2016
BT’s Dropping a New Album—You Name It
Brian Transeau, aka BT, has been a leading figure in EDM for the past several decades, but it would be a mistake to pigeonhole...
2016
2016
Thanks for the Dinner, David
Last night, in Santa Fe, I had a nice dinner with David Schwartz, co-founder of Mix and the man who hired me as an...
2016
Big Studios Bring It
Unless you just woke from a 20-year sleep, you know that digital recording and the Internet have pushed us into a multi-level world of...
2016
Waves Vitamin Sonic Enhancer and Sub Align Plug-ins
Enhanced Tone and Phase Correction for Live Sound
2016
RF Explorer Handheld Spectrum Analyzer
Affordable Diagnostics Features RF Venue Vantage Software
2016
Classic Tracks: Eric Carmen’s “All By Myself”
The completed track was seven and a half minutes long, with a piano interlude that changed keys four times...how to cut it for radio?
2016
On the Cover: The Tracking Room, Nashville
Just off of Nashville’s famed Music Row, Music Circle South doglegs and then ends at a cul-de-sac in front of The Tracking Room, a...
2016
Mix Regional Sessions: New York City 2016
GERMANO STUDIOS Elle King recorded in Studio 1 with Dave Rowland engineering…Desiigner recorded in Studio 2 with Rowland engineering and Desiigner self-producing…The Flaming Lips...
2016
Mix Regional News: New York City 2016
SWEETSOUNDS STUDIO GETS FACELIFT After six years of serving clients, the team at SweetSounds decided it was time for a little recording studio nip...
2016
Paul Special, Live on the Network
Paul Special is a freelance broadcast music mixer who is regularly found mixing bands for ABC’s Good Morning America at Times Square Studios in...
2016
Mix Regional New York City: Parabolic NY
Opening a new studio is a game of numbers, but for Parabolic in New York City it wasn’t about the numbers you’re probably thinking...
2016
New Products: July 2016
Synthax RME Fireface UFX+ Redesign Brings Thunderbolt, USB 3 and DSP RME’s new flagship audio production tool, the Fireface UFX+ ($2,999) features 188 channels...
2016
Cool Spin: Air, ‘Twentyears’
Roughly two decades ago, the French duo Air hit a universally agreeable note with its semi-electronic semi-organic, all lush, dreamy, fluttery pop. The two...
2016
AM & Joey Waronker Unplug on ‘Precious Life’
Los Angeles-based AM and Joey Waronker’s neighborly friendship has turned out a wonderfully analog album, Precious Life, recorded at Waronker’s curated studio occupying an...
2016
Wild Beasts, ‘Boy King’
For its fifth album, Boy King, British group Wild Beasts decamped to Dallas, Texas, to producer and multi-instrumentalist John Congleton’s Elmwood Recording studio. Recording...
2016
VUE Debuts Two at BottleRock
It’s not easy to debut new live sound products in real world situations. Few engineers want to risk the introduction of new technologies with...
2016
Vincent van Haaff Remembered
Vincent Amaury van Haaff—renowned acoustician, studio designer and principal of Los Angeles–based firm Waterland Design LLC—passed away on Monday, May 23, 2016. Waterland’s design...
2016
Best of Show, InfoComm 2016
The Pro Audio Group of NewBay Media has announced its Best of Show Award winners for InfoComm 2016. A panel of engineers and industry...
2016
Capitol, P&E Wing Hi-Res Symposium
On June 1, Capitol Studios in Hollywood hosted a symposium on the status and future of Hi-Res audio. The event was sponsored by The...
2016
Living the Good Life
Until very recently, Conway Recording Studios was something of a mystery to me.
2016
Live Sound Takeaways
In the past, I’ve written about the growing similarities between live sound and recording studio workflows.
2016
Workhorse Instrument Microphones for Live Sound
As subjectivity guides the practice of choosing the best microphone for the best sound source, preferences for specific models, as a rule, abound. However,...
2016
Classic Tracks: k.d. lang’s “Trail of Broken Hearts”
Greg Penny and k.d. lang originally bonded over an Indian lunch. Producer/engineer Penny and his engineering colleague Joe Seta had signed on for some...
2016
On the Cover: Conway Recording Studios, 40 Years at the Top
The lush, tropical gardens are both striking and comforting. The palms and ferns and flowers in rich, vibrant colors stand in contrast to the...
2016
SFMOMA: Sound in a Space
I spent more time in museums, and thinking about museums, over the past month than I typically do.
2016
Think Again
The part of my job that excites me the most is when I come across new technologies and approaches that change the way I...
2016
Rooney, ‘Washed Away’
Robert Schwartzman mixed and mastered the newest Rooney album, Washed Away, three times with three mastering engineers. The final version, mixed by Dave Trumfio...
2016
We Are Scientists, ‘Helter Seltzer’
We Are Scientists, now pared down to two core members—guitarist/vocalist Keith Murray and bassist Chris Cain—had the good fortune to have their one-time keyboard...
2016
Cool Spin: Pet Shop Boys, ‘Super’
Super marks the second in a reported trilogy of albums the Pet Shop Boys are recording with uber-pop producer Stuart Price. Written in Berlin...
2016
Return to the Eighties
Marianas Trench Dives Back 30 Years to Find the Right Tones for ‘Astoria’