Mackie Announces CRBT Bluetooth Monitors
For those who may have missed it, Mackie released two new monitors – both with 100% more Bluetooth. Mackie’s Bluetooth enabled monitors are ideal for casual listening and mixing. Part of their best...
View Article6 Things Producers Should Consider Before Talking to an Artist About Changing...
Image by Flickr user Jeremy Bronson Talking with an artist about their songs is an exercise that’s fraught with the potential to create distance between a producer and a songwriter. But it can also be...
View ArticleSoftware Review: Universal Audio Manley Variable Mu Limiter/Compressor Plugin
Under the hood of the Manley Variable Mu In November 2014, when Universal Audio announced that it would release a new software version of the Manley Variable Mu compressor, SonicScoop quickly covered...
View ArticleWix Music 2.0: Wix.com Joins Forces With Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to Launch...
One of the worlds leading web development platforms, Wix.com has integrated a fully featured music distribution platform into their site builder. What is Wix Music 2.0? Wix Music 2.0 allows artists...
View ArticleAES 2015: Top Picks & Pics from the Showroom Floor
This was a memorable weekend to be in New York City. The Mets were embroiled in the World Series, the NYC Marathon powered through all five boroughs, and Halloween fell on a Saturday night, capped by...
View ArticleAES 2015 Photo Journal: Panels & Parties
Yesterday, we shared our massive photo review of the best and most innovative new gear of the 2015 AES convention. Today, we’d like to share a few pics from some of the coolest panels and hottest...
View ArticleMOTU Introduces MicroBook IIc Ultra Compact Audio Interface
The USB 2.0 interface from MOTU expands on the success of its original MicroBook interface. The major addition to the new MicroBook IIc is the USB audio class compliance allowing compatibility with...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches 4 New Plugins – Eventide H910 Harmonizer, Marshall...
No matter what kind of music you produce, Universal Audio’s launch of UAD Software v8.4 and the four accompanying new plugins for UAD-2 DSP Accelerators and Apollo have got you covered. Should you...
View ArticleGear Review: Sonarworks Reference 3 Room & Speaker Correction Suite
Sonarworks’ Reference 3 Suite. One of the biggest challenges that professional audio engineers have to deal with today is the actual work environment. Newly-available technology and shrinking budgets...
View ArticleAntelope Introduces Four New Products at AES 139 in NYC
Antelope rolled out a trifecta of new hardware products for us at last week’s AES 139: the 10MX Atomic Clock, Orion 32+, Orion Studio, plus a new software reverb, AuraVerb. Orion 32+ The Orion 32+The...
View ArticleComposer Cribs: Charlie Clouser, Los Angeles, CA
Some composers live a career behind the scenes – Charlie Clouser is not one of them. While he currently spends his days and nights creating high-visibility soundtracks (the entire Saw series, Resident...
View ArticleQwire Music-to-Picture Cloud Platform Raises $2.5 Million; Licensed by ABC...
Qwire is a platform for professionals involved with putting audio to motion picture. Launched in 2014, NYC- and LA-based Qwire has seen fast growth, recently raising $2.5 million in its initial funding...
View ArticleRode NTR Active Ribbon Microphone Review
The Røde NTR Ribbon Microphone.At one of my earliest recording sessions, I tried to describe a sound I was going for: ”Dark, but not muddy; mid-heavy but not crowded, and with enough high end to peak...
View ArticleJohn King is Baack! Chung King Studios Returns
A changeover at one of midtown's most prolific facilities could tilt the NYC recording scene.
View ArticleDavid Byrne & St. Vincent, Lenny White, Manuel Valera & More at Water Music
One of NYC’s finest recording studios is not in NYC at all. Located across the Hudson in Hoboken, Water Music has a vintage Neve 8088 console and large tracking spaces with multiple iso booths. The...
View ArticlePlatinum Producers, Platinum Engineers & All the Key Panels at the 2013 AES...
At AES, the real show is downstairs. Discover new techniques and technologies with unmissable panels, seminars, workshops, master classes and studio tours.
View ArticleJohn King is Baack! Chung King Studios Returns
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: There is something afoot on West 37thStreet. Taking a stroll down this intensely bustling block, those in the know may see a sudden influx of familiar faces – a producer, an...
View ArticleDavid Byrne & St. Vincent, Lenny White, Manuel Valera & More at Water Music
One of NYC’s finest recording studios is not in NYC at all. Located across the Hudson in Hoboken, Water Music has a vintage Neve 8088 console and large tracking spaces with multiple iso booths. The...
View ArticlePlatinum Producers, Platinum Engineers & All the Key Panels at the 2013 AES...
The audio event I look forward to most each year is easily the AES convention, especially when it’s right here in NYC. In boom years, the convention can take over a full wing at the Jacob Javits...
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Reservoir: An NYC Studio Takes on a Complex Persona
Where the Big Studio Fits In What actually makes it all possible is the space itself. This studio might simply be a natural magnet for musical types — drawn in for decades by some unseen power baked...
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