2015 AMP Awards Winners Announced at City Winery in NYC
The Association of Music Producers’ AMP Awards are a music business event like no other. A grand convergence takes place: music producers, ad agency creatives, composers, music supervisors, audio post...
View ArticleLA Event: Meet Sontronics’ Trevor Coley – Friday, 5/8 at Westlake Pro
Who’s the man behind the mics? You’ve got a chance to meet him. Make no mistake — meet Sontronics at Westlake, on Friday, May 8th. LA recording mavens can meet Trevor Coley, founder and mic designer of...
View ArticleStudio Monitor Switch: Alex Sterling — Upper West Side
Listen closely, and you can hear them – an emerging generation of engineers who care deeply about audio. Alex Sterling has an ear for detail. Among them is Alex Sterling, whose eponymous studio on the...
View ArticleWaves Releases H-Reverb Plug-In
Waves has introduced H-Reverb and it appears to bring us fresh and exciting tech for more control than Waves has produced in previous reverb plugins. Integrating their new FIR engine (Finite Impulse...
View ArticleHow to Keep Perspective During a Mixing Session
We mixers know all too well that mixes can be like black holes. If you keep a safe distance, you can generally preserve a healthy perspective and escape unscathed. But many of us allow ourselves to get...
View ArticleLA Event: IMSTA Festa — May 16th at SAE Institute
We love it on both coasts, and this weekend IMSTA and SAE Institute Los Angeles are partnering to host IMSTA Festa – leading the way with the reminder to “Buy The Software You Use”. IMSTA is a free...
View ArticleNYC Event: BMS’ “The Independent Artist as a Startup” – Thursday, 5/28
Back in November, we told you about the debut of an event series from the New York City-based Business of Music Seminars (BMS). BMS #2 is set for May 28th. Response to their first foray was...
View ArticleAudified Releases u73b Compressor Plug-In
Now hear this! The u73b Compressor plug-in from Audified is modeled from the vintage German broadcast compressor of the 1960s. Audified got their hands on an original model, broke it down and has now...
View ArticleExecutive Interview: Ron Burman — President, North America, Mascot Label Group
It takes two: The smartest record labels know that success doesn’t just depend on signing great artists – they have to make equally smart choices in the executives that steer a band’s career. Mascot...
View ArticleNYC Event: ACME Audio at Audio Power Tools – Brooklyn, 5/19
Being from the Motor City ourselves, we smile upon any company that proclaims themselves purveyors of the “Motown”. ACME Audio – also being from the great state of Detroit — is just that, and their own...
View ArticleNative Instruments Introduces GOLDEN KINGDOM Expansion for MASCHINE
GOLDEN KINGDOM is the latest MASCHINE Expansion from Native Instruments. The contemporary hip-hop driven bundle is loaded with genre-specific elements from southern hip-hop, EDM, trap, and more. Native...
View ArticleLearn With Splice: New Series from Some of YouTube’s Best Independent Educators
About a year and a half ago, the founders of Splice completed their seed funding, setting the stage for an online collaboration tool that has changed the way many musicians and producers work together....
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot: Gold Coast Recorders – Bridgeport, CT
Close enough to be convenient – far enough from NYC to be a groovy getaway: Gold Coast Recorders just may be the missing link ye seek. Audio attractions are ample at this Bridgeport, CT facility, and...
View Article“The Fabricated Female”— in Media, the VO Booth, and Beyond
Another angle on the “glass ceiling” recently went under the microscope in New York City. (l-r) Julie Schubert, Felix Richter, Carrie Faverty, and Gretchen Carlson discussed “The Fabricated Female” at...
View ArticleReview: Audio-Technica ATH-M70x Headphones
The ATH-M70X by Audio Technica In both music and audio post work, there are a lot of situations where headphones are a necessity. Voice over and foley recording require headphones, you may find several...
View ArticleDave Smith Instruments Shipping Sequential Prophet-6 Analog Polyphonic...
The recently reacquired brand, Sequential, is Dave Smith Instruments’ original identifier for the vintage Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer. Originally introduced in 1978, The Prophet-5 was the...
View ArticleBlack Lion Audio Releases Micro Clock MkIII
Chicago-based Black Lion Audio began their endeavors offering mods to the internals of popular audio gear with the goal of offering a higher-quality audio product for a reasonable price. Only later did...
View ArticleeaReckon Launches EARebound — Multi-Delay Plugin with 16 Delay Lines
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: the most fun part of a mix session is when you can reach for that delay. The inventive developer eaReckon, founded by drummer/programmer Philippe Decuyper, has...
View ArticleeaReckon Launches EARebound — Multi-Delay Plugin with 16 Delay Lines
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: the most fun part of a mix session is when you can reach for that delay. The inventive developer eaReckon, founded by drummer/programmer Philippe Decuyper,...
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