New Products
StageStrike Debuts Live Sound RF Organization Tools
StageStrike has launched its MiQb and packHolder organization systems for wireless packs and handheld mics.
accessories
New Products
Gator Frameworks Utility Cart Accessories Launched
Gator Frameworks has new accessories for its Utility Cart with the introduction of a specialized accessory bag and lower deck flat surface.
Reviews
Rode Rodecaster Pro Accessories and PSA1+ Studio Arm – A Real-World Review
Rode has released a number of accessories for its Rodecaster Pro podcast production studio in recent times, including the PSA1+ Professional Studio Arm, Rodecaster...
Product Reviews
Ultimate Ears Bluetooth Cable – A Real-World Review
Producer/engineer Russ Long puts a new UE accessory to the test and discovers "anyone wanting the ability to operate wire-free while casually listening will...
New Products
KEF America Launches LSX Monitor Accessories
KEF’s LSX monitors, aimed at both mixing recording pros and consumers, now have a trio of accessories.
Music Production
Gore Takes BAE to the Top
Nashville-based recording engineer and mixer Ryan Gore recently used BAE Audio’s 1073 to cut lead vocals on two hit country singles, Old Dominion’s “No...
Music Production
Prism Converters Go To College
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, England, has increased its inventory of Prism Sound ADA-8XR multichannel audio converters to nine with...
Music Production
Skyland Opts for myMix Monitoring
Skyland Studios near Minneapolis has chosen myMix for its artist monitoring needs, making it a staple for its artists, according to Darren Rust, who...
Music Production
P&E Wing Takes On Preservation
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing, in partnership with Iron Mountain Entertainment Services held an exclusive event at Third Man Records in Nashville...
Recording
Studio Showcase: Beach Road
By Strother Bullins. JUNO Award-winning producer, engineer, songwriter and mixer Siegfried Meier owns Beach Road Studios, a private recording, mixing and mastering facility overlooking...
Music Production
Interacting with the Sounds of Simon
By Steve Harvey. Paul Simon: Words & Music, a traveling exhibition organized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, is currently...
Music Production
Radial Ships LX-3 Splitter
Radial Engineering has shipped its LX-3 passive line splitter.
Live Sound
Meyer Aids London’s ‘School of Rock’
London-based Autograph Sound has been providing Meyer Sound LEO Family reinforcement systems for numerous West End musicals, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock:...
Music Production
Oufitting a Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Mount Olive High School (MOHS), rated among the top schools in the nation, made some major upgrades to its facilities over its summer recess,...
Music Production
DPA Winner Faced Extremes
DPA Microphones received 700-plus stories in response to its recent Tell Us Your Story competition, which offered a range of prizes and asked customers...
Music Production
Average Joes Goes with ProCo
When Michael Zuehsow, studio manager and head of engineering at Keystone Studios in Nashville, was designing and building the new facility for Average Joes...
Music Production
Mackie Lands Backstage at Chesney Tour
Kenny Chesney is either rehearsing or on the road for six months of the year, so if his crew and band aren’t family at...
Music Production
OU Teaches with Yamaha Nuage System
Ohio University's Scripps College of Communication, School of Media Arts & Studies (MDIA) now houses a 32-fader Yamaha Nuage DAW audio post production system...
Music Production
Penn Elcom Wires Studio
Penn Elcom has completed the design and installation of a wiring infrastructure for a new recording studio in Hastings, England, owned by songwriter/producer Paul...
Recording
Blend, EastWest Bow Competition
Blend.io, a collaboration network for music creators, and virtual instruments developer EastWest have announced a music competition.
Business
Inside The Great British Recording Studios
“Why would an American be writing a book about the British recording studios of the 1960s and 1970s?”
Business
LA Reid Releases Autobiography
Legendary producer/music executive LA Reid has penned his memoir, Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next,...
Gear and Technology
The 139th AES Convention Anderton Awards
It was a cliff-hanger that had showgoers panicked—but literally minutes before the show opened, all lawsuits concerning the catered food at last year’s Anderton...
Business
QSC Bows AV-IT White Paper
QSC has released a new white paper, analyzing what AV professionals can do to build relationships with IT pros. Built on industry surveys and...
Product Reviews
Review: beyerdynamic MCE 86 II Electret Condenser Shotgun Microphone
A shotgun microphone is simply a tool worth having in any “workhorse” microphone collection, and the MCE 86 II is an ideal specimen.
Business
Big Orange Sheep Jazzes Up Brooklyn
When Chris Benham told his girlfriend at the time—now his wife—to look out for the big horn sheep while she was vacationing in Yellowstone...
Business
Recording Walk The Moon’s Soul Remake
Cincinnati-area audio recording facility Audiogrotto recently put its Yamaha Nuage system to use on a project for ESPN.
Business
Fortifying An FOH Demo Room
Furman is protecting Dallas-based Sound Productions’ new sound, lighting and video products demo room against the vagaries of the Texas weather.
Product Reviews
Review: Blue Hummingbird Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
Blue's 180-degree pivoting capsule SDC "sounds fantastic, feels expensive."
news
Can You Be Replaced by a Software Algorithm?
For decades, mastering was considered an arcane, difficult art capable of being mastered (sorry about the pun) only by those with Jedi-level skill sets.
Business
It’s Out With The Big Iron For Veneto West
SANTA MONICA, CA—Ronan Chris Murphy, a producer, mixer, engineer and recording artist whose multi-room Veneto West facility in Santa Monica, CA also provides a...
Business
Project Sharing in Audio Production
As today’s audio engineers increasingly work on projects remotely— serving clients from nearly anywhere around the world— project sharing and distribution tools have become...
Business
OBEDIA Debuts Subscription Model
Pro audio training site OBEDIA has relaunched, reformatting its design to be more mobile-friendly, and it has also introduced a subscription model as well.
Gear and Technology
Third Annual St. John Recording & Review Retreat
For the past three years, Rich Tozzoli has organized a grand recording, gigging and equipment review opportunity by gathering his most fun-loving musician and...
Business
Top 10 Venue Insurance Questions
In the spirit of David Letterman’s recent farewell from The Late Show, Venues Today recently asked Take1 Entertainment Insurance’s Scott Carroll for his top...
Business
Barefoot Launches Masters Series
Barefoot Sound has launched a new video series, Masters of the Craft, with a first episode that features Eddie Kramer, Chris Lord-Alge, Jack Joseph...
Business
Diablo Digital Records Fleetwood Mac Tour
Clair Global, the longtime sound reinforcement provider for Fleetwood Mac has been recording the band’s current "On With the Show" tour on a custom...
Business
Brewery Hops Up Sound Control
ALTON, IL—Lots of people talk about following a dream while having a beer; last year, James and Loren Rogalsky followed their dream by making...
Business
Stevie Wonder Tour Takes Antelope Along
Stevie Wonder has been touring the U.S. performing his complex 1976 double-album, Songs in the Key of Life album, backed by a horn section,...
Business
RPI Updates with Nuage
The nation’s oldest technological research university, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), founded in 1824, recently installed two Yamaha Nuage DAW systems provided by Parsons Audio...
Business
Crafting The Mix Book Bows
Focal Press has released the third edition of its stalwart recording title, Understanding and Crafting the Mix: The Art of Recording, by Dr. William...
Business
Jereco Moves To Nuage
Jereco Studios in Bozeman, MT has switched to a new Yamaha Nuage system after more than a decade working on an 02R96.