AUDIO FOR BROADCAST, POST, RECORDING AND MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION V16.5 JULY/AUGUST 2017 • ISSN 1477-4216 News & Analysis Business 4 Leader 54 $hawn Carter — 4 News rap’s first billionaire? Conventions, installs, appointments and biz bites. Record labels, tie-ins with technology and corporate deals — Jay-Z has gone from a street 10 Products hustler to a world famous entertainer and New introductions and announcements. businessman — we lay out the numbers. 58 Broadcast aside 56 Your business The Soundbites of life — Dennis Baxter Spotify may soon become a public company: Dan wonders if this will benefit the majority of describes the subjective relationship between noise and sound. artists on the music streaming service.

Craft Microphone and Accessories Special 28 Jimmy Douglass A four-time Grammy-winning engineer, with a 42 Which mic, and where to put it? career spanning five decades, from Imagine and listen ... before recording. and to , , , and Pharrell Williams. 46 Microphones — the audio calrec.com Jimmy “The Senator” had a long association journey starts here with , and has just mixed Jay-Z’s new A roundup of new and interesting products. album 4:44. 51 Shotgun shootout 31 Rob Kirwan Two sound recordists benchmark Starting as an engineer at the famous Windmill nine microphones in realistic production Lane recording studios in Dublin, Kirwan’s credits sound environments. Test audio at include U2, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, Glasvegas, www.resolutionmag.com Sneaker Pimps and more. He produced Hozier’s Take Me to Church, which topped the charts in 12 countries. Reviews 15 AEA Nuvo N8 stereo kit 34 Chance Thomas As a composer he is best known for scoring 16 Aston Starlight mic blockbuster video games like James Cameron’s 18 Townsend Sphere L22 Avatar, DOTA 2 and The Lord of the Rings Online — but he’s also garnered a long list of film and mic modelling system TV credits over a 20 year career. Thomas recently 20 Sontronics Mercury mic opened the doors to HUGEsound Post Production, which brings audio, picture and, with it’s sound 22 Kahayan Epsilon 32-500 stage, music scoring under one roof. summing mixer 38 Artes Mirabiles in Russia 24 Tracktion Waveform DAW An ambitious DXD field recording project at Lake Baikal, Siberia, proves modern equipment 25 Focusrite Red 8Pre can survive the harshest conditions. 26 Grace m900 DAC/ 40 Vote now in the headphone amp Resolution Awards 27 DPA d:vice ADC

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