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Mix Nashville returned to Music
City on August 29, 2015, hosted by industry-leading
touring production facility Clair
Global Nashville and leading educational facility
The Blackbird Academy Live. Presented in
conjunction with the local Nashville Section
of the AES, Mix Nashville attracted more than
300 attendees to a daylong exhibition with
panels, product displays, master classes, Avid’s
debut of the S6L Live console and Yamaha rolling
in its mobile truck to show the Nuage console
for post-production and the new Rivage
PM10 live console.
The day kicked off in the main exhibition hall at Clair Global Nashville
with a Keynote Speech by Craig Anderton, a musician, technologist,
author, audio raconteur and executive vice president at Gibson Brands.
His speech, entitled High-Resolution Audio: So What? led the audience
through a series of charts and anecdotes that debunked some of the
myths in how much the consumer can distinguish, before settling in
to the real benefits of recording at 96 kHz and higher frequencies. The
event was streamed live, which allowed Anderton to get in a few digs at
the sometimes-broken, disrupted nature of streaming audio.
“We were thrilled with the support for the re-emergence of Mix Nashville,
both from our sponsors and from the attendees,” says Tom Kenny,
editor of Mix. “ We had product debuts, master classes and an engaged
audience, which is what Mix Nashville was designed for—bringing together
the community of manufacturers and users in a professional facility and
in an educational setting. We had panels on Tracking Live, Miking Vocals,
Studio Business and mixing In and Out of the Box. It was a great day, and I
think everyone came away from it with something they learned.”
For more on Mix Nashville, visit www.proaudioliveevent.com.
Craig Anderton, technologist, musician,
author, futurist and executive
vice president at Gibson Brands,
delivered a Keynote Speech
entitled High Resolution Audio: So
What? to a rapt audience at Clair
Global Nashville.
Photo: Anelda Spence
Photo: Anelda Spence
Avid displayed its S3L control surface in
the booth, and across the driveway at The
Blackbird Academy Live held workshops
and demos on S3L and its new S6L Live
console, which made its Nashville debut.
56 M IX | OCTOBER 2015 | mixonline.com