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News & Analysis 4 Leader 4 News Sales, contracts, appointments and biz bites.

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16 Products New introductions and announcements.

65 Broadcast aside Dennis says that for viewers, sound accesses

their database of memories and is crucial to enjoyment.

66 Headroom AOIP, discernment and fish.

Craft 30 Peter Schmidt His Berlin-based Ballsaal Studio now offers a Plug

and Play mix service where you can just plug in your laptop and mix.

34 35 Nu Boyana Bulgaria’s full service film studio gets serious

about audio with the opening of an S6 equipped Atmos mix theatre.

37 Chris Watson Everyman’s best-known sound recordist talks

technique and the business of listening for a living.

42 Todor Kobakov A film composer, producer, engineer and

man of many monikers discusses his work and his journey.

46 Leo Cubbin A leading high-level light in the games

world yet his background is all solidly audio recording and music.

50 Products Audio Releases and updates at IBC.

58 Ten Fish tales.

Business 55 Apple Music plays Apple Music combines a subscription-based,

on-demand streaming music service, a 24-hour global Internet radio station and a service called Connect for artists to post content.

64 Your business The way creatives are recompensed has changed.

Daley says when in doubt, make a law … or the AMP Act.

Technology 59 21st Century audio links We look at the problem of distributing and

controlling audio over different bit depth infrastructures.

62 Slaying dragons John looks at how sampling is misunderstood.

Reviews 18 Sennheiser AVX-835 20 XI Machines Recorder.1 22 Audio-Technica BP40 24 AKG C314 26 RME Babyface Pro 27 Presonus Studio One 3

Professional 28 Aaton Digital Cantar X3

V14.6 SEPTEMBER 2015 • ISSN 1477-4216