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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Sphere Adds Maselecs
Sphere Studios in London has added Prism Sound/Maselec units as part of an ongoing 10th anniversary refurbishment.
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Kolb Tracks with CLASP
Brian Kolb recorded rising country star Clayton Anderson's new project in its entirety using Endless Analog's CLASP system.
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SnowGhost Snags T-funk Set
Brett Allen has purchased the first U47/48 large diaphragm tube microphone Studio Set, for his SnowGhost Studios in Montana.
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AES Sets NYC Tech Tours
Technical Tour Chair Lou Manno and Joel Spector of the AES NY Section have developed a series of tours, which dramatically illustrate the scope...
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Abbey Road Installs SSL
Abbey Road Studios has installed a Solid State Logic Duality SE console in its new production/mix room Studio 52.
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Wide Open Spaces
Hailing from just outside Dallas, TX, Midlake has just released its third album, The Courage of Others.
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Borujow Hip to ChannelStrip
Ariel Borujow recently used Metric Halo's ChannelStrip plug-in on mixes for Chiddy Bang.
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Shippen Mixes Shania Single
Nashville-based Reid Shippen, whose private SSL mix studio, Robot Lemon, recently received an upgrade to ATC SCM150Pro monitors, reports that he used the monitors...
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The Virtual Amp Has Arrived
Over the last decade, plug-ins have become both an accepted and, often, preferred tool for functions previously accomplished with outboard hardware or a console’s...
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Saving Grace
The phrases, “Strength in numbers” and “Diversify,” may be clichés in the recording-services business, but “maxim” and “axiom” surely apply to these words as...
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HPMC Plays Parlour Game
NEW YORK, NY—Harlem Parlour Music Club, a “down home uptown” collective comprised of top New York-based musicians, is feeling good.
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Working in The Lab
LOS ANGELES, CA—One potential problem with building a home-based recording studio is that the construction of a soundproofed, trapezoidal room might adversely affect the...
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Crowder Captures True Sound
While on tour earlier this year, the David Crowder Band captured material for two albums via a pair of True Systems PT2-500 preamplifiers.
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Arizona College Adds Genelecs
Central Arizona College has added a pair of Genelec 8260A tri-amplified DSP monitors to a new control room at its Signal Peak campus.
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T-funk Captures Pacheco
Singer Nathan Pacheco and producer/composer Leo-Z chose Telefunken's new ELA M 251T mic for the pop/operatic star's debut release.
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Extreme Makeovers
The eventual ambitious plan had us shutting the room down for a couple of weeks of intensive rebuild.
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Pensado Talks Up A-Designs
A-Designs Audio and Pete's Place gear has been a topic of conversation on Dave Pensado's weekly web show recently.
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SSL Found in Jungle
Ann Mincieli chose an SSL Duality SE console for the Penthouse Suite control room at her Jungle City Studios in Manhattan.
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Engineers Go Apes at Record One
The score for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," the current number-one film in the U.S. was recorded at Ocean Way's Record One...
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Focusrite First in SoCal
Costa Mesa Studios in Southern California is the first to purchase the Focusrite Control 2802 small-format recording console
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Jones Seminar A Success
Engineer Leslie Ann Jones recently held a recording clinic at retailer Full Compass’ headquarters in Madison, WI.
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SSL Attends Leipzig Media Centre
The Media Centre, a part of the Faculty of Media at HTWK Leipzig (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences), has installed a 48-channel Solid State...
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Winfield Adds CAD
Independent producer/engineer Sterling Winfield recently put CAD's M9 mic to work during a recording project in New Zealand.
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Not Missing a Beat
Liam Finn is part of an incredibly musical family that includes his father, Neil Finn (of Crowded House, Split Enz), and uncle Tim Finn...
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Back To Vinyl
LOS ANGELES, CA—Vinyl records have been enjoying a surge in popularity of late, with Nielsen SoundScan counting 2.8 million units sold in 2010, the...
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DJs Go Virtual
If you still think of a DJ as “the guy who played Streisand’s ‘Evergreen’ at my cousin’s wedding,” you’re in for a shock.
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Piano Is Key To Brown’s Studio
There are few experiences more pleasing than to sit at an ornately carved 1881 Steinway D Centennial concert grand piano as its unimaginably honeyed...
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Duplication At Your Location
On his Continuing Adventures in Software, Rich Tozzoli looks into cloning.
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Garay Grabs Lexicon
Engineer/producer Val Garay has adopted Lexicon's PCM Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle.
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Velasco, Dikiciyan Score On Warhammer
Composer duo Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan have created the original score for a new video game, "Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine."
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And the Survey Said:
Numbers tracking the sales of recordings are in for 2010. Unsurprisingly, the trends from the past decade continue.
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Passing It Along
For anyone interested in starting or furthering a career in sound recording through formal education, there is no shortage of possibilities, from full-time enrollment...
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Recording at Joonie Land
MERIDEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE—Meriden, New Hampshire is home to Joonie Land, a new Walters Storyk Design Group (WSDG)-designed facility set amongst 325 acres of sprawling,...
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RBDG Goes Down to the Wire
Houston's Wire Road Studios has launched a new facility designed by Russ Berger Design Group (RBDG).
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Seara Gets Dangerous in the Studio
Canadian mix engineer George Seara has created a complete Dangerous Music-equipped studio.
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Electric Thunder’s Genesys
Geoff Pillar opened Electric Thunder, his first recording studio, earlier this year, with a Neve Genesys console from GC Pro.
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Vai Buys BAE
Guitar legend Steve Vai has added British Audio Engineering (BAE) mic preamps and EQ to his stage and studio equipment.
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Illyas Adds Virtual SSL
Film score composer Asif Illyas has upgraded his home studio with Solid State Logic equipment.