Studio Showcase
Enviyon Grows from the Garage to the Future
Over the course of 10 years, Romel Williams has grown Enviyon Entertainment from a part-time gig in his garage to a fully staffed, multi-studio facility.
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Valhalla Studios Jumps into Analog Immersive Mixing
Valhalla Studios owner/Manowar founder Joey DeMaio collaborated with Grammy-winning mastering engineer Darcy Proper and top engineer Ronald Prent to upgrade the facility’s main room to handle all immersive formats.
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Tiny Telephone Hangs It Up in San Francisco
Tiny Telephone has been a mainstay of the San Francisco indie music scene for 22 years, but owner John Vanderslice is bringing things to a close this July, as he gets ready to sell off priceless gear to pay...
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Studio Showcase: June Audio Returns to Utah
After 20 years away, June Audio has returned to Provo, UT, with a newly built, Wes Lachot-designed multiroom facility housing EDM production suites, live rooms and a considerable collection of instruments, backline and accessories.
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Studio Showcase: FAME Recording Studios
FAME Recording Studios’ B room captured some of the most incendiary performances of the Sixties and Seventies. Now brought up-to-date with a mix of new and vintage gear, the facility is ready for a new era of great music.
Recording
Studio Showcase: LA Good Vibe’s Solar-Powered Sessions
By Steve Harvey. Joachim Garraud recently built his dream studio, LA Good Vibe. It just happens to be a 36-foot RV converted into an eco-friendly, solar-powered mobile recording studio where the drum booth can sleep up to four people.
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Studio Showcase: Podcast Facility Little Everywhere Grows Up
By Steve Harvey. After years as a musician, songwriter, producer and engineer, creating Grammy-nominated work with Modest Mouse, the Murder City Devils and Cold War Kids, Dann Gallucci found the next phase of his career in podcasting.
Post and Broadcast
Human Expands in Chicago
By Steve Harvey. Peek inside Human, the music and post shop that has opened a new location in Chicago in a former music production studio.
Recording
Studio Showcase: Blackbird Studio Takes Immersive to the Next Level
By Steve Harvey. John McBride, co-founder of Nashville’s Blackbird Studio, explains how and why the facility revamped its Studio C—famously outfitted with 138,646 individual pieces of wood for diffusion—into a 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos mix space.
Recording
Studio Showcase: The Bubble, Austin
By Steve Harvey. Austin's active music scene has long overshadowed the local recording business, but in the Hyde Park neighborhood south of downtown Austin, one recording studio is hoping to turn that around.
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Las Vegas’ Studio DMI Reinvents Itself for EDM
By Steve Harvey. The electronic dance music scene has exploded in Las Vegas over the past decade in the city’s resorts and clubs. No newcomer to the genre, Studio DMI has long specialized in EDM, and now has moved...
Recording
Studio Showcase: Sweetwater Studios
By Steve Harvey. From its humble beginnings as a 4-track mobile recording studio in the back of musician Chuck Surack’s Volkswagen Samba bus in 1979, Sweetwater Sound has become a juggernaut, morphing into the largest online pro audio and...
Recording
Niles City Rethinks Old-School Recording
By Steve Harvey. Niles City Sound may be the studio that helped launch the Grammy-winning career of throwback R&B singer Leon Bridges, but the Ft. Worth, TX facility is determined not to be defined by that one project.
Recording
Studio Showcase: Barefoot Recording Opens Up to the World
By Steve Harvey. Eric Valentine’s Barefoot Recording in Hollywood is now available to outside clients.
Music Production
The Ultimate Home Studio? Upper Deck Hits It Out of the Park
By Steve Harvey. Ever daydream what it would be like to build an attic studio if money was no object? One Major League Baseball player did just that, and the result is a jaw-dropping, TEC Award-nominated private facility called...
Music Production
Studio Showcase: Oktaven Caters to Other Music
By Steve Harvey. Oktaven Audio’s co-owner Ryan Streber says his studio has grown over the last decade while recording almost solely “art music, not stuff with any commercial appeal. It’s a little disturbing and perverse, but somehow it has...
Recording
416 Wabash Aims for Best of Both Worlds
By Steve Harvey. Indianapolis’ 416 Wabash is a 7,800-square-foot flexible space that combines a well-appointed music studio with an all-purpose event facility—and it’s a well-thought-out hit.
Recording
Studio Showcase: Collins Opens the Door to Hinge
By Steve Harvey. Grammy-winner Dave Collins has been mastering music you know by heart since the 1980s, and now has completed a new facility with two rooms, the other being used by Craig Bauer, another Grammy winner whose Chicago-based...
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A Studio with Social Media in Mind
By Steve Harvey. "If you’re not feeding the social media channel, you just about don’t exist as an artist,” says Scott Dupre, chief audio engineer at ManAlive Studios.
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Studio Showcase: Virtue and Vice
By Steve Harvey. Who among us has not suffered from gear lust and the certainty that acquiring that one piece of equipment will, well, solve everything? For Anthony “Rocky” Gallo, owner of Virtue and Vice Studios in Brooklyn, that...
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