So I am sitting there in the lushness of an SSL control room in a major studio here in NYC. Happy.
Happy to be engineering and producing a project for a very cool young trio of musicians from an African nation. Creative energy literally making me high, motivated to do … Read More
The AD 480 Reverb app from Fiedler Audio offers extensive reverb features for iOS devices, with unique interfaces for iPhone and iPad, respectively.
What this plugin offers that differs from other iOS effects are routing options and a larger variety of sound possibilities. The “Pro” version comes with 108 presets … Read More
The Windy City has a powerful new addition to their audio post scene.
A major facility has arrived in the form of STIR POST AUDIO, created by three of Chicago’s major media players: Greg Allan, David Kaplan and Mindy Verson. The full service audio post and sound design resource … Read More
From loft party, to warehouse, and now North 11th Street, Verboten has landed in Brooklyn.
German for “forbidden,” Verboten has become an avant-garde staple in the New York underground dance music scene; booking, producing and promoting house music and techno parties at a variety of clubs, boats, festivals and music … Read More
Who will solve the purpose-built music computer puzzle once and for all?
Is this everything you’re looking for in an audio computer?
PreSonus believes it can do it, with the help of its friends OBEDIA and PCAudioLabs. This technical triumvirate has resulted in the PCAudioLabs PSc Rok and PSc Rak … Read More
The renowned French speaker designers have done it: Focal released an extremely accessible line of reference monitors aimed at those who accomplish their mixing and recording in the home studio.
The Alpha line certainly takes on a different build than the Focal monitors we are used to. Still, Focal leaves … Read More
BIAS Desktop isn’t your average guitar amp designer environment.
The new software from Positive Grid features a unique amp matching system that will analyze and replicate any direct or pre-recorded guitar track. More specifically, it will replicate the tone itself. Positive Grid has included a huge amount of vintage amps … Read More
At the core of a rebirth, an essential element of the original may still remain.
That’s the case with Catch This Music Recording Studio (CTM), which revived a Music Row space while retaining something special. Once the home of Bayou Recording, the studio’s reopening in 2011 as CTM made sure … Read More
May the best audio maven win!
For those who can handle the suspense of a live awards show, the Cutting Room will be the place to be this coming Wednesday, July 2nd. That’s where SAE New York will host its third annual Alumni Awards, from 6-10 PM.
An event … Read More
For those of us who are passionate about writing, creating, producing, recording, or mixing music, we spend a lot of time looking at waveforms on a screen. We invest endless hours of our lives listening to sound.
Output, input, output — audio into audio can be awesome.
Much like a … Read More
Are you trying to ensnare the whole world with your next creation? Or should you perhaps be casting a narrower net?
Hugh Sung wants to enable musicians with fresh tech.
The story of musical solution developer AirTurn is a nifty argument for hitting the niche. Founded by classical pianist Hugh … Read More
Romanian studio furniture designers ZAOR are advancing their cost-conscious CLASSIC series of furniture with the ONDA media workstation.
The ONDA comes to us with practicality, aesthetic appeal and ease of assembly/disassembly in mind. As a member of ZAOR’s CLASSIC series, the ONDA’s price is well suited for the budget studio.… Read More
Modeled after classic, physical hardware, AlexB has announced the release of his Modern Flagship Dynamics sampled library exclusively for the Nebula VST environment.
If we were betting folks, we’d say that the particular dynamics sampled are from the famed AMS Neve 88RS console — which would give these dynamics a … Read More
Treat yourself this 4th of July weekend, and go wonkless.
That’s just one of the many benefits of the latest plugin from Boz Digital Labs, via their new release, the T-Bone Slant EQ. Besides the lack of high-frequency wonk of which we speak (see details below), the flagship … Read More
When you see the large, open space of the workshop, the quaint coziness of the demo room and the impressive construct of the studio control and live room, it’s hard to imagine just two guys sitting in their apartments making cables to sell on Craigslist and eBay.
Yet, that’s exactly … Read More
The music-for-picture resource scoreAscore.com (sAs) has just added new muscle at the executive level.
scoreAscore has scored Jake Weinreb for its team.
A pioneering platform founded in 2010, Los Angeles-based scoreAscore is a “one-stop-shop” that allows media clients to easily find custom music, sound design and voiceover for their projects.… Read More
As we all know, Mackie has been in the live sound gig for years. In fact, their original SRM450 was the first active, portable loudspeaker! Breathing new life into the SRM series, Mackie has included a new 1000W amp as well as custom drivers.
While these new hardware additions … Read More
There’s a place in New Jersey where audio is very serious business.
Craig “Shorty” Bernabeu of SBS Designs is a man on a mission.
It’s called SBS Designs, and the gear that comes out of there has a uniquely diverse pedigree. Nothing that leaps out of the mind of … Read More
A trio of sonic inspiration has just been launched by Universal Audio.
All three plugins are available for the UAD Powered Plug-ins platform and their Apollo audio interfaces, and each will definitely be welcomed by mixers in search of fresh tools for working ITB.
They lead off with … Read More
Ribbons, condensers, and recording will be the stars of the show next week, at an event being held at the hands of Audio Power Tools.
The Brooklyn-based sonic hardware and software purveyors are presenting “An Evening with Royer Labs & Mojave Audio” on Thursday July 17th, at … Read More
