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The Blackbird Academy: A New Type of School With an Old-School Mission
Studios have held classes for nearly as long as there have been studios. In a previous generation, studios were the classroom and engineers and...
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Electric Lady Studios
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...
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A Series of Fortunate Events: John Storyk on the Birth of Electric Lady
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,...
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Ear Monsters: A New Breed of Audio (Video) Game
When it comes to videogame audio, Brian Schmidt has pretty much done it all. Besides working on more than 130 titles for most of...
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Nashville Scores! Ocean Way Lets the Game Industry in on Music City’s Best Kept Secret
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...
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Sony Playstation Recording Studios: Building the Future of Game Sound and Music
There really are no precedents for what Sony Computer Entertainment America has done over the past seven years in its ongoing commitment to raising...
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NASA Audio Finds a Home on Web: The Mission to Archive the Sounds of U.S. Space Flight
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...
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Martin Pilchner: Toronto-Based Designer With International Reach
Martin Pilchner looks like a scientist and an international man of mystery, at the same time. He is equally comfortable with an acoustic guitar...
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Severn Records: Precision Design for Roots-Blues Production
David Earl founded the label in 1997, and from the beginning he had a firm hand in the entire recording process, producing or engineering...
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Big New Studios in the Big Easy
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...
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Class of 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...
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Easy Eye Makeover
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...
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Southwest U.S. News & Notes
>Senegalese artists Daaja J Family, led by Faada Freddy and N Dongo D (pictured), were in Studio at the Palms in Las Vegas, Studio...
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Shifting Sands at Stepbridge
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...
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SFJAZZ Center: A High-Tech Home for Jazz Music in San Francisco
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...
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The Saltmine Studio Oasis
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...
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The Big Picture: Dallas Audio Post Opens Dolby Stage
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...
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Mix Regional, D.C. Metro: Omega Recording Studios
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...
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New Studios for Students
With the increased pressure to get students in the door, audio programs around the country have been updating their facilities to provide some kind...
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Pop Mark Media’s Confessions of a Small Working Studio: Tree Sound Studios
Social Responsibility Yields Unexpected New Business Ventures, Number One Album
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Classic Tracks: Grateful Dead, “Touch of Grey”
Twenty-five years ago this summer, the Grateful Dead made it into the Top 10 with the only hit single of their 30-year career: “Touch...
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Pop Mark Media’s Confessions of a Small Working Studio: Catching Up with Andrew Dawson
For the March 2011 column, I had the opportunity to interview Los Angeles–based producer/engineer/mixer Andrew Dawson, who at the time was a two-time Grammy...
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PopMark Media’s Confessions of a Small Working Studio: Indie Record Label Trades in Quick Sale for Long-Term Relationships
Do a search for indie record labels, and you’ll find, well, a lot. We know because we’re constantly checking them out to see who’s...
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PopMark Media’s Confessions of a Small Working Studio: Bringing the Past Back to Life through Audio Restoration
This month’s “Confessions of a Small Working Studio” features studios that have built their businesses on mixing the old with the new. Specifically, they...
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On the Cover: Technicolor at Paramount
Sometimes, when the rest of the world zigs, the smart money zags. Technicolor, the international media company that has quietly raised its stake in...
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PopMark Media’s Confessions of a Small Working Studio: Music and Videogames—A Composer’s Paradise?
This month, I spoke with three of the nation’s top videogame composers: Jason Graves, Inon Zur, and Boris Salchow. Truth be told, when I...
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PopMark Media’s Confessions of a Small Working Studio: Embracing it All—An Interview with Producer, Musician Ben Rice
When he was just starting out, his producer at the time told him that if he really wanted to be involved in music, he’d...
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PopMark Media’s Confessions of a Small Working Studio: Santisound, A Small Studio Capitalizing on a Major Trend
George Lucas is a master at it. Disney does it all of the time. The major studios can’t seem to get enough of it....
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Converse Rubber Tracks Studio
Converse is reaching out to aspiring musicians by offering free recording sessions (usually one to two days in duration) with its onsite engineers at...
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The Loop Studios
Coming off of the recent Linkin Park tour as programming/playback engineer/keyboard tech, Dylan Ely announces the opening of his new studio, The Loop Studios...
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B Town Expands
Burlington, Ontario–based B Town Sound recently hosted an expansion party to celebrate its Studios B and C rehearsal spaces coming online. The Hamilton Music...
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Brian Tarquin Launches TVFilmTrax.com, Relocates Jungle Room Studios
Emmy Award–winning guitarist/composer/producer Brian Tarquin parlayed more than 20 years of experience in producing original music for libraries such as FirstCom, Megatrax, Sonoton, One...
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PopMark Media’s December 2011 Confessions of a Small Working Studio Production Music: An Interview With Studio 51’s David Trotter
This month, we are pleased to bring you an interview with a music industry professional who is not only widely regarded as an expert...
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No Allusion About Auralex
When Allusion Studios (Tucson, Ariz.) head engineer Jim Pavett made the call to overhaul the space—including the control room, live/drum room, vocal booth, iso...
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Nieman Brings in API
Juno Award–winning composer/producer Ian Nieman recently brought in an API 1608 console for his Canadian studio, Nieman Music, where he can be found creating...
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On the Cover: Paramount Recording Studios, Los Angeles
Adam Beilenson and Mike Kerns, co-owners of the Paramount Recording Group, the biggest music-dedicated studio operation in L.A.—and quite possibly the biggest on the...
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PopMark Media’s November “Confessions of a Small Working Studio”: The Sound of ‘Lovely Molly’
When filmmaker Eduardo Sanchez first met with our own Kevin Hill (sound designer/engineer and director of PopMark Media’s audio post division, Studio Unknown) to...