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...
As far as polarizing figures go, Ethan Winer is an unlikely candidate. Now 63 years old, Winer is a former audio engineer and computer programmer who plays the cello, owns a successful acoustics business, and frequents online messageboards in his spare time.
In the most pervasive photo of him on Read more...
GREENWICH VILLAGE: Walk into John O’Mahony’s new mix room in New York’s venerable Electric Lady Studios and you’re glimpsing into the hybrid analog/digital mind of a modern-day mixer.
Along with the Pro Tools HDX system, O’Mahony has racks stuffed with his choice analog pieces surrounding the centerpiece of the studio Read more...
Wurlis. You know ‘em, you love ‘em. Outside of ridiculous facial hair or dressing like you are in a 1920s barbershop quartet, there is just nothing cooler right now. But they are a pain – all are noisy, some are noisier. Plus the tuning can be pretty wonky on most Read more...
IRVINGTON, NEW YORK: Does the world really need yet another perspective on the Fab Four? Judging by the fast success of the multimedia show “Deconstructing the Beatles,” the answer is…YES.
Like a lot of valuable things, “Deconstructing the Beatles” started by accident. But as we’ll see momentarily, Scott Freiman, an Read more...
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: Have you heard the tale of Two Tims?
One Tim is a studio addict, whose creative biorythms are pulsating 24/7. The other Tim is a multitasking businessman, whose musical passions made him an unplanned parent of a busy record label, publisher, synch licensing agency, management firm, and production Read more...
Randy Crafton is Owner, Engineer, and Producer at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ.
Thank you, Erin, for your article, “The Indie Artist’s REAL Guide to Booking Studio Time” — it’s filled with excellent advice in many areas.
For me, as both a Studio Owner and Engineer, it was good to Read more...
Headphones are more popular now than ever before — and today’s music fans aren’t just listening on cheap earbuds, either. Although the consumer audio sector didn’t perform very well on the whole during the great recession, Hi-Fi headphones were the one category to boldly defy that trend. While the rest Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: This month’s buzz finds a typically colorful spread of artists recording, mixing and mastering new works around town. The Beach Boys and Animal Collective, Empire of the Sun and Tiësto, Kurt Elling, Beirut, 50 Cent and Amanda Palmer – just to mention a few – have Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: Don’t come to this year’s New Music Seminar (NMS) and expect to just lie back and learn something – in 2012, those who show up will be called on to actively collaborate in moving the music industry forward.
That’s the message from NMS Founder and Executive Director Read more...
