Music Production
Library of Congress Aims to Jumpstart Collage Hip-Hop with Citizen DJ
The LoC’s Citizen DJ project creates new ways for the public to discover, access and use public domain audio and video material for music making.
Recording
Music Production
Tracks – May 2020
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
Dirac Moves into Control Room Correction
Dirac threw its hat into the control room correction ring at NAMM 2020, launching a version of its Dirac Live product intended for the pro audio market
Blogs
The METAlliance Report: METAlliance on Lockdown
Chuck Ainlay shares the surprising ways he and fellow recording legends Al Schmitt, Elliot Scheiner, Frank Filipetti and George Massenburg are making the most of their time during the pandemic.
Post and Broadcast
Major Podcasters Keep Content Coming Despite Pandemic
With audiences and production teams working at home now, major podcasters Stitcher and Parcast have revamped their audio tech and workflows to keep content coming.
Music Production
White Rope Music Lassos New Monitors
Songwriter Sacha Skarbek (James Blunt, Mikey Cyrus) has outfitted his White Rope Music studio with PMC monitors.
Music Production
Mojave Captures the Sound of Cuba
Composer / producer Yalil Guerra’s Cuba: The Legacy, nominated for a Latin Grammy in the best classical album category, was captured with Mojave Audio microphones.
Recording
The Record House Goes Dolby Atmos with DHDI
The Record House in El Segundo, CA, recently outfitted its first Dolby Atmos mix suite with quantum acoustics devices by Delta H Design
Studio Showcase
Studio Showcase: Azmyth Changes with the Times
Azmyth Recording Studios, a multi-room facility in Indianapolis that incorporates the Azmyth School of Music Technology, recently entered its 21st year of operation, serving everyone from local clients to Eminem to 'The Voice.'
Music Production
Bear Gets a Reaction from Carl Tatz
Musician/mixer Joe Bear has reinvented his mix facility, Reaction Vessel, with a passel of input and gear from Carl Tatz Design.
Post and Broadcast
How Pros Are Livestreaming During the Pandemic
Take a deep dive into the technology and techniques that artists are using while livestreaming during the pandemic.
Music Production
Burrell Builds for Dolby Atmos
Grammy-winning mix engineer Rob Burrell recently converted a space in his Nashville-area home studio into a Dolby Atmos mix room.
Music Production
Craft Invites Crate Diggers to YouTube
Craft Recordings’ new YouTube series talks with the movers and shakers behind many top albums, including Scott Litt.
Music Production
Sam Clayton Jr, Producer-Engineer / Jamaican Bobsled Team Member, Dead at 58
The producer/engineer, who worked with acts like Steel Pulse and Toots and the Maytals, was also a founding member of the storied Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Recording
Producer/Engineer Knox Phillips, Dead at 74
The son of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, Knox Phillips made his own way, recording the likes of Willie Nelson, John Prine and Jerry Lee Lewis before becoming an emissary of Memphis’ music scene.
Music Production
Tweed Recording Goes All-In with Danley
The new studio/venue/classroom has Danley loudspeakers not only in live performance spaces but also in the studio’s control room.
Music Production
Alan Parsons Eyes PhantomFocus eChairs
Building out his ParSonics Studio in Santa Barbara, CA, producer/engineer/rock legend Alan Parsons has outfitted the space with PhantomFocus eChairs.
Recording
The Bachelor Hooks Up with Lectrosonics
The long-running reality TV series, The Bachelor, is captured via 14 cameras and related audio pros running at all times.
Business
Upcoming Pro Audio Training Webinars
Here’s a non-partisan, alphabetical rundown of educational pro-audio webinars coming up, provided by manufacturers across the industry.
Music Production
Chicano Batman, Production Team Reinvent Band’s Sound
'Invisible People,' out May 1, puts a modern spin on the Chicano Batman sound, courtesy of producer Leon Michels and mixer Shawn Everett.
Music Production
WSDG Designs CUI Studio Space
Concordia University’s 37,500-square-foot Borland-Manske Center opens with a WSDG-designed recording, teaching and rehearsal space.
