MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Among many of life’s mysteries, the question of how to audition studio monitors during a store visit has long beguiled mixers, producers, and vendors.
Turning a wall of speakers into something conducive to comparison was of particular interest to the NYC retailer B&H, who last year strove to Read more...
You don’t have to go long in Long Island to find a classic studio. For three-plus decades, those in the know have been taking a short trip from Manhattan – and from all points North, West, East, and South – to take advantage of the world-class tracking and mixing facility Read more...
CHELSEA, MANHATTAN: No one wants to say goodbye, but it’s true: Stratosphere Sound Studios is closing.
As of press time there were still time slots available at its storied location at 26th Street and 11th Avenue, but the historic last session must wrap at day’s end this Sunday, December 16. Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: It’s been a minute since our last Session Buzz, but things have been busy all over town. Sandy, of course, had her effect on business, leaving many in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn scrambling for weeks after the power came back on, but by and large…folks are back Read more...
This holiday season, you may celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Ramadan, impassioned political yelling matches with distant family members, or international Chinese-food-and-a-movie day.
But regardless of your faith and habits, I think all of us Americans can agree on one thing: It’s a great time of year for unbridled consumerism, for Read more...
Delta H Designs Inc. is an architectural acoustics design firm founded in 1997 by Hanson Hsu. They specialize in the design of recording/mastering rooms, post production, broadcast and other audio specific environments. When Delta H developed their trademarked Zero Reflection (ZR) technology in 2006 (ZR Acoustics®), the audio world really Read more...
Talk about a harmonic convergence.
One of the newest plugins for Universal Audio’s UAD platform and Apollo interface is the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor. This justly famed piece of hardware stands as a flagship in Peter Reardon’s eccentrically obsessive line, designed to “expertly temper dynamics and tame transients.”
Adding to Read more...
SOHO, MANHATTAN: Brooklyn may be buzzing with new studios, but for many Manhattan remains the mainland.
The recent opening of Sweet Sounds in SoHo shows how strong that sentiment continues to be. A two-room tracking and mixing facility within the downtown epicenter that is 594 Broadway, Sweet Sounds is all Read more...
The nominations for the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced in a televised special from Nashville on December 5th.
Congratulations to all the nominees – you can see all of our distinguished colleagues in this posting at ProSoundNetwork. The winners will be announced during the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, to Read more...
Today’s audio processors tend to fall into two broad categories: Those that try to recreate the past, and those that tire of it. iZotope’s new Trash 2 plugin falls squarely in that second camp.
iZotope released the original Trash plugin in back in 2003, and it was marketed as a Read more...
