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Summer of Love. QR Codes are the belle of the technology ball this month. Meet Masters of the Universe and take a coffee break with producer of Lit and OAR. We get crazy with Favored Nation artists in LA and travel North where the Dead are alive with music and new artists rising. Trans Audio Group has all of 9 products from Dave Hill's Crane Song including the Europa One. We make a stop at Olivia Broadfield's plug 'n play studio with Focusrite and learn about their new small console with a big sound. Dreams can come true (read the end).
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Internet Mastering
anyone? Allow Universal
Mastering staff with mucho chops handle your your masters at
merely $99 per song. How's that for budget?! You can submit your
music via UM's WAM!NET service and wham you go! Take an express
tour of Universal Mastering and meet the Universal staff: Senior
Mastering/Mixing Engineer Peter Doell, Senior Mastering Engineer
Erick Labson, and for booking you may contact Nicholas Dofflemyer
or Blair Milby at your sercive. Read more here
We caught up with producer Matt Wallace this month who was in the studio to record Lit's new album. Take a listen to what they've been working on band's site. Just click in the TV above to check out a brand new song "You Tonight"
Reid Shippen
Relies on ATCs for the New Shania Twain Single
After earning dual degrees in business and recording, Reid Shippen
worked his way up from an intern at Quad Studios in Nashville, TN
to one of the most sought-after young mix engineers around. In his
more than 10 years of experience in the studio, Reid has mixed multiple
gold and platinum records and hundreds of charting singles and albums,
including six Grammy Award-winners. Audio Pro International Awards Finalists are out and the Dave Hill Designs Europa 1 and Crane Song STC8 are both among them for best new outboard studio processor.
Crane Song owner,
founder and design engineer Dave
Hill Design has become one of the most respected inventors in
the professional audio business. Dave has been doing studio and
film sound recording since 1972. Early in the 1980's Dave was asked
by a used equipment dealer if he could design a tube compressor
that would have the sound of the older tube type devices and still
be clean enough to compete with modern devices. The result of this
request was the Summit Audio TLA-100. On the success of that first
design, Dave went on to design multiple tube devices for Summit.
In 1995 Dave founded Crane Song, a new company based on solid state
pro audio and innovative pro audio software. Dave introduced one
of the very first changeable color compressors, the STC 8. Other
products followed, including the unique Flamingo preamp with "tone",
"iron" and "sound" switches for variable tone
and saturation; and HEDD which creates tube and analog sound in
the digital domain. Dave later entered the software market with
his product called Phoenix, the first product to bring analog color
to Pro Tools TDM. Dave Hill's reputation continues to expand and
include multiple contracts with high profile hardware and software
manufacturers to design products or circuits that achieve unique
performance objectives.
TransAudio Group, founded by industry veteran Brad Lunde, has quickly become the premier US importer/distributor and/or US sales and marketing representative for high-end audio. Success hinges on TransAudio providing dealers and end users with a higher standard of product expertise and support far beyond the norm. TAG product line includes A-Designs (USA),ATC Loudspeakers (UK), Bock Audio (USA), Chameleon Labs , Crane Song, Geoffrey Daking & Co. (USA) Drawmer (UK), Dave Hill Design, George Massenburg Labs (GML USA),Lehmann Audio SABRA SOM (Brazil), SoundField Microphones (UK), Tonelux, True Systems, Tube-Tech and Sonodyne Nearfield Monitors
An Attitude of Gratitude at Prairie Sun Recording
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services are conveniently located under one roof at Universal Mastering's
well-appointed building in Hollywood, California near Universal
City Walk, luxury hotels and 5-Star restaurants.
