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FixIt: Thomas McNabb

Jan 1, 2006 12:00 PM

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Nashville is no doubt one of the hottest recording markets in the country, but we want to know how it got to be that way. Send your favorite account of recording in Nashville to mixeditorial@mixonline.com, and we´ll post it on the Mix Nashville Web Portal.


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Remix Hotel rocked New York again, and you can get all the goodsÑeveryting from Junior Sanchez, Just Blaze and Pete Rock to Jazzy Jay and Grandmaster CazÑat Remixhotel.com Videos, photos, interviews and more coming soon!.


This Month in Mix

Thomas McNabb, FOH for Mae, is a one-man engineering show for this tour, as there is no monitor engineer. (The band handles monitoring duties.) Mae is playing small clubs and theaters through March.

When using two kick drum mics, the two signals are less than 180 degrees out-of-phase. Lining up the two signals can have a drastic effect on the kick drum's tone and sound. Finding devices to accomplish this can be hard, but there are a number of solutions. A delay unit adjusted down to a few microseconds will suffice, as will phase-alignment units. Lastly, software plug-ins are available, whether it uses a sample delay or a phase-alignment tool.



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Mastering Cubase 4

Electronic Musician magazine and Thomson Course Technology PTR have joined forces again to create the second volume in their Personal Studio Series, Mastering Steinberg's Cubase(tm). Edited and produced by the staff of Electronic Musician, this special issue is not only a must-read for users of Cubase(tm) software, but it also delivers essential information for anyone recording/producing music in a personal-studio. Order now $12.95

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