Live Sound
Behind the Scenes: Grammys Switch Up Their Live Sound Tech
The Grammy Awards audio production team made a big change this year, switching to a new P.A. system.
Recording Academy
Business
Grammy Museum Awards $200,000 for Music Research, Sound Preservation
The Grammy Museum Grant Program has announced grant recipients for research on multiple subjects, as well as archiving and preservation programs.
Business
Latin Grammy Engineering and Production Winners Announced
The Latin Recording Academy has announced the winners of its 24th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, including those categories honoring recording and mastering engineers, mixers...
Business
Recording Academy Changes “Producer of the Year” Grammy Voting Process
The Recording Academy has added three new categories and changed how the Producer of the Year and Songwriter of the Year awards are determined.
Music Production
Recording Academy P & E Wing Posts Immersive Webinars
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing is making "Inside the Mix" webinar episodes that it co-presented with Dolby available online
Business
AES Honored with Technical Grammy Award
TheAES was acknowledged by the Recording Academy for its contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
Live Sound
Bringing You The Music of Music’s Biggest Night
Without the skills of dozens of audio pros, Music's Biggest Night would just be a night.
Business
Grammy Awards’ Engineering and Production Winners Announced
The Recording Academy announced the winners of the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, including those categories honoring recording and mastering engineers, mixers, remixers and record...
Business
AES to Receive Technical Grammy Award
The Audio Engineering Society will receive a Technical Grammy Award during the Grammy Week celebration in February 2023.
Business
Latin Grammy Engineering and Production Winners Announced
The winners of the 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards, including this year’s engineering, mixing, mastering and production honorees, have been announced.
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Grammy Engineering and Production Nominations Announced
The Recording Academy has announced its nominations for the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, including those categories honoring recording and mastering engineers, mixers, remixers and...
Recording
P&E Wing Shares Immersive Audio Panel
The Recording Academy P&E Wing panel, "Immersive Audio 101," with Mike Piacentini, Brian "BT" Gibbs, Jimmy Douglass, Darcy Proper and Leslie Ann Jones is...
Business
Recording Academy Announces Two New VPs
The Recording Academy has appointed two new vice presidents: Maureen Droney, the new vice president of the Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing, and...
Business
Grammy Awards Add New Categories, Rules
The Recording Academy has announced new categories, process amendments and updates for the 65th Grammy Awards.
Business
Mix Live Blog: It’s GRAMMY Time
There are a lot of other important GRAMMY-related live and virtual events during the week leading up to the Main Event.
Recording
The Incomparable Harvey Mason, Jr. – Mix Cover Story, Part 4
In the final installment of our profile of Harvey Mason, Jr., the Recording Academy CEO/president discusses finding gear for his new studio complexes.
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The Incomparable Harvey Mason, Jr. – Mix Cover Story, Part 3
In Part 3 of our exclusive interview, Recording Academy president/CEO Harvey Mason, Jr. discusses the Recording Academy's current challenges, and its role in the...
news
The Incomparable Harvey Mason, Jr. – Mix Cover Story, Part 2
In Part 2 of our exclusive interview, the Recording Academy president/CEO shares his journey from the NCAA Final Four to Hollywood blockbusters.
Recording
The Incomparable Harvey Mason, Jr. – Mix Cover Story, Part 1
Discover our exclusive interview with Harvey Mason, Jr.—songwriter, producer, studio owner and president/CEO of the Recording Academy.
Recording
Grammy Engineering and Production Nominations Announced
The Recording Academy has announced its nominations for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, including the production categories.
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Young Guru to Keynote AES Modern Music Symposium
Multi-platinum, Grammy-winning engineer/producer Young Guru will keynote the online AES Modern Music Production Symposium July 7 – 8.
Recording
Al Schmitt, Legendary Engineer, Passes at 91
Al Schmitt, arguably the most successful recording engineer ever, died Monday, April 26, at the age of 91, capping a career that saw him...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: GRAMMY Time
Grammy Week and Music's Biggest Night will look a lot different this time around, but as Steve La Cerra points out, the performers are...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Well, At Least Someone Cares
While the public cheered recent announcements of limited-capacity venue reopenings, Steve La Cerra looks at the economics and calls it a non-starter; meanwhile, he...
Business
Proposed HITS Act Could Aid Producers, Engineers
The newly proposed HITS Act, introduced to the Senate on Wednesday, could be a financial help to musicians, producers, engineers and others.
Music Production
P&E Wing Sets 2020–21 Steering Committee
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing has announced its 2020–21 Steering Committee, led by co-chairs Ivan Barias and Piper Payne.
Recording
P&E Wing Details Busy Spring Itinerary
The pandemic could not keep the Recording Academy’s P&E Wing from continuing its work addressing and promoting the concerns of audio pros.
Music Production
Producer/Artist Rupert Hine, Dead at 72
Rupert Hine, the producer behind hit albums by Rush, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Stevie Nicks, The Fixx and others, was also an accomplished artist...
Business
Recording Academy Advises How To Reopen Studios
With all 50 states now in the process of reopening, the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy has released “Considerations For Recording...
Live Sound
Danny Leake, Legendary Studio/Live Engineer, Dead at 69
In addition to working as Stevie Wonder’s FOH engineer for three decades, Danny Leake also recorded dozens of top artists in the studio, leading...
Recording
Producer/Engineer Knox Phillips, Dead at 74
The son of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, Knox Phillips made his own way, recording the likes of Willie Nelson, John Prine and Jerry...
Featured
From the Recording Academy: Support Music Makers, Call Congress!
The effects of the coronavirus Covid-19 have hit the music, recording and live performance industries pretty hard, and the Recording Academy is working through...
Business
Recording Academy Establishes COVID-19 Relief Fund
The Recording Academy/MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund will help musicians and touring pros whose livelihood has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Music Production
Legendary Producer Keith Olsen Dead
Keith Olsen, the Grammy-winning producer/engineer who arguably defined the sound of hard rock in the late Seventies and Eighties, has died.
Blog
Music’s Unluckiest Night
Producer/engineer Morten Lindberg has a career total of 28 Grammy nominations and 0 wins—the unluckiest streak in Grammy history. Will he finally win in...
Blog
The METAlliance Report: Ed Cherney (1950-2019)—Someone Truly Special
METAlliance co-founder Elliot Scheiner pays tribute to his friend, recording legend Ed Cherney, who passed away in October.
Business
Recording Academy Launches ‘Behind the Record’
The social media initiative aims to spotlight producers, engineers and others who contribute to the music recording process.
Recording
Recording Legend Ed Cherney, Dead at 69
By Clive Young. Grammy, Emmy and TEC Award-winning producer/engineer Ed Cherney died Monday, October 21.
Featured
Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing Summer News
Santa Monica, Calif. (September 3, 2019) — The Recording Academy™ Producers & Engineers Wing had a busy summer 2019 calendar, partnering with local Academy...
Recording
P&E Wing Sets All-Star Engineering Panel for Summer NAMM
Panel of top engineers to share insights and advice at Summer NAMM
Recording
P&E Wing Honors Willie Nelson
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing hosted its annual fete during Grammy Week.
Business
Women in Music Production Face ‘Epidemic of Invisibility’
By Clive Young. The Recording Academy has unveiled its Inclusion Initiative with the aim of increasing the number of female producers and engineers across...