Music Production
It’s Always After Hours for Rafa Sardina
“I love to be a little bit nervous about the next project,” says Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning engineer, mixer and producer Rafa Sardina.
Steve Harvey is senior content producer for Mix and also contributes to other Future titles. He has worked in the pro audio industry — including as a touring musician, in live production, installed sound, and equipment sales and marketing — since November 1980.
Music Production
Getting Up to Speed with Thomas Dolby
Thomas Dolby’s very readable new memoir, The Speed of Sound, published by Flatiron Books in mid-October, is aptly named.
Blog
Dolby’s Discourse on VR, Technology and Inspiration
New Wave provocateur turned internet audio pioneer turned professor Thomas Dolby is out and about, promoting his new tech memoir, The Speed of Sound....
Music Production
Recording Film Launched at Capitol Studios
During filming of The Art of Recording a Big Band in Studio A at Capitol Studios, composer and bandleader Chris Walden (seated left) discusses...
Music Production
More Sound, Fewer Mics
A client who insists on using just four microphones on a seven-piece band, including drums, might give the average engineer pause.
Recording
Studio Showcase: Living on the Edge
Studio owner Keith Asack, who graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Production and Engineering from Boston’s Berklee College of Music in 2010,...
Music Production
P&E Wing: It’s High Time for Hi-Res Audio
At the beginning of June, representatives from Universal Music Group, The Recording Academy’s Producers & Engineers Wing and Sony Electronics convened at Capitol Studios...
Music Production
On The Move with Audio Evidence Mobile
Robert Seifert Gage’s life has been a long, strange trip.
Festival Business
How SSE became a Go-To for Festival Sound
SSE Audio Group won for Best Sound at the UK’s Festival Supplier Awards for the second consecutive year at the end of January 2016,...
2016
The Hit House
A motion picture’s music score is rarely, if ever, licensed for use in the film’s trailer. Indeed, it rarely ever was; more likely it...
Music Production
Fitting the Entire Sea in a Box
Concert by the Sea, one of the best-selling jazz records of all-time and arguably pianist Erroll Garner’s greatest concert album, was restored, remastered and...
Business
Inside The Great British Recording Studios
“Why would an American be writing a book about the British recording studios of the 1960s and 1970s?”
Business
The Studio Where Time Stood Still
Walking into the lobby of Valentine Recording Studios, located on Laurel Canyon Blvd.
Business
Janet Jackson’s Tour an Unbreakable Hit
By Steve Harvey. Janet Jackson is back on the road after a four-year hiatus, jumping straight into the Top-10 fall 2015 concert tours
Business
The Pros’ Go-To Gear: Studio Essentials
You’re stranded on a desert island, but were able to salvage only a handful of your favorite pieces of recording equipment. What did you...
Business
The Mouse House That Roared
By Steve Harvey. How do you get some of the best drum sounds on the West Coast? For Rich Mouser, it started with a...
Business
“Beating Those Bad Vibrations”
“Would you say there is an energy in the studio when you’re working and recording? How do you recognize when that vibe is going...
Business
Buying The Last Sound System
There is an axiom in the sound contracting industry that the goal is to sell a house of worship its last sound system.
Business
Sam Phillips Captured Raw Rock ’n’ Roll
One of the first images to meet your eye when you crack open Peter Guralnick’s new book is a photograph of a box containing...
Business
New Orleans Museum Mints New Music
The only building in the country to have produced both United States and Confederate money, the Old U.S. Mint, part of the Louisiana State...
Business
Tower Records Returns For One Night
By Steve Harvey. Gibson Brands and Colin Hanks set the clock back on Sunset Boulevard recently, restoring the exterior of the iconic Tower Records...
Business
Shania Twain Rocks Out, Rolls On
LOS ANGELES, CA—Shania Twain’s Rock This Country Tour, which launched in Seattle on June 5, was intended to be the Canadian country-pop singer’s last...
Business
Nashville’s Welcome To 1979 Goes Direct-To-Disc
NASHVILLE, TN—The old adage says that you can have it fast, cheap or good—pick two.
Business
Inside CRAS’s Internship Program
TEMPE, AZ—The Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS), one of the nation’s bestknown audio schools, offers internships to its students that turn the...
Business
Spatial Sound Imagined: Smoke + Mirrors
CALABASAS, CA—A unique collaboration enabled concertgoers at each show on the recent North American tour by Imagine Dragons to immerse themselves in artwork inspired...
Business
Solving The Devil’s Dilemma: Road Recording
ANTIOCH, CA—After several years of separately developing their own mobile workstations for use on the road, veteran touring FOH engineers Brad Madix and Greg...
Business
Recording Ricki and the Flash Live
LOS ANGELES, CA—Director Jonathan Demme wanted total authenticity on his latest film, Ricki and the Flash, which follows an aging rocker, played by Meryl...
Business
FCC’s Latest Rulemaking
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Federal Communications Committee’s August 5 rulemaking helped bring the future into slightly better focus for wireless microphone operators in the United States.
Business
Big Orange Sheep Jazzes Up Brooklyn
When Chris Benham told his girlfriend at the time—now his wife—to look out for the big horn sheep while she was vacationing in Yellowstone...
Business
Propellerhead Proffers Pocket Production
Propellerhead, the Swedish software developer behind such products as Reason, Re- Cycle and ReBirth, has launched a new social music-making platform that enables musicians...
Blog
More On Recording ‘Ricki and The Flash’ Live
When Meryl Streep and Rick Springfield began filming Ricki and the Flash, starring as aging rockers, the film’s music wrangler, Neil Citron, was appointed...
Business
Al Schmitt Honored with Hollywood Star
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored recording engineer, mixer and producer Al Schmitt with a star on the Walk of Fame, outside the Capitol...
Live Sound
Lighting Up Coachella
If you think that the production sound crew at a festival such as Coachella has a busy time, spare a thought for the lighting...
Blog
It’s Out With The Big Iron For Veneto West [Online Extra]
The July, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News profiles recording studio Veneto West; what follows is additional exploration into the facility and mindset...
Business
It’s Out With The Big Iron For Veneto West
SANTA MONICA, CA—Ronan Chris Murphy, a producer, mixer, engineer and recording artist whose multi-room Veneto West facility in Santa Monica, CA also provides a...
Business
Teragram Ballroom: Built From Experience
By Steve Harvey. Leveraging the recent rebirth of downtown L.A., Michael Swier of the Bowery Presents has opened his first West Coast venue, Teragram...
Business
The Iconic Troubadour Modernizes Loudspeaker System
W. HOLLYWOOD, CA—To call The Troubadour legendary is almost an understatement.
Business
COMPLETING THE CIRCLE: SOUND AFFAIR BACK HOME, BACK TO VINYL
SANTA ANA, CA—After more than three decades in the industry, Ron Leeper has come full circle, once again mastering to vinyl, and in the...
Business
Sharing Space To Cover Mic To Master: A “GOLDMINE” DRESSED IN BLUE VELVET
SANTA ANA, CA—Punk rock musician Dan Balistreri and his wife, Nicole, also a musician, went looking for a music-related business a couple of years...
Business
ASCAP Offers Music-Makers Information And Inspiration
HOLLYWOOD, CA—The ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo, celebrating its tenth anniversary in Los Angeles, put nearly 200 panelists and performers in front of hordes...
Business
Networking Headlines In Live Touring
NEW YORK, NY—Audio-over-IP has been a boon for live sound production.