NYC Event: Brooklyn StompBox Exhibit – 10/25 & 10/26
Three times a charm – and four is just a little more. We refer to the 4th edition of the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit, going down at Williamsburg’s famed Main Drag Music. Brought to you by The Deli,...
View ArticleComposer Cribs: Goodpenny – Chelsea, New York City
In NYC, dream teams are the standard, and Goodpenny is one place you’ll find a full set of composing talent. Featuring David Wolfert, Andrew Hollander, and Lawrence Manchester, Goodpenny has some...
View ArticleAn Assistant Engineer’s Guide to Assisting Engineers (and Producers)
So, you’ve finally made it! Congratulations. You’re no longer “the intern”. You won’t be getting everyone’s coffee, picking up lunch orders, vacuuming the live room, and doing other menial chores all...
View ArticleStudio Prodigy Master Class Series – Recording Engineer Jim Scott Hosts...
Studio Prodigy Master Class Series (SPMS) is a live attendance seminar where music industry professionals share their knowledge in major studios throughout Los Angeles. Past presenters include Eddie...
View ArticleHow is U2 Still Together?
In U2’s 35-plus years of existence, no member has ever died, been fired, or left. The members of U2 have never gone on an “indefinite hiatus” or succumbed to splintering solo projects. On the contrary,...
View ArticleAudio Post Expansion: Heard City Constructing Brooklyn Facility in DUMBO
It was inevitable, but also curious that it took this long. Nevertheless, the wait is over. An established Manhattan audio post facility is expanding across the East River, with audio post production...
View ArticleReloop Launches the Reloop NEON — Pad Controller for Serato, MIDI & DAW
NEON has launched – it marks Reloop’s first hardware controller for Serato. An official Serato accessory, this is for the DJ seeking plug and play tactile control over their effects in Serato software....
View ArticleAMS Neve Launches Genesys Black – Digitally Controlled Analog Console
We have you now: Announced during the 137th AES convention and on display at the Professional Audio Design booth, the AMS Neve Genesys Black is a digitally controlled analog console. Let’s clear up...
View ArticleNew Room: Frequency Recording – White Plains, NY
We salute our bravest – those tough-as-nails audio warriors who must record at any cost. This is why we believe in rooms like Frequency Recording, a new take on founder Rich Fabrizio’s vision for a...
View Article10 Mistakes Intentionally Left In Classic Recordings
Music isn’t perfect. It never was. And it never will be. By nature, people are flawed. Inadvertently, so is the music we create. But isn’t that what also makes it so amazing? Indescribable, intangible...
View ArticleNYC Event: “The Business of Music Seminars” Debut November 13th
This changing music business calls for a new way to navigate the landscape. A new series, “The Business of Music Seminars” (BMS) aims to make it easier for producers, engineers, artists, and...
View ArticleAllen & Heath Launches Wireless Personal Monitoring for Qu Compact Mixers
Like Uber and coffee makers, wireless monitor mixing is something we’ll wonder how we ever lived without. Can you see you with Qu-You? Sensing this, Allen & Heath has announced the addition of...
View ArticleLightning Boy Audio Introduces Flux Bender Equalizer — Stereo Passive EQ
When we first stumbled on to Lightening Boy Audio, they were developing stellar tube pedals. Since then, LBA has honed in on their design philosophy to release the Flux Bender Equalizer. At first...
View ArticleRoland Announces M-5000 Live Console
The new M-5000 console from Roland is ideal for the live sound environment. With the included O.H.R.C.A. based architecture, the bounds of console routing remain limited only to its physical I/O. The...
View ArticleAble Baker: An NYC Firm Hears the New ABC’s of Music Supervision
Call it an inner convergence. The latest music supervision service providers are bringing together more tools to help brands and content creators. A new NYC-based example is Able Baker. The firm is...
View ArticleHow the Emulation Is Made: Universal Audio’s Manley Variable Mu Limiter...
Adore analog? Dig digital only? Nothing blurs the audio lines like software emulations of hardware processors. Producers and engineers who are evolving their studios now have an embarrassment of...
View ArticleTascam Announces the DR-700 Audio Interface for DSLR Production
Ready to get the picture? This new recorder goes with a DSLR camera like a peanut butter and chocolate converge in a Reese’s. Tascam’s DR-700 covers a wide array of production uses where compact...
View ArticleNew Pro Tools Licensing Now Available, for Access to Future Cloud Features &...
The newly available licensing plan for Pro Tools users is all about the long view. Pro Tools gets future-proofed with the newly available licensing plan. It’s complicated, and some of the details that...
View ArticleHidden Hit-Makers: History’s Most Iconic Session Musicians
A handful of documentaries released since the turn of the new century, from 2002’s Standing In the Shadows of Motown to 2013’s Muscle Shoals, have helped us put names and faces to the backing musicians...
View ArticleEssential Event: Spend An Evening with Producer/Engineer Glyn Johns — 11/14...
“Glyn Johns was there.” – Sir Paul McCartney All along, Glyn Johns has been contemplating this book tour. That only begins to tell the story of how important this engineer’s engineer is to recorded...
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