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NAB Video: Adobe’s Ellen Wixted on CS6 Production Premium
Adobe Senior Product Manager Ellen Wixted tells James Mathers all about the new applications included in the upcoming release of Adobe CS6 Production Premium.Click here for more NAB video.
Five Questions: Damian Wagner, Co-founder, KickStand
KickStand, the new audio studio founded by Damian Wagner and Kim Christensen in Venice, CA, specializes in advertising, TV and film, but has the chops to handle unconventional projects, too — Wagner's résumé includes a number of collaborations with contemporary …

Q&A: Stephen Arnold’s Six-Strings
Call him a composer, a musician, a sonic stylist, or even just a "jingle writer." (That last one is how WIkipedia describes him.) Even if you don't think you know his work, you probably know his work — his clients …
Featured Tracks: FirstCom’s “Good Clean Fun” Collection from Kaliyo
FirstCom Music has 19 new releases this month, including "Good Clean Fun," a collection of original songs performed by Sarah Sharp and Andrea Perry of the Austin, Texas, duo Kaliyo. Much more textured and nuanced than the title's name suggests, …

London’s Smoke & Mirrors Installs eFF Loudness Software
London VFX and post facility Smoke & Mirrors is installing the Emotion File Finish application known as eFF from Emotion Systems for addressing loudness problems in file-based media. Emotion says it has worked closely with S&M as "an integral partner" …
Supervising Sound Editor Michael Benavente Joins Soundelux
Soundelux has hired Michel Benavente, whose most recent screen credit is ADR supervisor on Moneyball. His credits as supervising sound editor include No Strings Attached, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and Idiocracy. His next project is director Tim Story's Think Like …

Trent Reznor’s Home Studio Now Sports a SSL Duality SE
Composer Trent Reznor and his production and engineering collaborator Alan Moulder switched mixing consoles partway through their work on the soundtrack for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which Reznor wrote with Atticus Ross. For the previous Reznor/Ross film score …
RTAS Versions of Duende Native Plug-ins Now Available
Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional analogue and digital audio consoles, has announced that the new RTAS versions of the acclaimed SSL Duende Native plug-in collection are available now from the SSL web site.

The Hidden Costs of Royalty-Free Music
Over the last ten years the phrase "royalty-free music" has become the most popular Google search phrase used by content creators looking for production music. So what exactly are they looking for? It's a little hard to say, because the term "royalty-free music" is a misnomer. More important is what it means to you as a producer.
The Wilderness Asks, "What Is Sound?" for SoundCloud
The Wilderness is a New York-based facility known for its commercial, music video and film title work. Co-founders Gabe Imlay and Juliet Rios have directed a range of campaigns heavy on animation, motion graphics and live-action. But Imlay is also a composer, which may explain why SoundCloud, a social network where composers and the audibly obsessed can post their works in progress, recently came calling for a short film that delivered an even richer message with its soundtrack.