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The Immediate Family Signs With Quarto Valley Records
Legendary musicians prove that you still can get a record deal if you put out quality music that people want to hear.
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Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: The Smithereens’ “Behind the Wall of Sleep”
The Smithereens Get Bumped to Record Plant Studio C and Make a Classic
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The Ultimate Remix: The Beatles 50th Anniversary Editions
Giles Martin, Sam Okell and Abbey Road Studios go back to the source—the original, individual, pre-submixed tracks—on a three-year journey through Sgt. Pepper’s, the...
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Pushing The Blue Stones
Producer Paul Meany Inspires The Blue Stones as They Work on Their New Album
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“Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”
Lucinda Williams’ Breakthrough, Grammy-Winning Masterpiece
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NK SOUND TOKYO Installs World’s Largest Rupert Neve Designs 5088 Console
Tokyo, Japan – Originally opened in 2015 by engineer Neeraj Khajanchi, NK SOUND TOKYO has recently made a large update to its main studio...
Profiles
Audio Raconteur Ethan Winer
Electronics, Music, Audio—He Just Wants to Know How Things Work
Profiles
Finneas on Fire
Self-Styled Producer/Songwriter on Billie Eilish, Reinvention and Original Sounds
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Classic Tracks: “Tainted Love”
Soft Cell’s Synth-Pop Dance Hit and the Emergence of Sampled Sounds
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Happening Now! First Annual Auction to “Make Music Matter”
Grammy Music Education Coalition and Morgan Stanley team up, with prizes from Jack Black, Kevin Bacon, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow and others.
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Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Beyond Music Taps Producer Larry Klein to Explore Unity Through Song
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RPI Gets Immersive
Walters-Storyk Design Group integrates Audio-Video-3D in New Hass Media Center
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The Recording World of Bob Suffolk
From Rock Star Days in London to the Studio Designer’s Life in Dallas
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Strange Weather, Hot Music
Marc Alan Goodman, Daniel Schlett and The Best Room in Brooklyn
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Ed, My Friend, It’s Too Hard to Say Farewell
I write this late on an unusually warm Tuesday night in California, following close to 18 hours living in a fog of real tears,...
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Mix Blog Studio: The Benefits of Actually Being There
It wasn’t that long ago, maybe 10 years or so, when there was talk bout trade shows being on their way out. People speculated...
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The Music of Moulin Rouge!
New Broadway Production Uses Over 70 Popular Songs Across Seven Decades to Tell Its Tale
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Mix Blog Studio: When Bad Sounds Good, and Vice Versa
There’s a certain irony to the fact that we put so much time and energy into getting the best fidelity possible in our recordings,...
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Mix Blog Studio: Before You Press That Upgrade Button…
In October, Apple will release Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina, and when it does, my Mac will start bugging me to upgrade—and it can...
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Classic Tracks: “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
Behind the Scenes of Bonnie Tyler’s Classic Earworm
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Mix Blog Studio: Get Smart
Over the weekend, I read a fascinating op-ed in the New York Times called “How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.” Its basic...
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Please Hold, Jenny Lewis Is “On the Line”
Artist Explores Her Own Self, Surrounded By a Few Music Legends
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The Immediate Family Gets Back in the Studio
LOS ANGELES, CA, August 28, 2019 — On the heels of successful tour dates in Japan, The Immediate Family, featuring Danny Kortchmar (guitar and...
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Mix Blog Studio: Of Moods and Mixing
Here’s a thought exercise. Imagine you had to mix the same song twice, in different studios with different monitors (I know that sounds like...
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Mix Blog Studio: Something Is Rotten in Copyright Land
A couple of weeks ago, Katy Perry and some members of her production team were hit with a $2.8 million copyright-infringement verdict, which stated...
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Blackbird Debuts Dolby Atmos Music Studio
Top Nashville Facility Adds ATC Monitor System, AVID Control
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Anne Bisson at United Recording
In her sixth album, the charismatic former television personality explores engaging stories with expressive performances
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Bear Rinehart Steps Solo Into Wilder Woods
Frontman of NEEDTOBREATHE Tries New Studio, First-Time Producer
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The Musician’s Playground
Gold Diggers and Kingsize Soundlabs Are Redefining the Studio-Stage-Hotel Experience
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Mix Blog Studio: Separation Anxiety
I have a modular music system in my house that has speakers in three different rooms. It’s super-convenient, allowing me to listen to the...
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Mix Blog Studio: Master of Some
Back in the analog era, it was easier to fully master the gear in your studio because, unless you were working in a large...
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Mix Blog Studio: Chatty Plug-ins
Do your plug-ins have a good working relationship with your DAW? Sounds like a silly question, right? After all, plug-ins by their nature are...