Music Production
Producer/Q Division Founder Mike Denneen, Dead at 54
By Christopher Walsh. A key member of the Boston music scene for decades, Q Division co-founder Mike Denneen has passed.
Business
An Engineers’ Survey
As the annual Winter NAMM Show drew near, Pro Sound News asked a few professional engineers to share their personal list of “studio essentials.”
Business
Hot Plug-Ins at AES
The 131st Audio Engineering Society Convention demonstrated just how thoroughly the personal computer and software have come to dominate and influence audio production.
Business
Scheiner in Session at Avatar
NEW YORK, NY—In these fast-changing times, it’s especially nice to return to familiar and time-tested ways. Such is life, these days, for legendary engineer/...
Business
The Virtual Amp Has Arrived
Over the last decade, plug-ins have become both an accepted and, often, preferred tool for functions previously accomplished with outboard hardware or a console’s...
Business
HPMC Plays Parlour Game
NEW YORK, NY—Harlem Parlour Music Club, a “down home uptown” collective comprised of top New York-based musicians, is feeling good.
Business
Saving Grace
The phrases, “Strength in numbers” and “Diversify,” may be clichés in the recording-services business, but “maxim” and “axiom” surely apply to these words as...
Business
Piano Is Key To Brown’s Studio
There are few experiences more pleasing than to sit at an ornately carved 1881 Steinway D Centennial concert grand piano as its unimaginably honeyed...
Business
L.E.S. Records Brings the Old-School Vibe
NEW YORK, NY—In the candlelit tracking room at a studio on the Lower East Side, country/rockabilly legend Greg Garing performs in front of a...
Business
Salt of the Earth
BROOKLYN, NY—Here in the creative hotbed of Greenpoint, what may be the ultimate tape-to-disk mastering system is taking shape.
Blog
Reducing the Console Footprint
by Christopher Walsh. The console’s evolution toward a smaller footprint and DAW integration fits with the trend toward personal studio environments. But commercial studios...
Business
Recording Marches on Homeward
by Christopher Walsh. That audio professionals are building personal and home-based studios in unprecedented numbers is hardly a new phenomenon. But this...
Business
Industry Greets 2009 at NAMM
by Christopher Walsh. The 2009 Winter NAMM Show, held January 15-18 at the Anaheim Convention Center, illustrated an industry marked both by a global...
Business
A Mic for Every Singer
by Christopher Walsh. Anaheim, CA--"Vocals are the most important thing," producer Ross Hogarth declares. "Obviously, the song is built on the vocal,...
Archives
BanPiracy Puts Controversial Plans in Motion
by Christopher Walsh New York, NY (November 15, 2007)--At the 123rd Audio Engineering Society Convention, executives of BanPiracy, a company formed to fight intellectual...
Archives
PACE IMSTA Support BanPiracy
By Christopher Walsh New York, NY (November 15, 2007)--"Enforcement is nothing new in copy protection," says Andrew Kirk of San Jose, CA-based PACE Anti-Piracy...
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