Chung King Studios Closes — New Direction for Classic Rooms at 36 W. 37th Street
Chung King Studios has closed – again. And with John King’s exit from 36 West 37th Street, comes a new chapter for this coveted space. John King has exited the Chung King Studios located he helmed for...
View ArticleWaves Releases dbx 160 Compressor/Limiter Plug-In
Flash back to the 70s when artists like David Bowie and Led Zeplin were topping the charts with tracks mixed and produced by Eddie Kramer. One of his go-to pieces of outboard gear? The original dbx 160...
View ArticleSlate Digital Launches Virtual Console Collection 2.0, Featuring ‘Brit 4K E’
One plus five=2.0. The VCC has expanded in with V 2.0. We speaketh of the latest VCC from Slate Digital, aka Virtual Console Collection 2.0, which has added a sixth emulation to the pack of five...
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot: Transmitter Park Studio — Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Shed your skin, begin again. It happens everywhere in nature, and as it turns out, in Brooklyn too. At Transmitter Park Studio, the renewal was only clear to owner Abe Seiferth and his crew after they...
View ArticleWarner/Chappell Production Music Launches New Artist Series with Peter...
There are always new twists on music licensing – just ask Warner/Chappell Production Music. The company’s fresh spin comes via its just-launched Artist Series, providing music supervisors, producers,...
View ArticleMax Out Your Mix: 3 Essential Tips For Mixing with Samples
Sampling is amazing for making songs sound huge: you’re taking parts of an already mixed and mastered song and putting it into your own. From a production standpoint it opens up a world of...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Releases UAD Software v8.0
Insert your own pun about classic energy drinks or big engines here, but the fact is that UA now has its own V8 — Universal Audio has officially released UAD Software v8.0. V8.0 will include Apollo...
View ArticleFocusrite Launches Heritage Sound Competition to Mark 30-Year Anniversary —...
Three decades of audio innovation is a fine excuse to throw a party. Focusrite couldn’t agree more. So in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the UK-based audio gear and software manufacturer, the...
View ArticleHeavy Music at Home with Sanford Parker
Sanford Parker has been a go-to engineer in Chicago’s heavy music scene since the turn of the millennium, producing bands such as Yob, Indian, and Corrections House. As the stress and liability of...
View ArticleVT Event: Guilford Sound Hosts Analog Tape Workshop with Larry Crane and...
If you’ve been craving an excuse to escape to the Green Mountain State, allow us to present the perfect reason: Vermont recording studio Guilford Sound will be hosting an analog tape workshop with...
View ArticleMaster Plan: Joe Lambert Mastering – Jersey City, NJ
Making a move is something Joe Lambert knows how to do – in more ways than one. Lambert went solo in 2008, after a decade plus of mastering at bigger NYC houses. Hanging out his own shingle as Joe...
View ArticleBrooklyn Audio Post Bravado: Fall On Your Sword Unveils The Foundry — 7.1...
Audio post in Brooklyn is not news anymore. Owing to the larger spaces available and the convenience, an ever-growing contingent of filmmakers and media producers want to mix sound in their borough of...
View ArticlePSP Releases MasterQ2 – Successor to Their Original MasterQ Mastering EQ Plug-In
The original MasterQ from PSP Audioware has been around the block. Their customers loved it so much that they decided to make it even better. Bigger, stronger, Q-er. MasterQ2 is a mastering EQ plug-in...
View ArticleThe Case for Digital Wireless Microphones
This is a guest post by Alex Milne of RF Venue. Digital wireless microphones sometimes get a bad rap. Early models, especially those operating in the 2.4 GHz band, did not sound as good as analog and...
View ArticleiZ Releases Radar Studio – Native PC + Audio Interface + More
Announced back at AES 2014 and demoed to much acclaim at NAMM earlier this year, iZ is ready to release their Radar Studio into the wild. The PC, audio Interface, and DAW combo aims to be the...
View ArticleLine 6 Now Shipping Firehawk FX – Wireless Multi-Effect Guitar Processor
If a wire is good, then wireless must be better. That’s been the prevailing fact in all the other tech we touch, so why shouldn’t it apply to our guitar (and synth) effects? Line 6 agrees...
View ArticleBack to Basics: How to Improve Gain Staging In Your DAW (Video)
Gain Staging is an important part of dealing with audio when recording and mixing. In this tutorial, I’ll go through some of the issues that are big red flags. If you’re needing some help with gain...
View ArticleBrooklyn Event: Meet API’s BOX Console at Strange Weather — Thursday, 4/9
API is all about New York City this week. API’s BOX takes over NYC this Thursday, at a free-to-attend Open House in Brooklyn. Don’t miss the opportunity to get up close and personal with API’s BOX...
View ArticleRecreating Bird: Returning to Detroit’s Legendary “United Sound Systems”...
A lot has changed in the recording industry since the 1940’s. The road from acetate masters to digital streaming has been a long one, and there are still music critics who feel that it is simply...
View ArticleReview: Steinberg’s Cubase Pro 8 – By Andrew Koss
Presented with the opportunity to write a review about a DAW, my initial reaction was, “How can anyone cover an entire DAW in a single article?” Cubase Pro 8 is the latest version of Steinberg’s...
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