Music Production
College Senior Produces Viral Virtual Musical Collaboration
In an effort to bring her community together during the coronavirus crisis, Shelbie Rassler had the idea of recording the Bacharach/Hal David song “What the World Needs Now Is Love” with her friends. The clips that make up the...
Music Production
Eddie Kramer to be Focus of New Rock Documentary
Legendary producer/engineer Eddie Kramer will be the focus of an upcoming documentary, From the Other Side of the Glass.
Recording
New Halo Music Studio Inspired by Legendary Le Studio Facility
The Canadian facility Le Studio Morin Heights outside Montreal recorded classic albums before it was abandoned and ultimately burned down. Now Halo Music Studio, a new studio facility in Ontario, has completed a modern re-creation of Le Studio’s control...
Music Production
Syracuse U Networks with Rupert Neve Designs
Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music is using modern networking to provide recording capabilities across the entire campus.
Business
Stoner Steps Away from Studio Suite
23 years after launching studio management software Studio Suite, creator Joel Stoner moves on.
Music Production
Chelsea Studio Sends SSL an Invitation
New NYC studio Invite Only antes up for Solid State Logic consoles in its Studio A and C rooms.
Studio Showcase
Valhalla Studios Jumps into Analog Immersive Mixing
Valhalla Studios owner/Manowar founder Joey DeMaio collaborated with Grammy-winning mastering engineer Darcy Proper and top engineer Ronald Prent to upgrade the facility’s main room to handle all immersive formats.
Music Production
Tracks – April 2020
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
Capturing Pop & Tacos on Record
Gov’t Mule side-project Little Days captured its retro pop album Pop & Tacos with a Mojave MA-200 in a variety of uses.
Music Production
Immersive Mix Room Studio 1 LA Debuts
Karma Auger and longtime collaborator Erich Gobel have teamed up to create Studio 1 LA, a new mix facility built from the ground up to handle immersive mixes in Dolby Atmos.
Music, Etc
Music, Etc. – Rob Graves – Creating an Atmospheric Solstice
Dove Award-winner Rob Graves talks about producing hard rockers Red, recording his own new album and why coronavirus might become a positive experience.
Music Production
Genelec Influences Influencer-Oriented Studio
PNDA Studios caters to internet influencers with a sound—and look—that matches their aesthetic.
Music Production
Jackson Browne Let the Rhythm Lead Him to Haiti
Let the Rhythm Lead, a new benefit album featuring Jackson Browne and Jenny Lewis among others, was recently recorded at a WSDG-designed studio in Haiti.
Product Reviews
Book Review: Get Tusked – The Inside Story of Fleetwood Mac’s Most Anticipated Album
Grammy-winning co-producer Ken Caillat and assistant engineer Hernan Rojas spent a year recording Fleetwood Mac’s epic double-album, Tusk. Now they share what went wrong: Everything.
Recording
ADAM Academy Takes Users to School on YouTube
ADAM Academy is a new series of YouTube videos by ADAM Audio, offering information, tips and tools for optimizing the company's monitor systems.
Music Production
NRG Goes Big with Ocean Way Towers
Producer, engineer and studio owner Jay Baumgardner has installed Ocean Way Audio dual-subwoofer HR2EX towers in Studio B at his NRG Recording Studios.
Music Production
Legendary Producer Keith Olsen Dead
Keith Olsen, the Grammy-winning producer/engineer who arguably defined the sound of hard rock in the late Seventies and Eighties, has died.
Music Production
Tracks – March 2020
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.
Post and Broadcast
Resonate Recordings Powered by Podcast Services
Resonate Recordings has carved a niche for itself in the podcast industry since launching in 2014 by providing post-production services to all comers, from Fortune 100 companies to anyone with a microphone and a story to tell.
Post and Broadcast
Fox Studio Lot Nabs Bluehorn First
The Newman Scoring Stage at the Fox Studio Lot in Los Angeles marks the first permanent installation of Meyer Sound’s Bluehorn System in a major commercial studio.
Music Production
Abbey Road Opens U.S. Institute
The Abbey Road Institute's first U.S. location will open this fall at Miami Art House in Florida, led by Grammy and Latin Grammy winner Julio Reyes Copello.