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METAlliance Presents Drum Recording & Mixing Workshop at AES 2022
The METAlliance (Music Engineering and Technical Alliance) is presenting a special one-hour workshop at AES 2022 in NYC. This event is free for those...
Chuck Ainlay
Music Production
Cummings + Ainlay + Haynes = ‘TEN’
Producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay shares how he captured bluesman Albert Cummings' latest album at Peter Frampton’s Phenix Studio in Nashville.
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Chuck Ainlay Evaluates New Sanken Wide Range CUX-100K Mic
Chuck Ainlay is seen with the new Sanken CUX-100K at his Nashville Studio. Grammy award-winning engineer/producer Chuck Ainlay has been testing out the...
Recording
Ed Cherney: Recalling An Engineering Great
As the late engineer Ed Cherney is honored by the Grammys this weekend with a posthumous Trustee Award, his fellow METAlliance members look back...
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dCS Legends Awards Expands
dCS recently announced a multifaceted music education and promotion addition to its program.
Business
dCS Expands Legends Award
The dCS (Data Conversion Systems, Ltd.) Legends Award campaign, which began last year, has been expanded to highlight more engineering legends.
Business
Recording All-Stars Welcome Niko Bolas to METAlliance
Chuck Ainlay, Frank Filipetti, George Massenburg, Elliot Scheiner and Al Schmitt have named producer/engineer Niko Bolas as a new member of the METAlliance.
Blog
The METAlliance Report: METAlliance on Lockdown
Chuck Ainlay shares the surprising ways he and fellow recording legends Al Schmitt, Elliot Scheiner, Frank Filipetti and George Massenburg are making the most...
Recording
Chuck Ainlay Leads Csaba Petocz Scholarship Event
The annual memorial educational event was held at Peter Frampton’s Studio Phenix in the Berry Hill district in Nashville.
Blog
The METAlliance Report: How to Choose Your Next Studio Monitors
The legendary pros of the METAlliance—Ed Cherney, Chuck Ainlay, Al Schmitt, George Massenburg, Elliot Scheiner and Frank Filipetti—share their wide-ranging views about how to...
Blog
The METAlliance Report: Staying Healthy in the Studio
By The METAlliance. The pros of the METAlliance—including legendary Grammy-winning engineers Al Schmitt, Chuck Ainlay and Elliot Scheiner—share how to take care of yourself...
Blog
The METAlliance Report: Let’s Not Lose the Art in Engineering
By Chuck Ainlay. METAlliance co-founder and multiple Grammy-winning producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay discusses what the art in engineering is and can be, offering suggestions on...
Music Production
Massenburg, Ainlay Set METAlliance Masterclass at Ball State
Recording legends to hold In Session masterclass/workshop in Indiana
Blog
Who Is the METAlliance?
METAlliance members have made the music you know by heart; find out who they are and why they're sharing their engineering knowledge.
Blog
The METAlliance Report: JBL 7 Series Studio Monitors
Producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay weighs in on how JBL LSR-708p monitors became the go-to speaker for his home studio.
Music Production
METAlliance Sets 2019 ‘In Session’ Event
Pros plan immersive recording workshop for February, 2019
Blog
The METAlliance Report: Desert Island Microphones
This is the first in what will be a monthly series expressing the METAlliance’s views, reviews and ideas concerning audio, audio hardware and software,...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Steve Earle’s “Guitar Town”
In this month’s Classic Tracks we take a look at sessions for the entire album, which included not only the Top 10 title track,...
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