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Inside Fall Out Boy Guitarist Joe Trohman’s Studio
Rock and roll recording is about community, ultimately.
Studio Showcase
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Mills College: Unique Collaborations and Amalgamated Techniques
Mills College is a century-old, all-women’s undergraduate and co-ed graduate liberal arts college with a unique approach to musical collaboration in its Center for Contemporary Music (CCM), a leader in experimental music creation.
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Bankrupt Studio Faces Auction
A major recording/production facility in North Hollywood, Calif., that formerly housed LA Sound Gallery and most recently Legends Studios, is being auctioned after Chapter 11 bankruptcy transitioned into a Chapter 7 foreclosure.
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Avatar Up For Sale
A legendary studio by any measure, New York’s Avatar Studios has gone up for sale.
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Developing Dream Asylum’s Duality
By Strother Bullins. Prolific pop and hip-hop craftspeople Nate ‘Danja’ Hills and Marcella Araica had long dreamed of a unique production space in the Miami music community. Now, working with studio design team Walter-Storyk Design Group, they’ve created it...
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Studio Showcase: Historic RCA Studio B: Mixing Out of the Box
MUSIC ROW NASHVILLE, TN—Now operated (again) solely by the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Historic RCA Studio B serves the public as a hands-on educational facility hosting tour groups, students and fledgling musicians.
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Cphonic Mastering: Modular and Minimalistic
Kevin McNoldy now resides in the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area of North Carolina, but has experienced the American recording scene unlike most “secondary market” audio engineers today.
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There’s More – Pro Sound News, August, 2015
The online "Virtual Sidebar" that supplements the August, 2015 Pro Sound News issue.
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DaCapo Music Studios Get Artist-Friendly
By Strother Bullins. Since 2006, Jonell Polansky has owned and operated DaCapo Music Studios. The California transplant’s bustling, west-Nashville music production facility is balanced on her experience as a musician and her background as both an EE and an...
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Studio Showcase: Island No More: Bikini Atoll Leaves LA for Nashville Community
What is now Bikini Atoll Studios lured its owner, audio engineer Grant Goddard, from his former home of Los Angeles to the creative environment he always wanted, nestled in the rolling hills between Nashville Metro and Franklin.
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Putting The Funk In Boston’s FunkBunker
BOSTON, MA—Like many aspirational producer/engineers, Jimmy Fox—a Boston-area musician— has been recording a wide range of musical acts for years now, all out of his basement.
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Expanding Opportunity And Space For Students
CANANDAIGUA, NY—After experiencing incredible student body growth over the past few years, Finger Lakes Community College recently bequeathed its former cafeteria space to the Audio Sciences department.
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Bridging Creativity And Control
by Strother Bullins. In 2009, audio engineer and educator Owen Curtin gathered a team of former students and colleagues to relaunch Cambridge MA’s Fort Apache South— a classic recording facility in the greater Boston area—as the Bridge Sound &...
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Berklee’s Massive Mass. Ave Project
by Kelleigh Welch. When it comes to designing a new building in the heart of Boston, fitting everything you need into a small footprint can be a challenge. That was the case for Berklee College of Music and Walters-Storyk...
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Studio Showcase: Just What The Doctor Ordered
Recording engineer Daniel Charles—owner/proprietor of houston, TX’s Sonic Pharmacy recording studio—was honed on punk rock, thus well prepared for a future working with DIY and indie-minded recording artists.
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Studio Showcase: Larrabee Takes Over Schnee Studio
LOCATION—What is a facility to do when the recording studio right next door goes up for sale?
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From Missouri to Ohio, via California
The talents of Jim Wirt give him perspective on nearly every angle of the music recording business—musician, artist, writer, performer, engineer, producer and record company owner—and his career path translates his unique vibe of rock and roll authenticity with...
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Producer/Engineer Jim Wirt: A Video Discography
Below are just three examples of the many successful records produced and engineered by Wirt to date. “Crawling in the Dark” by Hoobastank, their 2001 alternative rock radio staple: “Heaven” by Live, the band’s 2003 hit single “Space” by...
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Mix This! Upgrades Solar, Adds Atomic
PACIFIC PALISADES, CA—Renowned for producing, engineering and mixing a who’s who of music clients, Bob Clearmountain is perhaps less well-known for his advocacy of environmental sustainability.
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Studio Showcase: Staking A Claim For Sonic Heritage In Southern Ground
NASHVILLE, TN—If Music Row is largely selling out, Zac Brown isn’t buying it.
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Studio Showcase: Bountiful Options, Abundant Flexibility
While noted as the USA’s top online/catalog retailer of professional audio and musical instrument gear in the USA, Sweetwater Sound is also home to a unique and multi‐faceted suite of studios, with an equally versatile staff.
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Spicing The Mix In Philly
PHILADELPHIA, PA—At age 13, he started building computers; at 16, he began designing speakers and established a business custom-configuring PCs; and by age 20, he was restoring vintage analog mixing consoles and other studio equipment.
