For Long Island, this new studio IS a dream come true.
We speak of Dream – Dream Recording Studios, that is. An energetic addition to the South Shore, brings a badly-needed world-class option to the Long Island recording and mixing scene.
Launched this past August in Bellmore, Dream’s design was Read more...
With SXSW kicking off next week, we are finally nearing the end of this epic winter. And looking ahead to the longer days of Spring, we’ve also got our eyes out for an exciting new season of album releases!
First, let’s start with this week which brought: Pharrell Williams’ GIRL Read more...
Red flag, harbinger of far-off things to come, or non-issue?
Last week, Avid created a not-surprising wrinkle in the financial world, when the maker of Pro Tools announced that it had – as expected – been de-listed by NASDAQ and banished to the less prestigious OTC (Over The Counter) stock Read more...
TriBeCa, Manhattan: There are recording studio architects, there are recording studio owners – and ne’er the twain shall be one and the same.
Unless you’re talking about 333 Recording, which just launched in TriBeCa. The always fashionable NYC neighborhood, and the buzzing building at 333 Hudson Street, is now home Read more...
These days, as audio plug-ins have become more of the standard than the alternative in the pro audio community, a few brands have become ubiquitous with the DAW experience. SoundToys, for example, makes plug-ins I rely on daily to make my mixes better in every way imaginable. And I know Read more...
It’s that once in a lifetime crossroads of being a kid and starting to grow up. Ahh…to be 13 again.
Never again will you care about anything so passionately as you did when you were 13. Your heroes are very real and bigger than life and you would fight to Read more...
When does 500 + 500 equal more than 1,000?
That was the tantalizing equation that the Aphex engineering team sized up when they dreamed up the D 500 DUO, the California gear gurus’ new two-slot 500 series receiving frame.
We first got interested in the DUO when we saw it Read more...
Build a team, or go it alone?
That’s the question that many an indie artist faces when planning out their next project, including the entrancing New York City-based I Am Snow Angel.
To create her inventive new self-titled EP, released this past week, I Am Snow Angel – a.k.a. Julie Read more...
iZotope, makers of some of the most advanced and comprehensive sound-shaping plugins available, and probably best known for their all-in-one mastering plug-in Ozone, recently released Nectar 2, the update to their all-in-one vocal processing plugin, Nectar.
Nectar 2 is almost like the Ozone of vocal plugins, in that it contains Read more...
When something precious and rare suddenly sees daylight, that’s exhilarating.
It doesn’t quite rank up there with the discovery of King Tut’s tomb, but the recent evolution of Lindbergh Palace Studios from a strictly private facility to commercial is a happy jolt nonetheless.
That’s because this sunny studio is home Read more...
