Facilities

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Oct 1, 2014

When Doug Rogers purchased one of the world’s most storied recording facilities back in 2006, right in the heart of Hollywood, there was no...

By By Tom Kenny ⋅ Jun 1, 2014

If you work in audio post in a mid-level market, chances are you work on a wide, wide, wide variety of projects. John McClain,...

By By Barbara Schultz ⋅ Jun 1, 2014

“As a lifelong musician, producer and engineer, I have to say, Think Loud Studios is the ultimate reward for all those years of hard...

By By Barbara Schultz ⋅ May 1, 2014

When Zac Brown and producer/engineer/musician Matt Mangano began searching for a studio base for Brown’s Southern Ground Artists label, they envisioned purchasing and converting...

By By Tom Kenny // Photos by Elizabeth Streight ⋅ May 1, 2014

It doesn’t take much sleuthing to find out the basis of Chris Mara’s recording philosophy. It’s right there in the name of his Nashville...

By By Tom Kenny ⋅ Feb 1, 2014

You can find sound facilities like Light Rail Studios in most major markets, typically in the warehouse district. Affordable lockout rehearsal spaces for local...

By Steve Jennings-x ⋅ Feb 1, 2014

Located smack dab in the heart of San Francisco’s ultra-creative and growing SOMA (South of Market) district, on the edge of downtown, Studio Trilogy...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Dec 1, 2013

Water Music Recording Studios — Hoboken, N.J. Water Music Recording Studios recently acquired a legendary piano to replace its former legendary piano, which was...

By By Tom Kenny ⋅ Nov 1, 2013

Studios have held classes for nearly as long as there have been studios. In a previous generation, studios were the classroom and engineers and...

By By David Weiss ⋅ Oct 1, 2013

You’d be hard-pressed to find a place anywhere in the world more inexorably connected with its founder than Electric Lady Studios. The name Jimi...

By By Barbara Schultz ⋅ Oct 1, 2013

There’s always going to be a first one,” says architect John Storyk, reflecting matter-of-factly on the first studio he ever designed. In other words,...

By Steve Jennings-x ⋅ Sep 1, 2013

When it comes to videogame audio, Brian Schmidt has pretty much done it all. Besides working on more than 130 titles for most of...

By By Tom Kenny ⋅ Sep 1, 2013

The first thing anybody in recording talks about when they talk about Nashville is the players. The pickers, the A-list session players, the speed...

By By Tom Kenny // Photos By Michael Coleman/Sean Don ⋅ Sep 1, 2013

There really are no precedents for what Sony Computer Entertainment America has done over the past seven years in its ongoing commitment to raising...

By Steve Jennings-x ⋅ Aug 1, 2013

John Stoll has an audio job that’s never going to earn him a Grammy or let him spend weeks on the road staying in...

By By Tom Kenny ⋅ Aug 1, 2013

Martin Pilchner looks like a scientist and an international man of mystery, at the same time. He is equally comfortable with an acoustic guitar...

By By John Monforte ⋅ Aug 1, 2013

David Earl founded the label in 1997, and from the beginning he had a firm hand in the entire recording process, producing or engineering...

By Lori Kennedy ⋅ Jul 1, 2013

After cutting a record at Dockside Studio in Lafayette, La., engineer/producer/musician Matt Grondin—son of Jack Grondin, one of the original drummers for .38 Special—got...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Jun 1, 2013

Owner/chief engineer Jason Hearst relocated from Boston to this airy, beautiful new facility in a restored 19th-century grain barn. Despite the rural image that...

By By Barbara Schultz ⋅ May 1, 2013

Easy Eye Sound, the production base of Black Keys singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach, saw a lot of action last year, including Auerbach’s Grammy-winning productions of...

By By The Mix Editors ⋅ Apr 1, 2013

>Senegalese artists Daaja J Family, led by Faada Freddy and N Dongo D (pictured), were in Studio at the Palms in Las Vegas, Studio...

By By Barbara Schultz ⋅ Apr 1, 2013

A studio of choice for Oscar-winners and up-and-comers, Stepbridge (Santa Fe, N.M., stepbridge.com) has been providing music/audio services since 1989. In 2006, the studio...

By Matt Gallagher ⋅ Apr 1, 2013

Billed as a “sanctuary for jazz,” the SFJAZZ Center (sfjazz.org), located only blocks from San Francisco’s City Hall, received national press coverage and rave...

By By Tom Kenny ⋅ Apr 1, 2013

About 30 seconds into a conversation with Don Salter it’s clear that this guy knows old-school—the vintage discrete 36-channel custom Neve with an additional...

By By Tom Kenny ⋅ Apr 1, 2013

Roy Machado has a good thing going in Dallas. He arrived from Atlanta back in the mid-1980s to study music at the world-renowned University...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Feb 1, 2013

Omega Recording Studios has long been highly regarded by major artists as the place to record while in the Washington, D.C. area, and over...

By Eddie Ciletti ⋅ Feb 1, 2013

THREE-AND-A-HALF GEEKS REVISIT A CLASSIC SYNTH

By By Maureen Droney ⋅ Nov 1, 2012

Quality Takes Center Stage in Hollywood

By Mix Staff ⋅ Oct 1, 2012

With the increased pressure to get students in the door, audio programs around the country have been updating their facilities to provide some kind...