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Studio Showcase: Having a Blast at No Fun Club
Built over the course of five years, Winnipeg’s No Fun Club studios brings together new and vintage technologies inside an opulent facility built out...
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Studio Showcase: Silverbirch Studios Takes Root
With internet content so crucial to modern artist development, new independent facility Silverbirch Studios has been specifically built to capture audio and video for...
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Studio Showcase: Setting Up San Juan Sound
Matteo Burr, drummer and founding member of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, fell in love with San Juan, Puerto Rico, and knew he had...
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Studio Spotlight: Noise Nest Invests in the Future
Inspired by pro skateboarder Rob Dyrdek’s now-defunct Fantasy Factory, producer/entrepreneur Nick Gross developed a small songwriting facility into Noise Nest, a sleek, new...
Music Production
Studio Showcase: Asheville’s Vinyl Answer
A former newspaper printing plant/radio station has gotten a new lease on life as Citizen Vinyl—home to a new recording studio, vinyl record pressing...
Recording
Studio Showcase: Fever Recording Runs Hot
When Clear Lake Recording in North Hollywood, CA found itself bursting at the seams with work, owner Eric Milos purchased and renovated a nearby...
Music Production
Studio Showcase: L.A. Studio Follows Its Muse
There’s a method to their madness at L.A.’s Mad Muse Studios—an open floorplan facility that features a classic SSL console previously used by the...
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Studio Showcase: Funk Studios, Salt Lake City
Jim Funk had been recording orchestrations used on Broadway and in touring musical productions for more than 15 years when he took the plunge...
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Enviyon Grows from the Garage to the Future
Over the course of 10 years, Romel Williams has grown Enviyon Entertainment from a part-time gig in his garage to a fully staffed, multi-studio...
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Studio Showcase: The Record House
Following years working at Interscope Records’ studio, Mert Ozcan went on to co-found The Record House. Now armed with a brand-new Dolby Atmos mix...
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Soultrain Sound Studios Pulls Into Nashville
Canadian recording artist Johnny Reid has acquired the historic Scruggs Sound facility near Nashville, rebuilding the studio from scratch with new gear and a...
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Studio Showcase: Azmyth Changes with the Times
Azmyth Recording Studios, a multi-room facility in Indianapolis that incorporates the Azmyth School of Music Technology, recently entered its 21st year of operation, serving...
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Valhalla Studios Jumps into Analog Immersive Mixing
Valhalla Studios owner/Manowar founder Joey DeMaio collaborated with Grammy-winning mastering engineer Darcy Proper and top engineer Ronald Prent to upgrade the facility’s main room...
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Tiny Telephone Hangs It Up in San Francisco
Tiny Telephone has been a mainstay of the San Francisco indie music scene for 22 years, but owner John Vanderslice is bringing things to...
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Mercer Music at Capricorn: Revitalizing a Studio for the Next Generation
Literally on the verge of collapsing only a few years ago, Capricorn Sound Studios, the Macon, GA, facility that invented Southern rock, has been...
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NYU’s Clive Davis Institute Reinvents Itself in Brooklyn
New York University has consolidated its media, technology and art departments into a new facility in Brooklyn. The site includes studios, editing suites, rehearsal...
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Studio Showcase: June Audio Returns to Utah
After 20 years away, June Audio has returned to Provo, UT, with a newly built, Wes Lachot-designed multiroom facility housing EDM production suites, live...
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Studio Showcase: Tweed Recording Audio Production Academy
Engineer and educator Andrew Ratcliffe has relocated Tweed Recording from Oxford, MS, to Athens, GA. In the process, he’s established an audio engineering school...
Post and Broadcast
Catching a Wave in New York
Wave Studios has enjoyed steady growth since it was founded in London in 1999, focusing on audio post services for advertising and film clients.
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Studio Showcase: FAME Recording Studios
FAME Recording Studios’ B room captured some of the most incendiary performances of the Sixties and Seventies. Now brought up-to-date with a mix of...
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Studio Showcase: LA Good Vibe’s Solar-Powered Sessions
By Steve Harvey. Joachim Garraud recently built his dream studio, LA Good Vibe. It just happens to be a 36-foot RV converted into an...
