The audio event I look forward to most each year is easily the AES convention, especially when it’s right here in NYC.
In boom years, the convention can take over a full wing at the Jacob Javits Center on West 34th street in Manhattan. But even a relatively poor showing, Read more...
It’s part of the cycle of life that things have a life and then move on. So it happens with studios, many of which we have come to enjoy working in. With the recent closing of BiCoastal Music I find myself reflecting.
My first studio was Mediasound on west 57th Read more...
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: New Jersey is the cradle of audio engineering.
Formerly known as Menlo Park, the New Jersey township of Edison, NJ changed its name in 1954 to honor the inventor Thomas A. Edison, who set up his groundbreaking research laboratory there in 1876. Read more...
Don’t hesitate to judge this album by its opening track.
LA post-hardcore/soul punk/progressive band letlive. arrests listeners immediately with the extreme intensity of “Banshee (Ghost Fame)”, an enthralling rock performance that leads off their latest Epitaph release The Blackest Beautiful.
Give the lion’s share of the credit to the group Read more...
When an artist is working on a record that they expect will debut at #1, it’s understandable if they take no chances with the mastering.
But the band we’re talking about here is Vampire Weekend, and it’s no surprise they went in adventurous new directions at every turn with their Read more...