UMS provides
the resources for each client to deliver music in any commercial
format--with these services all performed within one secure mastering
facility. Read
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Recent release
from producer Matt Wallace #12 Billboard debut! "King"
by Of A
Revolution
Today the Crane Song family of products has grown to nine pieces; the STC-8 compressor, *HEDD (Harmonically Enhanced Digital Device), FLAMINGO, a stereo microphone preamplifier, TRAKKER, a single channel compressor, SPIDER, an eight channel microphone preamplifier, mixer and A/D convertor, AVOCET, a discrete class A studio controller, IBIS, a stereo analog equalizer, EGRET, a highly flexible digital audio workstation back end and PHOENIX, an analog modeling TDM plug-in suite for Pro Tools HD. "Crane Song Ltd. is able to provide the highest level of quality due to the many years of experience of both Dave and the people who have stayed with him. Some of these employees have worked with Dave since 1988 and continue to have an intense interest in developing the best audio devices possible. Crane Song's combination of innovative design and uncompromising attention have helped the company make its mark in the professional audio world," says Brad Lunde For more info on Crane Song, contact Brad Lunde byPhone (702) 307-2700 or visit www.transaudiogroup.com
LasVegasProAudio.com, LasVegasProAudio.com, a division of TransAudio Group, is the launch pad for the brands of tomorrow. The goal of LasVegasProAudio.com is to provide unique equipment, useful information and long-term support to their clients.LVPA product line includes: Accusound Cable, Economy 50mm Shockmount,Enhanced Audio (Ireland), PAULY Superscreens (Germany)Sonodore Microphones (Holland) Liverpool-based Studiocare Professional Audio will distribute Daking Audio and Bock Audio in the United Kingdom.
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The
Museum of Making Music at NAMM headquarters in Carlsbad, California
unveiled its new design at a reopening celebration on Aug. 20, 2011.
The museum honored Ruth
Charles for her gift to the museum (watch a short video interview
with Ruth about her humble beginnings that's now part of the oral
music history at NAMM). Ruth and her late husband Dick opened a
music store in Glendale, California, called Charles Music. They
enjoyed a long life together as music makers and teachers and retailers
of musical products. The couple pioneered many products in the southern
California area including those of Yamaha and Roland (Mr. Kakehashi,
the founder of Roland, is a cherished friend). In 2011 Mrs. Charles
became the first music retail gallery sponsor of the Museum of Making
Music in Carlsbad, California. "Since opening in 2000, the
Museum has exposed visitors to the history of music through educational
programs, exhibitions and our live performance series. This renovation
allows us to further expand the popular interactive portion of our
Museum’s vision, giving visitors a chance to pick up instruments
and explore their own musicality during their visit,” says
Carolyn Grant, executive director at the Museum of Making Music.
Four of the Museum’s galleries, which showcase more than a
century of musical innovations, are enhanced to highlight a “breakthrough”
from each era. The Museum’s fifth gallery is fully renovated,
offering nearly 1,100 square feet of updated stories of instrument
innovation and usage as well as newly developed, state-of-the-art
interactive displays. The renovation which cost about $620,000 includes
a complete rehaul of the museum’s fifth 1,100-square-foot gallery.
Visitors are invited to sample music from around the world and play
a variety of instruments independently or with their friends and
family. Interactive instruments have been provided by Taylor Guitars,
Korg, Kurzeil, Moog, The Martin Guitar Company, Deering Banjos,
Roland, and many more. The project, designed by Academy Studios
of Novato, Calif., will also include the creation of a new space
to showcase temporary exhibits, which the Museum self-curates. “This
important renovation project will further the Museum’s mission
to get people excited about the rich history of musical instruments
and encourage family and friends to explore music making,”
said Dean Weldon, president and CEO of Academy Studios.The museum
is located at 5790 Armada Drive near Legoland. Admission prices
for the Museum of Making Music are $8 for adults, $5 for kids, seniors,
active military and students. The museum is open every day except
Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Bob Lefsetz
is the author of "The Lefsetz Letter." Famous for being
beholden to no one and speaking the truth, Bob’s insights are
fueled by his stint as an entertainment business attorney, majordomo
of Sanctuary Music’s American division and consultancies to
major labels. On
the topic of why you still need recordings, we're quoting him with
permission. We hope it's useful to artists of all size and genre. A letter to Elliot Scheiner I really hope
you get this little note of gratitude from Australia. Thank you
so much for all the fabulous recordings and the blood sweat and
tears that you obviously put into your projects. I just wish everyone
cared as much as you. I am a big fan of "surround " and
I just despair at the lack of enthusiasm for it. What we get (MP3
crap ) sounds like it was recorded on a lawn mower. I read some
time ago that you have re-mastered all of the "Steely Dan"
discs?... got very excited and, eventually, disappointed by the
labels disinterest. You were also responsible for one of my all
time favorite discs, "The Hunter" ( Jennifer Warnes.)
