You’re walking along, enjoying some of your favorite music on a pair of headphones, when all of a sudden you realize you’re re-enacting Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” video, stepping in time to the music like someone on a mission: Left foot in sync with a bass drum, right foot Read more...
The Nashville Section of the AES, in cooperation with the Nashville Engineers Relief Fund (NERF), held its 17th annual AudioMasters golf tournament for the benefit of NERF on Thursday and Friday, May 15 and May 16 at the Harpeth Hills golf course and as usual, a buffet broke out.
With Read more...
It’s time to dish out some dirt! This edition of the GO TO series is all about everything that’s unclean: Saturation, distortion and harmonics that make our drums gnarly, our vocals gritty or maybe just make our mix sound more “analog”.
When it comes to mixing, there are essentially two Read more...
Who ain’t kiddin? These 10-ton gorillas of music for picture: Heavy Melody Music.
Founded over a decade ago by Dave Fraser and Neil Goldberg, this is a made-in-Manhattan musical lovefest that just keeps on producing. HM has its hands in some of everything – movies, TV, ads, trailers, video games…they’ll Read more...
The MP3 format was first released 21 years ago this Summer. It goes almost without saying that it, and the other compressed audio formats that followed, changed the music world forever.
Today, there are tens of millions of Americans who grew up with a music marketplace almost entirely different from Read more...
Over the past few years, my engineering work has become a hybrid between music recording and post-production for TV and film. Often times, the projects I work on are independent, self-financed films and documentaries with modest budgets, which inevitably means that all post production audio requirements fall squarely on my Read more...
It’s a rock and roll story of transformation. But the onstage characters of Hedwig and The Angry Inch aren’t the only ones who were changed by this Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical.
Up for an impressive eight awards at the just-completed Tonys, Hedwig obviously made a big impact on the psyches Read more...
There’s always a song in the #1 slot. But not all those chart-toppers are destined for true greatness – they come and then they go, entertaining millions for a shining moment before fading away.
“All of Me” by John Legend is not that kind of #1. It’s the other kind Read more...
Producer Steve Evetts listens intently to the sound of Ben Weinman’s guitar coming through his headphones.
“A little more to the right,” he tells a studio tech adjusting a microphone in front of Weinman’s guitar amp. Evetts’ eyes search the sky as the tone from the mic gradually changes. He Read more...
Zen – it’s a school of Mahayana Buddhism; a meditative state; an audio interface.
If that last category seems out of place, you may not know the thinking that went into making Zen Studio, the portable audio interface from Antelope Audio. But this unit was designed to satisfy and soothe Read more...
