STIR POST AUDIO Launches in Chicago
The Windy City has a powerful new addition to their audio post scene. A major facility has arrived in the form of STIR POST AUDIO, created by three of Chicago’s major media players: Greg Allan, David...
View ArticleVerboten…Nothing is Forbidden in Brooklyn
From loft party, to warehouse, and now North 11th Street, Verboten has landed in Brooklyn. German for “forbidden,” Verboten has become an avant-garde staple in the New York underground dance music...
View ArticlePreSonus and OBEDIA Launch PreSonus-Certified Music Computers
Who will solve the purpose-built music computer puzzle once and for all? Is this everything you’re looking for in an audio computer? PreSonus believes it can do it, with the help of its friends OBEDIA...
View ArticleFocal Announces Alpha — Affordable Powered Studio Monitors Series
The renowned French speaker designers have done it: Focal released an extremely accessible line of reference monitors aimed at those who accomplish their mixing and recording in the home studio. The...
View ArticlePositive Grid Unveils BIAS Desktop – Amp Designer, Modeler, and Matcher
BIAS Desktop isn’t your average guitar amp designer environment. The new software from Positive Grid features a unique amp matching system that will analyze and replicate any direct or pre-recorded...
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot – Catch This Music, Nashville
At the core of a rebirth, an essential element of the original may still remain. That’s the case with Catch This Music Recording Studio (CTM), which revived a Music Row space while retaining something...
View ArticleSAE NY 3rd Annual Alumni Awards – Wed. July 2nd, The Cutting Room
May the best audio maven win! For those who can handle the suspense of a live awards show, the Cutting Room will be the place to be this coming Wednesday, July 2nd. That’s where SAE New York will host...
View ArticlescoreAscore Names Jake Weinreb Director of Business Development
The music-for-picture resource scoreAscore.com (sAs) has just added new muscle at the executive level. scoreAscore has scored Jake Weinreb for its team. A pioneering platform founded in 2010, Los...
View ArticleMackie Now Shipping Re-Designed SRM450 & SRM350 Portable Loudspeakers
As we all know, Mackie has been in the live sound gig for years. In fact, their original SRM450 was the first active, portable loudspeaker! Breathing new life into the SRM series, Mackie has included a...
View ArticleGear Designer Insider: SBS Designs – Satisfying Studio to Stage to DJ
There’s a place in New Jersey where audio is very serious business. Craig “Shorty” Bernabeu of SBS Designs is a man on a mission. It’s called SBS Designs, and the gear that comes out of there has a...
View ArticleThree New Universal Audio Plugins: Thermionic Culture Vulture, Tonelux Tilt...
A trio of sonic inspiration has just been launched by Universal Audio. All three plugins are available for the UAD Powered Plug-ins platform and their Apollo audio interfaces, and each will definitely...
View ArticleAudio Power Tools Presents: “An Evening with Royer Labs & Mojave Audio”– 7/17...
Ribbons, condensers, and recording will be the stars of the show next week, at an event being held at the hands of Audio Power Tools. The Brooklyn-based sonic hardware and software purveyors are...
View ArticleInside the Lives of Composers for Hire
Commercial composer Matt Filler’s workstation at Pralaya. You can’t really sing. Your 12-tone concept album about incidental “Game of Thrones” characters doesn’t have quite the audience you thought it...
View ArticleTELEFUNKEN Debuting Black Diamond Tube Series At Summer NAMM
Late 1940’s the German-made TELEFUNKEN 12AX7 tube debuted – arguably one of the most esteemed components in the recording industry. Thanks in large part to the tube factor. TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik is...
View ArticleVideo: Mixing Metallica – Backstage with Their Two-Man Monitoring Team
“Don’t get relaxed,” says Bob Cowan, Monitor Engineer for Metallica, of his enviable gig. Metallica monitors engineering Bob Cowan on point. No one should feel too calm witnessing a Metallica show, but...
View ArticleConsole Switch: How Brooklyn’s SpeakerSonic Installed a Trident 80b — Step by...
He’s only in it for the gear. We speak of SpeakerSonic’s Brian Speaker. Founder of the expanding East Williamsburg studio, we’re actually sure that Speaker loves the act of recording and hearing the...
View ArticleReview: Universal Audio Apollo Twin DUO — by Rich Crescenti
Although the technology and methods used in our industry have changed and will continue to change, the overall goal of recording hasn’t evolved much at all: We still must start with a sound source,...
View ArticleProducertech Launch Online Training Site for Maschine
It’s not just a Maschine, it’s a way of life. That seems to be how the educators at Producertech feel, considering the inspired energy behind http://www.maschine-courses.com. Their new site is designed...
View ArticleSparkplug Launches – New Sharing Economy Marketplace for Musicians, Audio Pros
Will this development spark a disruption on how musicians and audio pros rent instruments, space and gear? Sparkplug has officially arrived — a new way to share and locate musical tools. The New York...
View ArticleInside Red Bull Studios with Vacationer and Chris Tabron
Vacationer at work in Red Bull’s New York studio. The band Vacationer released an album near the end of June that sounds bigger, glossier and more alive than their past efforts. Their first record,...
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