Blog
Seen on the Scene: 2019 NAMM Show—More from the Floor
Roving PSN photographer Steve Harvey captured more of the ongoing goings-on at NAMM.
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
Studio Showcase: Barefoot Recording Opens Up to the World
By Steve Harvey. Eric Valentine’s Barefoot Recording in Hollywood is now available to outside clients.
Recording
UMG Acquires House of Blues Studios Nashville
By Steve Harvey. Corporate owner of Abbey Road and Capitol Studios snaps up multi-building Berry Hill studio campus.
Recording
Producer/Musician Steve Ripley Dead at 69
By Steve Harvey. The studio owner and inventor also led the Grammy-nominated act, The Tractors.
Recording
Gold Diggers Reinvents the Destination Studio
By Steve Harvey. Nestled in East Hollywood at a notorious site, Gold Diggers has opened as a boutique hotel, club and music recording facility...
Recording
Reinventing ‘Remain in Light’
By Steve Harvey. 2015 Producer of the Year Grammy Award-winner Jeff Bhasker reveals the production process behind Angelique Kidjo's first English-language album, a cover...
Live Sound
Mixing Moby with the L.A. Phil
By Steve Harvey. In a world premiere event celebrating the L.A. Philharmonic's 100th Season, Moby performed with an orchestra for the first time in...
Recording
Dave Way Shows the Way It’s Done
By Steve Harvey. Multiple Grammy-winning engineer and producer Dave Way, who has worked with nearly everyone (only a slight exaggeration), chats about working on...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Twenty One Pilots
By Steve Harvey. Alternative hip-hop duo Twenty One Pilots have been traveling the world since October on the Bandito Tour, with sound provided by...
Music Production
The Ultimate Home Studio? Upper Deck Hits It Out of the Park
By Steve Harvey. Ever daydream what it would be like to build an attic studio if money was no object? One Major League Baseball...
Business
“Stairway to Heaven” Desk to be Auctioned
By Steve Harvey. Bonhams is putting the Helios console that recorded Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” on the block.
Music Production
Capturing at Zeitgeist with Amos Lee
By Steve Harvey. Producer Tony Berg discusses working with Amos Lee to create the artist's latest album, My New Moon.
Recording
Resonance Records Digs into Eric Dolphy
By Steve Harvey. A three-LP archival release, due out Friday, is the latest restoration effort from Resonance Records.
Recording
Music Community Devastated by California Fires
By Steve Harvey. Three massive fires continue to rage across California as of Tuesday morning.
Music Production
Test Shot Starfish Gets Immersive En Route to Outer Space
By Steve Harvey. Test Shot Starfish made its name providing music for SpaceX launches; now the duo is working with immersive audio pioneer Robert...
Music Production
Studio Showcase: Oktaven Caters to Other Music
By Steve Harvey. Oktaven Audio’s co-owner Ryan Streber says his studio has grown over the last decade while recording almost solely “art music, not...
Recording
Master Class Looks Back, Encourages Next Gen Engineers
by Steve Harvey. Top engineer Chris Lord-Alge led the second annual Csaba Petocz Master Class at his private Mix LA studio facility in September,...
Music Production
Is AI Taking Over? Not So Fast, Dude.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are making inroads into pro audio, but what's next?
Recording
AES Recording Events You’ve Got To See
Here's just a few of the interesting recording education offerings available today at the AES Convention.
Business
Producers, Engineers To Benefit from Music Modernization Act
Unanimously passing the House and Senate, the Act was signed into law October 11.
Music Production
Metallica Producer Paul Curcio, Dead at 74
A producer, musician and studio owner, Curcio produced Metallica's debut album.
Recording
Capturing A Gang of Grohls for ‘Play’
By Steve Harvey. Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl recently released "Play," a mini-documentary that includes a 23-minute track on which he plays seven different...
Live Sound
Sam Smith Tours with ‘The Thrill of It All’
By Steve Harvey. British crooner Sam Smith is circling the globe behind his hit album "The Thrill of It All," with audio provided by...
Recording
416 Wabash Aims for Best of Both Worlds
By Steve Harvey. Indianapolis’ 416 Wabash is a 7,800-square-foot flexible space that combines a well-appointed music studio with an all-purpose event facility—and it’s a...
Business
T-Mobile Continues 600 MHz Push
By Steve Harvey. Having pushed wireless mic operators out of 600 MHz range, T Mobile continues nationwide expansion into the range.
Live Sound
Hooray for Hollywood
Hollywood Sound Systems has had a colorful history, from handling sound for the Oscars in the 1960s and '70s to providing a veritable Aladdin's...
Recording
Riptide’s Got the Makings of a Classic
Riptide has acquired the copyright to "You've Got the Makings of a Lover," a song that was recently sampled by Migos for the single...
Recording
Toby Scott Is His Own Boss
By Steve Harvey. One project that recently landed on Scott’s desk was a jazz remake of the Bruce Springsteen album "Born to Run" by...
Recording
Studio Showcase: Collins Opens the Door to Hinge
By Steve Harvey. Grammy-winner Dave Collins has been mastering music you know by heart since the 1980s, and now has completed a new facility...
Recording
John Driskell Hopkins Opens Brighter Shade Studios
By Steve Harvey. Music fans perhaps know Hopkins better as a founding member of the multi-Grammy Award-winning Zac Brown Band.
Recording
Polosud Goes Back to Analog with Rupert Neve
By Steve Harvey. "It was love at first sight. I have used a lot of consoles, but the RND 5088 is the ‘true’ mixer...
Live Sound
Shure Takes It Out to the Ballgame
CP Communications supports MLB All-Star Week broadcasts from Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.
Live Sound
This Immersive Concert Put Everyone to Sleep—On Purpose
By Steve Harvey. Sleep—an eight-hour instrumental—was performed last weekend for 500 dozy people on cots in a downtown L.A. park using a massive d&b...
Recording
Fantasy Recording Studios to Close
By Steve Harvey. The famed recording facility, which can trace its roots back to 1949, will close its doors in mid-September.
Product Reviews
Review: Shinola Bookshelf Speakers
Shinola Bookshelf Speakers are a consumer product resulting from a collaboration with studio monitor specialists Barefoot Sound.
Recording
Studio Showcase: Pros Continue to Seek Hyde Street Studios
By Steve Harvey. Hyde Street Studios launches annex facility in San Francisco.
Recording
Modern Mastering Evolves in the Hollywood Hills
By Steve Harvey. Stephen Marsh has been a top mastering engineer for decades and is still handling everything from soundtracks to singles, but recently...
Recording
Big Bad Sound Flourishes in Mid-Market Niche
By Steve Harvey. “This isn’t just someone’s home studio—it’s a great studio that happens to be in a home.”
SFP
Technicolor Closes Film and Immersive Sound Facilities
By Steve Harvey. Technicolor will shutter its film- and immersive audio facilities by year's end, refocusing on episodic and streaming sound services.
Technology
Dolby Atmos: The Business and the Technology
Simplified System Setup for Small, Medium and Large Post-Production Facilities (sponsored content)
Music Production
Studio Showcase: Showing Some MOXE in Nashville
By Steve Harvey. Jordan Brooke Hamlin builds her dream studio in the woods.
Business
New GRAMMY Nomination Rules Announced for 2019
By Steve Harvey. A string of new rules have been made for next year's Grammy Awards nomination process, including one that affects restoration engineers.