Recording

Vocalist returns to United for latest Jazz collection.

By Clive Young. Recording equipment, guitars and more belonging to the late Walter Becker of Steely Dan will soon go up for auction.

By Clive Young. Music teacher-turned-Grammy winning engineer Jack Renner co-founded Telarc in 1977.

Hay puts Telefunken mics to work.

Old-school bluegrass to be captured with immersive recording technology.

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. You might imagine that, as frontman, principal songwriter and sole original member of Sum 41, Deryck Whibley would have better things to do than get into the weeds regarding the creation of the band’s latest album. But as the producer, engineer and mixer of the project, he is more than happy to talk shop.

By Steve Harvey. The acclaimed experimental rock band returns with Erotic Reruns, its latest self-produced album, which was almost entirely tracked, overdubbed and mixed at the home studios of its three core members.

By Steve Harvey. The electronic dance music scene has exploded in Las Vegas over the past decade in the city’s resorts and clubs. No newcomer to the genre, Studio DMI has long specialized in EDM, and now has moved to a new multiroom complex specially designed to meet the needs of the field’s most prominent practitioners.

By Steve Harvey. Scientists capture Queen using Quantum Physics

By Jacques Sonyieux. Whether you know him as Miami Steve from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Silvio Dante from The Sopranos or as the leader of Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, you’ll find Steven Van Zandt has a lot to say about working in analog, respecting musical roots and finding that “intangible element.”

Improvisations by Ray Romano and Mark Duplass captured with DPA and Wisycom.

Faced with mixing the new archival release, "Originals," engineer Niko Bolas had to find the best way to honor the material, including taking the results to Bernie Grundman Mastering, where many Prince albums were previously mastered.

Educators expand while making a point to emphasize putting artistry first.

Extensive tape restoration leads to new archival set.

Composer mixes latest jazz trio album in surround.

Multi-story studio reduces cable clutter with new network.

Sweetwater’s in-house facility is ready to roll out with workshops and more this weekend at GearFest.

From recording live sound to podcasting, the company’s gear of choice has kept busy.

By Steve Harvey. Music producers, engineers, composers and musicians who identify as women will now be included in NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre's content creation grant program.

The three themed events will be held at his new facility in Santa Barbara, CA.

PMC’s new studios will be creative hubs as well as demo spaces.

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.

Once home to dozens of studios and music industry businesses, Nashville’s Music Row put the city on the map—and is now in danger of being wiped off the earth.

By Steve Harvey. From its humble beginnings as a 4-track mobile recording studio in the back of musician Chuck Surack’s Volkswagen Samba bus in 1979, Sweetwater Sound has become a juggernaut, morphing into the largest online pro audio and MI equipment retailer in the United States.

GoT spinoff actor's band teams with production royalty at United

By Steve Harvey. UK multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier discusses his relationship to technology and the imminent release of the second volume in his epic four-album, 40-plus song project, 'Djesse.'

By Steve Harvey. Organizations representing musicians, songwriters, publishers and record labels in the United States recently launched an interactive website that analyzes the economic and cultural impact of the music industry on each individual state.

The Showtime series, Billions, that is.

Dolby and UMG Team for Dolby Atmos music agreement.

A massive Meyer Sound immersive system was used for the documentary’s premiere.

Ride frontman’s studio nets new desk.

By Jacques Sonyieux. Craig Leon dishes on producing the Ramones, his favorite folk music influences and his new synth epic, Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music, Vol. 2: The Canon.

James Towler oversees the Traffic man’s Dante networks on stage and in the studio.

By Chuck Ainlay. METAlliance co-founder and multiple Grammy-winning producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay discusses what the art in engineering is and can be, offering suggestions on how to develop one’s engineering chops while finding inspiration along the way.

By Steve Harvey. In April, Billie Eilish’s debut album entered the Billboard 200 at number one. Finneas O’Connell—her co-writer, producer, older brother and an artist in his own right—discusses recording the sonically adventurous collection at their family home.

By Clive Young. A perusal through social media takes the curious into the home studio of Twenty One Pilots vocalist Tyler Joseph.

Idlewild released their eighth studio album, Interview Music, on April 5. Here, Daniel Gumble speaks to guitarist Rod Jones about collaborating with producer Dave Eringa and the studio process

Classical recordist turns to Zylia mic for new projects.

New scholarship supports students in later semesters of Music Production & Engineering program.

UK hard-rock lifers hit the studio and the stage with Bose.

Urban producer’s new facility gets outfitted with new monitors.

Danish microphones were used to record Chinese singing bowls for a new album.

Company’s co-owner highlighted for lifetime contributions to pro audio.

The audio studio expansion is part of a larger effort that will grow the workforce by more than 100 jobs.

By Clive Young. The musical icon has put his house on the market, providing a glimpse of the home studio where his most recent albums were recorded.

By Clive Young. Pop-Punk pioneers Too Much Joy reunited with mix specialist Michael James for the band's new reunion single.

By Steve Harvey. Stephen "Stevo" George's name is on more than 100 million albums—and now a number of Netflix series.

The annual event supports A Place Called Home in South Central Los Angeles.

Newly installed PhantomFocus System enables easier, faster mixes for Steve Jankowski.