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WELCOME TO THE NEW MIXLINE
E-NEWSLETTER
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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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PlayStation, Nintendo/Wii or PC? Let us know by answering our poll at www.mixonline.com!
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Mix's
Grammy Awards Videos Are Now Online!
Check out Mix's exclusive behind-the-scenes Grammy production
videos, featuring interviews with music mixer John Harris of XM
Production/Effanel Music on mixing the awards telecast, Dolby Labs'
Rocky Graham on the importance of the Dialnorm parameter and RF
coordinator David Bellamy about the wireless audio coordination for the
telecast. To watch the videos, click here.
This year marked 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. You can also sample
music from the nominees in our iMixes.
Click
here for more.
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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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Get All
Geared Up for GDC 2008!
This year's Game Developers Conference is taking place
today through Friday, February 22 in San Francisco's Moscone Center.
Take a look at Mix's new Game Developers Conference 2008 site,
where you'll get access to our blogs from the show floor, 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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Getting a
Natural Drum Sound
I'm not sure how this got to be the "standard" way of
getting a drum sound, but after setting the mix levels of the kick,
snare, hi-hat and tom mics, the two overheads are usually brought up
last and then rolled off substantially to prevent low frequencies from
interfering with the other drum mics. If the drums were tracked in a
decent room, then as an alternative, try beginning your mix with the two
overhead mics (without LF roll-off), adding a touch of kick and bringing
up the other mics on an as-needed basis. This approach often yields a
very natural drum sound with a detailed stereo image. Give it a try!
—George Petersen
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The Band:
'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'
Some Grammy winners make headlines, while others are celebrated in the
margins. If you weren't watching that fast-moving text at the bottom of
your screen, listing the "awards presented earlier," then you might not
know that throat cancer survivor, and former member of The Band, Levon
Helm won his first Grammy last week -- in the category of Best
Traditional Folk Album, for Dirt Farmer. As a nod to Helm's much-deserved
win, Mix Classics looks way back at another of his memorable vocal
performances: The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," which
Blair Jackson wrote about in our "Classic Tracks" column in October
2002; click here.
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