TRIBECA, MANHATTAN: In the sometimes posh neighborhood known as TriBeCa, war is being waged. The rebel base? An attitudinal sound house known as Amber Music.
Commander-in-chief of the determined musical crew is Michelle Curran, an intense commercial music veteran who’s unafraid to attack any situation with both guns blazing. Gifted Read more...
A 23-year veteran of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME), elite hip hop agent Cara Lewis is leaving WME for Creative Artists Agency.
Lewis will continue to be NYC-based. She has represented such massive clients as Eminem, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Rihanna, B.o.B., Common and the Roots.
See Matthew Perpetua’s update Read more...
Producer/engineer/DJ Louis Benedetti has opened the brand-new, three-room Thompson Studios in a former bank building in SoHo.
This handsome commercial facility – located on Thompson Street, naturally – comprises an SSL 4000G-equipped A Room, Neve 8108-based B room, and a savvy production suite. All are tied to a substantial live Read more...
I’ve been a fan of ADAM speakers for years. Every company that makes studio monitors has its own idea about what’s most important in speaker design, and for my tastes, the designers at ADAM have always had their priorities in the right place.
Where some studio monitors aimed to impress Read more...
Our friends at Delicious Audio recently reviewed the Analogman Astro Tone…read a bit below, and visit Delicious Audio for the complete review!
The Astro Tone Fuzz by Analogman is a recreation of the long extinct Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx. This updated clone is loaded into an MXR sized enclosure and Read more...
Our friends at Delicious Audio recently reviewed the Way Huge Aqua-Puss mkII …read a bit below, and visit Delicious Audio for the complete review!
Today’s focus is on the Way Huge Electronics Aqua-Puss mkII Analog Delay which is a reissue of the original Aqua-Puss. The original is very rare and Read more...
A few months ago I was at my good friend Kevin Blackler’s mastering studio. I noticed this rad-looking piece of gear in his rack and asked him what is was.
“Oh man”, he said. “That’s the Vertigo compressor…you ever hear this thing? It’s awesome!”Wait…a new compressor that I had never Read more...
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK CITY: A GRAMMY and TEC Award-winning engineer/producer, Ed Cherney has had the kind of illustrious studio career that puts him in the pantheon of greats to have ever twisted some knobs in this business. Iggy Pop, Bob Seger, Bette Midler, Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna, Eric Clapton, Jann Arden, Read more...
THE FIVE BOROUGHS: Wire-to-wire, 2011 in New York City was a maelstrom of music production and business developments.
Like any battle worth fighting, there was a constant sense of two-steps-forward one-step-back pervading the action for most. Those who successfully navigated the music-to-picture minefield, shot straight with their startup, made a Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: There have certainly been some down years in recent recording biz history, but 2011 was not one of them.
By all accounts, this was a big year for recording in NYC: There were the major mainstream Made-in-NY albums, i.e. Lady Gaga’s Born This Way (Germano Studios), Read more...
