Last week, we covered some of the best large diaphragm condenser mics around at an entry-level price of $300. This time, we’ll move up a bracket to review some of the most useful condensers available from $500 to $1,500 new.
Keep in mind that this list is no way conclusive. Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: It’s not everyday that a game-changing audio solution arrives on the scene. So it follows that after January’s NAMM announcement of the Universal Audio Apollo high resolution audio interface with realtime UAD processing, interest levels ran high.
With the first units just shipping now following an extremely Read more...
Last week, we introduced our new “Power Sessions” video interview series with Part 1 of Erica Glyn’s interview with Chris Lord-Alge at Avatar Studios in NYC. Click to watch Part 1: NYC Roots and read on for Part 2…
In Part 2 of our Power Sessions interview, “Mixing & the Read more...
The New York City music business has gotten two significant personnel reinforcements.
In today’s NY Times, Ben Sisario reports that Martin Bandier of Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed a long-term deal to continue on as Chairman and Chief Executive of that company.
In another Manhattan music industry development, Joie Manda Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Over the next few months, SonicScoop will track synch licensing developments — which directly affect artists, producers, engineers, studios, publishers, and many more music professionals – in our “Music Supervision Mastery” series. NYC-based concerns of all forms will be included, and you can expect their observations to Read more...
I started working as an audio engineer just as the home studio market began to blossom into what it is today.
This means that throughout my career, I’ve been as much of a counselor as a craftsperson, because so many of my clients spend nearly as much time recording at Read more...
Chris Lord-Alge is one of the biggest, baddest names in mixing.
His discography is like a field trip through decades of musical history – from James Brown to Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks to Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Snow Patrol to, most recently, Shinedown and Daughtry.
Beyond the sheer Read more...
EAST LOS ANGELES: For Pete Lyman, mastering engineer and co-founder of L.A.’s Infrasonic Sound, ‘revival’ is not the right word for what’s happening with vinyl. In his world, the format never died in the first place.
The 37-year-old came up in punk and hardcore bands releasing 7” records, and as Read more...
Welcome to Meta-Four-on-the-Floor, a monthly source of musical insight from NYC-based Producer, Remixer, Writer & Engineer David Sisko of Disco Pusher. Visit him at sisko.com / discopusher.com.
Metaphor:
A literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible Read more...
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN: Role reversal can be a beautiful thing in the music world. When world-class musicians step out of the live room and into the producer’s chair, the possibilities are tantalizing.
One of the elite players of NYC experiencing this fluid situation is Bashiri Johnson, a highly sought-after percussion Read more...
