AudioMedia - March 2009 - (Page 4) contents ISSUE 220 • MARCH 2009 Co vE R S toR I ES AUDIO-FO AUD R-VIDEO BROADCAS T INTERNET ORL THE W ADIN D’S LE FE G PRO I IO MEDIA AUDIO LIVE SOUN D MULTIMEDI A POST PROD UCTION RECORDIN G SSION DIO AL AU TECHN OLOGY MAGAZ INE REGULARS GEo Fo CUS: GERMANY RUSHES 14 16 SE REFLEXIoN FILtER 22 nitors Studio Mo oles & Live Cons se 5, Tested: Cuba New Tools Liquid Mix HD, Pro Tools 8, E HDSPe & RM n Workstatio Wonders plers Product Sam Hamburg leads a wave of Euphonix installs, and SSL is on the road with Sound Trekker Studio. Filtering the good, from the bad and the ugly, is something SE’s Reflexion Filter does with ease, finds SIMON TILLBROOK. nder Stevie Wo Blu-Ray Live DVD & tion Produc 03 747024 770960 EDITION WORLDW IDE WHAt ’S UP UK s Issue! The Award naire dog Millio Final Cut: Slum Knight & The Dark t rds Broadcas Grammy Awa rds Roundup Audio Awa KEVIN HILTON looks at what's been making the media headlines in past weeks – the media itself. RME HDSPE RAYDAt & AES 24 9 ALISTAIR McGHEE finds one little letter that makes all the difference, on a little interface card with W oRKStAtIo N W o NDERS A selection of the latest computer-friendly attachments: Cubase 5 (p30), Pro Tools 8 (p34), BR oADCASt REP oR t: tHE GRAMMYS Annual Grammy Awards. 18 very big ideas. AMSR STEVE HARLEY takes a look behind the stage at the AKG D40 70 new RME cards (p24), and Liquid Mix HD (p44). AKG’s little instrument mic takes and delivers in equally high measures; KARL BADER sets out to prove it. tHE AWARDS ISSUE We have a report on the live broadcast of the Grammy Awards (p18), a double Final Cut feature with Slumdog Millionaire (p26) and The Dark Knight (p28), and a round-up of recent audio- FINAL C Ut SPECIAL: SLUMDoG MILLIoNAIRE 26 STEPHEN BENNETT finds how the street sounds of Brighton mimicked those of Mumbai’s slums. And how a touch of location recording in India helped a little too. F E AT U R E S PR oJEC t PR o FILE: tHRILLER 20 related awards (p40). Still the best selling album of all time, STEVE REVIEWS St EINBER G CUBASE 5 FINAL C Ut SPECIAL: DARK KNIGHt talks to audio award winner Richard King. 28 HARVEY talks to Recording Engineer Bruce Swedien about Michael Jackson’s Thriller. 30 The Oscars come to Gotham; STROTHER BULLINS One small step for man to update their sequencers, one big step forward for music production vIDE o GUIDE CINEMAto GRAPHY 58 8 StE vIE W oNDER tHE W oNDER YEARS tracks its development from coast to coast. 38 40 systems?, RICHARD WENTK asks of Cubase’s latest update. Stevie Wonder goes Live at Last; JONATHAN MILLER KEVIN HILTON goes from DP to TC in two pages. DIGIDESIGN PR o too LS 8 34 NEWS RECoRDING NE W S I t's all new this month as new audio awards are announced, and New York welcomes a new sweatshop. AWARDS SPECIAL The next step in the evolutionary chain is here, and RUSS LONG is one of the awe-inspired many of Digi’s latest and greatest Pro Tools. The past months have seen a blizzard of industry awards being announced. Audio Media applauds those from the sound world. Fo CUSRItE LIQUIDMIX HD 44 52 LoUDNESS MoNIto RS 46 Easy to use, and easy on the ears, finds RICH TOZZOLI of Focusrite’s plug-ins collection. PoS t NE W S goes for a third (at) Cambridge. 10 12 62 STEPHEN BENNETT rounds up the products that will help you to stay on the right side of the new loudness regulations. Tango becomes even more in control, and Cedar PR o DUC t SAMPLER: Mo NIto RS From the great to the small, the large to the little; BR oADCAS t NE W S releases an all-in-one that's full of energy. AUDIo PR oJEC tS the Spanish allure is behind Audio Projects. 50 64 AMSR Audio Media offers a selection of monitors for allsized spaces, budgets, and projects. Røde retraces the steps of Darwin, and Zaxcom PAUL MAC heads across to Barcelona to see what AMSR PR oDUC t SAMPLER: LIvE CoNSoLES AMSR AMSR AMSR NE W S JoECo Q&A 66 It’s been hard to keep track of all the new and improved live consoles this year – so Audio Media has done the hard work for you, and brought together a selection of the most noteworthy. Criss Angel beieves in Meyer Sound in Las Vegas, and Midas' PRO 6 (lightning) strikes the right note at a Oslo's Grease production. There’s a new player on the recording field by the name of JoeCo; PAUL MAC talks to owner and innovator Joe Bull about why blackis back. 4 AUDIo MEDIA MARCH 2009
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