A number of interesting artists have been recording at the legendary Sear Sound in Midtown Manhattan — Walter Sear’s legacy of audio excellence lives on!
First, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore and Yoko Ono are making a record together. And they’ve been recording it at Sear Sound, with Chris Allen engineering. Read more...
Music industry veteran J.J. Rosen has joined NYC-based Indaba Music as CEO. Last week, Indaba also announced that Queen Latifah has been appointed co-chair of its Board of Directors.
Rosen was previously Executive Vice President of Sony Music Entertainment’s Commercial Music Group. He joined SME in 2002 when it acquired Read more...
Native Instruments has rolled out Scarbee Funk Guitarist, a new Kontakt-based funk guitar software instrument.
For use in the Kontakt 4 sampler and in the free Kontakt Player, Scarbee Funk Guitarist provides a wide range of rhythm guitar lines for funk, soul, hip hop, house, pop and other contemporary styles. Read more...
Universal Audio‘s first-ever FireWire 800/400 DSP Accelerators — the new UAD-2 Satellite DUO and QUAD FireWire Accelerator Packages — put the entire UAD Powered Plug-Ins library within easy reach of Intel-based iMacs, MacBook Pros and Mac minis; no PCIe or ExpressCard required. And these units are now shipping to authorized Read more...
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN: Last week we visited Brooklyn-based electro-rap duo Ninjasonik in the studio with producer David “Sisko” Siskovic. In the home stretch of tracking their upcoming full-length album, Peter Pan Syndrome, Ninjasonik’s Telli and Jah-Jah let us into their free-wheeling creative process and played us rough mixes of a couple Read more...
