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Recording Legend Ed Cherney, Dead at 69
By Clive Young. Grammy, Emmy and TEC Award-winning producer/engineer Ed Cherney died Monday, October 21.
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Bob Ludwig Receives dCS Legends Award
The ongoing awards are co-curated with the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing.
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At AES: Honoring the Development of Hip-Hop
Top engineers discuss the building block of hip-hop: the sample.
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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.
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At AES: Album Pros Deconstruct Recording Process
By Katie Makal. Pros talk education, the unlikely secret to success and more at AES.
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Today’s Recording Highlights at AES
By Steve Harvey. Take a look at some of the top recording education offerings today at AES.
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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.
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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.
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T-funk Hits the Spot for Tipp
Tipp gives a tip of the hat to mics he used on Pulitzer-nominated recordings.
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University of Rochester Nets New API Console
New console aids learning process for audio students.
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WAM Rocks with Roxx and Beyoncé’s Band
Group recorded new single while WAM guests shadowed the session
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Music Etc.: Olivia Jean, ‘Night Owl’
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.
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Busbee, Grammy-Nominated Producer and Songwriter, Dead at 43
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.
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WAMCon New York Sells Out
Women’s Audio Mission is readying WAMCon New York for mid-October.
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The Boxmasters Breeze into Barefoot
Esoterically outfitted studio aids creation of act’s next album.
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State of the Industry 2019: Recording
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.
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After Closing in 2011, Boston’s Mad Oak Studios Returns
Following some wilderness years, the popular studio returns to Boston with a brand-new WSDG-designed facility.
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Back to The Futureheads
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.
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Prince Protégé’s Studio Destroyed by Fire
By Clive Young. The home and studio of Prince’s musical director, Morris Hayes, were ravaged by fire in mid-September.
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Rafa Sardina to Host Eventide Event in LA
13-time Grammy & Latin Grammy winner Sardina will share his insights at Westlake Pro in Los Angeles on Thursday.
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Woody Tone Studios Opens in Austria
The rustic studio is in fact a penthouse facility in Vienna, Austria.
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AES Gets Back to the Beat with New Hip-Hop and R&B Events
Hip-Hop and R&B Track reveals production techniques and tools.
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Sweetwater Studios Sets Al Di Meola Recording Event
Jazz guitar king Al Di Meola will be part of a two-day Recording Master Class session at the retailer’s studio facility.
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PMC, AES Team for New Scholarship
The first annual Sound for the Future Scholarship has been awarded.
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AES Convention Debuts EDM Track
AES moves with the time and the beat as it adds EDM to its convention mix for the first time.
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Jimmy Johnson, Engineer, Producer and Swamper, Dead at 76
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.
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Composer Chris Chafe Gets Stealthy
Cellist/composer turns to new audio workstation to get things done.
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American University Adds Genelec 5.1 Systems
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.
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Duro Gets on the ATC Tip
Mixer Ken “Duro” Ifill recently adopted ATC SCM45A three-way nearfield monitors.
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Shepherd Travels in Immersive Circles
"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.
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Studio Showcase: Blackbird Studio Takes Immersive to the Next Level
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.
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Beyond Music Releases Global Collaboration
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...
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Henszey Sound Gets Immersed in Immersive
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.
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Respecting His Roots
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.
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Capturing Concerts for VR
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...
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Plugging Into Abbey Road
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...
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Tracks – September 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.
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Preserving the Past in Philadelphia
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...
Blogs
The METAlliance Report: Make the Most of Your Room
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...
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Sweetwater Set to Catch Anthrax (in Recording Master Class)
Legendary thrash metal band will participate studio recording session at Sweetwater Studios
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iTunes Gets Behind the Scenes Upgrade with Apple Digital Masters Initiative
By Steve Harvey. Apple has quietly rolled out a new effort to encode its audio offerings from high-resolution masters.