Guitarists are often tweakers, dedicating hours of research and practice to get the best possible tones and comfort from their instruments.
Electric guitarists will audition countless amps, speaker cabinets, individual speakers, picks, strings, and more as they continue on the never-ending search for great tone making some of us acoustic Read more...
Albums are alive and well – and there’s a brave studio that’s ready to back up that notion.
The facility that takes the long-playing view? It’s called Continental Recording Studio, and it’s the latest evidence as to why Long Island City may be the true hub of NYC recording today Read more...
SPL, makers of acclaimed instant-classic outboard gear dating back to the 1990s like the Vitalizer and the Transient Designer, have a couple of new 500-series units out, and I was fortunate enough to get my hands on one of them: The 1503 “DeS” de-esser.
SPL has never been known Read more...
In an industry that measures success by album sales and critical acclaim, it’s refreshing to hear from someone who refuses to subscribe to such a narrow definition.
“I think some people are putting the idea of success too high on a pedestal and are twisting what success actually means,” Justin Read more...
Keep your eyes peeled the next time you’re traversing a bucolic East Village block. Put on your The Force goggles and you just might see it: The studio that made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs.
This is the creative space of the prolific music-to-picture composer Goldi, and it’s Read more...
Chicago’s Dizengoff Audio, manufacturers of boutique-style vintage-inspired gear, have just released their newest product, a mic pre with a lot of vibe, a very low noise floor, and an extremely (almost unbelievably) affordable price.
The Dizengoff Audio DA2 is based on the legendary all-tube RCA BA-2c microphone preamplifier from Read more...
Do-it-yourself kits are becoming more and more common in the audio community, especially among the more ambitious—and more thrifty—among us. With a bit of time and focus, you can wind up with professional-grade audio equipment worth much more than the literal sum of its parts.
There is a very wide Read more...
John Congleton is back once again with SonicScoop‘s Justin Colletti for part 3 of their interview series with B&H, this time, all about gear: Favorite mics, preamps, color boxes and more.
John is a recent GRAMMY winner who is probably best known for his work with St. Vincent, The Walkmen, Read more...
Moving studios is such sweet sorrow.
For Creative Media Design (CMD), an NYC-based audio post production facility, the sweet is far outweighing the sorrow in their new location. Upended when their longtime home on 28th St. and Fifth Avenue was flipped to make way for a skyscraper, the multifaceted firm Read more...
The on-line tutorial for The Cargo Cult’s Slapper introduces this plugin as a “multi-tap delay which can be hardware controlled and has freakish potential for sound design.”
Truer words have never been spoken! Well, they probably have, but it really is true: Slapper’s power as a radical sound design tool Read more...
