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Showtime Calls on Sommer Cable for Elle King Concert
Showtime Calls on Sommer Cable for Elle King Concert Leading event production specialists Showtime Sound LLC recently worked on the impressive Elle King concert...
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Music Production
Balloon Studios Floats Back to Analog
Prodigal studio comes back to analog recording as it hits 30th year in business.
Live Sound
Bringing Analog Gear into the Live Digital Realm
A live engineer for acts like Camila Cabello, Brandon Blackwell has been integrating analog gear into his live sound setup.
Product Reviews
Review: Mara Machines MCI JH-110C 1/4-Inch 2-Track Recorder
By Russ Long. The Mara Machines MCI JH-110C 1/4-inch 2-track is undoubtedly the best way to incorporate the true sound of analog into today’s...
Music Production
Primal Kings Keeps It All-Analog at United
United Recording goes all-analog to capture LA act Primal Kings
Music Production
Rethinking the Mastering Studio
By Steve Harvey. Mastering guru Maor Appelbaum talks gear and why change is good.
Music Production
New Mastering Facility Is Neato
Piper Payne's unique journey from Michigan to a Norwegian tape transfer facility to San Francisco’s Coast Mastering paved the way for Neato Mastering, her...
Live
Eight Plays, A Streak: Paul McCartney Tours NYC
By Clive Young. Go inside Paul McCartney’s 2017 mini-tour of New York City, where the rock legend and crew tackled eight sold-out shows, playing...
Music Production
Devine Gets Aggressive with Massive Passive
Like many musician/engineers, Richard Devine is comfortable in the digital realm, creating music, sounds, patches, remixes, you name it, with the gear in his...
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
Inside Brian Wilson’s Vocal Chain
Brian Wilson recently completed a new song, "Run, James, Run," at United Recording in Hollywood for inclusion on his new compilation album, Playback: The...
Music Production
Marquart Picks API for Private Facility
Producer Michael Marquart recently purchased an API Legacy AXS console for his private recording studio in Virginia Beach, VA.
Music Production
Studio Tilts in SSL’s Favor
Tilt Recording, a new, ground-up commercial facility in Sweden, features a new 48-channel Solid State Logic Duality Delta console.
Music Production
The Mastering Palace Turns 10 in Harlem
Location is everything in real estate. So when Dave Kutch found a suitable building for his Mastering Palace in 2007 in an area of...
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.
Music Production
Chiarelli Banks on Manley
Multiple Grammy-winning mix engineer Rob Chiarelli may only use a specific audio tool when it serves the song or the recording, but there's reportedly...
Music Production
Audient Records the Classics in NYC
Barely a year after opening, owner Wei Wang has recorded a string of classical music clients at his Skillman Music studio, which is outfitted...
Music Production
Facebook Unveils 360 Audio Tech
For the first time, Facebook engineers have revealed some of the technical details behind the platform’s new 360 audio encoding and rendering for virtual...
Music Production
All-Stars Weigh In on Album Production
LOS ANGELES, CA—The era of putting a microphone up, passing the signal through a mixing console and into a tape recorder has largely gone...
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
Black Keys Compress with Lisson Grove
Patrick Carney, drummer for Grammy-winning band The Black Keys, purchased two of Unity Audio’s Lisson Grove AR-1 Tube Compressors after hearing them in his...
Music, Etc
Music, Etc.: Blind Pilot – The Face of Courage
Following nearly five years since its last album, Portland, OR-based Blind Pilot releases And Then Like Lions this month.
Music Production
Manley At Work with Hay
Singer/songwriter and solo artist Colin Hay, erstwhile front man of '80s Australian pop band Men at Work, uses Manley products not only for getting...
Music Production
Remastering the Ramones at Abbey Road
Abbey Road mastering engineer Sean Magee recently worked on the 40th anniversary deluxe edition of the first album by the Ramones, with the active...
Music Production
Hogarth is a Manley Man
From his early days at Rumbo Recorders and Record Plant to his present-day work under his Hoax Productions moniker, producer/engineer Ross Hogarth's recordings have...
Music Production
Fitting the Entire Sea in a Box
Concert by the Sea, one of the best-selling jazz records of all-time and arguably pianist Erroll Garner’s greatest concert album, was restored, remastered and...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Jump Jive An’ Jingle With The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Brian Setzer may be best known as a Stray Cat, but the man’s more like a chameleon.
Business
Mark Knopfler Tour Makes Tracks
Dating back to his days with Dire Straits, guitarist extraordinaire Mark Knopfler has always been a stickler for sound, perhaps culminating with his 1985...
Business
The Studio Where Time Stood Still
Walking into the lobby of Valentine Recording Studios, located on Laurel Canyon Blvd.
Business
The Pros’ Go-To Gear: Studio Essentials
You’re stranded on a desert island, but were able to salvage only a handful of your favorite pieces of recording equipment. What did you...
Business
Billy Tracks with BAE
Guitarist Billy Morrison, known for his work with Billy Idol, Ozzy Osbourne and Royal Machines with Dave Navarro, has adopted a “modern vintage” combination...
Business
Recording Tech at AES: From Classic to Cutting-Edge
Advancements in microprocessing technology allow for an increasing number of affordable digital recording tools to be created with each passing year.
Business
Mills College: Unique Collaborations and Amalgamated Techniques
Mills College is a century-old, all-women’s undergraduate and co-ed graduate liberal arts college with a unique approach to musical collaboration in its Center for...
Business
Sam Phillips Captured Raw Rock ’n’ Roll
One of the first images to meet your eye when you crack open Peter Guralnick’s new book is a photograph of a box containing...
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...
Business
Nashville’s Welcome To 1979 Goes Direct-To-Disc
NASHVILLE, TN—The old adage says that you can have it fast, cheap or good—pick two.
Business
Mix Nashville Returns
NASHVILLE, TN—After a few years off the grid, Mix Nashville came back with a bang on August 29, 2015.
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
Lemons Talks Mixing Willie Nelson’s Vocals
Bobby Lemons fell into his longtime gig handling FOH for Willie Nelson almost by accident. Known around Austin, TX, he filled in for the...
Business
Shippen Leans on Massive Passive
F. Reid Shippen, who has mixed 10 Grammy Award-winning projects over the past 15 years, recently used his Manley Massive Passive two-channel, four-band passive...