The Wire
Shiny Eyes Debuts SF Bay Area Studio with Sommer Cable
Shiny Eyes Studio has opened its new Dolby Atmos-certified recording studio in the San Francisco East Bay with Sommer Cable installed throughout.
Loudspeakers-Studio Monitors
The Wire
Sommer Cable Introduces New SC-Mercator Cat.6a Proflex
Sommer Cable is now shipping its new SC-Mercator Cat.6a Proflex patch cable. Many applications require cables with enhanced flexibility – which in turn may...
The Wire
New Audio Brand Theory Professional to Launch at InfoComm 2023
With a hyper-focus on performance and design, the new audio brand is positioned to become the go-to premium solution for the commercial audio market.
The Wire
Theory Professional Adds Marc Bertrand as COO
Former CEO of Adamson Systems Engineering and TC Group Americas joins the company as the first strategic move towards its launch into the commercial...
Recording
Missed Opportunity Returns to Rob Burrell
Early in his career, Grammy-winning mix engineer Rob Burrell had to choose between making records and making movies. Now, having recently outfitted his Nashville...
Product Reviews
PhantomFocus System Studio Monitors – A Real-World Review
The PhantomFocus System has evolved into a portfolio of physical studio designs and products that hold their ground against anything in the world today.
Recording
Inside the Secret Recording Studio of ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’
The 8G Band, house musicians for NBC’s 'Late Night with Seth Meyers,' writes and plays eight new songs every night. A key element of...
Music Production
Finneas on Producing Billie Eilish’s Hit Album in his Bedroom
Finneas O’Connell—Billie Eilish's co-writer, producer, older brother and an artist in his own right—discusses recording her sonically adventurous debut at their family home.
Music Production
Bates Adds to ATC Collection
Composer Tyler Bates recently purchased a second pair of ATC SCM20ASL monitors.
Music Production
Inside Ummet Ozcan’s New Studio
Working with studio designer Jan Morel, producer Ummet Ozcan has built his dream facility, Oz Studios, in his house.
Recording
Slate Listens with Ocean Way
Slate gets plug-ins rock solid using Ocean Way Audio monitors.
Blog
The METAlliance Report: How to Choose Your Next Studio Monitors
The legendary pros of the METAlliance—Ed Cherney, Chuck Ainlay, Al Schmitt, George Massenburg, Elliot Scheiner and Frank Filipetti—share their wide-ranging views about how to...
Product Reviews
KRK Audio Tools App – A Real-World Review
By Rob Tavaglione. Producer/engineer Rob Tavaglione tries out KRK’s new smartphone app for setting up any studio monitors, including the company’s new G4 ROKITs.
Recording
Scott Litt Brings Ocean Way Home
Having created some of R.E.M.'s classic albums at Ocean Way Studios, Litt brings things full-circle, using Ocean Way Audio monitors to remix the band...
Product Reviews
KRK ROKIT8 G4 Monitors – A Real-World Review
What do you do for an encore if you’ve already got the best-selling line of monitors in the world? Producer/engineer Rob Tavaglione puts KRK's...
Recording
American University Adds Genelec 5.1 Systems
By Steve Harvey. The Audio Technology Program at American University in Washington, D.C., now boasts 5.1 monitor systems from Genelec in its two main...
Recording
Duro Gets on the ATC Tip
Mixer Ken “Duro” Ifill recently adopted ATC SCM45A three-way nearfield monitors.
Recording
Studio Showcase: Blackbird Studio Takes Immersive to the Next Level
By Steve Harvey. John McBride, co-founder of Nashville’s Blackbird Studio, explains how and why the facility revamped its Studio C—famously outfitted with 138,646 individual...
Recording
Plugging Into Abbey Road
By Frank Wells. On July 10, Abbey Road Studios drew a contingent of pro and consumer audio journalists for the launch of Waves’ Abbey...
Product Reviews
Focal Trio11 Be Monitors – A Real-World Review
By Rob Tavaglione. Never a fan of Focal’s SM9 studio monitors, longtime PSN reviewer producer/engineer Rob Tavaglione puts the company’s new Trio11 Be monitors...
Recording
Zardonic Unmasks New PMC Installation
PMCs are the monitors of choice for EDM artist Zardonic.
New Products
KEF America Launches LSX Monitor Accessories
KEF’s LSX monitors, aimed at both mixing recording pros and consumers, now have a trio of accessories.
Recording
Las Vegas’ Studio DMI Reinvents Itself for EDM
By Steve Harvey. The electronic dance music scene has exploded in Las Vegas over the past decade in the city’s resorts and clubs. No...
Music Production
PMC Opens Demo Facilities in NYC, LA
PMC’s new studios will be creative hubs as well as demo spaces.
Blog
Peek Inside Twenty One Pilots’ Home Studio
By Clive Young. A perusal through social media takes the curious into the home studio of Twenty One Pilots vocalist Tyler Joseph.
Music Production
Ross Builds Out with Genelec
Urban producer’s new facility gets outfitted with new monitors.
Live Sound
Kyle Hamilton on Making the Most of Tour Rehearsals
The FOH man for the likes of Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Janet Jackson, Prince and others discusses his rehearsal process.
Product Reviews
KEF LSX Monitors – A Real-World Review
By Rob Tavaglione. New LSX monitors from KEF aim squarely at the intersection between pro and consumer and satisfies both camps with app-driven operation,...
Recording
Dutch Remixer Wins PMC Nearfields
Winners of the international contest were chosen by Afrojack.
Recording
Augspurger On the Move
By Steve Harvey. Nearly 90 and already into his seventh decade in the industry, acoustician and audio engineer George Augspurger is still busy, with...
Recording
Niles City Rethinks Old-School Recording
By Steve Harvey. Niles City Sound may be the studio that helped launch the Grammy-winning career of throwback R&B singer Leon Bridges, but the...
Music Production
Audio Academy Listens with PMC
Recording school in Spain revamps classrooms with new monitors.
Recording
Scheiner Takes a Shine to New Monitors
After decades with old favorites, the production legend makes a monitor move
Recording
View from the Top: Siamak Naghian, Genelec
Siamak Naghian, managing director of Genelec, looks back at the company’s 40 years of creating some of the world’s best known studio monitors, and...
Recording
One Union Recording Bounces Back
After suffering a fire two years ago, San Francisco’s One Union has recovered and is going full steam ahead.
Music Production
Epps Goes Worldwide
Epps Music Productions tackles recording, mixing and mastering with artists from all over the world.
Music Production
Recording Childish Gambino on the Road
Recording in hotels and backstage areas required monitoring that could overcome its surroundings.
Recording
AMS Neve HQ Gets PMC-Bedecked Demo Room
The UK console company turns to another British brand for monitoring.
Music Production
Stuck in the Garage No More
DJ Jonas Blue jumps from his dad’s garage to his own custom studio.
Recording
Genelec Connects Movie Soundtracks
Mike Knobloch, president of global film music and publishing for Universal Pictures, has been turning to Genelecs.