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MixBlogs Ask Eddie: This Month’s Term Paper, er, uhm, Column Teaching has been a remarkably rewarding experience, certainly it has given back more than I would ever have expected. After eight years, I’ve got a few scars but have mostly succeeded—not only in my mission to share what I know, but surprisingly, I have gained a deeper understanding of the science behind the art. MixSounds: Our Day Will Come In late 1962 “Our Day Will Come,” a song written by Bob Hilliard and Mort Garson, was released on Kapp Records. Its authors preferred an established lounge singer but agreed to let the unknown Ruby & The Romantics, a group based out of Akron, Ohio, take a shot on the condition that if the track failed to gain traction, Kapp would recut it with the great…Jack Jones! Top Stories Pop Mark Media's Confessions of a Small Working Studio: Tree Sound Studios Given the society in which we live, it’s no wonder why many of us become jaded. All too often, we see the dishonest get away with crimes, the innocent suffer unnecessarily, and good people overwhelmed by bad circumstances. Sometimes, though, a story comes along that brings us back to that old adage: You reap what you sow. Atlanta’s Tree Sound Studios offers a refreshing example of that saying. 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 Vai’s estate in the hills above the San Fernando Valley in what was originally the gardener’s quarters, is a direct and vivid reflection of the guitarist/gearhead’s personality and taste—manifested in his dual passions for aesthetics and technology. Dark wood paneling, Tiffany lamps and shelves filled with leather-bound books give the control room a warm, elegantly understated vibe closer in feel to a library than a recording studio. 28th Annual TEC Awards Nominees for Outstanding Technical Achievement The TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio announces the Technical Achievement nominees for the 28th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, to be held Friday, January 25, 2013, in Anaheim, Calif. Presented by the TEC Foundation, the TEC Awards is the pro audio industry's most prestigious awards show honoring outstanding achievement in product innovation and sound production. Empire Investment Holdings Acquires CSS Studios Empire Investment Holdings, headquartered in Miami, Fla., announces that it has acquired CSS Studios, LLC (“CSS”), from Discovery Communications Inc. CSS Studios is a holding company that owns seven distinct businesses, which together comprise the largest independent post-production sound company in North America. Berklee College of Music Names George S. Clinton Chair of Film Scoring Department » Dark Horse Institute in Nashville Installs Argosy Workstations » Studio at the Palms in Las Vegas Installs Three Avid HDX Systems » Mastering Engineer John Greenham Joins Infrasonic Mastering » Recording Academy Atlanta Chapter Hosts Super Producer Panel » Featured Products Steve Vai Presents Ocean Way Microphone Locker App Steve Vai has produced the new Ocean Way Microphone Locker app ($9.99), based on the renowned CD-ROM created in the 1990s, and long unavailable. Using Allen Sides' microphone collection at Ocean Way Recording Studios in Hollywood, this new app is designed to show how to pair the right microphone with the right instrument with its optimum placement. It also contains a comprehensive list of microphones and instruments and gives diagrams and specs on each. Genelec SpeakerAngle App for iOS Devices Genelec's SpeakerAngle app for iOS devices (99 cents) allows users to correctly set and match the angling ("toe-in") of both stereo and 7.1 surround sound speakers, in pursuit of optimum audio fidelity. SpeakerAngle was co-developed by Genelec and AudioApps (a new mobile apps company) and is compatible with iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later and iPhone Touch 4th Generation and later. Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec Plug-In Version 2 » Prism Sound Announces Limited Edition Orpheus Units » Find more new products from The Wire. » Announcements From Mix EastWest/Quantum Leap Complete Composers Collection HD+ promotion through September 30, 2012 » GIK Acoustics offers its customers a video contest with a $500 cash Grand Prize; submissions will be accepted until September 30, 2012. » Vintage King Audio offers discounts on demo items » GameSoundCon takes place October 24-25, 2012 in San Francisco at Pyramind Studios » Audio-Technica Offering Microphone Rebates through December 31, 2012 »

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