The 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 ArticleNYC Event: Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper – June 24, Manhattan JCC
Beatles inspiration never stops. Construct yo’ mind! WITH THE BEATLES!!!!!!!!! Their songs and the unique souls that produced them go under Scott Frieman’s unique microscope in his “Deconstructing the...
View ArticleUnity Audio Launches Boulder MKII 3-Way Active Monitors
Known the world over for their silky smooth ribbon tweeters, Unity Audio has released MK II of their original Boulder monitors. The integrity of the originals remain, as the majority of the components...
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 ArticleBoz Digital Labs Launches T-Bone – Slant EQ Plugin
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...
View ArticlePro Audio LA: How Custom Cables Led to Bigger Business
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...
View ArticlescoreAscore Names Jake Weinreb Director of Business Development
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...
View ArticleMackie Now Shipping Re-Designed SRM450 & SRM350 Portable Loudspeakers
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...
View ArticleGear Designer Insider: SBS Designs – Satisfying Studio to Stage to DJ
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...
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...
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