Recording
Giles Martin to Lead Audio & Sound at UMG
New role will see Martin connect UMG artists with new audio formats, technologies.
At AES: Archiving & Restoration Track Looks Back to Plan Ahead At AES
By Lisa Johnston. The Archiving and Restoration track at this year's AES has become a venue for sharing best practices, key information and more.
At AES: Guardians of the Galaxy: Whose Job Is This Anyway?
By Lisa Johnston. Who carries the responsibility of properly archiving masters—the engineer, the label or the artist?
Leslie Ann Jones Named to TEC Hall of Fame
A mainstay of the recording community, Jones will be honored by the TEC Hall of Fame in January.
Live from AES: Nuendo
Greg Ondo from Steinberg and Mix content director Tom Kenny discuss Nuendo for VR.
At AES: API Introduces 2448 Analog Console
API sold eight 2448 consoles before the model was released.
AES Diversity and Inclusion Committee Acts with Intention
By Katie Makal. The AES Diversity and Inclusion Committee met yesterday to discuss goals and accomplishments as part of the organization's efforts to better represent all segments of the pro audio community.
Is AI Taking Over? Not So Fast, Dude.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are making inroads into pro audio, but what's next?
AES Recording Events You've Got To See
Here's just a few of the interesting recording education offerings available today at the AES Convention.
At AES: Immersive Education in Spatial Audio
VR, immersive audio and more are on the educational agenda at AES.
Mastering the New John Lennon Box Set
Mastering team tasked with bringing cohesion, clarity to 140 tracks across massive new collection.
Recording Academy's P&E Wing Takes Flight at AES
Learning from the best is on the agenda at AES.
Immersive Seminars Invade AES 2018
Numerous educational recording events will highlight AES this week.
Sound Engineer Dies After Fall on Tom Hanks Film
Emswiller won a primetime Emmy in 2015 for audio work on Bessie.
Producers, Engineers To Benefit from Music Modernization Act
Unanimously passing the House and Senate, the Act was signed into law October 11.
METAlliance Finalizes AES Special Event
The audio engineering ‘supergroup’ lines up a special event for next week.
Hurricanes, Studios and Preparing for the Worst
Producer/engineer and regular PSN contributor Rob Tavaglione takes stock of what he got right—and wrong—when Hurricane Florence hit his North Carolina studio in September, 2018.
Insight into Facebook 360’s Audio Set for AES
Facebook teams with audio pros for duo of workshops at AES convention.
A Labor of Love Supreme: Saving John Coltrane's Home Studio
The crumbling home—and home studio—of Jazz greats John and Alice Coltrane has been rescued and named a National Treasure, but the work has only begun.
USF Revamps Student Miking Options
Music Department program director, chair and tonmeister Miles Fulwider oversaw transition
Legendary Engineer Geoff Emerick, Dead at 72
By Clive Young. Legendary recording engineer Geoff Emerick died in Los Angeles Tuesday, October 2, of an apparent heart attack. The four-time Grammy winner recorded The Beatles from 1966 through their dissolution in 1970, contributing to albums like Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (AKA The White Album) and Abbey Road, and additionally worked with dozens of well-known acts in the decades that followed. He was 72.
Podcast: Talking with John Meyer of Meyer Sound
John Meyer delves into the development of the Bluehorn studio monitoring system.
Metallica Producer Paul Curcio, Dead at 74
A producer, musician and studio owner, Curcio produced Metallica's debut album.
Tracks - October 2018
Welcome to Tracks, our monthly look at the recording process behind 10 new releases by artists across the musical spectrum, running down who’s using what gear where.
This Destination Studio Was a Destination Before It Was a Studio; Now It’s for Sale
By Clive Young. David Bowie, MGMT, Duncan Sheik, Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, Donna Lewis and dozens of others recorded at this converted 1902 train station.
Dream Theater Records Next Album in a Barn
Ready to record a month early, the eminent prog band brought the studio to itself.
Capturing A Gang of Grohls for 'Play'
By Steve Harvey. Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl recently released "Play," a mini-documentary that includes a 23-minute track on which he plays seven different instruments, each recorded in a single take.
Music, Etc.: Chuck Leavell, Renaissance Man
Chuck Leavell talks about one rockin’ night in Germany, the genius of Ray Charles and what it’s like to have Clapton and Gilmour ask you to join their bands.
Mastering the New Tom Petty Box Set
Set for a September 28 release, the career retrospective spans 60 tracks.
416 Wabash Aims for Best of Both Worlds
By Steve Harvey. Indianapolis’ 416 Wabash is a 7,800-square-foot flexible space that combines a well-appointed music studio with an all-purpose event facility—and it’s a well-thought-out hit.
METAlliance Ready for AES
Renowned engineers set panel at AES Convention; more events on the horizon.
Darrell Thorp on Monitor Stands
Darrell Thorp discusses whether monitor stands make a difference.
McMaster to be Honored at Making Vinyl Conference
The Making Vinyl conference will return to Detroit next month.
80-Fader Lawo Desk Lands at Manhattan Center
Console is part of studio renovation at site of first film score recording.
Sensible Goes Plug and Play with SSL
Aiming to mainstream its control room, Sensible Music refurbished its studio and replaced the original console.
Putting the Em in PMC
With two albums on this year’s Mercury Prize shortlist, producer Emre Ramazanoglu has changed up his studio monitoring.
Tracks - September 2018
Welcome to Tracks, our monthly look at the recording process behind 10 new releases by artists across the musical spectrum, running down who’s using what gear where.
Software Tech: The NKS 2.0 Spec—Controller Salvation?
By Craig Anderton. Whether NKS has value depends on how you plan to use it, and what updates may be forthcoming.
Music Etc.: Mikaela Davis, “Delivery”
Jacques Sonyieux speaks with Mikaela Davis about her latest album, selecting a producer, and where the harp sits in modern music.
Riptide’s Got the Makings of a Classic
Riptide has acquired the copyright to "You've Got the Makings of a Lover," a song that was recently sampled by Migos for the single "BBO."
Toby Scott Is His Own Boss
By Steve Harvey. One project that recently landed on Scott’s desk was a jazz remake of the Bruce Springsteen album "Born to Run" by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Paul Jost and his band.
Studio Showcase: Collins Opens the Door to Hinge
By Steve Harvey. Grammy-winner Dave Collins has been mastering music you know by heart since the 1980s, and now has completed a new facility with two rooms, the other being used by Craig Bauer, another Grammy winner whose Chicago-based Hinge Studio was Kanye West’s home base in the 1990s.
Polosud Goes Back to Analog with Rupert Neve
By Steve Harvey. "It was love at first sight. I have used a lot of consoles, but the RND 5088 is the ‘true’ mixer for me," says Polosud owner Ninni Pascale.
John Driskell Hopkins Opens Brighter Shade Studios
By Steve Harvey. Music fans perhaps know Hopkins better as a founding member of the multi-Grammy Award-winning Zac Brown Band.
METAlliance Readies for a Busy Fall
By Clive Young. Appearances and announcements are in store.
Montreal Composer Scores with PMC
Everything from TV music to video game scores comes out of Samuel Laflamme's studio monitors.
Second Annual Csaba Petocz Master Class Scholarship Opens
Event to honor the late recording engineer through education.