Business
Frizzell Scores with Lexicon
Canadian composer John Frizzell recently added Harman's Lexicon PCM Total Bundle plug-in to his sonic resources.
Music Production
Business
Sound Devices Goes to Nepal
Alejandro Sanchez-Samper brought along Sound Devices' 788T digital audio recorder and USBPre 2 when he flew to Kathmandu to record an album of traditional...
Business
Grundman Masters “Smile”
Bernie Grundman Mastering remastered the vinyl releases for the official edition of the Beach Boys' "The Smile Sessions," on Capitol Records, which was released...
Business
ChannelStrip Does Broadway
Metric Halo's ChannelStrip plug-in played multiple critical roles on every track of "Dee Does Broadway," the forthcoming release of Broadway show tunes by Dee...
Business
Romanowski Adds Requisite Limiter
Michael Romanowski's San Francisco mastering studio now includes a Requisite Audio L2M Mk III M/S Version dual-channel mastering limiter.
Business
Aerosmith Rocks with Neumanns
Legendary producer Jack Douglas used a mix of new and classic vintage Sennheiser and Neumann microphones on Aerosmith's first new album in over a...
Business
Lifeson Rushes to use A-T
Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson and engineer Richard Chycki used Audio-Technica's AT4080 microphone to record parts of the score for spy thriller "The Double."
Business
Anderson Adopts Antelope
Jim Anderson, a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a chairman of the 131st AES Convention, uses Antelope Audio's Zodiac+ converter...
Business
AES SoundTable Serves Insights
By Steve Harvey. At the AES Convention this past weekend, the Grammy SoundTable’s “Sonic Imprints: Songs That Changed My Life, played to a packed...
Business
Talking Shop
In his Continuing Adventures In Software, Rich Tozzoli takes some time to visit with his friends and talk shop.
Business
Ten Years of Independence
This year marks the 10th year in business for Nashville’s Independent Mastering, a partnership of engineers Don Cobb and Eric Conn. The business name...
Business
BAE Expands Ops
N. HOLLYWOOD, CA—British Audio Engineering (BAE) recently expanded its base of operations, relocating to a commercial building in North Hollywood, CA. Once known as...
Business
The Year Ahead
As I write this, last week the Dow dropped 700 points. Commodity prices got hammered.
Business
Burning Rubber
This summer, the iconic brand, Converse, decided to open a top-flight recording studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Rubber Tracks.
Music Production
Basse Bags Zaolla Silverline
Ex-Black Sheep frontman Willie Basse has been using Zaolla Silverline guitar and mic cables.
Business
State of the Industry-Recording
With the heyday of the record industry and bigbudget album projects now apparently little more than a distant memory, recording studio owners have had...
Business
BoomBox Creates with SSL
Toronto-based music and sound design production company, BoomBox Sound, recently installed a Solid State Logic Duality console and Alpha-Link converters.
Business
iZotope Sets AES Event
iZotope will host an evening of discussion between legendary producers Phil Ramone and Frank Filipetti, and noted mastering engineer, Adam Ayan.
Business
Aerosmith Grasps CLASP
Aerosmith producer Jack Douglas and engineer Warren Huart are using four Endless Analog CLASP units to record the band's new studio album.
Business
Bieber Belts Into Blue’s Bottle
Los Angeles, CA (October 11, 2011)—Teen phenom Justin Bieber’s vocals for his upcoming Christmas album were captured with a Blue Microphones Bottle mic.
Business
Red Horse Installs API
Red Horse ATX Recording Studio in Austin has installed an API 1608 analog console.
Business
Academy Holds ‘Grammy GPS’
The Recording Academy Memphis Chapter and the Producers & Engineers Wing presented Grammy GPS: A Roadmap for Today's Music Biz recently.
Business
PreSonus Sets User Event
PreSonus will host PreSonuSphere 2011, its first all-day users conference, on November 19 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Business
Benson Solos with CLASP
Songwriter-musician Brendan Benson and his engineer Joe Costa adopted Endless Analog's CLASP system for Benson’s latest solo project.
Business
GC Pro Outfits Converse Studio
Brooklyn-based recording studio and live performance venue, Converse Rubber Tracks, outfitted by Guitar Center Professional, has opened.
Business
Duncan Sheik Gets Dangerous
Recording artist and composer Duncan Sheik has outfitted his upstate New York studio with Dangerous Music's 2-Bus analog summing, Monitor ST control and DAC...
Business
Prism Sound Records The Wall
Producer James Guthrie used Prism Sound multitrack machines and converters to record Roger Waters' "The Wall Live In Athens."
Business
sE Electronics RN17 Condenser Microphone
Following up on the success of the active ribbon microphone, the RNR1, Rupert Neve and sE Electronics have created a small condenser mic with...
Business
Shure Scholastic Contest Open
Registration for Shure’s eighth annual Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition is now open through October 21.
Business
Academy Hosts Kid, Grey Q&A
The Recording Academy presented a special event, "Up Close & Personal with Alex da Kid and Skylar Grey," on Wednesday, September 28, 2011.
Business
Plug-In Masters
Whether they favor an all hardware signal path, work entirely in the box or use some combination of the two, the majority of mastering...
Gear and Technology
Getting Brassy
On his Continuing Adventures In Software, Rich finds that when East and West do meet, it’s a very good thing.
Business
Under A New Moon
HOLLYWOOD, CA—Alex Pizzorni, a Caracas, Venezuela-born DJ and musician who records under the name Merlin Moon, recently completed his sophomore album, Bohemian Side of...
Business
Scheiner in Session at Avatar
NEW YORK, NY—In these fast-changing times, it’s especially nice to return to familiar and time-tested ways. Such is life, these days, for legendary engineer/...
Business
Front Stage Gets New Wings
NASHVILLE, TN—Black River Entertainment,Stage hosted a tour of the new facilities and roundtable discussion of the process that saw Front Stage closed in November...
Business
Master of the House
LOS ANGELES, CA—While the digital audio revolution helped launch the project studio business, mastering engineers, with their very specific equipment and acoustical requirements, have...
Business
Kyd Scores Assassin’s Creed
British Academy award-winning composer Jesper Kyd has written and produced the original score for the "Assassin's Creed Revelations" video game, alongside music composed by...
Business
Metric Halo Nabs Schnittke
Classical recording engineer and producer Jamey Lamar recently used his Metric Halo ULN-8 to record the Naxos release, "Alfred Schnittke: Complete Violin Sonatas."
Business
Plati Picks 5088 Console
Mark Plati, known for his association with David Bowie, has installed a Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console at his private studio, Alice's Restaurant.
Business
POP Goes SSL
Germany's Music Support Group (MSG) has added two new SSL Duality consoles to its expanding Deutsche POP Academy of Music and Media.
Business
WAM Headed to AES
Women's Audio Mission, a San Francisco based non-profit dedicated to the advancement of women in music production and the recording arts, will participate in...
Business
Dupont Captures Freshlyground
South African Afro-fusion band Freshlyground has been winning awards for its latest release, produced by Fab Dupont on an API 1608 console.