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SUCCESS STORIES
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interviews and success stories with creative professionals in technology and entertainment.
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BowHaus: True BW Prints
Charles James and Joe Berndt developed their own new ultra-refined and
highly courted way of printing images using a digital scanning and
printing technology called “True Black and White” — now
available for both Espon and Canon printers.
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Lee Jaffe: Photographer and Wailer
A photographer, a sculptor, a painter, a filmmaker, a performance artist
and a harmonica-playing musician for Bob Marley and the Wailers, the
multi-talented Lee Jaffe began his photography career in the thick of all of this.
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Pro Tools Makes Things Less “Complicated”
“I think it’s really cool
to be able to edit tracks on the bullet train in Japan,” says Avril Lavigne’s engineer, guitarist, and
co-songwriter Evan Taubenfeld. “That’s why I use my Mbox a lot. I can just plug in and go.” The band regularly tours with three Pro Tools rigs. Read more.
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Richie Hawtin
Richie Hawtin has been spinning and mixing records for over 20 years. But he decided to move beyond the realm of vinyl, into using computer-based,
BPM-warping tools like Ableton Live to expand his
mixes and tricks.
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Underworld
Godfathers of electronic music, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde hooked up first as the
atmospheric band Freur, then drove electronic music to a new level of
sonic world takeover with Freur’s sequel, Underworld.
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Coldplay
Logic is integral to Coldplay’s songwriting and
recording process — from designing sounds on a PowerBook that can later be
triggered by a controller via MIDI, to processing guitar tracks with Line 6’s Amp
Farm and various other plug-ins in Pro Tools.
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Butch Vig
The world of music discovered Butch Vig when he produced the breakthrough Nirvana album, “Nevermind.”
Then, after producing the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Siamese Dream” and doing
remixes for U2, Depeche Mode, and Beck, he started the band Garbage.
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Alan
Moulder
Producer Alan Moulder was discovered in the 1980’s when he engineered tracks
for The Jesus and Mary Chain. Now, he’s regularly in demand to engineer, produce and
mix records for bands like Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins and My Bloody
Valentine.
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Radiohead
When Radiohead goes on tour, it’s imperative that the band can still capture its
creativity on the road. “We have recently done a bit of recording on the road
using a Mac running Logic Audio as a multitrack recorder,” says Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.
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John
Digweed
Globetrotting DJ and remix master John Digweed, voted top DJ in the world by DJ
and Mix magazines, may use turntables, but when it comes to producing his sets,
he relies on technology like Macs, and software like Logic Audio.
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Chad
Muska
Pro skateboarder Chad Muska produced his own hip hop record from a hotel room in
NYC. He lured in Biz Markie, Afrika Bambaataa, Raekwon, U-God, Melle Mel, Guru,
KRS-One, Jeru, Prodigy, McLyte, Special Ed, Ice-T and Flavor Flav and recorded the entire
thing straight to hard drive.
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Liam
Lynch
Liam Lynch is not only the conceptualist behind MTV’s highly successful
“Sifl and Olly Show,” but he recently became an international rockstar
with his radio hit, “My United States of Whatever.”
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The Black Eyed Peas
Producer/songwriter for the Black Eyed Peas Will.I.Am’s intensely discerning ears, taste, and skill for blending the best of diverse musical genres into hip-hop were tuned solely by listening to music. Now he does all his songwriting in Pro Tools. Read more.
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Hip-Hop
Royale
“Pro Tools is perfect for someone like Missy Elliott, because she tends to
write about five or six songs on the same track,” says
engineer/mixer/producer Jimmy Douglass, an industry icon who regularly works with
Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Timbaland, Lil’ Kim, and other platinum-level hip-hop
acts. Read more.
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From OutKast to Elton John
Matt Still is a versatile engineer who works on everything from rap and R&B
records to musicals. His credits include playing on two OutKast records and engineering tracks for OutKast’s
award-winning Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. In 2004, Still worked with Elton John
on his new record, released in November 2004. Read more.
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Speed Dial Hot Picks: Cobra Starship
Cobra Starship’s love of
technology extends well beyond their drum machines. The band knows, loves and uses Opera
Mini, and it recently partnered with Opera to deliver a free, customized version of
the Opera Mini mobile web browser to its fanbase.
