Music Production
PMC Celebrates 30th Anniversary
Founder Peter Thomas takes stock of three decades of producing professional and home speakers.
Recording
Music Production
Elliot Mazer, Legendary Producer/Engineer, Dead at 79
Legendary producer/engineer Elliot Mazer, best-known for his work with Neil Young, Janis Joplin and others, died of a heart attack in his San Francisco home on Sunday, February 7, 2021.
Music Production
U.K. Producer Eddie Serafica Installs PMC Monitors
Eddie Serafica, Grammy Award-winning producer, has installed a pair of PMC monitors in his project studio.
Music Production
Recording Live to Vinyl to Zoom at Welcome to 1979
Nashville’s Welcome to 1979 studio overcame technical challenges to bring its ‘Direct to Vinyl’ recording summit online.
Business
Pro Audio & Radio Tech Summit Announced
Pro Sound News, Mix and Radio World have joined forces to hold the first Pro Audio & Radio Tech Summit, an all-day virtual event to be held April 1.
Music Production
Tools for the Personal Studio 2021
2020 drove home recording to new heights due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Top pro audio manufacturers weigh in with tips and gear suggestions to help beginners and pros alike make the most of their spaces.
Music Production
Paul “Willie Green” Womack Tours Telefunken
Hip-hop and R&B producer Paul "Willie Green" Womack has been putting his new Telefunken TF11 mic through its paces at his Brooklyn recording studio.
Music Production
The Lost Treasure of Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes
Legendary UK producer Joe Meek left behind nearly 1,900 tapes when he committed suicide in the 1960s. After sitting in storage for 50-plus years, the ‘lost’ tapes are being digitized in a mammoth 18-month project, saving unheard early work...
Music Production
Mike Smith Builds Out Analog Workflow
Cuban-American recording artist Mike Smith, who is also a co-executive producer and main judge on BET’s One Shot competition series, recently overhauled his studio in Charlotte, NC and installed a Neve 8424 console.
Music Production
Sue Moreno Masters Memphis Sessions with Grundman
Paul Grundman recently mastered The Memphis Soul Sessions, the latest album by Dutch chanteuse Sue Moreno, at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood.
Recording
Studio Spotlight: Noise Nest Invests in the Future
Inspired by pro skateboarder Rob Dyrdek’s now-defunct Fantasy Factory, producer/entrepreneur Nick Gross developed a small songwriting facility into Noise Nest, a sleek, new studio complex in Hollywood.
Music Production
Phil Spector, Producer/Murderer, Dead at 81
Legendary producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector died January 16, 2021 of COVID 19-related complications.
Music Production
Goldfinger Gets Nostalgic with Never Look Back
John “Feldy” Feldmann, leader of ska-punk heroes Goldfinger, shares how the pandemic brought the band back together again (remotely) to record its latest album, Never Look Back.
Blogs
Peek Inside Phish Bassist Mike Gordon’s Home Studio
Phish’s Mike Gordon has put his Vermont home on the market, providing a glimpse of his awesome attic recording studio.
International
Flow Goes with SSL Origin
Flow Studios, a new recording facility based in France’s Loire Valley, has opened with a 32-channel Solid State Logic Origin console.
Music Production
Producing the Producer: Creating Rick Rubin’s ‘Broken Record’ Podcast
Rick Rubin's Broken Record podcast has seen the music industry icon interview everyone from The Black Keys and Leslie Odom Jr. of Hamilton to fellow producers like Dave Cobb and Wyclef Jean. Shaping and editing hours of raw material...
Music Production
Tracks – January 2021
Tracks is Pro Sound News’ monthly look at the recording process behind five new music releases, running down who’s using what gear where.
Music Production
Lisa Bella Donna Reveals New Album Workflow
Electronic music composer Lisa Bella Donna used Solid State Logic’s SiX small format mixer and SSL 2+ interface for her latest release.
Music Production
UK Producer Steve Brown, Dead at 65
Steve Brown, producer/engineer behind hits by Freddie Mercury, Wham, The Cult, Manic Street Preachers and more, has died following a fall in December.
Music Production
Tracks – December 2020
Tracks is Pro Sound News’ monthly look at the recording process behind five new music releases, running down who’s using what gear where.
Music Production
Coast Mastering Digs In for New Facility
Michael Romanowski suffered for his clients’ art, going without heat in his home for 18 months as he dug out 10 feet beneath his house to create the new home of Coast Mastering.
