Author: By Rob Tavaglione
May 24,2012
Surely you've heard the saying, “There are two kinds of people in this world,” as it has been creatively applied to most any discipline, topic or argument one can think of. Does such divisiveness have a place in serious discussions? Can one’s behavior really be boiled down to two diametrically opposed opinions? Are there exactly two kinds of audio engineers, or audio engineering styles? Sure, probably, and of course there are! ;)
Author: By By Paul Christensen
May 22,2012
EARS Chicago recently honored iconic engineer, producer, and music legend Phil Ramone during the recording group’s April meeting. The event was held at the Shure Theater in Niles, Illinois on May 3, 2012 in collaboration with Columbia College.
Author: By By Clive Young.
May 22,2012
One of the highlights of the recent AES Convention in Budapest was the premiere of a unique surround sound project—music mixed and mastered specifically for the new Mercedes SL Roadster model. But while the German carmaker is looking forward, a Spanish auto manufacturer, SEAT, has chosen to take a decidedly retro look back, debuting an in-car turntable for vinyl records.
Author: By By Steve Harvey.
May 21,2012
The May, 2012 issue of
Pro Sound News features our coverage of the recent Coachella festival in Indio, CA, but here’s even
more insight and gear info.
Author: By By Clive Young.
May 18,2012
Last summer,
Pro Sound News and
Pro Audio Review managing editor Fred Goodman released his latest album,
The Last Days of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and we blogged about his video for the title track at the time. Now, proving you can't keep a Goodman down, he’s back with a new clip, “Rockin’ Into Summer," in honor
of the Beach Boys’ 50th Anniversary.
Author: By By Clive Young.
May 17,2012
The old song says that if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. In recent times, though, more and more studios have found it somewhere between hard and nigh impossible to survive in the Big Apple. That’s not the case, however, for Galaxy Smith, a Greenpoint, Brooklyn-based venture founded just a few years ago by producer/engineer/musician Dave Brandwein. Sporting a sizable amount of gear and a varied mic locker, the studio is making a name for itself, so we sat down with Brandwein to find out what the latter half of Run-DMC (photo at right) was doing there, what exactly a Lomo is, and his advice on starting a studio these days.
Author: By Mr. Bonzai
May 14,2012
A few choice words from Mr. Bonzai's MUSIC SMARTS -- The Inside Truth and Road-Tested Wisdom from the Brightest Minds in the Music Business, a Berklee Press and Hal Leonard music field guide...
Author: By By Clive Young.
May 14,2012
I believe it was the noted Canadian socio-economic theorists Loverboy who once said, “Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend.” Thirty years later, someone else is
almost doing that—monitor engineer Andy Ebert, currently on tour with a more recent Canadian act: The Weeknd (note the missing third “e”). Ebert dropped us a line to fill us in on the artist’s current world tour.
Author: By By Clive Young.
May 8,2012
John Cooper has mixed plenty of household names—Lionel Richie, Sheryl Crow and Ringo Starr to namedrop only a few—but for the last 10 years, most of his time behind an FOH desk has been spent mixing hundreds of Bruce Springsteen shows. The guy knows his stuff, so when he offered his advice on how to get ahead in the mixing biz, we listened.
Author: By By Clive Young.
May 3,2012
Zambri recently released its debut album,
House of Baasa, but the collaborations stretch far back for the duo. As sisters, Cristi Jo and Jessica Zambri have created music together for years, gaining a firm command of their ethereal mix of electronica, ambient, goth and pop in the process. Now, with the release of the album and their recent
Glossolalia EP, the pair have garnered raves from the
New York Times, NME, Spin, Under The Radar, Fader and others. Self-produced by the pair of New Yorkers in their respective Chinatown and Greenwich Village apartments, the music itself is imbued with an off-kilter yet epic majesty, developed in part from such disparate sources as toys, dusty cassette demos and old-fashioned vocal manipulation. With that in mind, we talked with Cristi Jo and album mixer Rick Kwan to discover how
House of Baasa was built.