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...
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: 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...
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.
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...