Music Production
How Pros Are Livestreaming During the Pandemic
Take a deep dive into the technology and techniques that artists are using while livestreaming during the pandemic.
Computer Audio Interfaces
Blog
Audio Interface ‘for Females’ Sparks Outcry
By Clive Young. In mid-October, a small consumer audio interface was introduced at Prolight + Sound Shanghai without much fanfare. Now it might become...
Product Reviews
Review: Lynx Aurora(n) Interface
By Russ Long. Anyone in need of a no-compromise interface that has a huge and growing selection of interface options should give the Aurora(n)...
Music Production
Budd Stays Busy with Audient
Emerging artist finds iD22 interface key in his studio.
Music Production
An Audient Win in the Nick of Time
After mastering engineer Katie Tavini won an Audient iD22 USB audio interface, her prize turned up just in time.
Music Production
Brockmann Talks Clarett Clarity
Mixer, producer and session musician “Bassy Bob” Brockmann’s career has taken him through music production’s biggest turning point, as it went from analogue to...
Music Production
Hodgson Gets Hapi and Horus
Independent Audio recently supplied a significant quantity of Merging Technologies’ Horus and Hapi networked converters and Pyramix Native Pro workstations to the Hugh Hodgson...
Live Sound
Rack-Mixer Revolution
By Strother Bullins. Proprietary mix surfaces are still the norm at FOH positions around the world, yet seemingly every new digital mixing product on...
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
CRAS, Blue Partner for Package
The Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS) has announced that new students entering the Master Recording Program will receive numerous Blue tools as...
Music Production
Isaac Streamlines with Red 8Pro
Working out of his Los Angeles studio space, three-time GRAMMY Award-winning producer/mix engineer Dave Isaac has found a useful hub in the Focusrite Red...
Music Production
‘Mi Gente’ Mixed With RME
The Latin-tinged “Mi Gente” has been storming the charts this summer, hitting number one in 17 countries—and Spotify Global—and garnering 270 million views on...
Music Production
Molen Refreshes with Audient
Television music composer Josh Molen has been using his Audient iD22 USB audio interface and ASP880 8-channel mic preamp to refresh his composing technique.
Music Production
TV Tech Debuts RedNet Remote
Audio-video technical management and client support company TV Tech, Inc. has launched its first remote 5.1 audio production truck, TV Tech Unit #1, which...
Music Production
Big Little Lies Loads Up On Sound Devices
Brendan Beebe, CAS, who got his first break handling communications on Titanic, has been using a cart-load of Sound Devices gear on HBO’s Big...
Music Production
Westwind Nets Focusrite Gear
Westwind Media, founded in 1997 by producer Stephen J. Cannell, producer Steven Bochco and composer Mike Post, along with noted musician John Bidasio, recently...
Music Production
Balding Upgrades with Genelec
Multiple Grammy-nominated producer engineer Jeff Balding recently upgraded his studio with Genelec 8351 three-way Smart Active Monitors (SAM) and a 7360 SAM subwoofer.
Business
Stennett Goes End-to-End with Mackie
Multi-Grammy-winner Paul "Pablo" Stennett, who has worked with Ziggy Marley, Willie Nelson, Raphael Saadiq, Chaka Chan, Diana King, Pink and Jimmy Cliff, has switched...
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...
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
Breach Cleans Up with Prism Sound
British DJ and producer Ben Westbeech, also known as Breach, has installed a Prism Sound Titan USB multi-track audio interface at his seven-room studio...
Business
Focusrite Connects at Belmont
Nashville’s Belmont University, home of the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, offers majors in music business, audio engineering technology, entertainment industry...
Business
Honshuku S’Miles with Metric Halo
Hiroaki Honshuku is melding improvisational jazz with Brazilian grooves in a band called Racha Fora, whose latest release, Racha S’Miles, was captured through a...
Business
Prism Sound Enters the Matrix
Composers Vasco and Stuart Roslyn at London's Matrix Studios have chosen Prism Sound's Atlas USB audio interface for their respective recording rooms within the...
Business
Dodd’s Piano Gets Real with Orpheus
Realpiano, the brainchild of Jonathan Dodd, is using Prism Sound's Orpheus audio interface system to offer clients the unique sound of the very best...
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.
Product Reviews
Review: Blue Hummingbird Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
Blue's 180-degree pivoting capsule SDC "sounds fantastic, feels expensive."
Business
Prism Stands Beside the B-Side
Prism Sound has announced its support for BPM Live's B-Side Project, which promotes new artists, merges music and provides additional platforms for live and...
Business
The Grateful Dead Splits
After five decades, the Grateful Dead called it a day earlier this month with its Fare Thee Well mini tour. Along for the final...
Business
BenDMA Takes Antelope to the Pool
When asked to join the Green Berlin production crew in Jamaica to work on the new record for German rapper Marteria’s alter-ego Marsimoto, BenDMA...
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...
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...
news
Trending at Frankfurt Musikmesse
The biggest news in Frankfurt was the Messe hierarchy shakeup and subsequent schedule changes.
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
College Connects with RedNet
The installation of a Dante-networked Focusrite RedNet at Cedar Valley College in Texas has provided a digital connection between the school’s theater and its...
Business
Touchscreen Mixing Trends Mainstream
ANAHEIM, CA—The touchscreen is firmly entrenched as a pro audio user interface (UI), along with stalwart mid-twentieth century knobs, faders and buttons, plus mouse...
Business
Focusrite Launches Mix Competition
Focusrite is running a competition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the original creation of the first of its classic designs.
Business
Switalski Gets Hapi in Mexico
Juan Switalski’s Merging Technologies Hapi networked audio interface, the first delivered to Mexico, arrived just in time for three recording sessions featuring music from...
Business
ReAmp It Up
TUSTIN, CA—ReAmp Studios opened a second Southern California location in mid-October: a new flagship facility, dubbed Studio G, situated in Tustin, CA.
Business
DSO Refits with Merging
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) replaced the entire recording chain at the Meyerson Symphony Center this summer, installing Merging Technologies’ Horus and Hapi Networked...