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November 18, 2002

Table of Contents
Update Your Life--Ableton's Live 2.0
Harrison Adds to TVD Broadcast Consoles
Le Mobile Tracks Dixie Chicks Live
All Systems Go in Puerto Rico
GoGirlsMusicFest "Get Hip To Hep C"

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With assistance from Mix magazine and other industry supporters, the Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio (MFEA) raises thousands of dollars each year for Sound Partners, a hearing-conservation program of the House Ear Institute (a world-renowned leader in otologic research and education), as well as H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers). Sound Partners and H.E.A.R. present educational seminars, conduct free hearing screenings and distribute free earplugs at concerts and other events.

The Mix Foundation is asking for your help to fund outreach programs for hearing loss prevention. Your tax-deductible donation can be made online by clicking here.

Product Updates
Update Your Life--Ableton's Live 2.0
Berlin-based Ableton will offer Live 2.0 (U.S. MSRP: $399) next month for Mac OS 9/OS X and Windows. First-time Live users who purchase Live 1.5 or 1.0 this month can receive the upgrade for free; upgrades from V. 1.5 will be available online for $89 (boxed) or $69 (downloadable). Updated features turn the Arranger view into a full-blown multitrack recording/editing suite, including extensive real-time effects, parameter automation, unlimited undo, and much more. MORE

Harrison Adds to TVD Broadcast Consoles
Joining the TVD family is the Harrison TVD-SL digital broadcast console, which has all of the same features as the TVD but doubles the number of physical input faders. Unique to the SL is the optional built-in TFT video display, which adds up to 21 high-resolution, 6.4-inch LCD monitors that eliminates the need for a video wall. Check out all of the specs online at www.harrisonconsoles.com.

Closing In on Instrument Miking
DPA's new Instrument Microphone Kit allows for a number of close-mic placements on musical instruments. The kits contains a DPA 4061 miniature mic and an XLR adapter with a selection of unique mounting accessories for stringed, percussive and many other instrument types. MORE

The Metering Lights Are On
Soundcraft's MHR now offers LED bargraph metering with 16 LED meters to display auxiliary/group and matrix outputs. The mix L/R/C outputs are shown on VU meters. MORE

Soft Control for UA-700
Edirol released a software editor for its UA-700 on both Mac and PC for free update available for download at www.edirol.com. The UA-700 Editor allows the user to save and load unlimited effect arrangements, save and load patches as MIDI files, as well as share patches with fellow UA-700 users.

Dolby Brings DVD-A to PC
Dolby introduced Creative Technology's Sound Blaster Audigy 2 soundcard, which plays back DVD-A on PC, bringing the format to a wider audience. Users can play DVD-As on PCs already equipped with DVD drives after installing the soundcard. MORE

Recent Projects
Le Mobile Tracks Dixie Chicks Live
Almost two weeks before the Dixie Chicks released their new Home CD, they performed all of the album's songs for two nights of sold-out shows at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Le Mobile was on hand to record the music for an NBC-TV special to air in December and a possible future DVD release. MORE

HSR Hosts Indie Film Mix
New York City-based HSR Studios mixer Steve Rosen recently finished up the final audio mix for BUN-BUN, a 35mm, 15-minute independent film, which premiered this October. In addition to Rosen, the team included sound designers Ed Walsh and Ben Zebelman. MORE

Endless Noise in Chocolate Heaven
Commercial music and sound design company Endless Noise (Los Angeles) has finished the music composition, arrangment and production work for the new Hershey Chocolate "My Chocolate" Series of TV spots. Read about how the sound design team recorded live musicians at Capitol Studios. MORE

Neve…AMS Neve
AMS Neve is once again creating the sound for the next James Bond thriller Die Another Day. Pinewood Studios' (Bucks, England), where John Hayward, chief mixer at Pinewood's Theatre 1, is currently preparing for the final mix on the studio's DFC console. Across the way, Geoff Foster returns to AIR Studios to work at the 88R to record and mix the film's soundtrack.

Neumann, Sennheiser Branch Out
"The Game of Love," the hit single from Santana's latest release Shaman, which features a duet between Michelle Branch and Santana, was co-produced and co-written by ex-New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander and Rick Nowels (Madonna, Dido, Jewel), and engineered by Chris Garcia. The piece was recorded at Nowels' studio in Santa Monica, Calif., where they relied on Neumann U67s for Branch's vocals and Neumann U87 and Sennheiser MD 421 combo for Santana's axe. MORE

Miranda and the SugarHill Gang
Joseph Miranda & The Wildcatters were currently in SugarHill Recording Studios (Houston) with engineer Steve Christensen to work on their self-produced CD, Straight Ahead. The project was mixed in Pro Tools|24 MIX-Cubed in Studio C. The band also recorded overdubs in both Studios A and B. MORE

Hi-Speed CD Duplicators
The EZDiscopy™ is the latest in high speed CD, stand alone duplication technology. Our line of duplicators can copy one master CD to 1, 3, 5, or 7 blank CDs at speeds of 24X or 40X. At $1,990, our 1:7, 40X CD Duplicator is priced right.
Easy, online ordering available at www.ezdiscopy.com.

