium Audio Quality and Third Party DAW Support Provides Customers More Creative Options The new Mbox familty is designed for musicians and audio engineers looking to turn their Mac or…
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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09/21/10 10:14 AM,
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Provided by Sweetwater. Q: I’m just finishing up my final year of school, and I’m just starting my first major edit project (we’re talking a lot of edits!). I’m having a little problem I’m hoping you can shed some light on. I keep making these edits, hitting play, and they sound fine. But later when I go back and listen to the whole thing, everything sounds like the edits were made out of context. I know that I’m a…
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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09/15/10 11:10 AM,
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Avid has announce the new Pro Tools Mbox family of personal recording systems—Mbox Mini, Mbox, and Mbox Pro. Each Pro Tools Mbox system includes everything required to produce professional-sounding music with a Mac or PC computer: studio-grade hardware and professional Pro Tools LE software. Building on the feature set of the original Mbox series, updates include professional-grade circuitry and converters, soft-clip input limiter*, built-in reverb*, guitar tuner*, assignable Pro Tools multi-function button*, and all-new drivers for compatibility with other popular…
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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08/17/10 11:59 AM,
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Avid has introduced a series of newly-designed hardware and software solutions designed to enhance the quality and performance of Pro Tools|HD, the industry’s leading digital audio workstation. The new HD Series interfaces—HD I/O, HD OMNI and HD MADI—offer customers flexible configurations to support a variety of analog and open digital formats for audio recording, mixing and playback. Additionally, new HEAT (Harmonically Enhanced Algorithm Technology) software allows customers to add the realism of vintage analog sound to the Pro Tools mixer…
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
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06/03/10 04:51 PM,
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UK post facility Grand Central Studios has installed a new Pro Tools/ICON system supplied by Scrub, the Soho-based division of HHB Communications. Among the first jobs to be undertaken on the new system is Nike’s extraordinary ‘Write The Future’ campaign. Six months in production and aired simultaneously in 32 countries on the weekend of the Champions League final, the three-minute spot may well be the largest commercial production ever. The ad was created by Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam and directed…
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Friday, July 10, 2009
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07/10/09 10:32 AM,
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After five years of lockout by producer Dr. Dre, Ocean Way’s famed Record One studios have reopened. The first project was mixing Trevor Rabin’s score for Disney’s upcoming “G-Force,” about a specially trained squad of guinea pigs out to save the world from evil. Tommy Vicari and Steve Kempster were mix engineers. The newly reopened Record One features a half-million dollar remodel and in Studio A, the installation of the largest and most sophisticated SSL Film console ever built, which…
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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06/16/09 04:29 AM,
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Aurora Converters from Lynx Studio Technology were instrumental in the recording and mixing of music from Black Eyed Peas and Green Day that reached the top of the Billboard charts in late May and June, 2009. The Black Eyed Peas’ new single, “Boom Boom Pow” and upcoming CD “The E.N.D.” were mixed by Dylan “3-D” Dresdow using Lynx Aurora converters. “Boom Boom Pow” charted #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Digital Songs during the week of June 15,…
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Monday, June 01, 2009
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06/01/09 10:19 AM,
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Euphonix has announced that Todd-AO, one of the world’s leading audio post production companies, has installed two dual-operator Euphonix System 5 digital audio mixing systems at their Hollywood facility. Both of the new Euphonix System 5 consoles have 80 faders, include over 400 DSP channels and come with EuCon Hybrid that enables the console to control not only the Euphonix DSP channels but also external ProTools HD DAWS that are installed on Stage 1 and Stage 2 of Todd-AO Hollywood.…
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
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The recent 2009 East Coast Music Awards (EMCA) saw many leading artists and industry figures come together in Corner Brook, located in the province of Newfoundland & Labrador, for a celebration of Canada’s East Coast music scene, with Nova Scotia-based Tour Tech East providing DiGiCo digital consoles for the two-stage production. Celebrating its 21st year, this year’s EMCA ceremony featured 17 live performances and video clips interspersed with the presentation of awards in 31 categories, ranging from “DVD Of The…
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