Does Spotify Work For Independent Artists? An Interview with Jeremy deVine of...
If you’re a musician, a studio geek or a music fan, you’ve probably been hearing a lot of information — and misinformation — about Spotify, royalty rates, streaming services and the modern musical...
View ArticleBushwick Studio Adds Studio Manager Steven Alvarado
One of Brooklyn’s bastions of high-end tracking and mixing, Bushwick Studio, has gotten a major boost in the personnel department. (l-r) Josh Kessler and Steve Alvarado are united at Bushwhick...
View ArticleDavid Byrne & St. Vincent, Lenny White, Manuel Valera & More at Water Music
One of NYC’s finest recording studios is not in NYC at all. Located across the Hudson in Hoboken, Water Music has a vintage Neve 8088 console and large tracking spaces with multiple iso booths. The...
View ArticleLarrabee Studios: Nailing The Pop Production Paradigm
NORTH HOLLYWOOD: From the outside, it’s a nondescript office building that blends in with its surroundings; step inside Larrabee Studios, however, and you’re walking into an epicenter of Los Angeles...
View ArticleQuad Lakeside Adds Classic Trident 80C Console, Studer Sidecar
The ice is melting on the lake, and as it goes you can see the changes around the Greenwood Lake town. At Quad Lakeside, those changes are mighty. There is now an ultra-sweet sounding EMT plate at the...
View ArticleNew Studio Opening: “Dungeon Beach” Audio/Video Post Comes to Brooklyn
Dungeon Beach Studios is aptly-named. To enter, you must first find a nondescript steel door on an industrial stretch of North 3rd Street, just a few blocks from Williamsburg’s main strip. From there,...
View ArticleTony Visconti to Record, Produce, Mix with Rock Trio Capsula
Super producer Tony Visconti certainly knows his ABC’s. Capsula is set to get Visconti-ized. Fresh off working with Bowie (David) on the brilliant new album The Next Day, NYC-based Visconti’s next...
View ArticleSSL Launches AWS 16 Console – New 16-Input AWS Desk
It’s all about access. Knowing that, SSL is opening things up for a whole new sector of commercial and private facilities with the launch of the AWS 16 console. This 16-input option is the latest in...
View ArticleNashville Event Choice: “Fly on the Wall” at Welcome to 1979, On March 29th
The feel at Nashville the studio known as Welcome to 1979 may be pure retro, but it’s clearly propelled by future-think. This analog recording studio envisions a time, very soon to come, where audio...
View ArticleIcons: Inside Vince Clarke’s Synth Kingdom in Brooklyn
BROOKLYN: You know it as soon as you hear it: A Vince Clarke creation has a way of bouncing right through you. Even at his darkest, there are vibrant energetic impulses emanating from the “King of the...
View ArticleEvent Choice: ASCAP EXPO – Songwriter/Composer Conference, April 18-20
One of the annual cornerstone events for songwriters and composers is coming soon: The ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO arrives next month, taking place April 18-20 in Los Angeles at the Loews Hollywood...
View ArticleCharterOak Announces K500 Ultra Parametric EQ – 3-Band 500 Series Module
To many an engineer, a great EQ can be the overlooked X-factor in the outboard. The Connecticut-based specialty audio manufacturer CharterOak is delivering that missing piece with their latest release:...
View ArticleBlues Rock in The Studio: The Perpetual Sound — The Black Keys to Jimi...
As The Black Keys entered the stage of The 55th GRAMMY Awards recently, albeit with much GRAMMY flare that included a horn section and bass drummer, it’s interesting to think, “Has blues rock’s sound...
View ArticleEvent Choice: Maximizing KONTACT for Composers, NYC, 3/27
Ready to make deeper contact with the KONTAKT soft synth – and two in-demand composers while you’re at it? Join the SCL in NY, and two top composers, to go in deep with Kontakt. Then join the Society...
View ArticleInfrasonic Sound Announces New Ownership of Recording Studio
M&A activity is alive and well on the studio level. The new owner of Infrasonic’s recording studio, Eric Palmquist is at far left, along with Justin Goings, Spencer Schuck, and Riley Bray of the...
View ArticleReview: Telefunken ELA M 260 Microphone by Zach McNees
Last October, I produced and engineered an album called The Modest Revolution for my friends Enter The Haggis, a Canadian roots-rock band that I’ve worked with for a number of years. We were fortunate...
View ArticleJoan Jeanrenaud Records at Studio Trilogy for Dance Theatre of Harlem
Cellist and composer Joan Jeanrenaud (Kronos Quartet) recently recorded new music for The Dance Theatre of Harlem, which is returning in April to NYC after an eight-year hiatus. Pictured in session at...
View ArticleSoundgarden Sign Worldwide Publishing Agreement with BMG Chrysalis US
They like THE ROCK at BMG Chrysalis US: The multinational music rights management concern – which maintains offices in New York City and Los Angeles — just made a big addition to its million-plus-song...
View ArticleMuse Research Launches RECEPTOR QU4TTRO and RECEPTOR TRIO — Hardware Plugin...
There’s working in the box, and then there’s working in THE box. For those who can get their head around it, the systems that have come out for Muse Research over the years have represented a different...
View ArticleRIP Phil Ramone: A Producer and His Musical Destiny
His name was music. A lifetime of recording: Phil Ramone. Phil Ramone passed away in a New York hospital this morning at age 72, a development that followed his admittance into medical care a few weeks...
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