SOHO, MANHATTAN:One by one, the Internet tools for music career management are coming alive. In a digital music world where almost everything can potentially be managed better via the Web, the only wait that artists, songwriters and labels have to endure these days isn’t for the technology – that’s Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 Disco Pusher released our new mixtape Now You Know How The Story Ends. It’s a 19-track selection of our remixes, productions and songs that features artists that we’ve worked with and, hopefully, demonstrates our musical style.
The artists range from the international to Read more...
Just over a month ago, we took a snapshot of Eventide at age 40. This story followed the paths of founder Richard Factor and Director Tony Agnello from the company’s infancy through to the present day, focusing on their earliest designs, as well as their latest releases.
What we didn’t Read more...
ROCKAWAY BEACH, QUEENS: Make no mistake about it, world-class strings have their place in NYC – a fact that Chris Tedesco is totally in tune with. The owner of the highly specialized Rockaway Beach, Queens studio known as String Recordings, Tedesco has been electrifying listeners with his phenomenal fiddle talents Read more...
The A&R Registry reports that Chris “Tricky” Stewart has been named Head of A&R at Epic Records.
Stewart is the hit songwriter and producer behind many huge chart-topping singles, such as Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”, Britney Spears‘ “Me Against the Music”, Mýa’s “Case of the Ex”, Read more...
The classics. In the pro audio world there is an elite level of products whose presence in the recording studio, or on the stage is a given. Everyone knows what they are and how they should sound when you plug them in. Sometimes we even take them for granted.
Over Read more...
New York-based producer, songwriter, guitarist, and live electronic musician AfroDJMac visits SonicScoop regularly to share his discoveries about in-the-box electronic music making. His focus is on creating instruments and effects with character and practicality for the live electronic musician. Be sure to check out the free Ableton Live Device Rack Read more...
The world’s third-largest record label, Warner Music, is officially in need of a new chairman. Edgar Bronfman, Jr. will leave his post on January 31, 2012.
Warner Music, which also owns Warner/Chappell Music, has a significant NYC presence.
Read Lucas Shaw’s report for Reuters here. Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Not unlike slipping into a well-tailored suit, trying on a microphone is a personal experience. At the well-known NYC pro audio/photo/video retailer B&H, the evolution of finding a better fit for the ears has just opened up.
Known simply as “The Mic Room”, B&H’s acoustically isolated space for Read more...
Our friends at Delicious Audio recently reviewed the Digitech Whammy DT…get a taste below, and visit Delicious Audio for the complete head-to-head review!
Since 1991, the field of pitch-shifting effects has been dominated by the DigiTech Whammy; an effect which allows users to perform dive bombs and radical octave-shifts using Read more...
