NYC-based music talent manager Ollie Hammett has launched a new venture, Spark MGMT, with an expanded roster of producers, songwriters and engineers.
Under Spark, Hammett continues to represent his (formerly Rocket Management) clients – songwriter/producer and film score composer Dan Romer (Ingrid Michaelson, Jukebox the Ghost), artist/songwriter Teddy Geiger, and Read more...
I’d like to start by thanking everyone who read my last article. I’m humbled by all the compliments, and feedback. I felt like a mountain climber ready to scale Everest, as friends and family cheered me along. People were calling me a pioneer! Never an early adopter, I asked myself Read more...
For a medium built from the ground up for collaboration, the Internet hasn’t always come through – especially for musicians and music producers.
Pretty much since computers started plugging into each other, creative Web developers have tried to crack the code that would make new musical creations flourish, and eliminate Read more...
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Some audio solutions are simple to get your head around. Others, you just have to get your ears into to fully understand.
MixRoom, the monitoring environment concept from Nashville-based studio designer Carl Tatz, falls into the latter category. Created to provide mixers with a million-dollar listening environment for a fraction Read more...
Adventurous. That’s the way to describe BiCoastal Music, the world-class studio in Ossining, NY that closed this week.
Built by the exacting engineer/producer Hal Winer, BiCoastal was a pioneering resource for the just-upstate area, and the musical world beyond. Debuting in 2004, it got attention right away for its seemingly Read more...
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I recently downloaded a new plugin from Sample Magic called Magic AB. The plug simplifies and facilitates a task which we all do on a regular basis as mixing and mastering engineers, namely ABing one source to another.
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Tape is still in high style in the audio world. Like a 1957 Corvette or a standup Pac Man machine, some technical pleasures never go out of fashion.
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