Sundance Sound Brief: Inside the Audio Post for Four Film Premieres
Audio post pros worldwide have been working year ‘round for this moment, when a plethora of indie films premieres at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The POV style of “Low Down” required a special...
View ArticleSlate Digital Announces The VMS Virtual Microphone System
With their expanding array of hardware and digital audio products, Slate Digital has created a hybrid solution – the Virtual Microphone System. The VMS combines high quality audio capturing with...
View ArticleRupert Neve Designs Debuts 551 – 500 Series Inductor EQ
From the hand of the man, comes yet another audio first. Rupert Neve himself created every nook and cranny of the Rupert Neve Designs 551 Series Inductor EQ – the first and only 500 series EQ that he...
View ArticleMusic in 5.1 Dimensions: How the Best Surround Mixers Approach the Soundstage
Surround sound made its first public appearance in 1941, when Disney released its groundbreaking animated musical, Fantasia. Ever since then, surround systems have increasingly been used to enhance the...
View ArticleJZ Microphones Announces Channel Strip JZ Track
After solid growth since their conception in 2007 JZ Microphones has decided to officially expand their line from high end microphone production to their first channel strip, the JZ Track. JZ...
View ArticleNAMM 2014 Gear Highlights: 36 Picks to Improve Your Studio
If being thoroughly overwhelmed is your thing, then the music trade show they call NAMM is a great way to kick off the year. NAMM beckons to the industry insiders. The 2014 North American Music...
View ArticleTekserve Names Jerry Gepner CEO
A highly respected media and technology mind has a new role in New York City. Jerry Gepner is the new CEO of Tekserve. Tekserve, the technology solutions provider and Apple reseller headquartered on...
View ArticleVinyl Hits a Ten Year High – But Why?
British Phonographic Industry figures from 2013 suggest vinyl sales, while still relatively humble compared to CDs and downloads, have reached a ten-year high. The BPI data shows some 550,000 LPs were...
View ArticleAudiffex Releases STA Flanger — Plugin with Summing Tube Amplifer Circuity
Audiffex is a multimedia development company based out of the Czech Republic and they come to us bearing new software! The release of their STA Flanger represents quite the history behind software...
View ArticleStuder Introduces Vista X Console, with New Infinity Series Processing Engine
Studer is putting a stop to the power struggle. The marquee manufacturer has just unveiled the new Vista X digital console and the Studer Infinity Processing engine, showing off their landmark new...
View ArticleFresh Off the Press: “The Music Producer’s Survival Guide” by Brian Jackson
Brian Jackson has decided to take music career books to the next level. With the MPSG, you’ll learn how to build a fire in the studio…just kidding. In his new book, The Music Producer’s Survival Guide:...
View ArticleNouveau Signal Flow: The New Studio I at The Blackbird Academy
Studio engineers in search of fresh ideas for signal flow: Ready to get an education? Then go inside the intriguing design of the freshly minted Studio I at The Blackbird Academy in Nashville, which...
View ArticleTracktion 5 DAW Released – Enhanced Creativity And Optimized Performance
Seattle-based software development company, Tracktion Software Corporation (TSC) is continuing their successful re-lauch of the Tracktion brand with version Five of their DAW, Tracktion. Tracktion 5 is...
View ArticleThe ABC’s of…Avant-Garde Rock In The Studio: Talking Heads to Sonic Youth &...
The fifth 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, Punk Rock, and Electronic Rock....
View ArticleMix with the Masters Announces Alan Meyerson Seminar – July 28-August 3, 2014
One of the most accomplished Scoring Mixers in movies, Alan Meyerson, has just signed to hold a standout seminar for “Mix with the Masters”. Alan Meyerson brings his cinematic mixing expertise to MWTM...
View ArticleReview: McDSP 6020 Ultimate EQ by Zach McNees
Three years ago this month, I reviewed the McDSP 6030 Ultimate Compressor plug-in. The 6030 consists of ten uniquely different 500 series style compressors all bundled into one plug-in. And it has...
View ArticleWarner/Chappell Production Music Debuts Improved Website & Search Platform
Online search has seen a major evolution on the Warner/Chappell Production Music Website, which debuted this week at WarnerChappellPM.com. There’s an all-new online home for WCPM. Visitors will find an...
View ArticleADAM Audio Introduces Sub15 Subwoofer
Studio monitor specialists ADAM Audio have a new addition: a monstrous 15 inch subwoofer designed to take any system all the way down to 20Hz with clear and accurate low end response. Take your...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s The Kennel Recording Studio to Close in March
One of Brooklyn’s most hospitable audio environments is now in search of a new home. An AMR 2400 console lies at the heart of The Kennel. The Kennel, the prolific facility located on the line between...
View ArticleMaxSynths Releases DSP-3 Bus Dynamic Processor
Specializing in software development, Milan-based MaxSynths has released their new bus compressor, DSP-3. The compressor comes to us in a very lean fashion with only a few direct controls to glue...
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