Music Production
Sure Sure Brings It All Back Home
Something akin to a mashup of Steely Dan and Talking Heads, Sure Sure have been living together since 2014, mixing, engineering and producing all...
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.
Post and Broadcast
Catching a Wave in New York
Wave Studios has enjoyed steady growth since it was founded in London in 1999, focusing on audio post services for advertising and film clients.
Music Production
Getting Immersive with ‘The Traveler’
Mastering and mix engineer Michael Romanowski teamed with Eric “ET” Thorngren to mix an immersive audio version of the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band’s recent...
Recording
View from the Top: Tom Sumner, Yamaha Corp. of America
Tom Sumner, president of Yamaha Corp. of America, shares how the company has thrived through good times and bad, and why it’s not afraid...
Gear and Technology
The State of Plug-Ins: From Emulations to the Unknown
Having so many plug-in choices can be overwhelming—what is an engineer to do? Three top pros share their insights—and favorite plugs.
news
Mercer University Reopens Capricorn Studios
Mercer University has announced a series of events to celebrate the rebirth of Macon’s historic Capricorn Sound Studios as Mercer Music at Capricorn.
Music, Etc
Music, Etc.: Robert Tepper — Outlasting The Rest
After a chart-topping hit on the Rocky IV soundtrack, Robert Tepper spent the next few decades in the producer/engineer chair. Now he's back with...
Music Production
Thinking Big with A Bad Think
Michael Marquart’s latest album as A Bad Think, The Saviour, had a production think-tank behind the scenes: co-producer/engineer Dave Way; co-producer/studio owner Marquart; and...
Profiles
The Recording World of Bob Suffolk
From Rock Star Days in London to the Studio Designer’s Life in Dallas
Live Sound
Venue Installation Trends Converge
By Steve Harvey. The audio needs of nightclubs, theaters and houses of worship might appear to be different, yet, like other pro audio applications,...
Music Production
Collapsing Scenery Builds Its Debut
By Steve Harvey. The winding road to Collapsing Scenery’s debut album was a five-year journey.
Recording
Everybody Wants to Record the World
By Steve Harvey. Simon & Greg Record the World is an online reality series following a pair of engineer/producers from Montreal who travel to...
Recording
Studio Showcase: LA Good Vibe’s Solar-Powered Sessions
By Steve Harvey. Joachim Garraud recently built his dream studio, LA Good Vibe. It just happens to be a 36-foot RV converted into an...
Recording
Today’s Recording Highlights at AES
By Steve Harvey. Take a look at some of the top recording education offerings today at AES.
Music Production
Iceland Offers 25% Rebate to Attract Recording Projects
By Steve Harvey. Iceland aims to raise its music industry's profile with new economic initiative to attract recording projects from overseas.
Recording
Capricorn Sound Studios, Birthplace of Southern Rock, Returns
By Steve Harvey. The facility that put Southern Rock on the map is back from the brink, restored and reinvented for a new generation...
Recording
Studio Showcase: Podcast Facility Little Everywhere Grows Up
By Steve Harvey. After years as a musician, songwriter, producer and engineer, creating Grammy-nominated work with Modest Mouse, the Murder City Devils and Cold...
Recording
Vix in the Mix
A personal production setup these days can be anything from a full-blown recording studio to rival high-end commercial facilities to something as simple as...
Recording
Busbee, Grammy-Nominated Producer and Songwriter, Dead at 43
By Steve Harvey. The noted producer collaborated extensively with Maren Morris and Lady Antebellum, and co-wrote hits with Pink, Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban...
Recording
State of the Industry 2019: Recording
By Steve Harvey. Pro Sound News presents its annual overview of the recording world, examining how the industry is powering new trends and reacting...
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...
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...