While Quantum Leap Silk is not the newest sample-based virtual instrument (VI) out there, you can take this as a kind of year-end shout to one of my favorite tools of the year. Silk encompasses traditional acoustic instruments from the Silk Road trade route first established during the time of Read more...
Rope, an up-and-coming psychedelic roots-rock band from Brooklyn, began as producer/engineer Josh Clark’s studio side project. The co-owner of Seaside Lounge Recording in Park Slope, Clark began recording some of his own songs in between sessions with bands like Beirut, The National, Dark Horse & the Carousels, Antietam and Hopewell. Read more...
Manny Marroquin came out from sunny Cali to mix Alicia Keys’ new record in-house at The Oven. This was his second such Long Island residency, having mixed Keys’ As I Am in similar fashion in the summer of ’07.
Just in the last year and change, Marroquin’s mixed Kanye West’s Read more...
Tony Maserati swooped down to Long Island from his upstate, NY studio to lend a hand in mixing some of the 20 songs produced as part of Alicia Keys’ The Element of Freedom. As deadlines approached, Keys’ chief engineer and album coordinator Ann Mincieli made the game-time decision to get Read more...
Dave Kutch, the intrepid mastering engineer who setup a temporary mastering suite in the live room at The Oven to master Alicia Keys’ As I Am, has done it all again for her new record, The Element of Freedom.
Since As I Am, Kutch has opened his own NYC facility, Read more...
