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Reality Bites: The Making of LeAnn Rimes’ ‘Spitfire’
During the past few years, LeAnn Rimes’ private life has become tabloid fodder, the result of the public’s insatiable appetite for titillation. Being the...
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Jeff Bhasker’s Amazing Year
>In 2012, producer/songwriter Jeff Bhasker turned over a new leaf, as his run of hits with top R&B/hip hop artists—including Alicia Keys’ “Try Sleeping...
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Steve Vai’s Studies in Harmony and Light
Steve Vai has married form and function in his new high-end home studio. The fittingly named Harmony Hut, which sits on the grounds of...
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Another Green Day for Mark Isham
Mark Isham’s five-acre estate is spread over rolling countryside in the horse-centric West Valley community of Hidden Hills. The renowned film composer’s daily commute...
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Bud Scoppa’s Take on Grammy 2012 Nominations
The biggest controversy this year has to do with the Recording Academy’s decision to eliminate 31 categories, from 109 to 78, with the cuts...
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On the Cover: Paramount Recording Studios, Los Angeles
Adam Beilenson and Mike Kerns, co-owners of the Paramount Recording Group, the biggest music-dedicated studio operation in L.A.—and quite possibly the biggest on the...
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L.A. Grapevine, April 2010
When it came to decide on the focus of my final column, I knew it could only be Jeff Greenberg, my friend of 35...
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L.A. Grapevine, March 2010
Since founding Sherman Oaks-based Kaufman and Associates in 2005, renowned studio designer Jay Kaufman has designed and built a number of commercially
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L.A. Grapevine, February 2010
Recording Shooter Jennings Black Ribbons album with engineer Dave Cobb by Mix L.A. editor Bud Scoppa
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L.A. Grapevine, January 2010
A recent addition to the A-list of mix engineers, Joe Zook is on a roll, having scored chart-topping singles and albums with OneRepublic, Katy...
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L.A. Grapevine, December 2009
For years, as I made the daily commute from Studio City to Hollywood through the Cahuenga Pass, I drove past the iconic mid-century building...
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L.A. Grapevine, November 2009
North Hollywood's Track Records, built in 1980 by producer Brian Ahern for his then-wife Emmylou Harris, is under new ownership. In early 2008, the...
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L.A. Grapevine
On a hazy late-summer afternoon, I pull into the parking lot of California Sound Studios in Lake Forest, 60 miles south of my 'hood....
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L.A. Grapevine, September 2009
I had two reasons for visiting what was previously the A&M Records lot in Hollywood: one professional, the other personal. My destination was the...
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L.A. Grapevine, August 2009
Sitting smack-dab in the middle of Santa Monica's bustling post-house enclave, POP Sound is two audio post-production outfits in one, and each is an...
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L.A. Grapevine, July 2009
During the past two decades, the words studio bau:ton have become synonymous with a readily identifiable style of recording studio design: airy, functional,
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L.A. Grapevine, June 2009
A profile of the Los Angeles recording studio called resonate, owned by veteran engineer John Van Nest
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Getting Paid
THERE ARE MORE OUTLETS THAN EVER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, BUT WHERE'S THE MONEY?
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L.A. Grapevine, April 2009
Elias Arts original music company for commercials, feature films and trailers profiled in Mix magazine
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On the Cover: EastWest Updates Legendary Hollywood Studios
Read Mix profile on EastWest Recording Studio in Hollywood
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L.A. Grapevine, March 2009
Read Mix Los Angeles columnist Bud Scoppa interview with Sound City recording studio manager Shivaun O'Brien
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L.A. Grapevine, February 2009
Read Mix Los Angeles columnist Bud Scoppa interview with recording studio Sanctum L.A. owners Leo Mellace and Steve Catizone
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Grammy Museum Opening!
Read Mix news article on Los Angeles Grammy Museum opening by Bud Scoppa
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L.A. Grapevine, January 2009
In a tough economy, the recording truck run by Design FX Remote continues to land CD and DVD projects
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L.A. Grapevine, December 2008
At Hollywood’s Ocean Way Recording. top mixer Jack Joseph Puig has left his large, colorful studio room to work in a dedicated mix room...
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L.A. Grapevine, November 2008
How the L.A. company Immediate Music developed into one of the leading providers of film-trailer music
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L.A. Grapevine, October 2008
L.A. music mixer David Bianco talks about his new mix room, called Dave’s Room
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L.A. Grapvine, September 2008
Read Mix's Los Angeles Editor Bud Scoppa Columnist Who Writes About Skip Saylor's Recording Studio, Skip's Place
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L.A. Grapevine, August 2008
In 1978, Larrabee Studios owner Kevin Mills asked mix engineer Dave Way, his friend and colleague, to check out Andora Studios in the Cahuenga...
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L.A. Grapevine, July 2008
During the 1970s and '80s, I made frequent visits to the Sunset Marquis, a high-end but unpretentious hotel tucked away on Alta Loma, a...
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L.A. Grapevine, June 2008
The people I admire most had the guts to do this kind of record, says Jakob Dylan with quiet intensity. As he talks about...
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L.A. Grapevine, May 2008
More and more L.A.-based rock producers, engineers and mixers are doing projects in Nashville studios these days, not only because Music City boasts a
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L.A. Grapevine, April 2008
The technological revolution has given rise to an entrepreneurial revolution. As proof, I offer you my own 'hood in Studio City, a name that,...
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L.A. Grapevine, March 2008
Talking about gear in L.A. is like being at a muscle-car convention, quips Thom Monahan. A friend of mine once commented that there are...
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Good Vibrations, The Sequel
Hollywood's hallowed Western Studios, most recently known as Cello, will be the scene of a grand re-opening in January, following an ambitious 22-week
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Still Crafty After All These Years
OLD FRIENDS RECONNECT TO CELEBRATE PAUL SIMON'S GERSHWIN PRIZE