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...
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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?
Business
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...
Business
SSL Gets Down to Busyness
Sascha “Busy“ Bühren, co-owner and chief engineer of German recording studio TrueBusyness, has installed a 48-input SSL AWS 948 in a new recording/mix studio.
Business
Setting Sound for Red Bull Crashed Ice
Red Bull has sponsored high-speed, high-danger sports events around the globe for years, and one of the most popular, Red Bull Crashed Ice, a...
Business
Of Mice & Men Roar with Allen & Heath
Indie rockers Of Mice & Men have been garnering an increasingly larger profile in the music world—enough so that the band recently supported Linkin...
Business
SSL Finds Home in Mansion
Studio owner Don Miggs has installed an SSL Duality console at Lala Mansion, which began as a private recording room in Tampa in what...
Business
Bringing The Pope’s Words To The Masses
When Pope Francis visited the Philippines in mid-January, hundreds of thousands of followers came out to see the Pontiff and hear his words. Helping...
Business
9:30 Club Makes Time For DiGiCo
A DiGiCo SD8 digital mixing console with an SD Rack, outfitted with a Waves SoundGrid Server and SG Essential plug-in bundle, has taken over...
Business
Studio Looks Sharp with SSL
The oldest independent recording facility in Sydney, A Sharp Recording Studios, has installed an SSL AWS 948 console as part of a comprehensive upgrade...
Business
RPI Updates with Nuage
The nation’s oldest technological research university, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), founded in 1824, recently installed two Yamaha Nuage DAW systems provided by Parsons Audio...
Business
Sound Devices 664 is the Real McCoy
Production mixer Daniel S. McCoy, CAS, recently deployed his Sound Devices 664 production mixer on Ellen DeGeneres’s first cable show, Ellen’s Design Challenge, on...
Business
Event Pro Nabs Second Yamaha CL5
Event Pro, Inc. (Hastings, MN) recently purchased its second Yamaha CL5 digital audio console, putting it to work at a number of festivals and...
Live Sound
Festival Products: Meyer, d&b, SSL
Choosing the right gear is just one aspect of building the perfect festival, but with the right speaker system, console, amplifier, etcetera, sound companies...
Business
Gaslamp Lights Up with SSL
Gaslamp Studios, which offers remote mixing services for artists and producers, has based its new mix room in San Diego around an SSL AWS...
Business
SSL Nucleus is Right for Price
Price Studios, a London-based multipurpose performing arts facility owned by the Entertainment and Media Group, has installed an SSL Nucleus in its production room.
Business
SSL Kept In Cosmic Zoo
Producer, engineer and Alpha Pup Records label co-founder Daddy Kev’s Cosmic Zoo recently became one of the first studios to add SSL's new XL-Desk.
Business
Hollywood Sound Systems Outfits Temple Hall
Established in 1926, Temple Israel of Hollywood continues to be a beacon for Reform Jewish traditions and values. Today this multi-purpose cultural and worship...
Business
Audio Elements of the Sports Experience
The audio elements of the sports experience—PA announcements, music playback, synchronization and distribution of audio and video, broadcast interface —require a sophisticated infrastructure.
Business
Northern Sky Among First Into Box
Northern Sky Music, run by Grammy-nominated songwriter and music producer Steve Robson, is among the first U.K. studios to adopt API's Box console.
Business
Faith No More Enters The Matrix
Faith No More bassist/songwriter/producer Billy Gould used his SSL Matrix to streamline the recording process of the band’s new album, its first for 17...
Business
Grind Gears Up with Yamaha
Audio post facility Grind Music and Sound, located in Los Angeles, recently installed a Yamaha Nuage advanced production DAW system purchased through Hollywood Sound...
Business
SSL Goes Downtown, Twice
Downtown Studios in Johannesburg, recently underwent a major upgrade, installing an SSL Duality in Studio 1 and an SSL AWS in Studio 3.
Business
Masque Rings Up Disney Musical
For the U.S. premiere of Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame at the La Jolla Playhouse, five time Tony-award winning sound designer Gareth Owen worked...
Business
API to the Kore
West London’s Kore Studios, which celebrated its tenth anniversary last year, installed an API 1608 console this summer. The facility typically hosts rock and...
Business
Eventide FX Set For Yamaha Rivage
Partnering with Yamaha, Eventide will develop effects for the upcoming Yamaha Rivage PM10 live sound console in the form of an Eventide H3000 Live...
Business
SSL Goes Clubbing at the Wynn
An SSL Matrix console/controller is the centrepiece of Wynn Studio, a private facility designed and installed by Studio DMI for EDM artists passing through...
Business
Baptist Church Updates With EAW
Trinity Baptist Church’s Mulberry campus recently got an audio/video overhaul for its 1,300-seat sanctuary by Dallas-based design firm Idibri, and installer San Antonio Sound...
Business
DiGiCo Stays At Marriott Theatre
Out in the suburbs of Chicago, The Marriott Theatre draws massive crowds nightly; after nearly 40 years in business, the venue sells more than...
Business
Avid Enters Tring Park School
The Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire, England, which offers specialist studies in dance, drama, musical theatre, and commercial music, has...
Business
From Missouri to Ohio, via California
The talents of Jim Wirt give him perspective on nearly every angle of the music recording business—musician, artist, writer, performer, engineer, producer and record...