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...
Consoles/Mixers-Studio
Business
Studio Showcase: Island No More: Bikini Atoll Leaves LA for Nashville Community
What is now Bikini Atoll Studios lured its owner, audio engineer Grant Goddard, from his former home of Los Angeles to the creative environment...
Business
COMPLETING THE CIRCLE: SOUND AFFAIR BACK HOME, BACK TO VINYL
SANTA ANA, CA—After more than three decades in the industry, Ron Leeper has come full circle, once again mastering to vinyl, and in the...
Business
Sharing Space To Cover Mic To Master: A “GOLDMINE” DRESSED IN BLUE VELVET
SANTA ANA, CA—Punk rock musician Dan Balistreri and his wife, Nicole, also a musician, went looking for a music-related business a couple of years...
Business
Paul Weller Rolls with Soundcraft Vi6
Former Jam/Style Council frontman Paul Weller tours the U.S. this month behind his new album, Saturn’s Pattern. On the road overseas since January, Weller’s...
Business
GC Pro Finds Desk for Japanski
Guitar Center Professional recently helped Matt Tamisin and his brother Abraham source a console for their Japanski Studio in Athens, GA.
Business
Mixing Gabriel Iglesias On Tour
Does using high-end pro-audio gear give a punchline more punch? Geoff Hidden, FOH mixer for Gabriel Iglesias, has been finding out on the comedian’s...
news
Trending at Frankfurt Musikmesse
The biggest news in Frankfurt was the Messe hierarchy shakeup and subsequent schedule changes.
Business
Putting The Funk In Boston’s FunkBunker
BOSTON, MA—Like many aspirational producer/engineers, Jimmy Fox—a Boston-area musician— has been recording a wide range of musical acts for years now, all out of...
Business
Networking Headlines In Live Touring
NEW YORK, NY—Audio-over-IP has been a boon for live sound production.
Business
API Delivers for Studio 270
Installing a 48-channel automated API Legacy Plus console proved to be a smart business move for Montréal’s Studio 270.
Business
Ellison Flies with XL-Desk
Flying Lotus, the musician, producer and rapper otherwise known as Steven Ellison, has installed an SSL XL-Desk in his personal studio.
Business
SSL Live Flies With Noel Gallagher
Monitor mixer Nahuel Gutierrez has been using an SSL Live. L500 console supplied by Britannia Row on the current world tour by Noel Gallagher’s...
Business
Nexo Sits In at Valpo Jazz Fest
Natalie Cole was the headliner for Valparaiso University’s 30th annual Jazz Fest, held in mid-April in the campus’ Athletics–Recreation Center.
Business
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...
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
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...
Business
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....
Business
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...
Business
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.
Business
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...
Business
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...
Business
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...