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Nieman Acquires API 1608
Juno Award-winning composer/producer Ian Nieman is now the owner of a new API 1608 console at his Canadian studio.
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Music Producer TV Show Holds Casting Call
A new producer/musician competition TV series, "Sound vs. Sound," has announced an electronic casting call for potential contestants.
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Bjork Mastered With Prism Sound
When mastering engineer Mandy Parnell was called to Iceland to master Bjork's new album, she took along her Prism Sound rig.
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25th Street Opens with Vision
Producer and engineer Dave Lichtenstein has opened 25th Street Recording in Oakland with an API Vision analog console.
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API for Eldest Only
Producer Dan Hannon and engineer Brad Fisher purchased an API 1608 console earlier this year for their Eldest Only Productions company.
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A True Story
NASHVILLE, TN—The Shaming of the True, a rock opera by an underappreciated musical talent, Kevin Gilbert, is set for a rerelease soon with a...
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Sipping the Nectar
In his Continuing Adventures In Software, Rich Tozzoli trades a swath of vocal processing for a single software tool.
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Thunderbolt Strikes
Apple has announced new MacBook Pros, and of course, they have the latest processors (quad core and dual core i7), as well as faster...
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Jungle City: Back in the New York Groove
During this century and the one preceding, New York City has been a firsthand witness to the ebb and flow of the international music...
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P&E Grammy Week Gala Honors T Bone Burnett
LOS ANGELES, CA—The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing celebrated its 10th anniversary during Grammy Week with “Shaken Rattled & Rolled,” a gala event...
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Ozomatli Masters Happy Feet Game CD
At Marsh Mastering, Ozomatli mastered a dozen songs for a CD released this week culled from its score for "Happy Feet Two: The Videogame."
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SSL Upgrade For Dodangoda
Cardiff, Wales-based producer Romesh Dodangoda recently upgraded to SSL Alpha-Link audio converters.
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Frizzell Scores with Lexicon
Canadian composer John Frizzell recently added Harman's Lexicon PCM Total Bundle plug-in to his sonic resources.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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."
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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...
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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...
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Talking Shop
In his Continuing Adventures In Software, Rich Tozzoli takes some time to visit with his friends and talk shop.
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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...
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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...
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The Year Ahead
As I write this, last week the Dow dropped 700 points. Commodity prices got hammered.
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Burning Rubber
This summer, the iconic brand, Converse, decided to open a top-flight recording studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Rubber Tracks.
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Basse Bags Zaolla Silverline
Ex-Black Sheep frontman Willie Basse has been using Zaolla Silverline guitar and mic cables.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Red Horse Installs API
Red Horse ATX Recording Studio in Austin has installed an API 1608 analog console.
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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.
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PreSonus Sets User Event
PreSonus will host PreSonuSphere 2011, its first all-day users conference, on November 19 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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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.
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GC Pro Outfits Converse Studio
Brooklyn-based recording studio and live performance venue, Converse Rubber Tracks, outfitted by Guitar Center Professional, has opened.
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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...
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Prism Sound Records The Wall
Producer James Guthrie used Prism Sound multitrack machines and converters to record Roger Waters' "The Wall Live In Athens."
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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...
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Shure Scholastic Contest Open
Registration for Shure’s eighth annual Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition is now open through October 21.
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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.