Allen & Heath Introduces Qu-32 Mixer – 32-In/28-Out, for Live & Studio
The Qu digital line of mixers from Allen & Heath now include the Qu-32 – a 32 channel digital mixer. The Qu line radically maximizes on the advantages of digital control by including complete board...
View ArticleCulinary Audio Arts: Eating Up the 17th Annual AES AudioMasters Golf...
The Nashville Section of the AES, in cooperation with the Nashville Engineers Relief Fund (NERF), held its 17th annual AudioMasters golf tournament for the benefit of NERF on Thursday and Friday, May...
View ArticleThe Resonant Human: The Science of How Tempo Affects Us
Image courtesy of Flickr user Derek Gavey. You’re walking along, enjoying some of your favorite music on a pair of headphones, when all of a sudden you realize you’re re-enacting Survivor’s “Eye of the...
View ArticleVideo Premiere: Sterling Sound’s Chris Gehringer in RPM #2 – from Ronin...
How would you like 9:33 of inspiration today? Brooklyn mic genies Ronin Applied Sciences will provide it. The creators of astonishing products like the Dove LDC FET mic and Archangel Passive Gain mic...
View ArticleApplied Acoustic Systems Announces String Studio VS-2 String Modeling...
A string-modeling synthesizer plugin? Yes, AAS has now implemented version 2 of their original String Studio, released almost 10 years ago. Although there is minimal change to the plugin’s name, the...
View ArticleAdvanced DIY: Log Cabin Recording with Kristin Hoffman
When you hear that piano on “Let Go” (RISE OF TROY REMIX), you are immediately transported. Hoffman’s upstate haunt is a place to get creative. Inside the ears of Kristin Hoffman, the artist who played...
View ArticleBalance – What’s Gone Missing on Your Way to the Studio?
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...
View ArticleFiedler Audio Releases AD 480 Reverb – Fully Featured Reverb for iOS
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...
View ArticleSTIR POST AUDIO Launches in Chicago
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...
View ArticleVerboten…Nothing is Forbidden in Brooklyn
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...
View ArticlePreSonus and OBEDIA Launch PreSonus-Certified Music Computers
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...
View ArticleFocal Announces Alpha — Affordable Powered Studio Monitors Series
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...
View ArticlePositive Grid Unveils BIAS Desktop – Amp Designer, Modeler, and Matcher
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...
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot – Catch This Music, Nashville
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...
View ArticleThree New Universal Audio Plugins: Thermionic Culture Vulture, Tonelux Tilt...
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...
View ArticleAudio Power Tools Presents: “An Evening with Royer Labs & Mojave Audio”– 7/17...
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...
View ArticleInside the Lives of Composers for Hire
Commercial composer Matt Filler’s workstation at Pralaya. You can’t really sing. Your 12-tone concept album about incidental “Game of Thrones” characters doesn’t have quite the audience you thought it...
View ArticleTELEFUNKEN Debuting Black Diamond Tube Series At Summer NAMM
Late 1940’s the German-made TELEFUNKEN 12AX7 tube debuted – arguably one of the most esteemed components in the recording industry. Thanks in large part to the tube factor. TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik is...
View ArticleVideo: Mixing Metallica – Backstage with Their Two-Man Monitoring Team
“Don’t get relaxed,” says Bob Cowan, Monitor Engineer for Metallica, of his enviable gig. Metallica monitors engineering Bob Cowan on point. No one should feel too calm witnessing a Metallica show, but...
View ArticleConsole Switch: How Brooklyn’s SpeakerSonic Installed a Trident 80b — Step by...
He’s only in it for the gear. We speak of SpeakerSonic’s Brian Speaker. Founder of the expanding East Williamsburg studio, we’re actually sure that Speaker loves the act of recording and hearing the...
View Article
