2016
New Products October 2016
Drawmer CPA-50 Amplifier Affordable Power Designed for Auratone Cubes The CPA-50 from Drawmer ($450) is a Class-D amplifier that delivers 25-watts RMS per channel...
Cool Spin: H U N G E R, ‘For Love’
For Love, the debut album from Austrian trio H U N G E R, fits easily into the synth pop–based modern rock bracket. All...
Mix Regional Sessions: Los Angeles 2016
Capitol Studios Ryan Adams is working on a new album in Studios A and B, with engineer Beatriz Artola (Adams self-produced). Blue Note president...
Mix Regional News: Los Angeles 2016
UNITED RECORDING BRINGS BACK MASTERING, LAUNCHES ARCHIVING DIVISION United Recording in Los Angeles has launched its new mastering division. United was founded in 1957...
Classic Tracks: The Emotions’ “Best of My Love”
If The Emotions’ hit single “Best of My Love” sounds like a female version of Earth, Wind & Fire, that’s because it almost is....
Data Drama
I just had a valued hard drive fail. I know it happens, but I still went through the eight emotional stages after data loss.
Classic Tracks: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “An American Dream”
The story behind “An American Dream," which put the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band back on pop radio after 10 years, was nothing less than...
Mix Regional Sessions: Pacific Northwest 2016
THE HALLOWED HALLS, PORTLAND, ORE. Studio manager/chief engineer Justin Phelps has completed new projects with The Shook Twins (co-produced with Gregory Alan Isakov), Poison...
Mix Regional News: Pacific Northwest 2016
ORBIT AUDIO OPENS SEATTLE RECORDING ARTS Seattle-based Orbit Audio recently started a new Washington State-licensed school, Seattle Recording Arts, for audio engineering and sound...
New Tools for Sound-for-Picture
“Sound-for-picture” has traditionally meant audio-for-film, television and video; think of all our usual needs and considerations in pursuit of sonic quality now merged with...
In the Mix With the Sound Team for ‘Preacher’
Preacher, AMC’s newest series adapted from a cult comic book, centers around a super-hot preacher man, Jesse Custer, his renegade Dorothy Dandridge-esque soulmate, Tulip,...
New Products September 2016
Audient iD4 USB Interface Versatile, Affordable, Portable The Audient iD4 ($199) is packed with features, including a Class-A Audient Console Mic Preamplifier, high-performance A/D...
MBNM 622 E-PZ & Solomon LoFReQ Microphones
Unique Transducers for Stereo and Low-Frequency Capture
On the Cover: Fantasy Film Center Reborn
It is rare that a story about an iconic, large-scale, world-class studio closing is followed—in this case nearly a decade later—by a story of...
Control Theory
Control Theory doesn’t often come up in casual conversation. But it’s come up for me lately, quite a bit actually, and I still have...
Evolving Transducers
It wasn’t that long ago that we started trusting digital enough to be all-in. Since then, and especially lately, the evolution of digital products...
New Products August 2016
Neyrinck V-Control Pro 2 Hands-on iOS and Android DAW Control V-Control Pro 2 from Neyrinck ($49.99) is a new system offering hands-on control of...