Business
Lion King Takes Masque To Mexico
The second Spanish-language production of The Lion King recently opened at the Telcel Theatre in Mexico City, Mexico, sporting audio support from Masque Sound,...
DAW Peripherals
Business
WAM Opens New Studio With Donations
Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) moved into the former SF Soundworks Studio earlier this year and has since attracted major donations from audio manufacturers including...
Business
Gearing Up With “The Trio of Oz”
by Rich Tozzoli. Recently I’ve been working on a recording project that was just so refreshing, I wanted to write about it. Sometimes, especially...
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...
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...
news
Trending at Frankfurt Musikmesse
The biggest news in Frankfurt was the Messe hierarchy shakeup and subsequent schedule changes.
Business
West is on the Grid
Joe West, a Franklin, TN-based producer, engineer, mixer, songwriter and performer, is using the DiGiGrid DLS audio interface to increase his plug-in count.
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
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
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
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...
news
The Subscription Model Gathers Momentum
This column covered the subscription model in June 2013—but a lot has happened since then, and now our industry has followed Adobe’s lead.
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...
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
Getting Faithfull With Dimitri Tikovoi
LONDON, UK—Marianne Faithfull has just released a new album, Give My Love to London, marking the fiftieth anniversary of a music career that began...
Business
Avid Artists Grab Grammys
Grammy Awards were presented at this year’s ceremony to numerous artists, producers and engineers that used Avid’s MediaCentral Platform and Artist Suite creative tools...
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
Foos Go Everywhere with Avid
The creative teams behind Foo Fighters' "Sonic Highways" embraced Avid Everywhere to create the HBO documentary series commemorating the band’s 20th anniversary and latest...
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
Maxing Out Mixes For Against Me
AMITYVILLE, NY—Known for a potent mix of punk and folk that sounds equally at home in intimate venues and stadium festivals, Against Me spent...
Recording
Sound Magic Bows Serenade DSD Workstation
Sound Magic has announced its new Serenade music workstation, designed for high-resolution music production. Consisting of the Serenade 384KHz USB2.0 audio interface, a digital...
Business
Sonnet Captures OneRepublic
Zito, FOH engineer for OneRepublic and owner/operator of Zito Production Services, is using Sonnet Technologies’ Fusion F3 two-drive RAID storage system to capture the...
Business
Jereco Moves To Nuage
Jereco Studios in Bozeman, MT has switched to a new Yamaha Nuage system after more than a decade working on an 02R96.
Business
What’s Next for DAWs?
The late John Simonton, PAIA Electronics’ founder, was a visionary—and I don’t use that word often.
Business
Icon Petty Reaches #1 in Just 37 years
LOS ANGELES, CA—Nearly 37 years after their debut record first entered the Billboard 200, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers scored their first U.S. Number...
Business
Bing Bang Boom Brings on Nuage
Music and sound design company Bing Bang Boom! in Spokane, WA recently added a new Yamaha Nuage advanced production DAW system.
Business
PAR Studio Feature: Hey, Pro Tools Pros—What’s New? by Rich Tozzoli
PAR Software Editor Rich Tozzoli recently spoke with five engineering peers on their recent purchases and choices in both software- and hardware-based audio tools.
Business
Ellefson Digs DAW
David Ellefson, perhaps best-known as the bassist for Megadeth, always has projects cooking on the side, but doesn’t have the built-out personal studio one...
Business
Live Sound Showcase: Katy Perry – Pragmatically Prismatic
NEW YORK, NY-Since the release of her fourth studio album, Prism, back in late 2013, pop diva Katy Perry has hit some significant landmarks...
Business
Studio Showcase: Staking A Claim For Sonic Heritage In Southern Ground
NASHVILLE, TN—If Music Row is largely selling out, Zac Brown isn’t buying it.
Business
NightBird Flies Underground At Sunset Marquis
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA—“To be honest, I never planned on being in the studio business,” says Jed Leiber, composer, producer, arranger, songwriter and owner of...
Business
Studio Showcase: Bountiful Options, Abundant Flexibility
While noted as the USA’s top online/catalog retailer of professional audio and musical instrument gear in the USA, Sweetwater Sound is also home to...
Business
Appetite for Digestion
Providing live sound for the chow-down throwdown that is the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, NY, is a task to be...
Business
Ojai Gets Immersive
OJAI, CA—Established in 1947, the Ojai Music Festival presents an eclectic and challenging program curated each year by a guest music director, who this...
Business
Yaniv Outfits with GC Pro
Yaniv Farber, for over 20 years a high-end tile, granite and marble installer, recently created a production facility with assistance from Guitar Center Professional.
Business
PAR On Audio Production Touch Screens
I think one of the big changes on the horizon is touch screen technology utilizing touch screen panels (TSPs). It’s time to re-imagine the...
Business
Avengers Assembled
The Avengers is now the third highest-grossing film of all-time; building on the 2012 movie’s tale of superheroes saving New York City, it’s only...