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By Strother Bullins. GSI Studios is a new music recording studio located in Midtown Manhattan—something that is increasingly a rarity, offers co-founder and saxophonist Daniel Rovin, who partnered on the facility with co-founders Austin White, a bassist, and multi-Grammy...
By Steve Harvey. Contrary to the popular misconception spread by Dave Grohl’s 2013 documentary chronicling the purchase and relocation of the studio’s iconic Neve desk to the Foo Fighters’ private facility, Sound City is far from dead. True, the...
By Strother Bullins. Behind 11th Street Records, a vinyl store at the corner of 11th and Fremont streets in downtown Las Vegas, sits National Southwest Recording—a self-professed “rock and roll recording studio,” featuring classic and proven gear alongside the...
By Strother Bullins. JUNO Award-winning producer, engineer, songwriter and mixer Siegfried Meier owns Beach Road Studios, a private recording, mixing and mastering facility overlooking lovely Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada on a sprawling farm. At the age of 5,...
Rupert Neve Designs (RND), the Wimberley, Texas-based pro audio firm of truly legendary proportions, recently converted a conference room at its headquarters into an interestingly multifunctional space.
By Strother Bullins. Based outside of Wilmington, North Carolina in New Hanover County, Big Rude Recording was founded by Chase O’Neal, an energetic young engineer keenly aware of the importance of vibe in recording environments. As such, Big Rude...
As college life for Stephen Marsh abruptly ended, his career in audio began.
With Mexico City’s Valenzo Recording Studio truly thriving a year from its opening, Horatio Malvicino, designer and managing director of Malvicino Design Group—an architectural, acoustical and technical systems design and consulting firm based in New York City—has much to...
BEXLEY, OH—With the construction of its first academic building in a half-century, Capital University of Bexley, Ohio has gained the Convergent Music Center (CMC), which will host multi-disciplinary curriculum and real-world experiential learning courses for programs including Music Technology,...
A film composer who’s scored 60-plus movies to date, Woodshed Recording owner Richard Gibbs most visibly began his professional musical career as a session player and the keyboardist for Oingo Boingo.
SANFORD, NC—There are sometimes pivotal events in life that define our destiny, even if it takes decades to get to our destination.
Console designer David Dearden’s latest version of the audient aSp8024—the aSp8024-He, or the Heritage edition—was recently installed at the London-based institute of Contemporary music (iCmp), where new studios have been christened for its burgeoning music production program.
Studio owner Keith Asack, who graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Production and Engineering from Boston’s Berklee College of Music in 2010, must have been paying particular attention on the day that his instructor discussed the value...
Grammy Award-winning producer, songwriter, guitarist and engineer Buddy Miller recently upgraded to ATC SCM45A monitors after three years with a pair of ATC SCM25As.
Preparing audio engineers and multimedia content creators for the future at Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication, the faculty and facilities of the School of Media Arts & Studies (MDIA) demonstrate a great deal of forward thinking, attests Kyle...
Herb Tucmandl, CEO and founder of Vienna Symphonic Library, purchased a 1940s orchestral recording hall several years ago and has now reopened it as Synchron Stage Vienna.
Playground’s Studio A features a 1,500 square-foot live room with five isolation rooms, one large enough to include a Yamaha C7 grand piano. Historically, Playground has hosted many string and orchestral dates, something that Coyle decided to nurture and...
New York City’s Conclave Studios boasts a unique focus and business model to nurture, produce and develop heavy metal, hard rock and progressive music artists.
Rock and roll recording is about community, ultimately.
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.
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...
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.
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.
The online "Virtual Sidebar" that supplements the August, 2015 Pro Sound News issue.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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 &...
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...
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.
LOCATION—What is a facility to do when the recording studio right next door goes up for sale?
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...
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.
NASHVILLE, TN—If Music Row is largely selling out, Zac Brown isn’t buying it.
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.
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.
NASHVILLE, TN—Since 1969, Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios has operated just off of what is known as Music Row—and more than geographically.
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,...
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...
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.
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.