Business
Marsh Remasters James Taylor
Audio Fidelity has completed James Taylor's "Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon" at Marsh Mastering in Hollywood.
Music Production
Business
It’s All About the Song
During a vinyl vs. CD discussion in Pro Sound News’ Linked In group, a contributor commented that “it’s all about the song and performance.”
Business
Comin’ In from The Cold
Joe Mabbott, owner of Minneapolis, Minnesotabased The Hideaway Studio, which opened back in 2004, says that during the mid- 1990s, Minneapolis had more recording...
Business
Jazzy Sounds From Chico y Rita
New york, NY—Chico y Rita, a movie jam-packed with music from start to finish, is nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Animated...
Business
The NAMM iPad iNvasion
Here’s the lead sentence for last year’s Winter NAMM show column: “In my April 2010 column written after the debut of Apple’s iPad, I...
Business
Foos, Vig Rock Grammys with API
Foo Fighters recently took home five Grammy Awards, including the top rock honors, winning for an album produced by Butch Vig using a 32-channel...
Business
NARAS Honors Iovine at Grammy Week Gala
During a packed gathering at The Village Recording Studios in West Los Angeles recently, The Recording Academy awarded its coveted President’s Merit Award to...
Business
Suzanne Vega Cuts Wax At Edison Labs
By Clive Young. It was a case of "Tom's Diner Meets Tom Edison" recently, when singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega cut some wax—as in wax cylinders—at...
Business
NRW+E Early Registration Ends Friday
Earlybird registration for the Nashville Recording Workshop + Expo 2012 will close at the end of day Friday, February 17.
Business
Tarquin Records with JDK
Emmy Award-winner Brian Tarquin has chosen the JDK R20 two-channel mic pre and R22 two-channel, four-band equalizer for one of his newest projects, "Guitar...
Business
Nixon Mixes with Orpheus
Recording and mix engineer Edward J. "UK" Nixon has been using a Prism Sound Orpheus FireWire interface on a number of projects.
Business
Beth Nielsen Chapman to Cap NRW+E
AES Nashville has announced the capstone session of the Nashville Recording Workshop + Expo 2012 will feature recording artist Beth Nielsen Chapman.
Business
Noble Puts ChannelStrip to Work
Matthew Noble recently put his Metric Halo's ChannelStrip plug-in through its paces on the musical "Big River" and with gospel artist Rell Holland &...
Business
Van Halen’s ‘Truth’ Told At Grundman’s
Van Halen’s new (and long-awaited) album, "A Different Kind of Truth,” released last week, was recently mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering.
Business
Dangerous Congrats Grammy Noms
Dangerous Music is congratulating several users associated with 2011 Grammy-nominated projects, including Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Canton Jones and Keb Mo.
Business
Auralex Donates to Camp Simcha
Auralex Acoustics recently donated products to outfit the new studio space at Camp Simcha, a summer camp for seriously ill children.
Business
Masterdisk Clocks with Antelope
Manhattan mastering facility Masterdisk has installed several of Antelope Audio's Isochrone Trinity Master Clock and 10M Rubidium Atomic Clock units.
Business
UK Remixer Rogers Adds SSL
UK producer and remixer Paul Rogers has installed a Solid State Logic X-Desk and X-Rack in his London studio.
Business
Personal Studio Must-Haves
Despite the prevalence of software in the music production process, engineers working with personal recording setups still rely heavily on hardware.
Business
College Marketing Minds
MURFREESBORO, TN—These days, Middle Tennessee State University is making a different kind of business deal.
Business
Room for Ribbons
Taking a hard detour in his Continuing Adventures In Software, Rich Tozzoli and friends put a selection of mono ribbon mics to the test...
Business
Communing With The Dead
NEW YORK, NY—The crew from The Grateful Dead captured a series of 22 shows in the spring of 1972.
Business
25th Street Recording Opens in Oakland
OAKLAND, CA—Newrecordingfacilitiesare something of a rarity these days, and large tracking rooms are even rarer.
Business
The Apple Logic Pro 9 Flap
Apple has ditched Logic Express and SoundTrack Pro, put Logic Pro 9 in the App store as download-only for $199.99, and priced MainStage 2...
Business
Always Look on the Bright Side
Bright Street Recorders occupies a spot just off Magnolia Boulevard in North Hollywood, California, in a charming area of the San Fernando Valley—a location...
Business
Mo’ Lexicon at Mo’s
Moira Marquis recently added Harman's Lexicon PCM Native Reverb plug-in bundle and PCM Native Effects bundle at her Mo's Garage studio.
Business
Aviom is a Hit Down on the Farm
Country music producer and songwriter Joe West uses an Aviom Pro16 personal mixing system for recording and live events at his Nashville area Gasoline...
Business
CCC Hosts Panel on Music Biz Future
LOS ANGELES, CA—There’s no denying that the music business is going through particularly challenging times.
Business
Lighting the Way at Manhattan Center
Manhattan Center is a massive, NYC-based production and entertainment complex that has been active since the early 20th century.
Business
Building Better Beats
In his Continuing Adventures In Software, Rich Tozzoli finds himself all agog over WML’s improved drum replacer.
Business
Completing the Picture: Avid Introduces Pro Tools 9
Audio professionals would have had to be hiding in a cave to avoid the news that Avid announced the immediate availability of Pro Tools...
Business
The Anderton Awards
Even with the announcement that the Anderton Awards would proceed as planned (despite that little misunderstanding last year with celebrity presenter Kim Jong Il...
Business
A Gem In SoHo
Two years ago, in the middle of one of the worst economic environments in recent history, Louis Benedetti began searching for the ideal location...
Business
Chesney Checks Out Ocean Way St. Barths
Country music star Kenny Chesney is recording and mixing new material at Ocean Way St. Barths.
Business
Fantasy Studios Turns 40
BERKELEY, CA—This year marked a major milestone for Fantasy Studios, which is celebrating 40 years of operation at the same location with a busy...
Business
Lennon Bus, Bootsy to Live Stream at NAMM
The people behind the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus have a serious mission, but they also know how to party—and you’ll be able to...
Business
Aviom Takes Liberty
Toronto's Liberty Studios recently made the transition to HD and 7.1 surround sound production, adding an Aviom Pro16 personal mixing system in the process.
Business
JoeCo Plays George Michael Tour
A total of eight JoeCo BlackBox BBR64-MADI recorders were used on the recent George Michael Symphonica Tour to capture 2x256 channels of audio in...
Music Production
Milica’s Gift
Detouring from his Continuing Adventures In Software, Rich Tozzoli brings us the story of one woman’s mission to bring music-making capability to children in...
Business
Greene Power Rules Validus
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA—Recording engineer and mixer Ryan Greene has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles after lengthy sojourns in San Francisco and Arizona,...
Gear and Technology
I Think, Therefore iPad
In my April 2010 column written after the debut of Apple’s iPad, I wrote, “The age of desktop dominance is over, which has major...
Business
NAMM’s Soft Side
The virtualization of production hardware continued apace at the 2011 NAMM Show with the release of new as well as sometimes hard-to-find vintage recording...