FLATIRON DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: Can you feel it? The 4th of July is just past…but revolution remains in the air.
The uprising is stemming from a sonic sector that seemed to have grown more or less predictable – to the comfort of clients and facilities alike. But even audio post has Read more...
PSP BussPressor
Sound: Snappy, lean and muscular; A versatile VCA-style buss compression à la SSL.
Great on: Mix buss, drum buss, acoustic instruments in dense mixes.
Extra features: Sweepable sidechain filter, Tweakable auto-release; Wet and dry controls; Excellent sound at both subtle and extreme settings.
Room for improvement: Other plugin Read more...
How producer and studio owner Brian Bender turned a time capsule into a modern-day tone machine. Click to read the first and second parts of the series.
PART 3: Console Design
So I guess I feel a little like I owe you guys an apology. If I were playing it Read more...
If your last name isn’t Zuckerberg and you’ve bravely chosen (against your mother’s fruitless pleading) to make a life in music, then you probably don’t need me to remind you that this moment in history may not exactly go down as the “Big Gold Rush” for musicians.
That said, in Read more...
On the surface, it’s hard to say exactly how the latest news from Avid will affect Pro Tools users, if at all.
There were two aspects of the company’s announcement today. First off, Avid is selling its consumer audio and video product lines: The audio portion will go to Rhode Read more...
For a quick but essential update about the high end of music publishing, read Ben Sisario’s Q&A in the New York Times with Martin N. Bandier.
Bandier is the NYC-based chairman of Sony’s publishing arm, Sony/ATV, which completed its $2.2 billion purchase of EMI Music Publishing on Friday, June 29th. Read more...
New York City and rock stars were made for each other.
Wherever in the world these musical success stories – and we’re talking the multi-multi-multi-multi platinum variety here – come from, NYC still has the power to go from tour stop to adopted hometown for waves of them.
Rock stars Read more...
PARK SLOPE: Multi-instrumentalist record producer/mixer Dan Romer (Ingrid Michaelson, Jenny Owen Youngs, Jukebox the Ghost) is now officially a film score composer to watch out for. His first feature film – Beasts of The Southern Wild – picked up the Grand Jury prize at Sundance, and the Caméra d’Or award Read more...
When we last checked in with producer/engineer Ben Rice, he was working out of a “glorified home studio” called Newkirk Recording, where he tracked indie rock bands like The Mooney Suzuki, as well as an assortment of aspiring singer-songwriters and small jazz groups.
Since then, business has been brisk enough Read more...
Most composers, engineers and producers will tell you that while you can get remarkably close with MIDI sounds and plug-in samplers, there are always a few instruments that seem too intricate and complex to be represented accurately in the box. At the top of the list would certainly be drums Read more...
