Music Production
United Hosts Lindsey Webster Album Project
Lindsey Webster recorded her new album at United Recording just before LA's Safer at Home emergency order was issued due to the pandemic.
Recording
Music Production
Shindig Delivers Soundtrack to “Got Milk?” Revival
Shindig Music + Sound created a catchy hip-hop track to help introduce a new generation of milk drinkers to the iconic “got milk?” tagline.
Recording
Studio Showcase: Funk Studios, Salt Lake City
Jim Funk had been recording orchestrations used on Broadway and in touring musical productions for more than 15 years when he took the plunge and began building his own facility. His goal was to create a flexible room with...
Music, Etc
Music Etc. – Chuck Prophet, ‘The Land That Time Forgot’
Steve Harvey talks with guitarist, singer, producer and raconteur Chuck Prophet about the meandering path that led to the former Green on Red guitarist's latest solo project, 'The Land That Time Forgot.'
Music Production
Tracks – September 2020
Tracks is Pro Sound News’ monthly look at the recording process behind 10 new music releases, running down who’s using what gear where.
Recording
Building Lil Baby’s Hitmaking Home Studio
Breakout rap star Lil Baby spent three weeks this spring atop the Billboard album chart with “My Turn.” Now Platinum-selling engineer Thomas “Tillie” Mann is building the rapper a home studio, which was used to record “The Bigger Picture”—a...
Recording
Studios Adopt Sony 360 Reality Audio Format
Sony shares details of its new object-based immersive format, which is aimed primarily at headphone listening, providing a look into what it takes to mix projects in the format and who’s using it.
Music Production
KRK Monitors Move MusicHouse Mixer Marcantonio
Steve Marcantonio turns to KRK V4 studio monitors for work in his facility, MusicHouse.
Music Production
Studio Bonsai Sprouts From Focusrite Hub
Six-time Grammy-nominated record producer, engineer, mixer and remixer, songwriter and programmer Damian Taylor has built out a Dante-networked setup at Studio Bonsai, located at his home in L.A.’s Frogtown neighborhood, centered on Focusrite components.
Music Production
Legendary Studio Designer Francis Manzella Passes
TEC Award-winning studio designer Francis Manzella died Sunday, August 16, due to complications from hip surgery.
Music Production
Hard Rock Producer/Engineer Martin Birch, Dead at 71
Martin Birch, who recorded more than 60 albums for Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac and others, has died.
Recording
An Upside to Lockdown: Recording Immersive Nature Sounds
Henrik Oppermann, creative director at immersive content specialist Sonosphere, has been building up the company’s immersive sound library by collecting everyday nature sounds in his native Hessen, Germany, using his new 3-D microphone rig.
Post and Broadcast
Zylia Demos 6DoF with Ambisonics
Zylia has released a new video demoing how its six degrees of freedom (6DoF) audio process works.
Live
CRAS Student Wins API Scholarship
Student Ponie Jones at the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences in Arizona has won the 2020 API Saul Walker Memorial Scholarship.
Music Production
Colorado Sound Studios Unveils Expansion Plans
Colorado Sound Studios’ new addition will be a multi-functional space for everything from video shoots to podcasting to house concerts and more
Recording
Missed Opportunity Returns to Rob Burrell
Early in his career, Grammy-winning mix engineer Rob Burrell had to choose between making records and making movies. Now, having recently outfitted his Nashville home studio with a 11.1.4 Dolby Atmos mix environment, he’s taking on documentaries and Netflix...
Blogs
The Gear of Damian Lillard’s Mini-Studio Inside the NBA Bubble; Hear His Tracks
NBA all-star Damian Lillard has been recording as rapper Dame D.O.L.L.A. while in the NBA Bubble, resulting in the appropriately titled mixtape, Live From The Bubble. Let's I.D. the gear he used to make those tracks.
Recording
Enviyon Grows from the Garage to the Future
Over the course of 10 years, Romel Williams has grown Enviyon Entertainment from a part-time gig in his garage to a fully staffed, multi-studio facility.
Music, Etc
Music, Etc.: Danielia Cotton, ‘A Different War’
Steve Harvey talks with blues rocker Danielia Cotton about racism and healing, gravitating to rock as a young girl and coproducing her politically charged new EP, "A Different War."
Business
Special Report: Studios Reopen Cautiously Around U.S.
Studios are looking to carefully reopen and get back on track, even as the COVID-19 pandemic stages a resurgence.
Blogs
Peek Inside Green Day’s Old Home Studio
Peek inside the home studio Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong owned and used during the band's 'American Idiot' era.
