Bell Sound – A Legacy of Looking Ahead
It feels like home. Bougainvillea climbs over the green metal gate, encircling bright blue lounge chairs and a wrought iron table set, picturesque, against the brick patio. Entering Bell Sound The...
View ArticleRadial Announces Space Heater Tube Drive + Summing Mixer, Twinline Guitar FX...
Radial Engineering came through Winter NAMM with some big announcements and the ones that caught our eyes were the introduction of the Space Heater 8 channel tube drive + summing mixer, and the...
View ArticleNAMM 2014 Gear Highlights: 36 Picks to Improve Your Studio
If being thoroughly overwhelmed is your thing, then the music trade show they call NAMM is a great way to kick off the year. NAMM beckons to the industry insiders. The 2014 North American Music...
View ArticleTekserve Names Jerry Gepner CEO
A highly respected media and technology mind has a new role in New York City. Jerry Gepner is the new CEO of Tekserve. Tekserve, the technology solutions provider and Apple reseller headquartered on...
View ArticleVinyl Hits a Ten Year High – But Why?
British Phonographic Industry figures from 2013 suggest vinyl sales, while still relatively humble compared to CDs and downloads, have reached a ten-year high. The BPI data shows some 550,000 LPs were...
View ArticleAudiffex Releases STA Flanger — Plugin with Summing Tube Amplifer Circuity
Audiffex is a multimedia development company based out of the Czech Republic and they come to us bearing new software! The release of their STA Flanger represents quite the history behind software...
View ArticleStuder Introduces Vista X Console, with New Infinity Series Processing Engine
Studer is putting a stop to the power struggle. The marquee manufacturer has just unveiled the new Vista X digital console and the Studer Infinity Processing engine, showing off their landmark new...
View ArticleFresh Off the Press: “The Music Producer’s Survival Guide” by Brian Jackson
Brian Jackson has decided to take music career books to the next level. With the MPSG, you’ll learn how to build a fire in the studio…just kidding. In his new book, The Music Producer’s Survival Guide:...
View ArticleTracktion 5 DAW Released – Enhanced Creativity And Optimized Performance
Seattle-based software development company, Tracktion Software Corporation (TSC) is continuing their successful re-lauch of the Tracktion brand with version Five of their DAW, Tracktion. Tracktion 5 is...
View ArticleThe ABC’s of…Avant-Garde Rock In The Studio: Talking Heads to Sonic Youth &...
The fifth in a series, presenting a primer on the history of musical genres and the studio basics behind them. Previous installments have focused on Blues Rock, Reggae, Punk Rock, and Electronic Rock....
View ArticleMix with the Masters Announces Alan Meyerson Seminar – July 28-August 3, 2014
One of the most accomplished Scoring Mixers in movies, Alan Meyerson, has just signed to hold a standout seminar for “Mix with the Masters”. Alan Meyerson brings his cinematic mixing expertise to MWTM...
View ArticleReview: McDSP 6020 Ultimate EQ by Zach McNees
Three years ago this month, I reviewed the McDSP 6030 Ultimate Compressor plug-in. The 6030 consists of ten uniquely different 500 series style compressors all bundled into one plug-in. And it has...
View ArticleWarner/Chappell Production Music Debuts Improved Website & Search Platform
Online search has seen a major evolution on the Warner/Chappell Production Music Website, which debuted this week at WarnerChappellPM.com. There’s an all-new online home for WCPM. Visitors will find an...
View ArticleLouder than the Crowd: Quad Amps Up Studio Q1
The Legion of Boom – a.k.a. the vaunted defense for the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks – was just in town. During their stay in New York City, a visit to Quad Recording Studios’ newly renovated...
View ArticleMix with the Masters Announces Chris Lord Alge Seminar – July 17-July 23
And the hits keep on coming. MWTM. CLA. What more need we say? Mix with the Masters is loading up an already-attractive summer docket, this time adding none other than multi-Grammy winning Producer and...
View ArticleSynch Focus: Giorgio Moroder’s “Doo Bee Doo Bee Doo” for Volkswagen’s “Wings”
Intensive research and pure instinct — the story behind discovering the perfect music for one of the best ads of Super Bowl XLVIII. Who’s In Focus: http://www.menloparkmusic.com We Are: Menlo Park...
View ArticleGlyph Launches New Line of Drives with Studio Mini
Glyph has set out to make an uncompromising external drive for engineers and producers on the go. The Studio Mini can move data at speeds up to 420 MB/s. Glyph Production Technologies has recently...
View ArticleFocusrite To Hold RedNet Showcase at Vintage King Nashville (VKN) MixRoom,...
Vintage King Audio will be hosting a special Focusrite RedNet showcase in their Nashville location on Thursday, February 20th, 2014. The showcase will be hosted by Vintage King staff, RedNet specialist...
View ArticleAudio Post Moves: Sonic Union Adds Mixer Fernando Ascani
A musical multitasker has come onboard at Sonic Union in New York City. Mixer & Sound Designer Fernando Ascani has joined up with Sonic Union. The Union Square audio post facility announced that it...
View ArticleChris Caswell on Playing the GRAMMYs with Daft Punk and The Beatles
More than four decades into his career, writer/arranger Chris Caswell is still working like a young man, sometimes pulling all-nighters like he did at the GRAMMYs just a few weeks ago. There, Caswell...
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