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Understanding Bass Management
With Bob Hodas, November 20th

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Bob Hodas explores best practices for Bass Management in your studio, explaining how to set up a bass managed system, what features to look for in a Bass Management box and much more.
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Mastering Stories

Our December issue will focus on mastering. We'd like to hear from mastering engineersÑtell us about your most interesting mastering project. E-mail us at mixeditorial@mixonline.com.


Remix Hotel News

Avid Presents: Remix Hotel Los Angeles| Dec. 4-6, 2008

Hot off an incredibly successful event in Atlanta, Remix Hotel is gearing up for its final event in 2008: Remix Hotel Los Angeles. We're busy putting together a killer weekend of panels, production and more. Keep it tuned to remixhotel.com for registration and schedule details, and be sure to check out all of the amazing videos from Atlanta and New York! .


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VIDEOHELPER SCORHELPER
Epic storytelling. From intimate drama to larger-than-life chaos. Now available outside the cineplex. ScoreHelper is a new library of original, full-length cinematic soundtracks that cover the range of film scores, from huge Hollywood orchestral blockbusters to indie label alt-folk to experimental sound design to reality TV docu-drama—even to re-creations of vintage scores. There’s one big exception: We’ve taken out all of the boring stuff and just included the useful parts of a film score that can be used in long-form work, documentaries, promos, show opens, presentations and trailers. NAB Booth: C2851.
18 West 21st St., 7th Floor
New York, NY 10010
212/633-7009; fax 212/633-9014
www.videohelper.com



APM PLAY MUSIC FINDER: With more than 175,000 different musical tracks to choose from, APM’s catalog comprises one of the largest and most diverse collections of original music available to entertainment and media producers, from hip hop to classical and everything in between. APM provides direct access to its libraries through PLAY Music Finder, a proprietary search and download song location system, accessible via www.apmmusic.com.
6255 Sunset Blvd., Ste. 820
Hollywood, CA 90028
323/461-3211; fax 323/461-9102
www.apmmusic.com

BOB'S MUSIC CAFE 101 CLASSIC THEME: The 101 Classic Themes Broadcast Edition was designed specifically for radio, television and commercial production. It comprises more than 100 high-quality beds in a variety of popular and period styles. The four CDs contain commercial lengths of each theme, plus short cues and effects, and full documentation for quick and easy reference. The price for a full buy-out license is only $99 when ordered from the site or calling 800/274-8008.
Box 999
Ojai, CA 93024
800/274-8008
www.MusicForRadio.com

DIGITAL JUICE STACKTRAXX: StackTraxx volumes are the original multitrack buy-out production music libraries from Digital Juice. Theses multitrack songs let editors spin their own mixes, creating unified and coordinated scores for any production. Each volume ($99) contains 20 to 40 layered tracks on DVD and CD audio discs; four to seven multitrack layers per song; full-length, 60, 30, 15 and 10-second broadcast cuts for all tracks; and is 100-percent royalty-free. NAB Booth: SL447.
1736 NE 25th Ave.
Ocala, FL 34470
800/525-2203; fax 352/368-6091
www.digitaljuice.com

FIRSTCOM MUSIC SEE: SEE™ is a creatively different approach to music for motion picture scoring and advertising. The SEE music catalog features action, adventure, epic, dramatic and whimsical styles for orchestra and chorus, along with incidental music for opens, transitions and moods. SEE is designed by a team of new producers and composers who are working with some of the top musicians and orchestras in the world with some amazing results. NAB Booth: C3024.
1325 Capital Parkway, Ste. 109
Carrollton, TX 75006
www.firstcom.com





HOLLYWOOD EDGE
The Hollywood Edge, a division of Ascent Media, is one of the largest publishers and distributors of high-quality sound effects and production music. The Hollywood Edge offers more than 30 multiple disc collections, including Premiere Editions, Cartoon, Animal, Historical, Foley, Automotive, Evil, Eerie, Sports and The Frank Serafine Collection. Music includes THE Music and Soundelux Music Libraries. Downloadable sound effects available at www.audiodish.com. Mac and PC versions of software allows you to rips CDs directly to your hard drive. Search and audition .WAV files at the click of a button. Open .WAV files directly into your favorite 2-track editor. Copy and paste from waveform editor directly into Pro Tools. NAB Booth: C3024.
1325 Capital Parkway, Ste. 109
Carrollton, TX 75006
www.firstcom.com

JRT MUSIC ADRENALINE ADDICT: Composers Francois Babin and Jean-Christian Viry unleash a collection of intense-driving rock tracks ideal for action and suspense-themed productions. Fast-paced, hard and driving compositions are sure to crank up the volume on any production.

