This month I was lucky enough to receive two controllers from Novation, the Launchkey 49 and the Launchpad S, for the purpose of this review. I spent a few weeks getting my hands dirty, and I have to say, I loved every minute of it.
After years of being an Read more...
SonicScoop has our eyes out for discounts and special offers to pass on to our readers. Here’s the latest: PSP AudioWare has a special offer, lasting until August 4th, 2013, on their PSP MixPack2.
You can visit this page to get it going — here are more details, direct from Read more...
How do you live ten lifetimes in one? You emerge into the world as Van Dyke Parks.
A deep breath is needed before delving into the bio of this American music master, a composer/producer/arranger/instrumentalist/singer-songwriter/author/actor all in one. Starting as a clarinetist just four years removed from his 1943 birth in Read more...
Summertime is not the super busiest time for recording studios; bands are out touring and playing festivals, and business overall slows a bit. But still, if you ask around (and we did), plenty of projects were just getting started if not just wrapping up over these longest days of the Read more...
Recording vocals is one of my favorite parts of working with new artists. When you do it, you become part coach, part psychologist, part tuning fork. With any luck, you can help new singers raise their own standards for themselves, listening on as they deliver lines with more conviction, confidence, Read more...
One of advertising’s top music supervisors has just made a big switch. Ryan Fitch, a top Music Producer for agency Saatchi & Saatchi for ten years, now joins music rights management concern BMG Chrysalis US as Director, Marketing, Film & TV/Advertising there.
Fitch witnessed major changes impacting advertising music supervisors Read more...
It’s a magic time in New York City’s audio post scene: Major new sound stages equipped to mix Hollywood sound seem to be appearing out of nowhere.
The latest facility that’s taking audio – as well as video – pros by surprise isn’t new to NYC: Digital Arts, which occupies Read more...
In Part 2, Geoff & Eli get Ian’s views on recording as sonic illusion – “if it’s done well, then the seams don’t show” – the story of an ill-fated Fugazi / Steve Albini session – “one of the greatest sessions we ever did” – and thoughts about the music Read more...
In the film “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”, there is a truly magical scene: Beethoven, time-traveled forward 200 years or so, gets the chance to jam out on a battery of modern-day synths. Just as he’s really heating up, however, a squad of mall cops shuts him down — leaving Read more...
Billboard.biz writer Ed Christman reports that Downtown Records has named a trio of new synch licensing pros.
One of them, Jennifer Pearce, will be based out of Downtown’s NYC office. Meanwhile, Céleigh Chapman and Tarik Bradford will work from Downtown Records’ newly opened LA office.
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