Steve Harvey

2 weeks ago | mixonline.com | Steve Harvey

Don’t Pass Up Part One!Considering that The Tracking Room facility was now 30 years old and had essentially been mothballed for the last five, Keith Urban and the team expected to face at least some updates to the electrical infrastructure.

2 weeks ago | mixonline.com | Steve Harvey

Nashville, TN (May 19, 2025)—Tucked away on a cul-de-sac at the edge of Music Row, The Tracking Room holds a special place in the hearts of musicians, engineers and producers everywhere. Opened in October 1995 by the late Glenn Meadows, owner of nearby Masterfonics, and boasting the largest live space—6,500 square feet—in Nashville, the facility operated continuously until March 2020, when it suspended operations.

1 month ago | mixonline.com | Steve Harvey

Don’t pass up Part One!BRING IN THE MUSICIANSThe four musicians were seated facing the array and surrounded by gobos, to limit room reflections. However, they had been rehearsing in a lively room, Wallace notes, “So I ended up flipping the gobos around to the hard surfaces so they could hear each other.”Porter was positioned at the center-channel mic with singer Carmen Nickerson to his left, in the right-front channel.

1 month ago | mixonline.com | Steve Harvey

Hollywood, CA (April 14, 2025)—Over the last several years, various record labels have been working hard to remix back-catalog recordings for immersive presentation on streaming platforms such as Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited and Tidal HiFi. But when are we going to start hearing new projects conceived, written, recorded and mixed specifically for some form of spatial playback? The short answer is that such projects do exist, but they are still relatively few and far between.

2 months ago | mixonline.com | Steve Harvey

Don’t miss Part 1, focusing on the live sound of FireAid!Los Angeles, CA (March 11, 2025)—The first that Scott Pederson, Nashville-based president of Remote Production Group, heard about FireAid was when RPG mixer and producer Tom Davis received a call from the show’s executive producer, Joel Gallen, just a few days after the fires broke out. At the same time, RPG’s John Harris, an A-list music mixer, was learning about the show from Emily Wolfe, executive in charge of production.