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Speed Dial Hot Picks: Lance Weiler
Acclaimed writer, director and filmmaker, Lance Weiler’s first film grossed $4 million. His new project, HEAD TRAUMA, is a cinema game
experience. In this feature, Lance gives contestants a leg up with a game-related list for their Speed
Dial.
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Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie penetrates, shocks and entertains the
masses through all means of media. After writing and directing two of his own films,
Zombie just wrote and recorded a new CD, “Educated
Horses” with his producer Scott Humphrey at The Chop Shop.
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Hans Zimmer
German-born composer Hans Zimmer has been nominated for seven Academy Awards,
including his music for “Gladiator,” “As Good As It Gets,” “The Preacher’s Wife,”
“Crimson Tide,” “The Thin Red
Line” and “The Prince of
Egypt.”
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Chris Vrenna
Grammy-winning composer/producer Chris Vrenna talks about recording and engineering his new Tweaker
record in Pro Tools, his latest favorite plug-ins, and composing music for games.
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Jerome Dillon Produces
Former NIN drummer Dillon’s
“nearLY: reminder” soundtrack-meets-rocktronic masterpiece started as
an attempt to sonically recreate his recurring dream. He
and engineer Brett Pierce (B. Poledouris/T. Boyle) tell us how they recorded this epic release.
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Jack
Dangers
Jack Dangers masterminded the breakbeat and delivered dub electronica
through his project, Meat Beat Manifesto. Also a highly
skilled remixer, producer and composer, Dangers is largely credited for being one
of the true fathers of electronic music.
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Keith
Hillebrandt
After producing a sonic masterpiece sound CD called “Diffusion of Useful Noise,” sound designer
Keith Hillebrandt went on to design all of the sounds for NIN’s epic “The Fragile.” Now he’s just
produced a new sonic library full of dark, gritty textures: “Useful Noise V.2.”
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Richard
Devine
Richard Devine has remixed top Warp artists like
Aphex Twin, designed sounds for virtual instrument deity Native Instruments,
scored commercials for Nike and Touchstone Pictures, and engineers and performs
his own ear-tearing music mayhem worldwide.
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Pro Tools “With Teeth”
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross talk about how they sold the SSL and moved inside the box — using a Control|24 — while recording Nine Inch Nails’ “With Teeth.” Read more.
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Mixing the Beastie Boys
Rap mixing icon Supa Engineer Duro does most of his work out of Right Track
Studios in Manhattan. But in 2004, he got a call from the Beastie Boys asking him
to mix their new release, To the 5 Boroughs, at their private studio. The entire
record was written, recorded, arranged, engineered and mixed in Pro Tools|HD. Read more.
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Capturing
Bonnaroo
Armed with a crew of 50, and 11 Pro Tools workstations,
Third Wave Productions’ Hank Neuberger and Terry Fryer multi-tracked 65 acts
including Danger Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, The X-ecutioners, Damien
Rice, Dave Matthews and Calexico playing on six stages over just three days. Read more.
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Skywalker Sound’s Sparling
Kent Sparling is a sound designer and film
mixer who works on feature films. Recently, he mixed sound for Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation
and The Virgin Suicides. When it comes to tweaking the sonic realm, Sparling relies on Pro Tools, a Digi 002, NI’s Kontakt and a bunch of old synths, samplers and outboard processors. Read more.
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South Park Sound
For Comedy Central’s South
Park, the ideas for episodes don’t usually get fully developed
until the week of the show. And unlike like most television shows, at South Park, each episode is cut and finished by
the morning it first airs. In fact, the voiceovers are done the night prior to
broadcast. Read more.
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Working
with The Mars Volta
Andrew Scheps engineers and mixes for the
greats of rock and roll. In addition to the Mars Volta, he’s worked with
Iggy Pop, the Rolling Stones, Audioslave, Johnny Cash, and The Red Hot Chili
Peppers. He has also worked on film and television scores. Scheps is a Digidesign
diehard with four Pro Tools|HD Accel cards under his belt. Read more.
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