Music Production
Ron Gilmore Jr. Doesn’t Fake the Funk
Ron Gilmore Jr. has toured the world playing keyboards for J. Cole and Lauryn Hill, and has produced and played on multiple Gold and Platinum albums with every artist on Cole’s imprint, Dreamville Records. Now his own recording career...
Business
COVID-19 Guidelines for Safe Audio Production Released in UK
Trade group AudioUK has released a 15-page document with COVID-19 guidelines for safe audio production during the pandemic.
Music Production
Tracks – August 2020
Tracks is Pro Sound News’ monthly look at the recording process behind 10 new music releases, running down who’s using what gear where.
Music Production
Remastering Classic Grateful Dead for New 14-LP Set
Mastering engineer Chris Bellman worked with the original stereo master tapes at Bernie Grundman Mastering for the new 14-LP VMP Anthology: The Story of the Grateful Dead set.
Music Production
Tracks – July 2020
Tracks is Pro Sound News' monthly look at the recording process behind 10 new music releases, running down who’s using what gear where.
Blogs
Pro Audio Veteran Goes Viral (on YouTube)
A playful cover of the Eighties hit "Easy Lover" has gone viral, bringing a group of L.A. session players into the limelight, including bass legend Leland Sklar and, on vocals, pro-audio industry vet Gussie Miller.
Post and Broadcast
Mixer Goes Digital to Combat Spectrum Shrinkage
Production sound mixer Chris Polczinski recently began using Lectrosonics’ all-digital D2 (D-Squared) system.
Post and Broadcast
Flying Lotus Lands on Ocean Way Monitors
Steven Ellison, known as Flying Lotus and sometimes FlyLo, has outfitted his Los Angeles studio with Ocean Way Audio's HR3.5 monitor system.
News
Missing In Alaska’s Sound Puts Listeners in the Search
The intricate sound design of Missing In Alaska takes the investigative podcast from the icy shores of Alaska to the deserts of Arizona. Here's how they did it.
Music Production
Bill Smith to Head United Archiving
Grammy-nominated recording industry veteran Bill Smith has joined United Recording as chief archiving engineer for the facility’s United Archiving division.
Music Production
Golden Bear Grabs Preamps
Bryan Vanderpool recently outfitted Golden Bear Records, the studio he runs with partner Sarah, with AMS Neve 1073LB 500 Series preamps.
Business
Home Studios Finally Legal in Nashville Metro Area
The long fight to reverse Nashville Metro Council’s 1998 residential zoning ordinance that made it illegal for residence-based recording studios and other businesses to serve clients on the property has ended.
International
Radar Stays True to Analog with Neve Genesys
Radar Sounds in London, one of the few remaining studios in the UK to offer analog tape recording facilities, has installed a Neve Genesys G32 console.
Business
WAMCon Virtual Brings Recording Conference Online
San Francisco-based nonprofit Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) will host its first online immersive conference, WAMCon Virtual, from July 24-25, 2020.
Music Production
Reverse Engineering: ‘Song Exploder’ Podcast Puts the Pieces Back Together
Popular artists take apart their tracks on "Song Exploder," revealing to host Hrishikesh Hirway and his podcast team what it takes to create a great recording.
Music Production
The Wrecks Go Hi-LoFi for Debut
With the release of the band’s debut album under producer/frontman Nick Anderson, L.A. pop-punk act The Wrecks uses lo-fi production to add an edge that the group’s more polished early EPs lacked.
Music Production
Compiling the Box Set of America
Jeff Larson produced and compiled America’s 'Half Century' box set, which brings together 50 years of previously unreleased material.
Music, Etc
The Grahams Get Their Kicks for Third Album
Nashville-based duo The Grahams—childhood sweethearts Alyssa and Doug Graham—rode the length of Route 66 on motorcycle to find inspiration for their latest album, the last produced by the late Richard Swift.
Music Production
Richards Readies Road Return with ADAM Audio
U.K. guitarist Dan Richards, formerly a touring musician with One Direction and now musical director for such rising artists as Anna Clendening, Loren Gray and Emma Zander, recently acquired a pair of ADAM Audio A7X monitors as he settles...
Music Production
Sweetwater Studios Captures Nick D’Virgilio with DPA
When Sweetwater Studios captured tracks for Nick D’Virgilio's new album using DPA mics, the mics were small but the album was Inivisible.
Recording
Studio Showcase: The Record House
Following years working at Interscope Records’ studio, Mert Ozcan went on to co-found The Record House. Now armed with a brand-new Dolby Atmos mix room outfitted by studio acoustics designer DHDI, the boutique studio has become a creative collective...