Music Production
Machines with Magnets Attracts API 2448 Console
The Pawtucket, RI mixed-use facility recently upgraded to a new API 2448 desk.
Recording
Music Production
PMC Monitors Power Yamamoto’s Pinewood Studio
Youki Yamamoto’s facility at Pinewood Studios in the UK was recently augmented with a pair of PMC monitors.
Music Production
Narwhal Studios Nets Rupert Neve Designs Desk
Narwhal Studios, a recently opened recording facility in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, sports a Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console.
Recording
Lapsis Captured On Location with Sanken
Miking on Lapsis, a science-fiction feature that recently finished principal photography, was handled with a slew of Sanken microphones.
Music Production
Man Made Music Adopts PMC Speakers
Man Made Music has upgraded the stereo and surround monitoring in one of its two control rooms with PMC speakers.
Music Production
Finishing Move Go Outboard with SSL
An SSL Fusion stereo outboard processing unit fuels the game audio company’s analog chain.
Post and Broadcast
Catching a Wave in New York
Wave Studios has enjoyed steady growth since it was founded in London in 1999, focusing on audio post services for advertising and film clients.
Music Production
Tracks – December 2019
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.
Music Production
Bruce Botnick, Bernie Grundman Master The Doors’ ‘The Soft Parade’ 50th Anniversary Box Set
Extensive audio restoration and corrections were made before Bruce Botnick and Bernie Grundman remastered the classic album.
Music Production
Getting Immersive with ‘The Traveler’
Mastering and mix engineer Michael Romanowski teamed with Eric “ET” Thorngren to mix an immersive audio version of the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band’s recent blues smash, "The Traveler."
Studio Showcase
Studio Showcase: FAME Recording Studios
FAME Recording Studios’ B room captured some of the most incendiary performances of the Sixties and Seventies. Now brought up-to-date with a mix of new and vintage gear, the facility is ready for a new era of great music.
Recording
Noisematch Studios Makes Noise with Ocean Way, MDG
Noisematch Studios, a new facility designed by the Malvicino Design Group and built from the ground up in Miami, features an SSL Duality SE 48 console and an Ocean Way Audio HR2 Tri-Amplified monitoring system, and is a 2020...
Music Production
The State of Plug-Ins: From Emulations to the Unknown
Having so many plug-in choices can be overwhelming—what is an engineer to do? Three top pros share their insights—and favorite plugs.
Music Production
WSDG, TC Zhou Collaborate for Beijing Studio
WSDG recently collaborated with studio engineer TC Zhou to create a new recording facility in Beijing, China.
Music Production
Bates Adds to ATC Collection
Composer Tyler Bates recently purchased a second pair of ATC SCM20ASL monitors.
Music Production
Thinking Big with A Bad Think
Michael Marquart’s latest album as A Bad Think, The Saviour, had a production think-tank behind the scenes: co-producer/engineer Dave Way; co-producer/studio owner Marquart; and mix engineer Bob Clearmountain, who mixed the album in both stereo and 5.1 surround.
Music Production
Inside Ummet Ozcan’s New Studio
Working with studio designer Jan Morel, producer Ummet Ozcan has built his dream facility, Oz Studios, in his house.
Recording
Chuck Ainlay Leads Csaba Petocz Scholarship Event
The annual memorial educational event was held at Peter Frampton’s Studio Phenix in the Berry Hill district in Nashville.
Recording
Recording Academy P&E Wing to Honor Dr. Dre
13th Annual Producers & Engineers Wing event will kick off Grammy Week
Recording
Collapsing Scenery Builds Its Debut
By Steve Harvey. The winding road to Collapsing Scenery’s debut album was a five-year journey.
Recording
Slate Listens with Ocean Way
Slate gets plug-ins rock solid using Ocean Way Audio monitors.
New Products
Innovations: EZ Acoustics Signature Series by Peter D’Antonio
Marc Viadiu, the founder and chief engineer of EZ Acoustics, recounts his company’s long journey developing its latest product, and how a chance meeting at the 2018 NAMM Show led to the involvement of longtime acoustic treatment proponent Peter...
Recording
Tracks – November 2019
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.
Recording
Everybody Wants to Record the World
By Steve Harvey. Simon & Greg Record the World is an online reality series following a pair of engineer/producers from Montreal who travel to remote locations around the globe to set up temporary studios and record local musicians.
Business
Recording Academy Launches ‘Behind the Record’
The social media initiative aims to spotlight producers, engineers and others who contribute to the music recording process.
Studio Showcase
Studio Showcase: LA Good Vibe’s Solar-Powered Sessions
By Steve Harvey. Joachim Garraud recently built his dream studio, LA Good Vibe. It just happens to be a 36-foot RV converted into an eco-friendly, solar-powered mobile recording studio where the drum booth can sleep up to four people.
Recording
Music Etc.: Family of the Year
Jacques Sonyieux talks with Family of the Year about questionable band getaways, working with producer Greg Wells and embracing darkness.
Recording
Audio Test Kitchen Cooks with Grace Design
The mic preamp was used for testing 250 microphones.
Recording
Sony Launches 360 Reality Audio Music Format
Immersive audio continues to make inroads into the music world with Sony’s new format.
Recording
Grundman Cuts Quad Disc Live
The session was a highlight of the recent Making Vinyl conference.
Recording
Recording Legend Ed Cherney, Dead at 69
By Clive Young. Grammy, Emmy and TEC Award-winning producer/engineer Ed Cherney died Monday, October 21.
Recording
Bob Ludwig Receives dCS Legends Award
The ongoing awards are co-curated with the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing.
Recording
At AES: Honoring the Development of Hip-Hop
Top engineers discuss the building block of hip-hop: the sample.
Recording
At AES: Building a Better Podcasting Studio
By Anthony Savona. Podcasting has taken the world by storm; WSDG recounts how it created production facilities for both Gimlet Media and Stitcher.
Recording
At AES: Album Pros Deconstruct Recording Process
By Katie Makal. Pros talk education, the unlikely secret to success and more at AES.
Recording
Today’s Recording Highlights at AES
By Steve Harvey. Take a look at some of the top recording education offerings today at AES.
Recording
Iceland Offers 25% Rebate to Attract Recording Projects
By Steve Harvey. Iceland aims to raise its music industry's profile with new economic initiative to attract recording projects from overseas.
Recording
AES Sets Audio Repair, Immersive Capture Workshops
Roll up your sleeves to learn and try the latest techniques in audio repair, as well as a deep dive into how ambisonics work.
Recording
T-funk Hits the Spot for Tipp
Tipp gives a tip of the hat to mics he used on Pulitzer-nominated recordings.
Recording
University of Rochester Nets New API Console
New console aids learning process for audio students.
Recording
WAM Rocks with Roxx and Beyoncé’s Band
Group recorded new single while WAM guests shadowed the session
Recording
Capricorn Sound Studios, Birthplace of Southern Rock, Returns
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.
Recording
Scott Litt Brings Ocean Way Home
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.
Studio Showcase
Studio Showcase: Podcast Facility Little Everywhere Grows Up
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.
Recording
Vix in the Mix
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...