Music Production
Saving the Bob Dylan Archive from Adhesion Syndrome
More than 60 2-inch master tapes from The Bob Dylan Archive were being destroyed by adhesion syndrome. Iron Mountain’s Kelly Pribble shares how he meticulously preserved the tapes before they were ruined forever
Music Production
SSL Looks to the Future in Atlanta
At the 5 Star Production Studios complex in Atlanta, Solid State Logic mixing consoles are used for work with Future and other artists.
Music Production
Mixing Yello in Dolby Atmos
Swiss band Yello’s new album, Point, has been mixed for release in Dolby Atmos at msm Studio Group, a PMC-equipped facility in Munich, Germany.
Blogs
The METAlliance Report – The METAlliance on Miking
It’s the Chat of the Titans as legendary Grammy-winning engineers Al Schmitt and Frank Filipetti compare opinions and practices on making the most of your mics.
Music Production
Maria Elisa Ayerbe on KRK Monitors
Whether working with an award-winning recording artist or mastering soundtracks for film, Colombian-born audio engineer Maria Elisa Ayerbe has long used KRK reference monitors.
Music Production
Teacher Documents Arctic with Sennheiser
When German teacher Friederike Marie Krüger accompanied the year-long MOSAiC expedition, she took along a pair of Sennheiser microphones
Music Production
Spillberg On Mixing New Groban Album
Rich Spillberg has installed his Ocean Way Audio Pro2A monitors at his private studio, where he worked on a new Josh Groban project for a virtual promotion for Groban's new Harmony album.
Music Production
Blue South Brings BCM to ATL
Producer and musician Bill Jabr has installed a 16-channel Neve BCM 10/2 MkII mixing console as part of a major refurbishment of Studio A at his Blue South facility in Atlanta, GA.
Music, Etc
Music, Etc.: M.A.G.S. Moves Forward
Elliott Douglas, aka M.A.G.S., talks pros and cons of self-recording, the genesis of his name and where his influences take him.
Music Production
Producer Jason Slater, Dead at 49
Jason Slater, founding bassist of Third Eye Blind and producer for numerous acts including Queensrÿche, has died at the age of 49.
Music Production
Monitor Moves Inspire The BossHoss
When the BossHoss reinvents pop hits into country-flavored tracks, it often reinvents its recording methods in the process.
Business
MixedByAli Lands Former Death Row Records Studio
Grammy-winning mix engineer Derek “MixedByAli” Ali has purchased the facility that created classic tracks by Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur and others.
Music Production
A Very Socially Distanced Recording Method
After creating a Dante network throughout Farm Studios' property, producer Garth Richardson can now record virtually anywhere on the seven-acre site.
Music Production
Paul Boutin Barrels Through the Pandemic
How did Grammy-winning Engineer Paul Boutin get where he is today? Despite what he humbly says, it's not just "luck."
Business
Proposed HITS Act Could Aid Producers, Engineers
The newly proposed HITS Act, introduced to the Senate on Wednesday, could be a financial help to musicians, producers, engineers and others.
Business
‘Record in Iceland’ Initiative to Announce 25% Rebate
Iceland Music has announced Record in Iceland, an initiative — including a reimbursement incentive — to promote recording music in the island nation.
Music Production
AMS Neve Enters the Belly of the Beast
Belly of the Beast in South London has become the first facility in the U.K. to install an AMS Neve 8424 console.
Music Production
Grammy-Nominated Engineer Louis Bell Breaks Out
When Post Malone's "Circles" landed a GRAMMY nomination for Record of the Year, it was yet another recognition of Louis Bell's work. Now the go-to producer, engineer and co-writer reveals his streamlined workflow, talks about working out of Electric...
Music Production
Republic Records Keeps Busy with SSL Origin
A new 32-channel Solid State Logic Origin analog in-line mixing console has been installed at Republic Records Studios in Los Angeles.
Music Production
Studio Showcase: Asheville’s Vinyl Answer
A former newspaper printing plant/radio station has gotten a new lease on life as Citizen Vinyl—home to a new recording studio, vinyl record pressing plant viewable by the public, a mastering studio, café/bar, record store and performance facility.
Blogs
How to Choose Your Next Studio Microphone – The Complete Guide
Whether you're looking for your first 'really nice' microphone or expanding your mic locker, here's PSN's guide to the five 'must have' categories, the classics to keep in mind, their modern-day counterparts, and how to use them.