Live
Brooklyn Bowl Nashville is Ready to Roll
The pandemic brought live music to a halt on March 12, 2020—the night before Brooklyn Bowl Nashville's grand opening. Here's how Music City's newest venue survived to finally open this month.
Nashville
Blogs
Peek Inside Hunter Hayes’ Home Studio with this Video Tour
Country star/producer Hunter Hayes has built a well-appointed home studio for himself in the hills above Los Angeles. Let's go gear-spotting as he gives a cool video tour of his creative recording space.
Music Production
Legendary Metal Producer/Engineer Michael Wagener Retires
With his name on more than 90 million albums sold, hard rock and metal producer/engineer Michael Wagener has announced his retirement.
Business
DCR Nashville Nets Paul Owen
Veteran live sound executive Paul Owen is joining full-service event production company DCR Nashville as its new president.
Business
Solotech Acquires Morris Light & Sound
Solotech expands its Nashville footprint with the acquisition of event production and system integration company Morris Light & Sound.
Gear and Technology
Innovations: Waves Nx Ocean Way Nashville Plug-In
Mixing on headphones? Waves’ new NX Ocean Way Nashville Plug-In aims to bring the 360° acoustic image of Ocean Way Nashville control rooms to your favorite ’phones.
Music Production
Mike Elizondo Moves in with Genelec
Grammy-winning producer Mike Elizondo’s new Nashville facility sports Genelec W371A Smart Active Woofer systems and 8361A Smart Active Monitors.
Music Production
KRK Monitors Move MusicHouse Mixer Marcantonio
Steve Marcantonio turns to KRK V4 studio monitors for work in his facility, MusicHouse.
Recording
Missed Opportunity Returns to Rob Burrell
Early in his career, Grammy-winning mix engineer Rob Burrell had to choose between making records and making movies. Now, having recently outfitted his Nashville home studio with a 11.1.4 Dolby Atmos mix environment, he’s taking on documentaries and Netflix...
Business
Home Studios Finally Legal in Nashville Metro Area
The long fight to reverse Nashville Metro Council’s 1998 residential zoning ordinance that made it illegal for residence-based recording studios and other businesses to serve clients on the property has ended.
Music, Etc
The Grahams Get Their Kicks for Third Album
Nashville-based duo The Grahams—childhood sweethearts Alyssa and Doug Graham—rode the length of Route 66 on motorcycle to find inspiration for their latest album, the last produced by the late Richard Swift.
Recording
Soultrain Sound Studios Pulls Into Nashville
Canadian recording artist Johnny Reid has acquired the historic Scruggs Sound facility near Nashville, rebuilding the studio from scratch with new gear and a B room, all spec’d by mix engineer Justin Cortelyou.
Music Production
Asher Postman’s New Monitors Deliver
Viral remix artist Asher Postman’s ADAM Audio monitors survived the Nashville tornado and are in use throughout quarantine.
Business
Summer NAMM Cancelled; TEC Award Noms Moved
With Summer NAMM cancelled, the TEC Awards’ nominees announcement has been moved and the Music City Center is readying to become a hospital.
Live
On the Road with Jason Aldean
Until the coronavirus pandemic derailed the spring touring season, country star Jason Aldean was packing arenas nightly with help from Nashville’s Spectrum Sound.
Business
Music Entities Aid Nashville Tornado Recovery
Iron Mountain, Gibson and regional guitar shops have the backs of music professionals as part of Nashville's tornado recovery.
Business
Nashville Tornado Hits Music Venue, Studio
A deadly storm that passed through Tennessee in the early hours of March 3 left 22 dead and created a tornado that tore through East Nashville, damaging hundreds of buildings including Woodland Studios and popular venue The Basement East.
Live
Bose Professional Appears in Dream Hotel
Nashville’s Dream Hotel collaborated with experiential A/V systems integrator Technomedia to outfit the destination with Bose Professional products.
