CHELSEA, MANHATTAN: Last week, in-demand NYC freelance engineer Ari Raskin (Whitney Houston, Wyclef Jean, Meshell N’Degeocello, Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West, J.Dilla and Illa J – Yancey Boys, and Justin Timberlake) let us in on five of his top studios in the city. Now, he clues us in to four Read more...
GRAMERCY, MANHATTAN: There’s an astrological phenomenon known as the Saturn Return, and it pulls especially hard on us creative types. The theory goes that as we hit age 27 – 30, we start to re-evaluate our path, looking ahead, and tend to recalibrate. Job and relationship changes often ensue. Read more...
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...
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN: Dream weekend. I spent February 19th and 20th with the METAlliance at the historic Avatar Studios in New York City.
Who is this Alliance, you ask? Al Schmitt, Phil Ramone, Chuck Ainlay, Ed Cherney, George Massenburg, Frank Filipetti, and Elliot Scheiner — the absolute elite top recording and Read more...
The next installment in the “Building Strange Weather Blog” series by producer/engineer and studio owner Marc Alan Goodman. Click to start at Step 1: Finding A New Home; Step 2: Design; Step 3-4: Waiting For Permits (Part 1) and (Part 2)
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: The last three months have been a Read more...
(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...
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...
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 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...
“…Yeah…I guess I first tried it, I don’t know, maybe back in high school. I don’t remember who gave my first taste…I was playing bass in an Allman Brothers cover band and all the really cool guys in the group were into it, so I was curious I guess. The Read more...
