In the last decade, as Manny Marroquin has been cranking out mixes for a growing client-base of pop stars, something has been stirring in the pop music world that is now in full effect. Sonically and stylistically, pop music has been hybridizing with artists embracing wide-ranging influences and sounds, mixing Read more...
On the most recent album I was mixing , I really discovered some incredible uses for the Decapitator, a saturation plug made by SoundToys.
SoundToys had me at EchoBoy which was another go-to plug that I still use every day. The thing that sets their plugs apart from so many Read more...
The best way to deal with a troublesome noise is to avoid recording it in the first place. In a controlled environment, like a recording studio or a film set, you’re blessed with a quiet space, clean power and revealing monitors, so that isn’t too difficult to do.
But these Read more...
As new records by Savages, The National, Vampire Weekend, The Flaming Lips and Daft Punk spin on high rotation chez SonicScoop, we’re hearing about so many new projects coming down the pipeline that we thought we’d share in a new column.
Get ready for the details of some buzz-worthy new Read more...
Talib Kweli kicks off Prisoner of Conscious with an outright lie: “I’m at a loss for words,” Talib Kweli declares in the intro for his fifth studio album – a statement that’s clearly contradicted by the 14 ensuing tracks.
Recognized as one Brooklyn’s most distinctive rappers since his first emergence Read more...
Talk about being in the right place at the right time.
No, we don’t mean the moment Mick Guzauski got invited to engineer and mix the new chart-topping album by Daft Punk, Random Access Memories. We mean the countless sessions that the Grammy-winning audio pro worked setting up mics Read more...
A magician never reveals his secrets – but fortunately some composers are more than happy to share.
Even though music-for-picture maven Matthew Filler is in the thick of boosting his new business, as you’ll see he’s got confidence aplenty in what makes him unique. That makes him the perfect subject Read more...
The world of delays is a huge one. Up there with the almighty reverb, delays occupy a big presence in the sound and style of studio/live musicians, mixers and sound designers around the world.
Whether being a crucial element of your band’s sound (just about anything from U2 for example) Read more...
In the music production world, convergence today is about more than just styles combining – it can also refer to studios coming together.
That’s exactly what’s happened in the busy New Jersey scene, with the recent integration of Wayne Dorell’s Hoboken facility, The Pigeon Club, into The Patio at Union Read more...
Waaay back in the ‘80’s, the Fixx famously proclaimed “one thing leads to another.” And before that, the 17th Century philosopher Spinoza could have told you the same thing.
Undoubtedly, the founders of one of Brooklyn’s flagship studios, The Bunker Studio, would concur with all of the above. No sooner Read more...
