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Studio V Opens In Herndon, VA
Studio V, a 2,100 square foot studio features seven rooms with varying acoustical environments, has opened in Herndon, VA, outside Washington, D.C. The facility,...
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Johnson Scores at Studio Trilogy
Scoring composer Nathan Johnson recently worked at Studio Trilogy in San Francisco on the music for sci-fi thriller "Young Ones."
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Lectro Gets Under the Skin
Location audio for science fiction thriller Under the Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson, was captured using Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid Wireless...
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Ardent Records End of Love
The band End of Love has reformed and is recording at Ardent Studios in Memphis following a chance meeting between band founder Irwin Menken...
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DJ Supa Dups Adds Prism
Grammy Award-winning producer and DJ Supa Dups has added a Prism Sound Titan USB interface to his studio set up, which already features a...
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United Sound Systems Opens To Public
By Clive Young. United Sound Systems, the legendary recording studio off I-94 in Detroit that recorded many of Motown’s greatest artists, including Aretha Franklin,...
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Mr. Bonzai To Host NAMM Producer Panel
Photographer/music journalist (and prosoundnetwork blogger) Mr. Bonzai will host this year’s Producers Panel at NAMM this week, in the H.O.T Zone (Hands On Training)...
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Dangerous is the New Black
Dan Black, an internationally acclaimed solo artist, composer and producer based in Paris, recently added a Dangerous Source monitor controller to his studio setup.
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Lectrosonics Captures Anchorman
Lectrosonic kept it classy on the set of Paramount Pictures’ “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” capturing Ron Burgundy and the news crew with the...
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Miking 200 Motels
Grammy Award-winning recording engineer Frank Filipetti employed more than 30 Sanken microphones to record a recent performance of Frank Zappa's "200 Motels - The...
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Lectro Owns the Next Chapter
Sound mixer Matt Vogel uses a selection of Lectrosonics gear on “Oprah's Next Chapter,” a primetime television show on The Oprah Winfrey Network.
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Sands Connects with Focusrite
Focusrite’s new RedNet 6 MADI Bridge proved to be the solution for multi-award-winning film scoring mixer Dennis Sands, who went looking for a way...
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Universal Mastering’s Massive Makeover
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA—Universal Mastering Studios (UMS) has made a change to its production and mastering workflows with the adoption of the SADiE Series 6...
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Outfitting Spyder’s Kitchen
MALIBU, CA—Neil “Spyder” Giraldo, the first guitarist to appear on MTV, the man who played all of the guitars (and the bass) on Rick...
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Grammy Production Nominations Named
NEW YORK, NY— The Recording Academy announced its nominations for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in a special one-hour CBS broadcast on Friday, December...
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Solar-Powered Studio Gets T-funky
Using only solar energy and a complement of microphones from Telefunken Elektroakustik, New Jersey-based band Karmic Juggernaut has recorded an 8-minute opus, "Transgressions," on...
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Shain Brings API to Bedrock.LA
Producer Noah Shain has installed an API 1608 small-format analog console at his three-room studio located inside Bedrock.LA.
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WSDG Updates CSO Control Room
Chicago Symphony Orchestra recently brought in Walters-Storyk Design Group to upgraded the recording, broadcast and streaming capabilities of its control room.
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Rail Recording: Sleeping Car, Dining Car, Studio Car
LOS ANGELES, CA—Station to Station, a not-for-profit public art project made possible by Levi’s, recently crossed the country from sea to sea for a...
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LaRocca “Doing It All At The Same Time”
LOS ANGELES, CA—Engineer, producer and film and television music scoring mixer by day, punk rocker by night, Jason LaRocca has an enviably busy schedule.
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Jimmy Jam Shares With AES Attendees
NEW YORK, NY—A true highlight of the annual AES Convention was the Friday Lunchtime Keynote, which found legendary producer Jimmy Jam holding court, informing...
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API Debuts The Box
NASHVILLE, TN—Mixing in The Box takes on a whole new meaning with the introduction of the small footprint, full-featured API The Box analog console.
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Is The End Of The Loudness Wars In Sight?
During a Producers and Engineers Wing “Quality Sound Matters” event earlier this year, mastering luminary Bob Ludwig addressed the ongoing issues of the loudness...
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Game Sound Anything But Straightforward
Film sound is very straightforward and game sound is not.
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Horus First in Japan
Mick (Masaki) Sawaguchi of high-res music label Unamas, the first Merging Technolog/Users/cyoung/Desktop/Web ON DECK/2013-12-23-merging.txties Pyramix customer in Japan, has made the first recording using...
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Lectrosonics Dines with Fieri
Location sound operators working on the Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” use an arsenal of Digital Hybrid Wireless microphone technology from Lectrosonics for...
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Earthworks Captures Clouds Charity
A matched pair of Earthworks QTC40 microphones was used to record a choir of over 5,000 singers at the Mall of America in Bloomington,...
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T-funk Goes West
Recording engineer Mike "Metal" Goldberg used Telefunken’s M80 dynamic mic on Leslie West’s Blackstar amps when tracking the recently released "Still Climbing" album by...
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Tatz Treats Chante Pejuta
Carl Tatz recently completed a new personal MixRoom for singer/songwriter Eaden Shantay.
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Full Sail Adds to Avid Workflow
Florida-based Full Sail University has implemented a complete end-to-end Avid workflow at its on-campus post production facility.
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2014 Grammy Production Nominations
The Recording Academy announced its nominations for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in a special one-hour CBS broadcast on Friday, December 6. The engineering,...
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A-T AES AMA Sessions Streaming
Audio-Technica’s “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) sessions, held during the 135th AES Convention in New York City, are now available to watch online. Sessions took...
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VK Equips SAE’s 8-Bus Rooms
Vintage King Audio was recently tasked with implementing an upgrade of SAE Institute's Audio Technology Program recording studios with standardized eight-bus configurations.
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Blackbird Flies with API
The newly established Blackbird Academy recording school in Nashville has installed an API 1608 analog console for its aspiring sound engineers.
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Sunny Sound For Cloudy 2
CULVER CITY, CA—Put a group of award-winning motion picture sound professionals in a room with a bunch of fruit and vegetables and what do...
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Filipetti Takes A-T To Motown
Grammy Award-winning producer Frank Filipetti is working as the co-producer, editor and mixer for the album for the Broadway hit show Motown The Musical,...
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Dodangoda Digs Sigma
Romesh Dodangoda, who has worked with bands such as Funeral for a Friend, Motorhead, Kids in Glass Houses, Twin Atlantic and Bullet for My...
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Antelope Captures Earth Harp
William Close utilized Antelope Audio’s digital clocking and conversion technology throughout the production of his new release, The Earth Harp Collective, Behind the Veil.
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Audient Sells 500th ASP8024
Audient recently sold its 500th ASP8024 console to Rob Dewar, owner of a recording studio in rural British Columbia.
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Wagener Sticks With ADAM
Michael Wagener, known for his production on albums by Dokken, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Testament, Poison, King’s X and others,...
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Lectro Goes to Boot Camp
Tasked with capturing audio The Outdoor Channel’s Outfitter Boot Camp reality show, New York-based location sound mixer Jonah Torreano brought along his arsenal of...
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Grundman Cuts Warnes’ Vinyl
Bernie Grundman Mastering has remastered Jennifer Warnes’ Famous Blue Raincoat album for vinyl release by Impex Records.