MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN:In the land of music, the commercial is king. As the world’s major agencies vie for accounts that can be worth billions of dollars a year in billings, one of the key ways they prove themselves is with their ability to match brands to bands.
This ferocious competition Read more...
Where were you the first time you saw MCA?
I’m asking, because like a lot of people, I clearly remember: It was 1986, I was a freshman in high school. I had heard “Fight for Your Right to Party” on the radio several times now, and I was intrigued.
We Read more...
Delicious Audio recently reviewed the Bass Comp stompbox by Diamond Pedals. Read below for a taste and click through to Delicious for the full review.
Diamond Pedals of Nova Scotia have been making guitar stompboxes for quite a while now. With the Bass Comp, they bring to bass players the Read more...
These days you don’t have to sit behind an acoustic drum kit to play acoustic drums. I know, I know… I’ve been a skeptic of “virtual drums” for a long time but it is truly amazing how far the technology has come to blur the lines between electronic drum pads Read more...
Daniel James Schlett is probably one of the best engineers I know under age thirty. I don’t say this because he works out of one of my favorite studios, Brooklyn’s Strange Weather Recording, but in spite of it. The more work he gets, the harder it is for me to Read more...
Delicious Audio recently reviewed the Electro-Harmonix Analogizer pedal…read a bit below, and visit Delicious Audio for the complete review!
Despite the vast amounts of music recoded on computers, tablets, and phones, the allure of analog recording persists. In recent years there has been a proliferation of audio processors that attempt Read more...
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT: In these days of complete major label disarray, it’s no surprise that new indie labels continue to arrive at a quick pace.
Most of the fresh arrivals on the scene today are launched by youthful idealists, brimming with ace taste and Internet savvy – and decidedly low Read more...
HELL’S KITCHEN, MANHATTAN: The creative beehive at 545 West 45th Street just got a little livelier.
For anyone involved in the entertainment industry, it’s only a matter of time before your dealings take you to this multi-floor magnet between 10th and 11th Avenues. Home to everything from Masterdisk to Union Read more...
Delicious Audio recently reviewed the T-Rex HOBO Drive pedal…read a bit below, and visit Delicious Audio for the complete review!
I’ll start with the bottom line: the T-Rex HOBO DRIVE is one of the best sounding, most flexible distortion pedals I’ve ever come across. That said, calling this pedal a Read more...
As digital recording has become the norm, many tools that engineers once took for granted have disappeared from recording studios. But it’s one of the ironies of the DAW-age that the embrace of computer recording has led directly to the comeback of one technology that’s even older than tape itself. Read more...
