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25th Street Gets Real with API
An eclectic selection of artists—Los Tigres Del Norte, Joe Satriani, Sheila E—has been using the 64-channel API Vision console at 25th Street Recording in...
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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...
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VK Lifts Veil on Restoration
A new video from Vintage King Audio offers a look at the company’s restoration of a Neve 8078 for The Parlor Recording Studio in New...
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Radiohead’s Selway Hits Coachella
Best known as the drummer in Radiohead, Philip Selway hit the stage during weekend 2 of the annual Coachella festival to perform solo material....
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WAM Adds Audient
The Women's Audio Mission (WAM) recently purchased the former SF Soundworks recording studio in San Francisco, installing an Audient ASP8024 mixing console in the...
Business
Nomad Settles In With Nexo at SXSW
The annual SXSW Festival brings thousands of bands and music fans to Austin every year—and that keeps regional audio providers very busy during the...
Business
Harman Pro Debuts Global Alliance
Harman Professional has created a new Global Alliance Program—a worldwide network of dealers and users. The aim is to to provide tour sound customers...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Marc Anthony – Touring on a Need to Know Basis
Playing a handful of Northeast dates early this year—it’d be more accurate to call it a series of one-offs than a mini-tour—the artist and...
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...
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Fidelity And Workflow Improvements At Rensselaer Polytechnic’s EMPAC
TROY, NY—Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is the nation’s oldest technological research University.
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Expanding Opportunity And Space For Students
CANANDAIGUA, NY—After experiencing incredible student body growth over the past few years, Finger Lakes Community College recently bequeathed its former cafeteria space to the...
Business
College Has a Vision for API
Finger Lakes Community College in New York state is expanding its studio facilities with the installation of an API mixing console.
Business
Calrec Launches Online Training
Calrec Audio has unveiled a free program of online training videos on Summa, its newest audio console.
Business
API Sets Brooklyn Open House
API, which has been hosting demonstrations across the country, will host an open house at Strange Weather in Brooklyn on April 9.
Business
Soundcraft Suports Nile Rodgers
Producer/performer Nile Rodgers and his legendary disco band, Chic, recently played London’s IndigO2; a trio of Soundcraft Vi desks were on-hand to help make...
Business
Steerpike Upgrades Prism Converters
In recent months, Donal Hodgson, Sting's recording engineer, upgraded the Steerpike Studios rig with nine Pro Tools HDX cards from Prism Sound.
Business
British Music Embassy Lands At SXSW
This year’s SXSW Music Festival has come and gone (and most attendees have recovered by now). One of the world's largest music conferences, spread...
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SSL Live Lands At French Music Awards
Les Victoires de la Musique, France’s answer to the Grammy and Brit Awards, is broadcast live from the 5,000 seat Le Zénith arena in...
Business
Music Group Scores Neve Double
Marking its tenth anniversary, The Music Group, one of the largest recording studio complexes in the Midwest, has installed Neve Genesys and Neve Genesys...
Business
Second Baptist Church Sizes Up Consoles
Second Baptist Church’s 5,000-seat “in-the-round” worship center on its West Campus in Houston recently added two DiGiCo SD5 consoles, installed by local HOW systems...
Business
Taking Care of Business with the TSO
Conceived by producer Paul O’Neill in the early Nineties as an album project, Trans- Siberian Orchestra (TSO) hit it big with an unlikely hybrid...
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...
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Installation Diary: PreSonus StudioLive at FaithBridge UMC
BLOWING ROCK, NC—United Methodist house-of-worship FaithBridge is a young and growing contemporary church in a Blue Ridge Mountain valley outside Blowing Rock, North Carolina.
Business
CTS Helps Oprah Tour Inspire
Dubbed one of the world’s most influential women, media superstar Oprah Winfrey has built her career around empowering others.
Business
DiGiCo Desks Debut at Disney
As part of the 50th anniversary of The Music Center, the 2,252-seat Walt Disney Concert Hall—which opened in 2003—recently upgraded its audio systems—a process...
Business
Engineers Think Global, Master Local
The internet has opened up an international marketplace for mastering services, according to Maor Appelbaum of Maor Appelbaum Mastering. LOS ANGELES, CA—The digital revolution...
Business
MSR Studio Renovates for the Future
NEW YORK, NY—To paraphrase Mark Twain’s oft-misquoted comment, reports of Right Track’s demise are greatly exaggerated.
Business
Live Sound Looks Ahead
NEW YORK, NY—While the Sound Reinforcement industry never comes to a halt, the winter months traditionally provide a brief respite sandwiched between the final...
Business
SSL Settles Into Mariners Church
A pair of SSL Live L500 consoles were recently installed inside Mariners Church’s 3,400-seat worship center as part of an audio overhaul. Its current...
Business
Mixing Macefield Music Fest
BALLARD, WA—The annual Macefield Music Festival, held in the Seattle suburb of Ballard, prides itself on its independent spirit, presenting more than 60 artists...
Business
Studio Showcase: Just What The Doctor Ordered
Recording engineer Daniel Charles—owner/proprietor of houston, TX’s Sonic Pharmacy recording studio—was honed on punk rock, thus well prepared for a future working with DIY...
Business
Everybody Likes Pie
GLEN COVE, NY—Pie Studios, located in Glen Cove on the North Shore of Long Island—the famed Gold Coast of F.
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View from the Top: Erik Tarkianen, Harman Professional
With 10 pro audio brands under its name, Harman Professional holds a unique position within the industry, as providing a high-quality line of products...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Hunting Party in the Park
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 15 years since Linkin Park broke out with its debut, Hybrid Theory, but 60 million albums later,...
Business
Bareilles’ Little Black Dress Tour Goes Big
NEW YORK, NY—Bringing a solid dose of traditional pop smarts to the singer/songwriter genre, Sara Bareilles has made a name for herself over the...
Business
Studio Showcase: Larrabee Takes Over Schnee Studio
LOCATION—What is a facility to do when the recording studio right next door goes up for sale?
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Destination Recording: Panoramic House Combines Recording With Relaxation To Fuel Creativity
WEST MARIN, CA—As the affordability of quality recording gear has sparked the rise in home studios, it has also challenged professional studio designers with...
Business
Ward Powers Usher’s Latest Tour
NEW YORK, NY—As a teaser for his upcoming album, UR, Usher has embarked on a 27-city tour, called The UR Experience Tour, with the...
Business
Making The Old Like New Again
LOS ANGELES, CA—With big tracking rooms back in fashion and analog recording enjoying something of a resurgence, the market has apparently never been better...
Business
Mice Come Home to Hybrid
Metal band Of Mice & Men recently settled into Hybrid Studios, located in the band’s home base of Orange County, California, to record some...
Business
AmpliVox Backs Black History Month Event
AmpliVox Sound Systems aided its local community a few days ago when the Northbrook Community Relations Commission sponsored a Black History Month event at...