Where do you go when you’re looking for a recording studio to track basics for your new album? Or an audio post facility to record a VO? Or a mixer? Or a mastering engineer?
By featuring the studios and professionals that make the NYC-area music and sound industry tick, SonicScoop Read more...
South Sound is the newly-opened home to more than a dozen rehearsal spaces and small production rooms on the Park Slope/Gowanus border of Brooklyn. It also hosts two longtime NYC studios that have banded together to share an expansive new live room, and become far larger than either studio could Read more...
My friend and client, Joe Gigs, says that at 3 AM life slows down, and it’s a time where you can finally be one with yourself. Well I’m often one with my clients (or I’m trying to be) as we attempt to capture that great performance that represents the artist’s Read more...
If there’s one address that’s been the essence of New York studio competition and renewal, it’s 723 7th Avenue. For the last several years, this Times Square tower has been the battleground for a shapeshifting combination of facilities; as of late, three equally committed, but very different, tracking/mixing studios have Read more...
In this 9th edition of the Brooklyn Studio Tour, we return to the Northside to visit the quintessential Brooklyn tracking and mixing room: Studio G . We also visit a pair of its most successful offshoots and a synth-head’s paradise near Kent Ave.
Studio G
Studio G of Williamsburg is Read more...
You may have seen the name Xylos swirling around in the blogosphere of Brooklyn indie music these last few years. The five-piece synth-pop band has been playing the circuit since 2008, cultivating their own brand of dancey-electro indie rock that’s much easier-on-the-ears than a lot of the noisier synth bands Read more...
OK, let’s get this out of the way right at the top: yes, it actually works, and yes, it actually sounds good. Those are the two biggest questions I’ve been asked while writing this review, and admittedly my own biggest questions as well.
If you’re just tuning in, the Auria Read more...
One of the top film mixing facilities on the East Coast, Sound One, has been closed by its new parent company. Virtually all of the employees of the massive audio post operation, located in the Brill Building, have been laid off, while projects already underway at Sound One have been Read more...
Delicious Audio recently rounded up and reviewed a series of 8-Bit guitar pedals. We set it up for you here, but click thru to read the feature.
Hearing the term ’8 bit audio’ probably makes you think of old school arcade games or vintage Nintendo titles, but converting higher quality Read more...
