Music Production
Back to The Futureheads
By Steve Harvey. Barry Hyde of UK post-post-punk band the Futureheads talks about recording the band’s self-produced new album—its first in six years—at the...
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.
Recording
Jimmy Johnson, Engineer, Producer and Swamper, Dead at 76
By Steve Harvey. Producer, engineer and guitarist Jimmy Johnson had a hand in some of the Sixties and Seventies’ most indelible hits, working with...
Live Sound
Areu Bros. Studios Announces Economic Initiatives
By Steve Harvey. Further build out of the Atlanta-based 57-acre lot will include recording studios.
Live Sound
Shinedown Steps Up on Tour
By Steve Harvey. Shortly before a block of about two dozen U.S. shed dates in June and July, Shinedown called on Andy Meyer to...
Blog
Real-World Review: ‘Listen Up!’
By Steve Harvey. This book by Grammy-winning producer, engineer and mixer Mark Howard and his brother, Chris Howard, is an album-by-album account of working...
Recording
American University Adds Genelec 5.1 Systems
By Steve Harvey. The Audio Technology Program at American University in Washington, D.C., now boasts 5.1 monitor systems from Genelec in its two main...
Recording
Duro Gets on the ATC Tip
Mixer Ken “Duro” Ifill recently adopted ATC SCM45A three-way nearfield monitors.
Recording
Studio Showcase: Blackbird Studio Takes Immersive to the Next Level
By Steve Harvey. John McBride, co-founder of Nashville’s Blackbird Studio, explains how and why the facility revamped its Studio C—famously outfitted with 138,646 individual...
Recording
Beyond Music Releases Global Collaboration
By Steve Harvey. Beyond Music and artistic director Larry Klein selected 10 compositions and 22 artists to travel to Studios La Fabrique in France...
Recording
Henszey Sound Gets Immersed in Immersive
By Steve Harvey. As momentum builds behind immersive music releases, Dave Henszey has opened Henszey Sound, a recording and mixing facility overlooking Universal City...
Recording
Preserving the Past in Philadelphia
By Steve Harvey. Drexel University is preserving, archiving and researching 7,000 tapes left unclaimed after Sigma Sound Studios, the home of Philly Soul, closed...
Business
iTunes Gets Behind the Scenes Upgrade with Apple Digital Masters Initiative
By Steve Harvey. Apple has quietly rolled out a new effort to encode its audio offerings from high-resolution masters.
Recording
Studio Showcase: The Bubble, Austin
By Steve Harvey. Austin's active music scene has long overshadowed the local recording business, but in the Hyde Park neighborhood south of downtown Austin,...
Recording
Creating the 432-Track ‘Woodstock 50’ Box Set
By Steve Harvey. Woodstock took place 50 years ago this month, and for those who weren’t there (or were and don’t remember it), Rhino...
Recording
Getting Heavy with Will Putney
By Steve Harvey. New Jersey-based metal producer and guitarist Will Putney chats about his multiroom studio, his drum-focused production process and his new guitar...
Live Sound
Raising the Roof—and Expectations—at Summerfest
By Steve Harvey. Many concerts have raised the roof at the 23,500-seat American Family Insurance Amphitheater, the flagship venue of Milwaukee’s Summerfest, but this...
Recording
Sum 41’s Whibley Gets His Album in ‘Order’
By Steve Harvey. You might imagine that, as frontman, principal songwriter and sole original member of Sum 41, Deryck Whibley would have better things...
Recording
Yeasayer Takes a New Approach to Recording
By Steve Harvey. The acclaimed experimental rock band returns with Erotic Reruns, its latest self-produced album, which was almost entirely tracked, overdubbed and mixed...
Recording
Las Vegas’ Studio DMI Reinvents Itself for EDM
By Steve Harvey. The electronic dance music scene has exploded in Las Vegas over the past decade in the city’s resorts and clubs. No...
Live Sound
Eclectic Kensington Presents Series Goes PPA
By Steve Harvey. Kensington Presents has been promoting pop-up music shows at a variety of non-traditional Los Angeles area venues for years, relying on...
