GRAMERCY, MANHATTAN: There’s an astrological phenomenon known as the Saturn Return, and it pulls especially hard on us creative types. The theory goes that as we hit age 27 – 30, we start to re-evaluate our path, looking ahead, and tend to recalibrate. Job and relationship changes often ensue. Read more...
The upcoming TV On The Radio record, Nine Types of Light — due out April 12 on Interscope Records — was largely recorded at Headgear in Brooklyn last May.
TVOTR’s David Andrew Sitek produced the sessions, with engineer Zeph Sowers tracking. Headgear’s Scott F. Norton also engineered a couple of Read more...
Every month, Matt McCorkle of EqualSonics.com brings you a day in the life of a New York City recording engineer.
The Mission: Recording a song for a TV commercial in a Brooklyn apartment
Producer and multi-instrumentalist Michael T contacted me about recording and mixing a song called “Snow Falls in Read more...
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN: Dream weekend. I spent February 19th and 20th with the METAlliance at the historic Avatar Studios in New York City.
Who is this Alliance, you ask? Al Schmitt, Phil Ramone, Chuck Ainlay, Ed Cherney, George Massenburg, Frank Filipetti, and Elliot Scheiner — the absolute elite top recording and Read more...
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...
