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its incredible accuracy and tremendous range of accessories, it's
adaptable to any requirement-from live sound to studio recording to
score-mixing. We loaned a pair each to Bob Fernandez and Claudia
Engelhart, who we videoed a bit of their conversation at AES. www.sennheiserusa.com/MKH8000
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WELCOME TO THE NEW MIXLINE
E-NEWSLETTER
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Merger,
Acquisition News at NAMM 2008
Large trade shows often provide the right backdrop to
announce company changes, and Winter NAMM was no exception. Perhaps the
most talked about event at NAMM was the proposed merger of the TC Group
and Gibson Guitars. MORE
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MOTU
Digital Performer Version 6
Mark of the Unicorn's flagship audio sequencer software (www.motu.com, $795) is
now up to Version 6 and features a complete user interface redesign, XML
file interchange with Final Cut Pro, track comping, support for
interleaved broadcast WAV audio files, enhanced support for operation as
a software front end for Pro Tools HD systems, pre-rendering of virtual
instruments, better support for third-party Audio Unit (AU) plug-ins and
the ability to "bounce and burn" directly to an audio CD. Other features
include a vertically resizable track list, streamlined GUI with window
tabs and a universal track selector that updates when you switch to a
different tab. Resident plug-in processors have also been upgraded to
multimono use, and include ProVerb convolution reverb and the
MasterWorks Leveler.
ORPHEUS IS SHIPPING
EASTWEST PREVIEWS QUANTUM LEAP "FORBIDDEN PLANET"
SAMPLE-BASED SYNTH AT NAMM 2008
MORE NEW PRODUCTS FROM THE BRIEFING ROOM
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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!
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!
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!
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The
Guitar/Bass Delay Trick
When recording bass guitar—combining a direct box
with a miked amplifier —a time delay occurs, because the direct box
signal arrives sooner than the signal going through the amp, out of the
speaker and into the mic. Summing these usually results in a muddy
sound. Adding a slight delay (a couple milliseconds or so) to the direct
box signal improves the sound immensely, making it full and powerful.
The same technique can be applied to guitar tracks, but using two guitar
mics —one right in front of the amp, the other 15 feet away in the
back of the room. Apply a 15ms delay to the close-mic track, and the
result is a massive sound where the room reverb of the ambient mic
occurs simultaneously with the sharp attack of the close mic. Guitarists
love this one!
—George Petersen
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Blair's DVD
Watch: Taking the Good with the Bad from Live Earth
Live Earth:The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis (Warner
Bros.)
Somewhere between the perhaps bloated claims of organizers that some two
billion people on seven continents watched last year's Live Earth
concerts and the downright preposterous anti-ecology naysayers who
attest that the total audience was just you, three of your friends and
Aunt Mabel—who was passing through the media room at the
time—lies the truth about how successful this massive
consciousness-raising effort last July 7 was. MORE.
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U2 Weighs
In On ISPS and The Music Biz
U2 manager Paul McGuinness opened this week's MIDEM
conference in Cannes with strong words for Internet service providers:
"I think the failure of ISPs to engage in the fight against piracy, to
date, has been the single biggest failure in the digital music market."
Read the entire keynote speech on U2's Website.
Who Says Hi-Fi is Dead?
LP-to-CD rippers, single-speaker stereo and a $50,000 CD player. Gotta
love the latest audio gadgets from CES, direct from CNET.
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