Storming Up New Business

Oct 1, 2003, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly

Academy Award^™-winning sound editorial house SoundStorm (www.soundstorm.com) has opened a new sound transfer room....

Who Owns My DAW?

Oct 1, 2003, By Ron Franklin

Listen to a TV program from the next room and you can still understand most of what goes on....

L.A. Grapevine

Oct 1, 2003, By Maureen Droney

Even in the maverick world of recording studio owners, Conway's Buddy Brundo stands out as contrarian. For one thing, Conway, which Brundo and his wife Susan bought in 1976, doesn't look like any other recording facility....

Liz Phair Performs at the Village

Oct 1, 2003, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly

Liz Phair and her band (pictured) were recently in The Village's (West L.A.) Studio A, performing live for an on-air broadcast for Los Angeles radio station KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic program....

New York Metro

Oct 1, 2003, By David Weiss

Even though the calendar says that it's fall, it feels more like springtime to me. Why?...

KAS Reopens KAS Music & Sound

Oct 1, 2003, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly

Opening its doors on September 20, 1920, as the Famous Players/Lasky, Kaufman Astoria Studios (as it is known now) later went on to be called Paramount Studios, where Rudolph Valentino, the Marx Brothers and Gloria Swanson made names for themselves....

Sound on Sound

Oct 1, 2003, By David Weiss

Even cornerstones of the New York City studio scene have to make adjustments to their own foundations from time to time....

Nashville Skyline

Oct 1, 2003, By Rick Clark

Most people reading Mix will probably know of Tony Brown as one of Nashville's most influential music industry execs and producer heavyweights....

Facility Spotlight: Bennett Studios

Oct 1, 2003, By Gary Eskow

Let's get it over with, he is Tony's son. But Dae Bennett is also an engineer who tracked and mixed Naughty By Nature's hit OPP and a number of other successful rap and R&B projects....

Olympic Studios Expands Facility

Oct 1, 2003, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly

Producers Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths/Morrissey, The Cranberries) and Cenzo Townshend (U2, Skin, Lightning Seeds) have moved into London-based Olympic Studio's (www.olympicstudios.co.uk) new programming/pre-production room, which was part of a recent studio expansion....

Forging a New Look

Oct 1, 2003, Compiled by Sarah Benzuly

orge Recording (Oreland, Pa.; www.forgerecording.com) has moved to a state-of-the-art, Walters-Storyk Design Group-designed complex....

Remembering Sam Phillips

Sep 1, 2003, By Rick Clark

“He potentially changed every life on this planet simply by recording music. I certainly have other heroes in life, but I've never met a man like him,” says producer/musician/artist Jim Dickinson of recording legend Sam Phillips, who passed away in July, due to respiratory complications....

New York Metro

Sep 1, 2003, By Paul Verna

The allure of Allaire: By definition, “New York Metro” focuses on recording activities in and around the Big Apple....

Nashville Skyline

Sep 1, 2003, By Rick Clark

When digital recording first arrived on the scene in the '80s, Nashville was first in line to sign up for the format. Legendary producer and record exec Jimmy Bowen spearheaded the city's embrace of the new direction, and, when ADAT arrived and eventually DAWs, Music City bought into them in a big way, too — from commercial facilities to songwriter home studios....

L.A. Grapevine

Sep 1, 2003, By Maureen Droney

Recording sessions at West L.A.'s Groove Addicts tend to be fast-paced affairs; for example, the one I sat in on: a series of soundtracks composed by Danny Elfman and orchestrated by Steve Bartek for Disneyland's...

8th Annual Mix L.A. Open

Sep 1, 2003, By Maureen Droney

June's unpredictable weather made for an especially memorable event, as nearly 150 audio professionals gathered on Monday, June 9, 2003, at the Malibu...

The Road to Angel Mountain

Sep 1, 2003, By Tom Kenny

It is always inspiring, no matter the industry or field of creative endeavor, to find a story of someone who is living his or her dream....

Sessions & Studio News

Aug 1, 2003, By Sarah Benzuly

NORTHEAST

Elvis Costello and co-producer/engineer Kevin Killen have taken residence in Avatar's (New York City) Studio A since early April to record Costello's new record; Peter Doris assisted…Mos Def returned with his band Black Jack Johnson to The Cutting Room (New York City) to continue work on his new album....

Ronstadt at the Clubhouse

Aug 1, 2003, Compiled By Sarah Benzuly

Linda Ronstadt finished up a jazz standards record (Verve) at Clubhouse (Germantown, N.Y.) with producer John Boylan and engineer George Massenburg. The band consisted of Lewis Nash (drums), Christian McBride (bass), Alan Broadbent (piano, arranger), Bob Mann (guitar) and Warren Bernhardt (piano)....

Genex Throws a DSD Surround Playback Party

Aug 1, 2003, By Barry Rudolph

On May 12, Genex hosted a special playback session in Cello Studios' (Hollywood) Studio 1, where attendees got a glimpse into the rarefied world of Direct Stream Digital 5.1 surround recording....