Atlantic Sound Studios
I had every reason to expect a good view when I walked in to Atlantic Sound Studios. It’s in a highrise commercial building at the end of Jay Street in DUMBO, only footsteps away from the water. I had seen pictures of the studio online and gathered Read more...
SSL has recently made the Duende series of plug-ins available for native DAW users. Previously, these plug-ins had required SSL’s external Duende FireWire box to run. With computers now sufficiently powerful, and FireWire being a bit of a throughput limiter, SSL decided the time had come to port their software Read more...
In the NY Times, Brian Stelter reports that Sean Combs will be officially announcing a new music-centric cable channel, Revolt, today.
Since Combs is based out of NYC, hopefully his new channel will follow suit. The media outlet would presumably create many new music-related jobs in the region.
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If you are anything like me, you’ve probably spent the last couple of weeks wiping drool off your mouth as all the exciting new musical toys rolled out at this year’s Winter NAMM. Analog synths, exciting MIDI controllers, plug-ins and hardware galore — straight out of my wildest imagination — Read more...
Delicious Audio reviewed the Apocalypse stompbox by Brooklyn-based Death By Audio…read a bit below, and visit Delicious Audio for the complete review!
For years Death By Audio have built their reputation on providing some of the gnarliest heavy distortion pedals. It’s a distinct sound you can hear on albums by Read more...
Our friends at Delicious Audio recently reviewed Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai Digital Delay/Looper…read a bit below, and visit Delicious Audio for the complete review!
The Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai ($220) is a stereo looper/delay pedal bursting with exciting features – in fact “Hazarai” is a Yiddish Read more...
TRIBECA, MANHATTAN/LONG BEACH, CA: No, your speakers aren’t completely messed up – that’s Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. Entrancing to some, physically repulsive to others, since the record’s 1975 release it’s been guaranteed to make sense to just one head on the planet: Lou Reed’s.
But what if you could Read more...
The owners of #3 Performance Rights Organization, SESAC, have put it up for sale with a $500 million asking price. The New York Post’s Josh Kosman and Claire Atkinson broke the news yesterday.
Although SESAC issued a “business as usual” email to its affiliates today, it’s fair to wonder how Read more...
On March 6th, The Magnetic Fields are slated to release Love at the Bottom of the Sea. It will be a return to form for the band and for their primary member, the absurdist songwriter and Morrissey-sound-alike Stephin Merritt.
After releasing 1999’s critically acclaimed 69 Love Songs, Merritt decided to Read more...
I’m very attached to the Eventide H3000 that lives at my studio. Some of my favorite go-to effects originate in this classic double rack-space digital behemoth.
A great deal of the Eventide experience comes from tweaking and interacting with the hundreds of presets that come loaded in the box. They Read more...
