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Psyched on Sonics: Recording a Full TV Commercial Score In One Day — Without a Studio

Every month, Matt McCorkle of EqualSonics.com brings you a day in the life of a New York City recording engineer.

The Mission: Recording a song for a TV commercial in a Brooklyn apartment

Producer and multi-instrumentalist Michael T contacted me about recording and mixing a song called “Snow Falls in Read more...

Return of the Nomad Engineer: The Top NYC Studios of Freelancer Ari Raskin, Part I

(Note: See Part II of this “Nomad Engineer” series here.)

CHELSEA, MANHATTAN: No one can say Ari Raskin hasn’t paid his dues. This in-demand freelancer engineer may regularly make the rounds of NYC’s top studios today, but it’s only after he’s sweated it out for a decade-plus, making Read more...

Sneak Preview: Ninjasonik & Sisko In Min Max Studios, NYC

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN: Last week we visited Brooklyn-based electro-rap duo Ninjasonik in the studio with producer David “Sisko” Siskovic. In the home stretch of tracking their upcoming full-length album, Peter Pan Syndrome, Ninjasonik’s Telli and Jah-Jah let us into their free-wheeling creative process and played us rough mixes of a couple Read more...

The Console Is King: UM Project and Allen Farmelo Re-Imagine The Classic Console For A Modern Room

FORT GREENE, Brooklyn: “It’s like the future of yesterday, today!” A step into Allen Farmelo‘s Fort Greene mix room reveals a  unique new console which sports sleek, retro-futurist lines, and suggests an untapped ability to serve double-duty as the helm for the Star Trek Enterprise.

Housing up to 24 channels Read more...

Focusrite VRM: A Pocket-Sized Listening Environment

Focusrite has paired their VRM (Virtual Reference Monitoring) technology with a simple headphone interface, giving you multiple references for your mix and simulating high quality listening environments and speakers through your headphones.

The VRM Box ($99) uses impulse responses of 10 professional studio monitors, combined with mathematical models of 3 Read more...

Legal Notes: Napster’s Muscle Falls to Indie Label Rounder Records in NY Federal Court Battle

FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: Picture it, the Internet, 1999. Napster launches out of a college dorm room in Massachusetts, and becomes one of the biggest forces in the music industry to reckon with. Its mechanism of peer-to-peer music file-sharing causes nothing short of a music-technology revolution, and major Read more...

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