Just took delivery of the new "gold" version, although
I suppose if it was recorded digitally, there won't be an improvement.
But I just had to have it anyway! ( What a surround disc that would
make.) I wish you continued success and I look forward to your future
projects.
Meet Rizen
Appling. Charming and hard working musician we ran into at a
Coffee Bean near Hollywood and Highland. First you notice a well-dressed
man with a confident air. Rizen must have been Tweeting his fans.
Sipping his latte, with a healthy supply of CDs on his side. We
noticed and commented on the slick artwork on the CD covers (each
CD sported a different color jacket). "Thank you. My girlfriend
is a graphic artist," he says as he hands me a copy along with
his business card. The card looks sharp and has all the pertinent
info - phone: 818-297-2933 web site: www.rizenrecrods.com.
Yup, he's got his own label too! WANTS/
NEEDS Own a historical
Studer! Want a beautiful Studer A 80 24 Track that used to belong
to Brian Wilson? The owner says he loves it but rarely uses it.
We know this will find the right home. Please contact us for more
details. 818-990-3031 or write to [email protected]
RIP Jerry
Leiber died
on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 78. The lyricist, with his
partner, Mike Stoller, wrote some of the most enduring classics
in the history of rock ’n’ roll, including “Hound
Dog,” (originally written for blues singer Big Mama Thornton,
the song became an enormous hit for Elvis Presley in 1956) “Yakety
Yak,” “Stand By Me” and “On Broadway.”
Forbes Women
Of Power (Top twelve in Entertainment/media) Dreams Come True. Mooka says he's grateful this month. Not only he married the woman of his dreams, the Grateful Dead project got mixed and mastered at his studio at Prairie Sun. "As a college student I saw the lineup of that version of the Dead at the University of Iowa in 1972. I actually wore out the vinyl in my dorm room tripping to the guitar part of the song "I Know You Rider". I had dreams then that I would someday have a chance to work with Jerry Garcia!! In a roundabout way it came true. When I started my studio in a slum- lord house in Cotati near Sonoma State, I was putting my first advert together for BAM magazine and came up with the phrase "Turn Your Dreams Into Reality". It was a hit and 30 years plus later, I can only pray we have in fact turned some dreams into reality and maybe touched a couple of our own on the way. What is there to be grateful for? In August I am getting married and am so excited I can't even express it," says Mark "Mooka" Rennick of Prairie Sun. Mooka
is no stranger to making dreams come true. "Mooka gave me my
first chance to learn about studios by hiring me fresh off college.
I know he's still doing it today for a lot of people. That's why
he's loved by so many-- past and present clients, employees and
fellow musicians. Mooka's got big soul. Go check out his studio.
It's where dreams come true, really!" says studioexpresso's
Claris Dodge who managed Prairie Sun in the 80s. Congratulations
again to Pamela and Mooka! Here's a tribute to the happy couple.
"Common
sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different
speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." "Humor
is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that
some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds
are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." "I have
always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet
my duties and expectations as Apple's C.E.O., I would be the first
to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come." Copenhagen
Phil
flash mobs at Copenhagen Central Station on May 2nd 2011 playing
Ravel's Bolero. Conductor is Jesper Nordin
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Google's
Magnifier A New Music Blog from Google...Free downloads, videos,
images, interviews, songs of the day, exclusive live sets and recommendations,
with content updated on a daily basis. "Sometimes it will be
new artists we think deserve more attention," described Google
head of Music Programming Tim Quirk. "And sometimes there will
be video interviews and live performances. You can add any or all
of the songs to your Music Beta library instantly," Quirk says.
Currently Google remains without major label licenses on its cloud,
which prevents quick, iCloud-style scan-n-matching of user collections.
Instead, Music Beta users are forced to go through a laborious,
often multi-day uploading process. On 
QR
Code Craze At Comic-Con San Diego was the site for more than
125,000 fanboys and geek girls and pop culture enthusiasts to indulge
in everything genre and sci-fi related. The big technology craze
at the show was scanning the QR code with smartphones. Enter to
win, sell tickets or want to watch the new WB trailer? Scan it to
pull it up on your phone. One booth was even having a scavenger
hunt throughout the convention center via QR codes, where one scan
would direct you to the next, and the first to the end won a box
set of comics and prizes. As far as technology goes, this year the
new belle of the ball is QR Codes. 
