Delicious Audio recently interviewed Brooklyn indie-rock band Snowmine about their recording process – they self-produced their debut EP, Laminate Pet Animal. They also, more recently, recorded at Germano Studios, with producer/engineer Jake Aron. The band is fronted by new-classical composer Grayson Sanders, whose vocals have been compared to Robin Pecknold Read more...
Delicious Audio took the TC Electronic Spark Booster for a spin. Read an excerpt of their review below and/or click here for the full review.
At first glance the TC Electronic Spark Booster looks like it may function as a very vanilla clean boost pedal. Fortunately TC put some bells Read more...
Delicious Audio recently did a short review of Source Audio’s Soundblox 2 Multiwave Bass Distortion pedal. Click to read the review in its entirety, and see an excerpt below…
The bass guitar can be one of the trickiest instruments to record. This may be because of several factors, but one Read more...
In March, an intensive microphone comparison served notice that NYC-based Audio Power Tools was transitioning from a rep service into a retail operation. That metamorphosis is now complete, with the opening of Audio Power Tools’ new retail space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Located in Williamsburg’s Roebling Tea Building on the corner Read more...
Out today is a brand new short, where you can hear Geoff and Eli talk about inventive control surfaces, new software for mixing music on iPads, and programs that allow you to conduct remote mix sessions, whether the artist and engineer live right down the block or are halfway around Read more...
In music, the hope of finding the diamond in the rough holds a power all its own. As satisfying as it is to cultivate great talent, discovering it takes that charge to a whole new level.
For the legendary producer/engineer Eddy Offord, the recent revelation that he had stumbled on Read more...
Latest in the “Building Strange Weather Blog” series by producer/engineer and studio owner Marc Alan Goodman. Click to start at Step 1: Finding A New Home; #2: Design; #3: Waiting For Permits (Part 1) and #4: (Part 2); and #5: Stops & Starts, #6: Demolition, #7: The Structural Work, #8 Read more...
LOWER MANHATTAN: Indie pop/rock artist Jenny Owen Youngs remembers Weezer’s Blue Album and Pinkerton being in heavy rotation during some of her more formative, budding-rocker years.
So when she heard about Engine Room Recordings’ Pinkerton tribute, she enthusiastically went all-in – electing to try her hand at “Getchoo” – Read more...
For years there have been plenty of compressors plugins on the market that offer tremendously clean and transparent dynamic control. Later on came countless emulations of the classics, which seem have to become progressively more convincing with each iteration.
But what about compressors that offer something a little more extreme Read more...
HOLLYWOOD: This past Sunday in Studio 1 at L.A.’s venerable EastWest Studios, Rupert Neve Designs launched their brand new 16×2+2 summing mixer, the 5059 Satellite.
Old met new when virtuoso bassist Miles Mosley spent the afternoon recording with his band through EastWest’s classic Neve 8078, and summing it all Read more...
