Dream Theater Records Next Album in a Barn
Ready to record a month early, the eminent prog band brought the studio to itself.
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Ready to record a month early, the eminent prog band brought the studio to itself.
Live recording experts Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz of Anderson Audio New York captured this year’s Chelsea Music Festival for delivery via Sennheiser’s immersive...
Sweetwater recently held one of the most comprehensive microphone shootouts ever, evaluating 50 vocal mics inside its Russ Berger-designed Studio A. Conducting the marathon...
Scoring mixer Alan Meyerson recently used Manley’s Force four-channel tube preamp to record a project featuring a string quartet with an opera singer.
Television music composer Josh Molen has been using his Audient iD22 USB audio interface and ASP880 8-channel mic preamp to refresh his composing technique.
If your music collection includes popular hits from the last 30 years, odds are you have at least a few tracks (or likely a...
Score composer Kurt Oldman is currently working on season two of Bryan Cranston's SuperMansion using his Audient ASP880 8-channel mic preamp, which has been...
Derek Sherinian, keyboardist with Black Country Communion, has recently added BAE Audio’s 1073 preamplifier/EQ to his Burbank, CA-based Beachwood Manor Studios.
Metallica lit up the internet last week with the surprise release of “Hardwired,” the first single from the upcoming Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, the band’s first...
With 40-plus years of engineering and production experience, much of it at New York’s Power Station, and a long list of credits, Ed Stasium...
The Rocky movie series began 40 years ago with the original classic boxing film—an underdog flick made for less than $1 million that went...
You’re stranded on a desert island, but were able to salvage only a handful of your favorite pieces of recording equipment. What did you...
Richard Chycki recently engineered Dream Theater’s thirteenth album, capturing vocalist James LeBrie with the Manley Labs Force four-channel microphone preamp.
A shotgun microphone is simply a tool worth having in any “workhorse” microphone collection, and the MCE 86 II is an ideal specimen.
Rod Stewart is perpetually on the move; this summer alone, the man played a three-week residency at Caesars Palace, a Faces reunion benefit show,...
Blue's 180-degree pivoting capsule SDC "sounds fantastic, feels expensive."
Los Angeles-based band Health turned to a new workflow focused on direct guitar recording through BAE Audio 1073 preamplifiers for its album Death Magic,...
Building on the debut of its first products—the Locomotive Audio 286A preamplifier and 14B compressor—last fall at AES, St. Louis-based pro audio manufacturer Locomotive...
SANTA MONICA, CA—Ronan Chris Murphy, a producer, mixer, engineer and recording artist whose multi-room Veneto West facility in Santa Monica, CA also provides a...
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...
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...
Working with Lisa Matassa on her homage to 1980s country artists, producer Brent Rader brought along his collection of Daking Mic-Pre IV and Mic-Pre/EQs.
The installation of a Dante-networked Focusrite RedNet at Cedar Valley College in Texas has provided a digital connection between the school’s theater and its...
Guitarist Steve Vai’s new live DVD and album, Stillness in Motion: Vai Live in L.A., features footage from his 2012 set at Club Nokia...
Scott Weiland and producer Rick Parker made extensive use of BAE Audio preamps on the singer’s latest album, Blaster.
Jake Gosling, a UK-based multi-platinum-selling music producer and songwriter known for his work with a young Ed Sheeran back in 2007, has added an...
NEW YORK, NY—Since its inception in 1973, Cheap Trick has given more than 5,000 performances, sold 20 million records, contributed to 29 movie soundtracks...
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.
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...
NEW YORK CITY, NY—People the world over may know Idina Menzel as the voice behind the omnipresent “Let It Go” in the recent animated...
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.
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...
This year's recording session in the U.S. Virgin Islands features AEA, DPA, Fender Passport Studio, Grace Design and Universal Audio products.
On his Continuing Adventures In Software, Rich Tozzoli finds himself pondering the future path through the high-resolution landscape.
Theron Feemster, aka Neff-U, started playing drums at the age of two, but these days he’s as likely to reach for the Focusrite Red...
Washington D.C. band Beauty Pill recently spent two weeks on display in Arlington, VA-based Artisphere museum to take on a unique artistic, musical and...
Chicago Symphony Orchestra recently brought in Walters-Storyk Design Group to upgraded the recording, broadcast and streaming capabilities of its control room.
LOS ANGELES, CA—Station to Station, a not-for-profit public art project made possible by Levi’s, recently crossed the country from sea to sea for a...
There are some bands whose names seem to be tailored to their musical style.
There are some bands whose names seem to be tailored to their musical style.
MIAMI, FL—Miami Beach’s famous Collins Avenue, lined with nearly thirty blocks of restored Art Deco hotels dating back to the 1920s to 1940s, attracts...
Metric Halo hardware and software figures prominently in the sound of Fumuj, a French band that describes its music as “somewhere between Mogwai, Helmet...