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Studio Showcase: The Legacy of Sound Emporium
NASHVILLE, TN—Since 1969, Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios has operated just off of what is known as Music Row—and more than geographically.
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CLA Goes Barefoot
Chris Lord-Alge has installed Barefoot Sound MicroMain27 monitors for critical listening at his Mix LA! recording studios. "I need monitors that are non-complimentary," says the music producer and recording/mix engineer. "I need monitors that don't make it sound better,...
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SAE Grad Works Up Sweatshop Studios
SAE Institute has followed the careers of its graduates since it started in 1976, most recently with 2009 graduate Shaul Dover, the owner of Sweatshop Studios in Katonah, NY. Originally launched as a music production studio, Sweatshop has recently...
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Realizing A Dream: Addiction Sound
While music happens in abundance on Nashville’s Music Row, a creative conclave has also thrived for decades 10 minutes south of the Row in Berry Hill.
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South Beach Studios Brings Comfortable Vibe to Miami Luxury
MIAMI, FL—Miami Beach’s famous Collins Avenue, lined with nearly thirty blocks of restored Art Deco hotels dating back to the 1920s to 1940s, attracts thousands each year to the area’s warm sandy beaches, exciting nightlife and eccentric cultural atmosphere.
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Royer Captures the Choral
Jack Vad, producer/engineer for the San Francisco Symphony, used seven Royer Labs SF-2 mono ribbon microphones during the recording of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for release on the SFS Media label.
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New Colors at Kaleidescope Sound
Union City, NJ-based Kaleidescope Sound is a two-room facility that has been helping musicians make records since 2002.
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Big Blue Meenie Takes On The World
JERSEY CITY, NJ—With the economy crashing around your ears and studios across the country retrenching, what is a facility owner to do? In the case of Tim Gilles, owner of Big Blue Meenie, the answer may appear counter-intuitive: Expand.
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GC Pro Outfits Monterrey Tech
Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology sourced key equipment for audio production programs at the school's headquarters and new Mexico City campus from GC Pro.
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Weinberg Masters with Antelope
Mastering engineer Howie Weinberg's new facility in Los Angeles features Antelope Audio's Isochrone 10M|Trinity combination, Zodiac+ and Eclipse 384 digital audio converters.
Product Reviews
Sardina Clocks with Antelope
Antelope Audio's clocks are at the center of the technical infrastructure at Rafa Sardina's studio, After Hours.
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77 Recording Adds API 1608
77 Recording in Indiana has installed one of the largest API 1608 consoles manufactured to date, with 48 input channels and 32 channels of automation.
Product Reviews
Gough Goes Mobile with Merging
Freelance sound supervisor Julian Gough assembled a compact remote recording package of Merging Technologies and Smart AV equipment just in time for a BBC project at the end of November.
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Castle Rock Scores SSL First
Castle Rock Studios is the first commercial studio in northwest England to feature a Solid State Logic AWS 924 Hybrid Console/Controller.
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Pyramid Sound Studios Fights City Hall
By Kelleigh Welch. The future of Ithaca, NY-based Pyramid Sound Studios is uncertain after the city condemned the building in June—a decision owner Alex Perialas said could have been avoided during the planning stages of an adjacent bridge reconstruction...
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Pyramind Goes to 11.2
Pyramind's Studio A, reportedly San Francisco's largest surround mix room and dubbing stage, was recently renovated and upgraded to an 11.2 Meyer Sound Cinema Surround speaker system.
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GC Pro Outfits Hay Bale Studio
Several of the acts at Bonnaroo this year recorded backstage in a purpose-built recording studio, outfitted with the help of GC Pro.
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Berklee Doubles Up With WSDG
In January, the Berklee College of Music opened an entirely new campus in Valencia, Spain, just a month after breaking ground on a 16-story, $100 million structure in Boston to be completed in late 2013. Both learning complexes will...
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From Urban to Beyond:Patchwerk Recording
Patchwerk Recording Studios began in 1995, conceived by Atlanta Falcons’ offensive tackle Bob Whitfield. Whitfield’s first professional gig was financing a demo for his high school chum, rapper Ras Kass.
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Raymond Adds Genelec Monitors
Engineer and producer Beau Raymond, who relocated his studio from L.A. to Portland, OR in 2011, has since added Genelec active monitors.
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GC Pro Brings The Noise
GC Pro aided musician/producer Alex Campos when established Noisematch Studios in Miami's Wynwood Arts District.
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Arnold Treats Studio with Auralex
Taz Arnold has installed several Studiofoam Pyramids and Wedges from Auralex Acoustics on the walls of his new space in Los Angeles.
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Comin’ In from The Cold
Joe Mabbott, owner of Minneapolis, Minnesotabased The Hideaway Studio, which opened back in 2004, says that during the mid- 1990s, Minneapolis had more recording studios per capita than anywhere else in the U.S.