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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...
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...
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.
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.
Union City, NJ-based Kaleidescope Sound is a two-room facility that has been helping musicians make records since 2002.
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.
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.
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.
Antelope Audio's clocks are at the center of the technical infrastructure at Rafa Sardina's studio, After Hours.
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.
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.
Castle Rock Studios is the first commercial studio in northwest England to feature a Solid State Logic AWS 924 Hybrid Console/Controller.
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...
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.
Several of the acts at Bonnaroo this year recorded backstage in a purpose-built recording studio, outfitted with the help of GC Pro.
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...
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.
Engineer and producer Beau Raymond, who relocated his studio from L.A. to Portland, OR in 2011, has since added Genelec active monitors.
GC Pro aided musician/producer Alex Campos when established Noisematch Studios in Miami's Wynwood Arts District.
Taz Arnold has installed several Studiofoam Pyramids and Wedges from Auralex Acoustics on the walls of his new space in Los Angeles.
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.
Walters-Storyk Design Group recently designed Village Studios; located one hour by train from Hong Kong, the facility is said to be China’s first destination-style recording studio.
Bright Street Recorders occupies a spot just off Magnolia Boulevard in North Hollywood, California, in a charming area of the San Fernando Valley—a location that founder and co-owner Kenny Woods describes as a “classic, back-lot kind of feel.”
Two years ago, in the middle of one of the worst economic environments in recent history, Louis Benedetti began searching for the ideal location for a new recording studio.
