I started this review with a healthy amount of skepticism. Having owned a Lynx Aurora 16 AD/DA converter for many years, I couldn’t believe that the Antelope Orion 32 – a single rack unit device with twice the analog channels for the same price – could compete in terms of Read more...
In the late 1960’s, a genre emerged in Jamaica that would revolutionize the music industry forever. When Bob Marley laid down his anthem to Jamaica, “One Love,” who knew that reggae music would be where it is today — with the studio playing a major part in the creative process. Read more...
Something is taking shape in TriBeCa.
The vaunted film festival that carries the neighborhood’s name is going strong as always, but long after the screenings and schmoozing are over, notable film activity is going to keep right on rolling downtown – in an imaginative new form.
Harbor Sound has arrived, Read more...
When Adam Lasus decided to partner up with Joe Rogers and Scott Porter at the new Room 17 in Brooklyn, it was something of a homecoming. Until high rents and new opportunities convinced him and his wife to move to LA in 2006, Lasus had run his Fireproof Recording Studio Read more...
Every now and again you read something that speaks so profoundly to you that it stops you in your tracks.
It grabs hold of your soul and whispers in your ear, “I am the truth. Ignore me at your peril.”
I just finished re-reading such a book.
It’s called The Read more...
Get ready to totally rethink what a rehearsal studio can do.
Replay Music Studios, in NYC’s West Village, has an idea that a rehearsal studio can be a lot of things. Founded by drummer/child therapist/social worker John Rubin, the vision behind it is to offer musicians of all ages in Read more...
Next time you’re in the center of a music festival like Coachella, take a careful look around – there just may be Agents in your midst.
Not the menacing Matrix kind with wires sticking into their ears, but booking agents. The people who book international touring acts are renowned for Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: We’re all over the local and musical map in this month’s epic Session Buzz, as we trace recordings by the likes of Yoko Ono, Talib Kweli, John Zorn, MGMT, Wale, Hole, Okkervil River, The Joy Formidable and more back to their studio sessions. Find out where several Read more...
Talk to Welcome to 1979 founder and engineer/producer Chris Mara, and you’ll be at least momentarily convinced (or reminded) that everything was better before the clock struck 1980.
Mara has built a successful recording studio business, and spin-off educational and tape machine businesses on the principles of audio as understood Read more...
Music is a rare kind of art form that is made entirely out of vibration. It’s at once both ephemeral and yet inherently physical. We will never be able to reach out and grab it in our hands, but it certainly touches us in the most literal sense of that Read more...