Music Production
NIST Team Tunes In to Atomic Audio
By Steve Harvey. Scientists capture Queen using Quantum Physics
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Suzanne Ciani Gets Loud at the Library
By Steve Harvey. Nobody said “shhh” when electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani played a live quadrophonic performance at the Los Angeles Public Library’s Mark...
Business
NYC Mayor’s Office Announces Grants for Women in Music
By Steve Harvey. Music producers, engineers, composers and musicians who identify as women will now be included in NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music...
Recording
Studio Showcase: Sweetwater Studios
By Steve Harvey. From its humble beginnings as a 4-track mobile recording studio in the back of musician Chuck Surack’s Volkswagen Samba bus in...
Recording
Jacob Collier: Making Elements Co-Exist
By Steve Harvey. UK multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier discusses his relationship to technology and the imminent release of the second volume in his epic four-album,...
Business
Breaking Down an Upswing, State by State
By Steve Harvey. Organizations representing musicians, songwriters, publishers and record labels in the United States recently launched an interactive website that analyzes the economic...
Music Production
Stevo’s Studio Goes West
By Steve Harvey. Stephen "Stevo" George's name is on more than 100 million albums—and now a number of Netflix series.
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Jacob Collier
By Steve Harvey. UK multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier and his production director, Ben Bloomberg from MIT’s Media Lab, reveal the custom technologies behind the staging...
Recording
Studio Showcase: A Vintage Vibe in Modern-Day Memphis
By Steve Harvey. Memphis Magnetic Recording, a new studio just blocks from Beale Street, was named by owners Scott and Claire McEwen as a...
Live Sound
Milan AVB Moves Closer to Reality for Touring
By Steve Harvey. Milan AVB networking is seeing growing acceptance within the live sound industry as manufacturers and audio providers coalesce around the emerging...
Recording
Augspurger On the Move
By Steve Harvey. Nearly 90 and already into his seventh decade in the industry, acoustician and audio engineer George Augspurger is still busy, with...
Recording
Leesta Vall’s Fast-Paced Lathe
By Steve Harvey. Brooklyn’s Leesta Vall Sound Recordings has cut more than 700 sessions live to vinyl using a mix of modern and vintage...
Recording
Larry Klein Is Alive and Well and Recording Everywhere
By Steve Harvey. Four-time Grammy-winner Larry Klein recently netted his third nomination for Producer of the Year (Non-Classical); now he’s reinventing the music of...
Recording
Niles City Rethinks Old-School Recording
By Steve Harvey. Niles City Sound may be the studio that helped launch the Grammy-winning career of throwback R&B singer Leon Bridges, but the...
Recording
Studio Showcase: Fig, Spreng Bring a New Day to Dave’s Room
By Steve Harvey. When David Bianco passed away last year, the future looked dim for his popular L.A. studio, Dave’s Room, which has hosted...
Business
Milan Gains Momentum in Pro AV
By Steve Harvey. The first products are arriving for Milan, said to be the first fully realized standards-based protocol built for deterministic, interoperable, future-proof...
Music Production
Could Boston’s Zippah Be Any Hippah?
By Steve Harvey. Founded 30 years ago, Zippah was purchased in 2003 by the studio’s biggest client, Brian Charles. Today, it remains a fixture...
Live Sound
Behind the Scenes of the Grammys’ Live Sound
Providing live sound for an audience composed of the top music artists and executives is no easy task.
Recording
Production Grammy Award Winners Announced
By Steve Harvey. Winners reflected the increasingly diverse artists and genres driving the music business.
Music Production
No Rush for Recording Rustin Man
By Steve Harvey. Former Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb rolls out his second solo album, self-recorded over the course of 16 years.
Recording
Bringing New Light to Athens with The Glow
By Steve Harvey. Producer/engineer Jesse Mangum has no patience for slick sounds created in facilities to match, and The Glow, his hand-built recording studio...
Recording
In Search of the Perfect Signal Chain
By Steve Harvey. Maor Appelbaum’s mastering desk is an ever-changing patchwork of old and new gear, with units swapped in and out in his...