2015 AMP Awards Winners Announced at City Winery in NYC
The Association of Music Producers’ AMP Awards are a music business event like no other. A grand convergence takes place: music producers, ad agency creatives, composers, music supervisors, audio post...
View ArticleLA Event: Meet Sontronics’ Trevor Coley – Friday, 5/8 at Westlake Pro
Who’s the man behind the mics? You’ve got a chance to meet him. Make no mistake — meet Sontronics at Westlake, on Friday, May 8th. LA recording mavens can meet Trevor Coley, founder and mic designer of...
View ArticleStudio Monitor Switch: Alex Sterling — Upper West Side
Listen closely, and you can hear them – an emerging generation of engineers who care deeply about audio. Alex Sterling has an ear for detail. Among them is Alex Sterling, whose eponymous studio on the...
View ArticleWaves Releases H-Reverb Plug-In
Waves has introduced H-Reverb and it appears to bring us fresh and exciting tech for more control than Waves has produced in previous reverb plugins. Integrating their new FIR engine (Finite Impulse...
View ArticleHow to Keep Perspective During a Mixing Session
We mixers know all too well that mixes can be like black holes. If you keep a safe distance, you can generally preserve a healthy perspective and escape unscathed. But many of us allow ourselves to get...
View ArticleLA Event: IMSTA Festa — May 16th at SAE Institute
We love it on both coasts, and this weekend IMSTA and SAE Institute Los Angeles are partnering to host IMSTA Festa – leading the way with the reminder to “Buy The Software You Use”. IMSTA is a free...
View ArticleNYC Event: BMS’ “The Independent Artist as a Startup” – Thursday, 5/28
Back in November, we told you about the debut of an event series from the New York City-based Business of Music Seminars (BMS). BMS #2 is set for May 28th. Response to their first foray was...
View ArticleAudified Releases u73b Compressor Plug-In
Now hear this! The u73b Compressor plug-in from Audified is modeled from the vintage German broadcast compressor of the 1960s. Audified got their hands on an original model, broke it down and has now...
View ArticleExecutive Interview: Ron Burman — President, North America, Mascot Label Group
It takes two: The smartest record labels know that success doesn’t just depend on signing great artists – they have to make equally smart choices in the executives that steer a band’s career. Mascot...
View ArticleNYC Event: ACME Audio at Audio Power Tools – Brooklyn, 5/19
Being from the Motor City ourselves, we smile upon any company that proclaims themselves purveyors of the “Motown”. ACME Audio – also being from the great state of Detroit — is just that, and their own...
View ArticleThe “Locking In” Technique for Programming Authentic-Sounding Drums
Drum image by Flickr user “slgckgc” Some topics in music production are always good for a heated discussion among musicians, fans and producers: Should we tune the vocals? Should takes be edited to...
View ArticleTK Audio Releases 500 Series BC501 Stereo Bus Compressor
TK Audio’s 500 series BC501 stereo compressor features all of the power of their rack-mount BC1-S compressor, with additional features from their BC2-ME mastering compressor. Some of these features...
View ArticleMix With The Masters Announces Upcoming Seminars for 2015 — CLA, Michael...
Mix With The Masters represents greatness fostering greatness, and the later half of 2015 will carry the MWTM culture even further. The seminars allow 14 professional participants to learn trade...
View ArticleReview: Audio-Technica ATH-M70x Headphones
The ATH-M70X by Audio Technica In both music and audio post work, there are a lot of situations where headphones are a necessity. Voice over and foley recording require headphones, you may find several...
View ArticleDave Smith Instruments Shipping Sequential Prophet-6 Analog Polyphonic...
The recently reacquired brand, Sequential, is Dave Smith Instruments’ original identifier for the vintage Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer. Originally introduced in 1978, The Prophet-5 was the...
View ArticleBlack Lion Audio Releases Micro Clock MkIII
Chicago-based Black Lion Audio began their endeavors offering mods to the internals of popular audio gear with the goal of offering a higher-quality audio product for a reasonable price. Only later did...
View ArticleHow to Say Goodbye to a Studio: Recording “When I’m Gone” — by The Looking
How do you say goodbye? Gaze your ears upon The Looking. Carter, the foundation of The Looking, knew he had to depart his creative home. Astraea Studios on upper Broadway, would end a long run of...
View ArticleLive Show Alert: Ozric Tentacles – B.B. King’s in NYC, June 14th
Did you ever want to meet a benevolent clutch of creatures from outer space? This Sunday is your chance. The Ozric Tentacles are coming, in fine 2015 form. Even better than their extra-terrestrial...
View ArticleIntroducing SonicScoop’s Video Blog: “How to Record an Album (And How Not To)”
You asked for it, you got it: SonicScoop is ramping up the video side of the website, and to launch or new video blog, editor Justin Colletti has contributed an epic new post called “How to Record a...
View ArticleGear Review: Focusrite ISA One
The Focusrite ISA One. The Focusrite ISA One is a single channel microphone preamp in a compact desktop format. It is a descendant of the preamps found in the legendary Focusrite Studio Console...
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