Business
Chesney Checks Out Ocean Way St. Barths
Country music star Kenny Chesney is recording and mixing new material at Ocean Way St. Barths.
Music Production
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...
Business
Rush Song a Triumph for Sonic Reality
With a little help from Dave Kerzner, CEO and founder of Sonic Reality, Rik Emmett of Canadian rock power trio Triumph recently sang and...
Business
Paris Studio Opens with SSL
Studio 85, a new high-end, commercial studio in the heart of Paris, has installed an SSL Duality SE console in its main control room.
Business
An Engineers’ Survey
As the annual Winter NAMM Show drew near, Pro Sound News asked a few professional engineers to share their personal list of “studio essentials.”
Business
Dear Audio Pros: What Did You Get for Christmas?
As we start another year of fun, I thought it would be interesting to reach out to some of my industry friends to find...
Business
Lennon Tour Bus Makes All the Right Stops
LOS ANGELES, CA—The 2011 NAMM Show in mid-January marks the start of another year and another 10-month tour for the John Lennon Educational Tour...
Business
Gambling on the Future
Many software updates consist of basically a major feature or two, some minor features, maybe something that used to be optional thrown in for...
Business
Small Footprint, Giant Sound
Thanks to the television series, The Sing Off, a cappella music has enjoyed a new audience of fans all over the country.
Business
Puig Shows Off Waves Line of Signature Collection Plug-ins
LOS ANGELES, CA—On December 8, 2010, Waves, Blue Microphones and Esquire magazine co-sponsored a presentation of the software maker’s Jack Joseph Puig Artist Signature...
Business
The 2011 Anderton Awards
The 2011 AES certainly started off on a sour note, when Federal Agents seized everything in the Audio-Technica booth because a security guard overhead...
Business
Omnificent Dynamics
In his Continuing Adventures In Software, Rich Tozzoli finds an old friend showing up in places he couldn’t work before.
Business
Remembering ‘Where Music Comes From’
NEW YORK, NY—Certain recording projects inevitably become milestones in any engineer or producer’s career, and some can even be life-changing experiences.
Business
Hot Plug-Ins at AES
The 131st Audio Engineering Society Convention demonstrated just how thoroughly the personal computer and software have come to dominate and influence audio production.
Business
Tube-Tech Gets Cookin’
Carolyn Martin's “Cookin' With Carolyn,” recently named 2011 Best Western Swing Album by the Western Music Association, was produced at Java Jive Studio by...
Business
Pro Tools 10 Begins Avid Paradigm Shift
As in San Francisco a year earlier, Avid garnered significant attention at the 131st AES Convention with the launch of the latest version of...
Business
Sambora Goes Solo at Ocean Way
Richie Sambora is recording his next solo album at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood with Luke Ebbin producing.
Business
Metric Halo Goes Live at AES
Bill Siegmund organized the "Live Organ Recital Recording" tour during the recent AES Convention, and recorded it with the help of his Metric Halo...
Business
Canyon Hut Adds API
Canyon Hut Recording Studio, constructed in Alice Cooper's former house in 2008, recently acquired and installed a fully analog, all-discrete API 1608 console.
Business
Aerosmith Tracks with Shure
Shure microphones and headphones were in the mix of gear used on the new Aerosmith album tracking sessions.
Business
Sennheiser Schools Mixers Online
Sennheiser is launching a new online Recording Sound Academy (RSA) to help aspiring producers and engineers.
Business
Aronoff Adds BAE Punch
Kenny Aronoff has acquired BAE 312A mic pre-amp and BAE 1073 and 1084 EQ units from British Audio Engineering.
Business
Riley Goes K-pop with Dangerous
R&B and hip-hop producer/songwriter Teddy Riley, currently working with Korean K-pop artists, has added the Dangerous Music D-Box to his portable setup.
Business
Romanowski Masters with Jones
San Francisco-based mastering engineer Michael Romanowski recently completed the CD master for award-winning artist Laurel Zucker's new "Journeys" release.
Business
Arrucci Bangs the Drum for ULN-8
Percussionist John Arrucci updated his studio with a Metric Halo ULN-8 before recording and mixing his latest album.
Business
Anka Croons Christmas at Ocean Way
Paul Anka recently recorded Songs of December, his first Christmas record in decades, with engineer Al Schmitt at the helm in Ocean Way Studios.
Business
Remote Goes Digital with SSL
Australian live music production and post production facility Remote Recorders has upgraded to an SSL C200 HD console.
Business
API 1608 Charms Chalmin
French musician, composer, engineer and producer David Chalmin has installed an API 1608 analog console at his Paris recording facility, Studio K.
Business
Prism’s Got Soul
Producer Steve Levine included Prism Sound in his signal chain on a project for music publisher Audio Network that evoked the vibe of soul...
Business
Ravensbourne Enrolls SSL C10 HD
Ravensbourne College in London recently installed an SSL C10 HD compact broadcast console in its new HD television production complex in Greenwich.
Business
Burton Foundation Adds Workhorse
The new James Burton Foundation Studio in Shreveport, LA has installed a Radial Engineering Workhorse chassis and several 500 series modules.
Business
615 Music Lauds Lauer in Song
NBC's "Today Show" and 615 Music have a new theme song, entitled "You've Got to Watch and See Matt Lauer," for the 10th anniversary...
Business
Mojave Audio is Guerra’s Main Theme
For this year's Latin Grammy Awards theme, as on all his projects, Cuban-born composer, musician and producer/engineer Yalil Guerra used Mojave Audio microphones.
Business
Hot Chelle Rae Tours With KRK
Nash Overstreet, guitarist/vocalist for Hot Chelle Rae, has been touring with KRK VXT4 reference monitors, used for various projects while on the road.