I recently wrote about what we lose when large facilities go away. Soon after that I was at Quad NYC, which today consists of two smaller rooms and a third on the way, occupying a single floor. It was a stark contrast to the halcyon days when the studio occupied Read more...
2013 was definitely NOT business as usual.
In NYC, LA, Nashville and beyond, it seemed like audio was growing in every direction this year. Whether you’re looking at recording or audio post facilities, music licensing, online startups, and more, the clear theme for 2013 was expansion – not contraction. Some Read more...
Making music is about giving and receiving at the same time. Here’s a non-profit that knows how to put that two-way relationship perfectly into motion.
Wear Your Music gathers up used guitar strings from top artists – Eric Clapton, Metallica, Bonnie Raitt, and more – and converts them from sonic Read more...
When you meet a pro, you know.
That’s the aura that you get from composer P.J. Hanke — whether you’re experiencing his TV, film, and advertising reel on the screen, or better yet in his custom-built Los Angeles studio.
A performer and producer as well as a prolific composer, Hanke’s Read more...
Line 6, a pioneer in guitar technology is set to be acquired by Yamaha. How do these two manufacturers fit together? Peter Kirn of createdigitalmusic provides a sharp analysis of the transaction — see it here.
There is no doubt that audio technology has become less expensive, more transparent, more powerful and more portable. In terms of real cost-to-performance, anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars can get you a lot more in a set of professional studio monitors than at any other Read more...
Getting creative means shaking things up. That’s a fact not just for songwriters, but for publishers too.
One publishing company that’s proven unafraid to make some waves is Round Hill Music (RHM). Born in New York City in 2011, RHM is aiming to be the right size with the right Read more...
As if one rebellion weren’t enough, now David Perlick-Molinari is thick in the midst of another.
We speak not just of the perennially inventive indie rock duo French Horn Rebellion which he co-founded, but of a rather radical studio that he and his collaborators – Deidre Muro and Paul Hammer Read more...
In 1984, the Grateful Dead officially made room for the bootleggers that had been recording their shows since their first performances in the mid-1960s by giving them their own space, the aptly named “tapers’ section.”
Instead of outlawing microphones or simply looking the other way, the band embraced the growing Read more...
“I needed to come up with something. There’s so much gear out there now. It’s like… what, another EQ? Another compressor?”
“[But] there is nothing out there that does what the Pepper does,” Jonathan Little says, motioning towards a pile of Pepper prototypes on his work-bench.
Here we are at Read more...