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Studio Showcase: Podcast Facility Little Everywhere Grows Up
By Steve Harvey. After years as a musician, songwriter, producer and engineer, creating Grammy-nominated work with Modest Mouse, the Murder City Devils and Cold...
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Studio Showcase: Blackbird Studio Takes Immersive to the Next Level
By Steve Harvey. John McBride, co-founder of Nashville’s Blackbird Studio, explains how and why the facility revamped its Studio C—famously outfitted with 138,646 individual...
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Las Vegas’ Studio DMI Reinvents Itself for EDM
By Steve Harvey. The electronic dance music scene has exploded in Las Vegas over the past decade in the city’s resorts and clubs. No...
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Studio Showcase: A Vintage Vibe in Modern-Day Memphis
By Steve Harvey. Memphis Magnetic Recording, a new studio just blocks from Beale Street, was named by owners Scott and Claire McEwen as a...
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Niles City Rethinks Old-School Recording
By Steve Harvey. Niles City Sound may be the studio that helped launch the Grammy-winning career of throwback R&B singer Leon Bridges, but the...
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Studio Showcase: Fig, Spreng Bring a New Day to Dave’s Room
By Steve Harvey. When David Bianco passed away last year, the future looked dim for his popular L.A. studio, Dave’s Room, which has hosted...
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416 Wabash Aims for Best of Both Worlds
By Steve Harvey. Indianapolis’ 416 Wabash is a 7,800-square-foot flexible space that combines a well-appointed music studio with an all-purpose event facility—and it’s a...
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Studio Showcase: Collins Opens the Door to Hinge
By Steve Harvey. Grammy-winner Dave Collins has been mastering music you know by heart since the 1980s, and now has completed a new facility...
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Studio Showcase: Pros Continue to Seek Hyde Street Studios
By Steve Harvey. Hyde Street Studios launches annex facility in San Francisco.
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Jordan Brooke Hamlin Builds Her Dream Studio in the Woods
By Steve Harvey. “Place affects what you create,” says Hamlin, who has been a touring and studio musician for the past 15 years.
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Studio Showcase: Modern Electric Sound Recorders
By Steve Harvey. Modern Electric Sound Recorders has revitalized the advertising market in Dallas.
Music Production
Striking Gold at Eldorado Recording Studios
By Steve Harvey. Eldorado Recording Studios sports gear from the 1950s and a track record that includes seminal albums by My Chemical Romance, The...
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A Studio with Social Media in Mind
By Steve Harvey. "If you’re not feeding the social media channel, you just about don’t exist as an artist,” says Scott Dupre, chief audio...
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Concentrix’s Story Comes Full Circle
By Steve Harvey. With the impact of evolving production technologies, changes in the studio business model and the advent of the gig economy, Fred...
Live Sound
Chattanooga Public Library Builds Upscale Recording Studio
By Katie Makal. Many public libraries are installing small “studios” with cheap prosumer gear for patrons to use, but the Downtown Chattanooga Public Library...
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Studio Showcase: Virtue and Vice
By Steve Harvey. Who among us has not suffered from gear lust and the certainty that acquiring that one piece of equipment will, well,...
Post and Broadcast
Building La-Rocc-A-Fella Center
By Steve Harvey. Scoring mixer, engineer and producer Jason LaRocca has recently been working on "A Series of Unfortunate Events" for Netflix, but it...
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Sacrificing a Ferrari for Halo Studio’s Sound
By Steve Harvey. Roman Marcone gets the sound he wants, whether it means finding Prince’s tape machine, bolting mics to the ceiling or selling...
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Studio Showcase: NightBird Recording Studios
By Strother Bullins. The story of NightBird Recording Studios is just about as rock and roll as it gets: producer/writer Jed Leiber was collaborating...
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Studio Showcase: AOFTHEI
NORTHBROOK, IL—Based in an affluent Chicago suburb, Artists of the Industry (AOFTHEI) is a burgeoning creative content agency and production studio with a variety...
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Studio Showcase: Douglass Recording
By Strother Bullins. Housed in an old garage space in the Gowanus neighborhood, Douglass Recording opened in May after a half-decade of planning and...