Ken Andrews has always had his own way of doing things.
His distinctive sound started reaching a wide audience when he founded Failure, an inimitable band whose albums like Fantastic Planet and Heart Is a Monster have gathered up a dedicated following for their grit, artistry and intellect. While that Read more...
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably long dreamed of having a career in music. The bright lights. The screaming fans. The fortune. The fame. The paperwork…
Yeah, no one ever talks about that last part.
There’s a lot of administrative work that goes into monetizing music at a large scale. Read more...
2018: hot on the heels of what was yet another year on the rise for podcasting.
The latest numbers for 2017, culled by Edison Research, shows that 112 million Americans have listened to a podcast, up 11% from 2016. And there are many happy returns: 67 million Americans are listening Read more...
Since the 1990s, BAE Audio has made a name for itself by putting out new equipment based on much-beloved vintage audio gear.
Many of us have become familiar with their hand-wired preamps, but more recently, they have leaped headfirst into the burgeoning market of 500-series compressors.
One of their newest Read more...
What is the 80/20 rule? It’s your key to “Tremendous power to become faster and more effective.” Not just in audio, but life.
Kick off 2018 RIGHT! Justin Colletti’s classic column, if you haven’t read it before, read it again right here: “The Myth of a Thousand Little Choices (The Read more...
2017 has been another big year for SonicScoop. Thank you for being part of it! During the year, our site averaged close to 200,000 page views a month by up to 90,000 unique monthly readers.
But that’s not all: Our expanded content network, including sites like The Pro Audio Files Read more...
Feeling ambivalent about ambisonics? Insecure about immersive audio?
Audio professionals who haven’t dipped their toes into 3D sound should consider getting started. Virtual reality (VR) experiences, video games and soundstages are putting together microphones, headsets and speakers to achieve increasingly realistic results. And the economic impact is on the way: Read more...
Cloud Microphones of Tucson, Arizona is a manufacturer of high quality ribbon microphones and accessories.
The company’s line of high-end ribbon mics owes its lineage to the design of the classic RCA ribbons that are still seen in top studios around the world to this day.
But ribbon mics aren’t Read more...
I recently took a stretch of road less traveled to see an old friend, Tony Drootin, as he oversaw construction on David Amlen’s latest studio, the newly reborn Sound on Sound now in Montclair, NJ.
Both Amlen and Drootin were key players in the NYC studio scene during its last Read more...
Peter Gabriel is cashing out – kind of.
12 years after becoming the majority shareholder of console manufacturer Solid State Logic a.k.a. SSL, Gabriel is handing over the keys to an audio conglomerate. The new owner is Audiotonix, a larger-scale UK-based entity that was borne out of DiGiCo and designs, Read more...
