“Recording Lounge” Recap & Mixtape Feat. Au Revoir Simone, Ski Lodge & More
If you didn’t make it to the annual Just Managing Recording Lounge – held this year at Mission Sound in Williamsburg – you missed out! Artists including Ski Lodge, Tweens, Ghost Wave and Au Revoir...
View ArticleBlue Cat Audio Releases PatchWork – Virtual Patch Bay For Audio Plug-Ins
Well known for their audio analysis plug-ins, Blue Cat Audio has now created a new integration tool for DAWs that allows users to store multiple plug-in chains. PatchWork can support a total of 64...
View ArticleThe Fest For Beatles Fans 2014 Confirmed for Feb. 7th in NYC — 50th American...
It will be a fabulous three months of anticipation for fans of the Fab Four. It was 50 years ago in February… That’s because The Fest for Beatles Fans, which bills itself as “the world’s longest...
View ArticlePurple Audio Announces MFtwenty5 – Rack Mount Discrete Summing Mixer for 500...
Here comes a chemistry set for your 500 modules. Purple Audio, the specialty manufacturer born in Andrew Roberts’ NYU dorm room circa 1997, recently announced the MFtwenty5, a 1RU Dual input 10×2 mixer...
View ArticleRecording Retreats: Pilot Recording Studios, Berkshire County in Western MA
By now, we’ve heard enough stories about the closing of large-scale Manhattan recording studios for it to have become something of a cliché. We all know how it goes: Rising rents and a floundering...
View ArticleZynaptiq Releases PITCHMAP 1.5 With Cross-Platform Support
Zynaptiq’s intriguing pitch shifting tool is now available in version 1.5 (free to existing users) with cross-platform support with upgrades. PITCHMAP recognizes, then allows users to take control of...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Announces New Fairchild Plugin Collection
Universal Audio has announced the new “Fairchild Tube Limiter Plugin Collection“, featuring new and improved modeling of the Fairchild 660 and 670 studio classics. According to the press announcement:...
View ArticleThe ABC’s of…Electronic Rock in the Studio: The Doors to Depeche Mode & LCD...
The fourth in a series, presenting a primer on the history of musical genres and the studio basics behind them. Previous installments have focused on Blues Rock, Reggae, and Punk Rock. A musical...
View ArticleSteinberg Launches VST Connect Pro – Remote Multitrack Recording
Two applications from Steinberg — VST Connect SE and Pro — are similar as far as allowing real-time stereo remote recording sessions through Cubase + live video chat – the performer records via the...
View ArticleSound Devices Intros New Portable 633 Field Mixer — 6-Input Mixer with...
Field mixers and recorder specialists Sound Devices has introduced another addition to their portable line with the 633 Mixer, a six-input mixer with integrated 10-track recorder. Squarely aimed at the...
View ArticleLive Venue View: Barbés – Music that Breaks Boundaries
Barbés is an unusual venue. It’s a rare place where you can walk through the door on almost any evening, expect to hear a band that you’ve never heard of before, and practically without fail, that band...
View ArticleEar Trumpet Labs Releases Myrtle Microphone — Early Broadcast Inspiration
The “unholy offspring” of former software developer Bricoleur Philip Graham, Ear Trumpet Labs and its utterly distinctive line of microphones has a look all its own. The latest addition to Ear...
View ArticleGlyph Introduces BlackBox – USB 3.0 Mobile Hard Drive
Glyph has announced a new super-fast external hard drive. The BlackBox is a mobile storage solution that is USB 3.0 compatible only, allowing for much faster transfer speeds than traditional USB 2.0...
View ArticleAudio Post Artistry: Creating Loop Group for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”
“You’ll never see a movie the same way again,” Dann Fink assures me. A partner in New York City-based Loopers Unlimited, Fink doesn’t know how right he is. I’m about to embark on a very curious journey...
View ArticleBlipsonic & CreateDigitalMusic Announce MeeBlip anode Compact Bass Synth
The MeeBlip is a cool open-sourced bass synth created in collaboration between Calgary-based electronics company Blipsonic and Berlin-based music website Create Digital Music. The simple digital/analog...
View ArticleMoby Releases “The Perfect Life” Single on Blend.io for Remixing and...
Moby, always the audio adventurer, is charting a new course yet again. This time, the artist will be releasing his new album, Innocents, in an interactive and remixable form on the music collaboration...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Maag EQ4 Plugin for UAD Platform & Apollo
A hit-making hardware EQ has just jumped into the box. The titillating tone-shaper? No less than the Maag EQ4, developed by Universal Audio in partnership with the German software geniuses Brainworx...
View Article“BeatzByGirlz” IndieGoGo Campaign Launched by Erin Barra — Empowering Women...
Music listeners everywhere can agree: There’ll be even more to listen to, when women everywhere are engineering as much as they’re performing. BeatzByGirlz needs YOU. That’s why the multitalented...
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot: Four Foot Studios – Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Hidden amongst the residential blocks of Williamsburg is a distinctive studio. Part Millennium Falcon, part time warp, part laboratory, part art gallery, its Four Foot Studios. The first thing that...
View ArticleTimeless Sound Bites: 11 Insights from Bruce Swedien
When a true legend speaks, people listen – especially when what he’s talking about is…listening. Now you’re talking: L-R: Top Row: Francesca Smith, APRS; Maureen Droney, Sr. Executive Director, The...
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