International Update
All Systems Go in Puerto Rico
All Systems Go in Puerto Rico
When WIPR-TV wanted to upgrade its facilities, they brought in The Systems Group to spearhead the project, which will result in the construction of the first public broadcast station in Puerto Rico capable of broadcasting HDTV programming. The project consists of four studios, four production control rooms and two master control rooms, for a total of 15,000 square feet. The Systems Group handled complete system design and schematics, as well as install of mechanical/electrical systems; Janson Design Group is also on hand. MORE

France Buys Millions' Worth of Avid Systems
Avid's European headquarters has sold digital broadcasting solutions to France Televisions worth $8.6 million for a major newsroom system in Paris. Included in the sale were three Unity shared-media environments, 52 NewsCutter editing stations, 24 Xdeck direct-ingest devices and two Media Browse video-editing server systems. MORE

News From Down Under
JBL has completed its first international installation of Precision Directivity Series loudspeakers in sports/entertainment venue Vodafone Arena (Melbourne, Australia). Local A/V contractor Warehouse Sound Systems upgraded the venue's system to include three PD764 mid/high loudspeakers and three VS125HS low-frequency loudspeakers. MORE

Also located in Melbourne, recording studio Sing Sing has installed a 72-channel SSL XL 9000K in its brand-new 5.1 mixing room. Owners Kaj Dahlstrom and Phil Butson have the room set up with 2-inch and 1/2-inch analog machines, as well as Sony 3324/48 and Pro Tools|MIXPlus and HD3.

Meyer Sound Helps Vienna "Wake Up"
Vienna's Raimundtheater has upgraded its loudspeaker system for premier of a new Austrian production, Wake Up. Sound designer Andreas Fabianek chose to augment the current Meyer system with four M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeakers as a center cluster with four CQ-1 Wide-Coverage Main loudspeakers for primary left/right FOH system. MORE

Unprecedented Sound in Middle East
Future Television Network (Beirut, Lebanon) recently installed a 72-input ATI Paragon II console in its newly built, 4,000-square-foot Studio B. The console was specified by Philippe Tohme, a consultant to the network's sound department to handle FOH, monitor and broadcast mixes.

Feature Events
GoGirlsMusicFest "Get Hip To Hep C"
GoGirlsMusic.com, Onstage magazine and The American Liver Foundation present the GoGirlsMusicFest "Get Hip To Hep C," a series of concerts across the country to raise awareness of Hepatitis C. The event is set for October 3 to December 8 and will take place in at least 20 cities from Los Angeles to New York. MORE

This Month
Join mSoft and Pomann Sound Studio in New York City on Friday, November 15, 2002, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., as they unveil the first MusicCue production-music server system. Visit www.msoftinc.com.

The Euphonix Max Air US Broadcast tour is currently on the road. Visit the specially commissioned truck that is outfitted with a 96-channel Max Air mixing system to recreate a realistic state-of-the-art digital broadcast environment in a city near you.

Digidesign and Intel have teamed up to present the "LE Studio Tour" to showcase the Pro Tools LE family of workstations (Digi 002, Digi 001 and Mbox). Free to attendees in over 150 cities in the U.S., Canada and the UK. All dates and locations are provided on Digidesign's Website, www.digidesign.com.

Sonic "Burn & Earn" Seminar Series on authoring DVDs with Sonic products, running up to December. For a city near you, visit www.sonic.com/seminars.

West L.A. Music's free event: "The All-New Pro Tools Digi 002," November 19.

Inter BEE 2002: November 20-22, 2002, at the Nippon Convention Center (Makuhari Messe) in Chiba City, Japan.

SBES 2002, November 20-21, 2002, in Birmingham, UK, at Hall II NEC.

Looking Ahead
Replication Expo 2002, December 4-5, 2002, in Washington, D.C.

Pro Production 2003, "The Live Event Marketplace," will take place January 10-12, 2003, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego.

Digital Content Delivery (DCD) Expo (Replitech's Expanded Marketplace), February 4-6, 2002, at the San Jose Convention Center.

Sony DMX-R100 Digital Audio Mixer Operations Training: March 4, 2003 (Oradell, N.J.), July 29, 2003 (San Jose, Calif.), and November 11, 2003 (Oradell, NJ.) Each one-day training session costs $400 a person. Call 408/955-4231 or e-mail training@am.sony.com.

Sony DMX-R100 Advanced Operations Training: March 5, 2003 (Oradell, N.J.), July 30, 2003 (San Jose, Calif.), and November 12, 2003 (Oradell, N.J.). Each one-day training session costs $475 a person. Call 408/955-4231 or e-mail training@am.sony.com.

Deadlines
Attn. Musicians/Producers/DJs! Remix has partnered with V2, MTA Records and Cakewalk for the "Remix Aphrodite Contest." Entrants download loops from DJ Aphrodite's latest release entitled "Aftershock" and remix them using a free download of Cakewalk's new Plasma Express remixing software. V2/MTA Records' A&R staff will judge Aphrodite remix submissions. Why stop at just one remix? Enter your track in the "Best Production" category for Diesel-U-Music competition, co-sponsored by Remix, Digidesign and Transmat Records. Applications are now being accepted. MORE

Attn. Manufacturers! NAMM 2003 (January 16-19, 2003, in Anaheim, Calif.) deadlines: Free badge pre-registration deadline is December 6. After the deadline, the cost of each badge is $25. After you have finished registering, check out namm.com for discount airfare/rental car codes.

Online registration is now open for the third annual FMC (Future of Music) Policy Summit, January 5-7, 2003, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Artists, academics, lawyers, business leaders, technologists and policymakers will be on hand to discuss issues pertaining to music, law, policy and technology.

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