Mix Online has many different categories for blogs, but this one called TechTicker is one of the newest. It began on March 10th, 2009 and is written by the tech editor (since 2003) of Mix, Kevin Becka. Kevin is a seasoned engineer/producer and educator. When reading his blogs you can tell he has loads of experience and his reviews are insightful. His blogs tend to post every 6 days or so; posting about 6 to 7 times a month. Some months may be packed with blogs on new tech because of different events going on. Also, not one of his posts has a comment after it, which leads me to believe that people trust what he is saying about the new products and don't feel a need to criticize his opinion. Even when he gave his top 5 worst audio trends since 2000 there were no comments.
I found these blogs very interesting and helpful. Some weren't even about new technology, they just simply helped you navigate and operate existing technology to speed up your work flow. Some included DIY ideas for developing and capturing new sounds. Each entry was just as interesting as the next and Becka stays very consistent with his approach to reviewing new products. He gives his opinion on the new products but then also provide links to other reviews from different websites. This concept of providing links to other reviews probably is the reason for no comments on his blogs.
Overall, the TechTicker blog has sucked me in and I will regularly be checking back to this blog. Mix Online has many other categories of blogs in its archive dating back to January, 2007, all of which are interesting. I highly recommend this blog, along with the others on Mix Online, to anyone in the audio industry if you want to stay on the top of your game.
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