New Products
Jocavi Unveils Soundspace Pro Room Systems
Jocavi introduced Soundspace Pro, its new prefabricated modular room systems created to provide a blend of soundproofing and design.
Acoustic treatment
New Products
ZR Acoustics Launches Zona di Silenzio Portable Acoustic Treatment
ZR Acoustics has introduced the Zona di Silenzio, a specialized portable acoustic treatment for recording vocals.
Recording
The Record House Goes Dolby Atmos with DHDI
The Record House in El Segundo, CA, recently outfitted its first Dolby Atmos mix suite with quantum acoustics devices by Delta H Design
The Wire
“GEN_VMT” Acoustic Treatment Wins ‘Red Dot’ Award for Outstanding Design Quality
Vicoustic’s GEN_VMT or Generative Collection, is a new set of acoustic tiles, panels, and clouds with a fresh new design concept utilizing the company’s...
Gear and Technology
Innovations: EZ Acoustics Signature Series by Peter D’Antonio
Marc Viadiu, the founder and chief engineer of EZ Acoustics, recounts his company’s long journey developing its latest product, and how a chance meeting...
Music Production
The Ultimate Home Studio? Upper Deck Hits It Out of the Park
By Steve Harvey. Ever daydream what it would be like to build an attic studio if money was no object? One Major League Baseball...
Music Production
Lennon, Swift Engineer Brings Treatments to Steve’s Music House
The Franklin, TN-based production facility is decked out in Auralex.
HOW Sound
Church Combats Reverb and Slap Echo with GIK Acoustic
More than two-dozen large panels were used to counter reverb and echo in the sanctuary.
Music Production
CTD Brings Focus to A Cappella
Carl Tatz Design recently completed a PhantomFocus MixRoom in Ridgefield, CT, for Ed Boyer A Cappella.
HOW Sound
Renkus-Heinz Rolls into Lake Wales Church
The First United Methodist Church of Lake Wales recently upgraded the audio system in its near-70 year old building with a new Renkus-Heinz PA...
Live Sound
Adele Drummer Adds Auralex
When Derrick Wright needed to isolate his drums for quiet songs on Adele’s recent world tour, he went to an off-stage isolated drum room...
Live Sound
Adding Quiet to Brian Wilson’s Pet Sounds
On the road since Spring 2016, Brian Wilson is winding down his Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour, where he has been the classic...
Music Production
Auralex Keeps Zharoff Flexible
Multi-talented vocalist Elizabeth Zharoff is using products from Auralex Acoustics in her home studio in Los Angeles to create the acoustical environment each project...
Music Production
WSDG Completes Beijing Studio
Walters-Storyk Design Group recently completed 55TEC Recording Studios, a 5,000-sq.-ft. two-room facility located in a residential building in one of Beijing’s most exclusive neighborhoods.
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
FOH Pro Divens Outfits Personal Mix Room
It’s no secret that concerts have become one of the main monetary pillars of the modern music career, so it shouldn’t be a surprise...
Music Production
Amplified Wax Adopts PhantomFocus System
Amplified Wax in Spokane, WA, recently hired Carl Tatz Design (CTD) to install its new PhantomFocus System (PFS) nXp Series HD-4002 high-definition precision monitoring...
Music Production
Airshow Mastering Makes Studio Move
After 19 years in a business park, Airshow Mastering has moved to a new location in the Boulder foothills. The facility—a year in planning...
Music Production
Sound Vault Gets Acoustic Help
Hawon Jung, partner and engineer at Chicago’s Sound Vault Studios, brought in John Calder, director of retail sales at Acoustic Geometry, to help balance...
Music Production
Crystal Gayle Gets CTD Monitoring
Country legend Crystal Gayle has installed one of Carl Tatz Design's new line of PhantomFocus Monitors at her Audio 51 Music studio on Nashville's...
Music Production
OK Studio is in Tune with CTD
The Music Group in Edmond, OK recently chose to have TEC Award-winning Carl Tatz Design install a dual version of its PhantomFocus monitoring system...
Business
The Church Takes TEC Award
The 2016 NAMM TEC Studio Design Project Award was presented on January 23 to WSDG-Walters-Storyk Design Group for The Church Studio in London.
Business
The Studio Where Time Stood Still
Walking into the lobby of Valentine Recording Studios, located on Laurel Canyon Blvd.
Business
Katara Studios Complex Opens in Qatar
Katara Studios, designed by WSDG-Walters-Storyk Design Group and one of the Middle East’s largest and most technically advanced recording/feature film audio post production complexes,...
Business
MTSU Adds Five Carl Tatz Systems
Middle Tennessee State University's Department of Recording Industry studios recently added five new Carl Tatz Design PhantomFocus Systems. The installations were in studios used...
Business
Primacoustic Adds Online Service
Primacoustic now offers a room acoustics analysis service that can be accessed through the company's website.
Business
Orb Now Has Curves
Orb Recording Studios has added Acoustic Geometry Curve Diffusors to the two control rooms in its 5,600-square-foot studio facility, which is located in Austin,...
Business
New Orleans Museum Mints New Music
The only building in the country to have produced both United States and Confederate money, the Old U.S. Mint, part of the Louisiana State...
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
Cphonic Mastering: Modular and Minimalistic
Kevin McNoldy now resides in the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area of North Carolina, but has experienced the American recording scene unlike most “secondary market” audio...
Product Reviews
Review: Blue Hummingbird Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
Blue's 180-degree pivoting capsule SDC "sounds fantastic, feels expensive."
Business
WSDG’s Design Goal is Clear
The Walters-Storyk Design Group’s design for musician/businessman Chris Huber’s personal studio incorporates a lot of glass with unobstructed views of the Pacific coastline.
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
Third Times a Charm for Tatz
Carl Tatz Design LLC were called in for a third time to the Northern Utah mountain home of songwriter Monty Powell and his wife,...
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
WSDG Builds Owl City’s Nest
Singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Adam Young, better known as Owl City, has moved to a rustic log cabin in the Minnesota woods where he recently completed construction...
Business
Primacoustic Hits The Road
Having already converted their home living room into a control room using Primacoustic Max Traps and Nimbus Clouds, brothers Ben and Bill Kristijanto, one...
Business
Live Music Production in Sports Venues
Popular music has been showcased in acoustically challenging environments for decades, pleasing audiences despite the fact that live sound engineers must often fight physics...
Business
GC Pro Outfits Global Harvest Church
For years, Global Harvest Church shared worship spaces with the New Song Church, also in Carrollton, but more recently members of the existing congregation...
Business
Sound Isolation On HOW Stages: A Joyful (But Quieter) Noise
Providing balanced and pleasing sound in church settings can be a challenge. After all, one person’s “perfect” is someone else’s “too loud.” Since exorbitant...
Business
Maserati Goes East, RealTraps in Tow
Recording engineer Tony Maserati (Robin Thicke, Pink, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga) recently decided to move back to his personal studio in upstate New York...