JRT MUSIC STREET BEATZ: JRT Music has released Street Beatz. Using elements of dance hall, bangra and “Dirty South” rap rhythms, Street Beatz encompasses a full spectrum of hip hop from straight up 4-4 drumbeats to contemporary R&B and hip hop melodies. Street Beatz is JRT Music’s third U.S. production and the second title to be produced by JRT General Manager, Catherine Bogin.
648 Broadway, Ste. 504
New York, NY 10012
212/253-8908; fax 212/353-9317
www.jrtmusic.com

MCMR TUZZAFU SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY: The Tuzzafu sound effects library (FA/18-C/130) from Music Cities Mobile Recording is available on 5.1 AC3 files. Price: $19.95.
123 Gant Rd.
Shelbyville, TN 37160
888/365-0051; fax 931/684-1410
www.mcmr.net

MANHATTAN PRODUCTION MUSIC LIVE TRAX: Produced by the Grammy Award–winning team at sister company Chesky Records, Live Trax is performed by live studio musicians—no synthesizers or samples. Genres span everything from cutting-edge rock to spectacular orchestral, and new CDs are continually created and distributed to clients. The high sound quality and use of real musicians form a music collection that sounds like scored music. Live Trax is available for both blanket and laserdrop music licensing, depending on the project. In addition, some Live Trax CDs feature full songs with lyrics, allowing for a more soundtrack-like feel for film, TV and commercial productions. This gives music users songs to license that will be less expensive than licensing songs from major labels. NAB Booth: C2641.
355 West 52nd St., 6th Floor
New York, NY 10019
www.mpmmusic.com

MEGATRAX PRODUCTION MUSIC MEGASONICS: Produced during a period of three years by some of today’s top Hollywood sound designers and engineers using leading-edge technology, Megasonics is a boldly creative and original sound design toolkit for post-production featuring more than 1,200 production elements and effects—all conveniently organized in a 5-disc set. (Disc 5 is a data disc containing 24-bit/48kHz .WAV files of the entire package.) NAB Booth: C2957.
7629 Fulton Ave.
North Hollywood, CA 91605
818/255-7100; fax 818/255-7199
www.megatrax.com

MUSICBOX MUSIC CINEMATIC/ACTION ADVENTURE CD: MusicBox is introducing the first of a new series of CDs under the brand name “Cinematic.” The CDs will comprise music associated with the silver screen, providing a unique blend of modern orchestral music with cutting-edge musical styles. Action Adventure, the first Cinematic disc, has 10 unique themes with various mixes and edits per theme, for a total of 70 minutes of music. As the title implies, the music on this disc is associated with modern action and adventure films. This CD has an extremely large scale, massive sound featuring full orchestra and chorus. NAB Booth: C2447.

MUSICBOX MUSIC CUE: CUE is a new 1,000-track/20-hour diverse music library of original MusicBox music tracks, with a focus on dramatic underscore and includes a healthy dose of current musical styles. Every track on CUE is licensable, with the music being available either on a needledrop or on a blanket basis. NAB Booth: C2447.
22231 Mulholland Highway #102
Calabasas, CA 91302
818/224-4318; fax 818/224-4258
www.musicboxmx.com

OMNIMUSIC FLASH*POINT: Flash*Point is the hottest new scoring library, setting a new production standard for reality programming, investigative reporting and promo creation. Our award-winning composers have captured the grit and human drama of urban America with tracks that are compelling and creative. Music categories include action, dramatic pulse, suspense, terror, mystery and investigation. Licensing is available by laserdrop or under a flat-rate annual contract. NAB Booth: C2953.
52 Main St.
Port Washington, NY 11050
800/828-6664; fax 516/883-0121
www.omnimusic.com

SOUND IDEAS SERIES 6000 EXTENSION V: Launching at NAB and new to the Series 6000 family is Extension V, with 10 CDs and more than 1,200 sound effects, featuring B-24 and B-17 bombers, military jets, NASCAR and drag racing, crashes and hits, workshop tools, rain, thunder, ice/snow and a whole lot more. NAB Booth: C1451.

SOUND IDEAS TWISTED TIGER MUSIC: Add a whole lot of character to your production with a soundtrack from the Twisted Tiger with four CDs and 100 themes from 16 categories: house and trance, dance, hip hop, R&B/hip hop, neo soul, rock, nostalgic rock, corporate, news, sports, drama, jazz, comic, Christmas, lite and brite and peaceful and romantic. NAB Booth: C1451.
105 West Beaver Creek Rd., Ste. 4
Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1C6
www.sound-ideas.com



Modern Recording and Mixing

This 2-DVD set will show you how the best in the music industry set up a studio to make world-class records. Regardless of what gear you are using, the information you'll find here will allow you to take advantage of decades of expert knowledge. Order now $39.95

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