DAWs are the centerpiece of most studios in 2017, and the market is filled with a number of options for producers and studio owners alike.
The features and functionality of any given DAW are what sets it aside from the next, and with the heavy hitters like Cubase, Pro Tools Read more...
There comes a time at a studio when change isn’t just desirable – it’s essential.
For Frequency Recording in White Plains, NY, that time arrived in 2016. A combo of Dangerous summing/monitoring and a Mackie control surface, converged with studio founder Rich Fabrizio’s considerable engineering expertise, had brought the 1,400 Read more...
The evening before a tracking session, there are plenty of preparations to make, but none is more important than our focus here today: Prepping your “Tracking Template”.
Having an efficient template set up in advance can save time, money and energy—as well as help keep the focus of the session Read more...
Ryan Freeland is the classic audio triple threat: A recording engineer, mixing engineer, and producer.
“Each day is really different, which I really appreciate,” he tells me on a call from his personal studio. “I don’t know if I’d want to just do one or the other.”
His legacy to Read more...
Sometime in the past few years, I’ve noticed what I like to think of as a “third wave” of DAW-based processors emerging.
What started years ago as the promising possibility of plugin-augmented mixing has morphed into a full-scale “console-in-the-box” situation, where mixing entirely within your DAW can finally save time Read more...
Do you consider yourself a true audio warrior? If so, then jump into that foxhole with the founders of the Long Island City studio MONOLisa.
That would be the team of Denise Barbarita and Rich Kulsar, who cannot be stopped in their mission of providing top-level tracking and mixing – Read more...
Whether you call it dirt, grit, drive or anything else, you need some of it in your studio—and not only for guitars.
There are countless flavors of saturation and distortion out there, and over the years, some terms have taken on very specific connotations. If you’ve ever wondered what the Read more...
Anyone who has spent some time in the music business would probably agree that it’s a pretty strange way to make a living.
But even in spite of all its strangeness (or maybe because of it) I can think of no better and more fulfilling way to carve out my Read more...
Are you looking to upgrade your bedroom microphone setup? Or, maybe you’ve got a small professional tracking room in need of an additional tube microphone to round out your locker? Are you looking for something with a balanced, neutral response that will sound great in most situations? Perhaps the new Read more...
Goldfrapp. If ever there was an onomatopoeia of an artist’s name, that’s the one.
The English vocal and synth duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory routinely give their fans something precious and rare when they deliver an album, a sonic gift to be unwrapped by the ears. And Goldfrapp Read more...
