Recording

By Anthony Savona. Podcasting has taken the world by storm; WSDG recounts how it created production facilities for both Gimlet Media and Stitcher.

By Katie Makal. Pros talk education, the unlikely secret to success and more at AES.

By Steve Harvey. Take a look at some of the top recording education offerings today at AES.

By Steve Harvey. Iceland aims to raise its music industry's profile with new economic initiative to attract recording projects from overseas.

Roll up your sleeves to learn and try the latest techniques in audio repair, as well as a deep dive into how ambisonics work.

Tipp gives a tip of the hat to mics he used on Pulitzer-nominated recordings.

New console aids learning process for audio students.

Group recorded new single while WAM guests shadowed the session

By Steve Harvey. The facility that put Southern Rock on the map is back from the brink, restored and reinvented for a new generation of music makers.

Having created some of R.E.M.'s classic albums at Ocean Way Studios, Litt brings things full-circle, using Ocean Way Audio monitors to remix the band for a new box set.

By Steve Harvey. After years as a musician, songwriter, producer and engineer, creating Grammy-nominated work with Modest Mouse, the Murder City Devils and Cold War Kids, Dann Gallucci found the next phase of his career in podcasting.

A personal production setup these days can be anything from a full-blown recording studio to rival high-end commercial facilities to something as simple as a laptop, an interface and headphones. But Jenn Vix’s production rig features something unusual: a dinosaur.

Jacques Sonyieux talks with former guitarist of the Black Belles and longtime Jack White protégé Olivia Jean about finding fuss-free tones, producing her new album and working in Third Man Studios.

By Steve Harvey. The noted producer collaborated extensively with Maren Morris and Lady Antebellum, and co-wrote hits with Pink, Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts.

Women’s Audio Mission is readying WAMCon New York for mid-October.

Esoterically outfitted studio aids creation of act’s next album.

By Steve Harvey. Pro Sound News presents its annual overview of the recording world, examining how the industry is powering new trends and reacting to changing developments.

Following some wilderness years, the popular studio returns to Boston with a brand-new WSDG-designed facility.

By Steve Harvey. Barry Hyde of UK post-post-punk band the Futureheads talks about recording the band’s self-produced new album—its first in six years—at the group’s home away from home, First Avenue Studios in England.

By Clive Young. The home and studio of Prince’s musical director, Morris Hayes, were ravaged by fire in mid-September.

13-time Grammy & Latin Grammy winner Sardina will share his insights at Westlake Pro in Los Angeles on Thursday.

The rustic studio is in fact a penthouse facility in Vienna, Austria.

Hip-Hop and R&B Track reveals production techniques and tools.

Jazz guitar king Al Di Meola will be part of a two-day Recording Master Class session at the retailer’s studio facility.

The first annual Sound for the Future Scholarship has been awarded.

AES moves with the time and the beat as it adds EDM to its convention mix for the first time.

By Steve Harvey. Producer, engineer and guitarist Jimmy Johnson had a hand in some of the Sixties and Seventies’ most indelible hits, working with everyone from Aretha Franklin to Lynyrd Skynyrd to The Rolling Stones.

Cellist/composer turns to new audio workstation to get things done.

By Steve Harvey. The Audio Technology Program at American University in Washington, D.C., now boasts 5.1 monitor systems from Genelec in its two main control rooms.

Mixer Ken “Duro” Ifill recently adopted ATC SCM45A three-way nearfield monitors.

"The Traveler" by the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band has been mixed by engineer Eric “ET” Thorngren and mastering and mix engineer Michael Romanowski for a Dolby Atmos release on Aug. 30.

By Steve Harvey. John McBride, co-founder of Nashville’s Blackbird Studio, explains how and why the facility revamped its Studio C—famously outfitted with 138,646 individual pieces of wood for diffusion—into a 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos mix space.

By Steve Harvey. Beyond Music and artistic director Larry Klein selected 10 compositions and 22 artists to travel to Studios La Fabrique in France to record an album for the Beyond Music Project. The 22 artists included in the project hail from 17 countries around the world.

By Steve Harvey. As momentum builds behind immersive music releases, Dave Henszey has opened Henszey Sound, a recording and mixing facility overlooking Universal City in Los Angeles that is fully outfitted for Dolby Atmos and stereo work.

Jacques Sonyieux talks with vocalist Marcus Scott about his new solo album, Back 2 Da Soul, creating a sonic palette, and what it was like to become the new frontman for Tower of Power.

By Alvin Fernald. Supersphere, an entertainment production company that specializes in immersive and interactive live broadcast events, recently teamed up with mobile production specialist TNDV to create the Audiophile Series, a set of live concerts presented in VR with a real-time, ambisonic audio mix.

By Frank Wells. On July 10, Abbey Road Studios drew a contingent of pro and consumer audio journalists for the launch of Waves’ Abbey Road Studio 3, a plug-in that emulates the monitoring environment of Studio 3 in software for virtual monitoring with headphones.

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.

By Steve Harvey. Drexel University is preserving, archiving and researching 7,000 tapes left unclaimed after Sigma Sound Studios, the home of Philly Soul, closed in the early 2000s. Now Drexel’s Music Industry Program has unearthed and issued a previously unreleased 1969 album by Nat Turner Rebellion.

By Frank Filipetti. These days, any space can suddenly become a recording studio. If you’re working in an up-and-coming facility also known as the Guest Bedroom, Grammy-winning producer/engineer Frank Filipetti has smart, inexpensive and easy-to-implement ideas that will improve the sound of your room.

A PhantomFocus MixRoom comes into view at Gospel Outreach.

Legendary thrash metal band will participate studio recording session at Sweetwater Studios

By Steve Harvey. Apple has quietly rolled out a new effort to encode its audio offerings from high-resolution masters.

Top pros weighed in on topics ranging from “demoitis” to the role of the producer.

Cubase 10 will become a cornerstone of the school’s film scoring department.

Jacques Sonyieux talks with Will Turpin of Collective Soul about the band’s 10th album, 'Blood'; staying inspired after 25 years; and exploring one’s humanity.

Capturing classical performances at the Aspen Music Festival put mics to the test.

Malvicino Design Group outfits new studio in New Jersey.

By Clive Young. The site where the first country-music hit was recorded is likely to be demolished, making way for the garbage-loading area of a Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville hotel.

By Larry Jaffee. Nashville-based mastering house Independent Mastering returns to mastering vinyl for the first time in decades following a four-year, $30,000 odyssey to rebuild a 1940s cutting lathe.