Music, Etc
Music, Etc.: Gloria Gaynor — Surviving, Thriving and Testifying
Gloria Gaynor’s 2019 Gospel album, Testimony, won a Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album, taking the career of a disco legend (“I Will Survive”) in a whole new direction. Gaynor and engineer F. Reid Shippen dish on recording...
HOW Sound
AES Worship Sound Academy to Debut in March
The Audio Engineering Society's first AES Worship Sound Academy will place March 10–11, 2020, at the Johnson Center on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, TN.
Blogs
A Voice-O-Graph Blast from the Past
Songbyrd Music House and Record Café is home to one of the last surviving Voice-O-Graph booths—a 1940s vending machine that recorded customers to a vinyl record, cut right on the spot.
Recording
Chuck Ainlay Leads Csaba Petocz Scholarship Event
The annual memorial educational event was held at Peter Frampton’s Studio Phenix in the Berry Hill district in Nashville.
Recording
P&E Wing Sets All-Star Engineering Panel for Summer NAMM
Panel of top engineers to share insights and advice at Summer NAMM
Studio
Avid reveals Connect Live Nashville plans
Avid Connect Live Nashville will be streaming live on the Avid Link app, avid.com and Avid social media channels.
Business
Avid Announces Connect Live Nashville Plans
Event to take place concurrently to Summer NAMM.
Business
Apex Audio strengthens US operations with appointment of Ineke Priepot
Based in Nashville, TN, Priepot’s role is sales and business development with the aim of setting up and running a dealer/rep network across the US
Business
Can Nashville’s Music Row Be Saved from Demolition?
Once home to dozens of studios and music industry businesses, Nashville’s Music Row put the city on the map—and is now in danger of being wiped off the earth.
Gear and Technology
Universal Audio UAD-2 Live Rack – A Real-World Review
Russ Long put the Universal Audio UAD-2 Live Rack to the test during a string of Amy Grant/Vince Gill shows at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, and came away with a distinct opinion….
Music Production
JSS Creates a Studio Fit for a King
J Sound Services designed and installed a new private studio for The Commodores’ William King.
Live
Cooking Up Country Music, Food in Nashville
Nashville’s FGL House, Jason Aldean's Kitchen, and Luke’s 32 Bridge get decked out with new speakers.
Recording
Nashville’s Historic RCA Studio B Nets New Desk
The Nashville facility recorded the likes of Elvis, Dolly Parton, The Everly Brothers and countless other legends. Now it has a new console.
Business
Argosy Acquires Sound Construction & Supply
Studio furniture manufacturer will expand Nashville presence with new acquisition.
Recording
UMG Acquires House of Blues Studios Nashville
By Steve Harvey. Corporate owner of Abbey Road and Capitol Studios snaps up multi-building Berry Hill studio campus.
Live
Rethinking the Ryman’s Reinforcement
The Mother Church of Country Music has a new Audio System.
The Wire
Nashville: A Songwriter’s Paradise?
I’ve had the amazing opportunity to live in Nashville, Tennessee for close to eleven years. I moved here when I was sixteen years old, a bright-eyed dreamer. I remember my first trip to Nashville, I was eleven years old....
Music Production
Studio Showcase: Showing Some MOXE in Nashville
By Steve Harvey. Jordan Brooke Hamlin builds her dream studio in the woods.
Recording
Jordan Brooke Hamlin Builds Her Dream Studio in the Woods
By Steve Harvey. “Place affects what you create,” says Hamlin, who has been a touring and studio musician for the past 15 years.
Music Production
Genelec Set for Tuesday Nashville Event
In the run up to Summer NAMM, Genelec is holding a special event to introduce its new 1032C to the community.
Live
Welcome to 1979 Marks 10 Years with Direct-to-Disc Session
Ten artists will perform live at the studio on June 2 for 10-song vinyl compilation.
Business
Nashville AudioMasters Benefit Golf Tourney Set for May
Nashville's recording and live sound community unites once again to have fun in the sun in the name of aiding the Nashville Engineer Relief Fund.
Live
Topgolf Opens First Venue in Nashville
Sports destination covers 600-seat venue with Nexo system.