[mcp6453[_2_]]

A buddy who has a home studio and who buys a lot of equipment wants a
subscription to Mix. How does he go about getting a free subscription like we
all have? All of the subscription forms we can find are for-pay.

[hank alrich]

mcp6453 wrote:

A buddy who has a home studio and who buys a lot of equipment wants a
subscription to Mix. How does he go about getting a free subscription like we
all have? All of the subscription forms we can find are for-pay.

Heh. It took me several years to get them to stop sending that rag.

--
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[Mike Rivers]

On 12/21/2011 9:55 PM, mcp6453 wrote:
A buddy who has a home studio and who buys a lot of equipment wants a
subscription to Mix. How does he go about getting a free subscription like we
all have? All of the subscription forms we can find are for-pay.

They'll send an "on line" subscription to anyone (just like
they used to send a paper subscription to anyone). This
means that once a month you'll get an e-mail message sending
you to http://mixonline.com/ where you can read the magazine
on your computer if you have the patience. Or keep coming
back there for short does all month (which counts as
"clicks" to their advertisers and pays for the magazine).

I used to read Mix when I got it on paper. Now I don't read
it at all, and frankly, I miss it. But even after getting a
phone call from someone asking if I wanted to renew my
subscription and getting a promise that they'd change me
from on-line to paper, I still don't get paper.

It's a shame, but I guess it's the only way they can stay in
business, even after laying off George Peterson.




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it seems that it can be operated without a passing knowledge
of audio." - John Watkinson

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[Nate Najar]

I remember when I was a kid (not too long ago!) and was first getting interested in audio, I used to love to go to the book megastore and get Mix magazine. it was a hefty magazine with a lot of content and plenty of pages. I haven't read it in years, and I saw one recently and could not believe what it looked like. It was less than 100 pages! and mostly ads for cheap crap instead of much real content. oh well....

[mcp6453[_2_]]

On 12/22/2011 8:15 AM, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 12/21/2011 9:55 PM, mcp6453 wrote:
A buddy who has a home studio and who buys a lot of equipment wants a
subscription to Mix. How does he go about getting a free subscription like we
all have? All of the subscription forms we can find are for-pay.

They'll send an "on line" subscription to anyone (just like they used to send a
paper subscription to anyone). This means that once a month you'll get an e-mail
message sending you to http://mixonline.com/ where you can read the magazine on
your computer if you have the patience. Or keep coming back there for short does
all month (which counts as "clicks" to their advertisers and pays for the
magazine).

I used to read Mix when I got it on paper. Now I don't read it at all, and
frankly, I miss it. But even after getting a phone call from someone asking if I
wanted to renew my subscription and getting a promise that they'd change me from
on-line to paper, I still don't get paper.

It's a shame, but I guess it's the only way they can stay in business, even
after laying off George Peterson.

I still get it in print. Digital doesn't work so well for me. Someone said the
problem is trying to read to much with a back lit screen. I'm not sure what the
issue is, but I'm not going to try to read a digital version of a magazine.

[Scott Dorsey]

mcp6453 wrote:
A buddy who has a home studio and who buys a lot of equipment wants a
subscription to Mix. How does he go about getting a free subscription like we
all have? All of the subscription forms we can find are for-pay.

Send him to the AES show, or NAMM or such! People will accost you in the
halls trying to give you free subscriptions to magazines.

I'll say, though, that while Mix used to be a great magazine twenty years
ago, I am not sure that it's worth getting for free now. Other than Eddie
Ciletti's column and "Classic Tracks" there isn't much there any more.

Recording is worth paying for, I think, but I am biased. Tape Op would be
worth paying for if it weren't free, which it is. Resolution and Studio
Sound beat them all out, but both are pretty expensive.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[mcp6453[_2_]]

On 12/23/2011 12:06 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
mcp6453 wrote:
A buddy who has a home studio and who buys a lot of equipment wants a
subscription to Mix. How does he go about getting a free subscription like we
all have? All of the subscription forms we can find are for-pay.

Send him to the AES show, or NAMM or such! People will accost you in the
halls trying to give you free subscriptions to magazines.

I'll say, though, that while Mix used to be a great magazine twenty years
ago, I am not sure that it's worth getting for free now. Other than Eddie
Ciletti's column and "Classic Tracks" there isn't much there any more.

Recording is worth paying for, I think, but I am biased. Tape Op would be
worth paying for if it weren't free, which it is. Resolution and Studio
Sound beat them all out, but both are pretty expensive.
--scott

Strangely enough, I read Mix for the ads as well as for the two columns you
mention. Eddie's columns haven't been that mesmerizing lately, but I guess all
writers have good and bad days.

[polymod]

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
...
mcp6453 wrote:

Recording is worth paying for, I think, but I am biased.

+1.

Just sent in my renewal last Monday

Poly