Producer
Darrel Thorp (Radiohead, Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg) and 
Packed with
Girls 
Black
Friday is an Opera in Two Acts. Some have called it a rock opera.
But, according to the composer, Sam Ottinger, Black Friday
is outwardly intense, dark and meant to grab hold of unsuspecting
audience members and give them chills. Sam who composed libretto/score
for Black Friday and conducted the nine piece ensemble/cast of fourteen
for four sold out shows before an audience of 250, drew his inspiration
from Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Wagner's "Artwork
of the Future" -- a new vision for musical drama in which music,
poetry and painting would be combined to create a Gesamtkunstwerk
(complete work of art). Ottinger who's fluent in German, composed
the music for Black Friday amidst his interest in the operatic form
and a growing interest in the Broadway musical. "It was composed
as an answer to the fairytale endings of popular works in order
to revitalize the power of tragedy in theater. However, it was also
composed as an answer to the ever-growing American obsession with
consumer culture (Black Friday refers to the day following Thanksgiving
Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas
shopping season)," says Ottinger who saw his first opera, Simon
Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi, in the fall of 2004 at the Vienna
Staatsoper. "Like most of the cultural epiphanies in my life
I was introduced to the world of opera unexpectedly by my host-mother
Jenny, who like most Austrians, felt it her duty to enrich my life
with Austrian culture whenever possible," says Ottinger. The
music of the opera incorporate improvisatory elements of rock, jazz
and experimental music. This Wesleyan graduate believes that some
sort of orchestration is necessary in order for Black Friday to
truly be considered an opera. " What's next for Sam? He is
moving to LA this month and looking for a job. "I'm good with
people. So, anything in a studio, club or theater where there's
music would be welcome," says Sam. 
DJ SPOOKY
- TERRA NOVA: SINFONIA ANTARCTICA -- A Mediation About Landscape.
Antarctica has no government and belongs to no country. It's the
new destination for 
Cost
of Protecting Your IP Just how much would Protect IP Act cost
the taxpayers? Try $47 million through 2016, according to the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office. That doesn't even include costs by
nonfederal groups like ISPs. In order to enforce the legislation,
the Department of Justice says it will need an additional 22 special
agents and 26 support staff. “Once fully phased in, CBO estimates
the costs of the additional employees under the bill would reach
about $10 million annually, including salaries, benefits, training,
equipment, and support costs,” says the CBO. By its very nature,
leading search engine Google will be affected by the new legislation.
Recently executive chairman Eric Schmidt spoke out against PROTECT
IP-style censorship during the company’s Big Tent conference
in London, saying that the company would fight demands to carry
out web blocking. Law
enforcement costs money? ....Gee! we should do away with it! 
FREEDOM
is the jolting new documentary that takes a hard look at America's
perilous and unsustainable addiction to foreign oil and focuses
on a surprising solution to America's oil dependence, is from the
filmmakers of the award winning Sundance documentary "Fuel"
and will debut simultaneously in theaters and on DVD. The husband
and wife Freedom filmmaking team of Josh and Rebecca Tickell will
immediately embark on a three month, 30+ city North American Clean
Energy Tour in a fully customized Freedom Bus, a "green"
constructed, highly energy efficient vehicle. Freedom features an
eclectic array of personalities, including former Speaker of the
House Newt Gingrich, former NATO commander Wesley Clark, singer/songwriter
Jason Mraz, international author Deepak Chopra and such "green"
actors as Ed Begley, Jr., Amy Smart and Michelle Rodriguez.. 
Gold
CDs Anyone? Gold has been going through the roof. Why not 24-karat
gold CDs?! Legacy remasterings is a Camarillo, CA-based Audio Fidelity
company, and the latest releases are James Taylor's Sweet Baby James
(1970) and Heart's Greatest Hits (1998) is you guessed it, Gold.
These are numbered, limited edition releases that will be available
starting this month. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab "Original Master
Recording (TM)" has been doing the Gold CDs for well over a
decade (
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