When is it time to pull the trigger on a major studio upgrade? Sometimes you feel it in your bones, while other times the spark comes from client feedback.
And of course, the impetus can be both of the above. That’s exactly what happened for the proprietors of Manhattan Center Read more...
In the days of vinyl and tape cassettes, providing your listeners with information about your music was simple: Everything from song titles to song-writers, lyrics to album art, engineering credits to UPC codes, could be included in the sleeve or album sticker, and that was that.
Today, what drives growth Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: New works by David Bowie, Vampire Weekend, She & Him, Azealia Banks, John Scofield, Common and more have been in production all over the city – in the studios highlighted below. Where’s everyone recording? And who’s working with who? Here is our neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to recent Read more...
There’s no official President of Pro Audio, but the CEO who runs Avid comes closest to holding that title. Just like the President of the United States is often referred to as the Leader of the Free World, the person who runs the Burlington, MA-based media technology company has responsibilities Read more...
The constant quest for a destination studio within striking distance of New York City leads logically to Syracuse.
A renowned college town, it’s no wonder that the recording scene is on the rise here. For the myriad regional musicians, as well as artists seeking a respite a few hours drive Read more...
Feeling Super Bowl ad withdrawal? Any time of year is good for a recharge of the uncontested Ultimate TV Event of the Western World.
Here’s a fresh addition to the multitude of Super Bowl ad lists: Stephen Arnold Music, based in Dallas, has created one that looks at the best Read more...
Towards the end of Dave Grohl’s directorial debut, the rock documentary Sound City, drummer Mick Fleetwood warns us about “the downside” to all the technological advances that have so changed the face of music production: That they might lead a person into “thinking that ‘I can do this all on Read more...
HOLLYWOOD: Ocean Way Recording – the legendary Bill Putnam-designed Hollywood studio where Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Radiohead have recorded – has new owners as of this week.
Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc., the owners of the adjacent Sunset Gower/Sunset Bronson soundstages has acquired Ocean Way Recording to form a Read more...
It used to be the dream music biz gig was A&R for a major label. Those jobs are certainly becoming scarcer, but the coveted paid occupation of finding new music talent, and helping it to be heard, is alive and well – if you know where to locate it.
One Read more...
For a minute, it looked like Avid had dropped the drama.
Everyone who visited their booth at NAMM a couple of weeks ago saw reassuring signs, as a wave of Avid-shirted workers manned all four sides of their mega-booth. The big news announcements felt comforting too, including new homemade AAX Read more...
