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...
In this trap production basics video, Cameron (aka Venus Theory) looks at adding an organic texture underneath loops and sounds in Cubase 11 to bring new life to your music...
Read MoreThirty-five years ago I was involved in a start-up magazine for recording studios. Those were the days when there actually were recording studios. And recordings were made on 2-inch tape, which was the source material for an historic generation of music that would have sounded a whole lot worse if Read more...
There may not be a new version of Pro Tools in the immediate offing, but Avid has a big revelation of a different nature for the 2013 Fall season: the S6 control surface.
A melding of the ICON and System 5, S6 was designed with modularity, ergonomics and speed as Read more...
How do you go from home studio to a flourishing indie facility, in the thick of New York City?
There are a lot of ways to answer that question, but one approach can be seen in the expanding universe of Galaxy Smith. There’s a lot going on at this two Read more...
Adventurous. That’s the way to describe BiCoastal Music, the world-class studio in Ossining, NY that closed this week.
Built by the exacting engineer/producer Hal Winer, BiCoastal was a pioneering resource for the just-upstate area, and the musical world beyond. Debuting in 2004, it got attention right away for its seemingly Read more...
