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Al Schmitt, arguably the most successful recording engineer ever, died Monday, April 26, at the age of 91, capping a career that saw him work with generations of superstars on iconic recordings of the era.
The Recording Academy has pushed its 63rd Annual Grammy Awards broadcast to Sunday, March 14, 2020, due to COVID-19 concerns.
The Recording Academy Special Merit Awards will recognize a variety of pros and artists with its Trustee Awards, Lifetime Achievement Awards and Technical GRAMMY Award.
The newly proposed HITS Act, introduced to the Senate on Wednesday, could be a financial help to musicians, producers, engineers and others.
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing has announced its 2020–21 Steering Committee, led by co-chairs Ivan Barias and Piper Payne.
The Recording Academy and Color of Change hosted a virtual industry-wide ChangeMusic Summit on Oct. 1.
The Sound Travels team describes how the COVID-19 crisis served as the impetus for the remote hire platform for the music industry. “Sound Travels started as a job market and it’s turned into almost a social justice platform, so...
The pandemic could not keep the Recording Academy’s P&E Wing from continuing its work addressing and promoting the concerns of audio pros.
Rupert Hine, the producer behind hit albums by Rush, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Stevie Nicks, The Fixx and others, was also an accomplished artist in his own right.
With all 50 states now in the process of reopening, the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy has released “Considerations For Recording Studios As They Reopen.”
In addition to working as Stevie Wonder’s FOH engineer for three decades, Danny Leake also recorded dozens of top artists in the studio, leading to six Grammy nominations for his efforts.
The son of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, Knox Phillips made his own way, recording the likes of Willie Nelson, John Prine and Jerry Lee Lewis before becoming an emissary of Memphis’ music scene.
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The Recording Academy/MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund will help musicians and touring pros whose livelihood has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Keith Olsen, the Grammy-winning producer/engineer who arguably defined the sound of hard rock in the late Seventies and Eighties, has died.
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing and Iron Mountain Incorporated Entertainment Services will continue partnership.
The production Grammy winners at the 62nd Grammy Awards this weekend had a lot to cheer about, from a sweep by a new artist and her producer/brother, to a long-awaited win by a patient producer/engineer.
The third annual USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reports, men still greatly outnumber women in the upper reaches of the music industry, particularly behind the glass.
Producer/engineer Morten Lindberg has a career total of 28 Grammy nominations and 0 wins—the unluckiest streak in Grammy history. Will he finally win in 2020?
METAlliance co-founder Elliot Scheiner pays tribute to his friend, recording legend Ed Cherney, who passed away in October.
2020 Grammy Nominations have been announced, including the production, engineering, mixing, remixing and mastering categories.
The social media initiative aims to spotlight producers, engineers and others who contribute to the music recording process.
By Clive Young. Grammy, Emmy and TEC Award-winning producer/engineer Ed Cherney died Monday, October 21.
Panel of top engineers to share insights and advice at Summer NAMM
Academic tome explores issues of creativity, control and gender in music production.
The EIPMA is a non-profit organisation with an aim to provide mentoring services to young people seeking behind-the-scenes careers in the media and entertainment industry
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing hosted its annual fete during Grammy Week.
The Producer and Engineer Initiative is a campaign to create more opportunities for female music producers and engineers, calling on those hiring producers and engineers to pledge to consider two females before making a decision
By Clive Young. The Recording Academy has unveiled its Inclusion Initiative with the aim of increasing the number of female producers and engineers across the industry. The move comes in the wake of an extensive USC Annenberg study that...
By Steve Harvey. Winners reflected the increasingly diverse artists and genres driving the music business.
Initiative aims to increase the number of female producers and engineers across the industry.
Recording, mixing and mastering engineers behind some of the past year’s biggest hits were recognized at the annual Latin GRAMMY Awards.
Learning from the best is on the agenda at AES.
By Steve Harvey. A string of new rules have been made for next year's Grammy Awards nomination process, including one that affects restoration engineers.
Grammy Week celebration honors Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz and music’s creative technical wizards.
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing, in partnership with Iron Mountain Entertainment Services held an exclusive event at Third Man Records in Nashville during the Summer NAMM Show.
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing has released "Recommendations for Hi-Resolution Music Production," the result of three years of extensive research.
Jack White was fêted by The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing at its annual Grammy Week celebration at The Village Studios on Feb. 8. Recording Academy president and CEO Neil Portnow presented White with The Recording Academy President’s...
By Clive Young. Standards consortium Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) has introduced a new metadata format, Recording Information Notification (RIN), intended to standardize the metadata describing all aspects of a recording project
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing presented Capitol Studios & Mastering with its Certificate of Appreciation on June 1, 2016.
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing has announced the premier sponsors for its ninth-annual Grammy Week event honoring eight-time Grammy-winner Rick Rubin in February.
The 2014-2015 Steering Committee for the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing has been announced.