Facility Name: Hobo Audio Company
Website: http://www.hoboaudio.com
Location: Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Neighborhood Advantages: Near all major transportation hubs and excellent restaurant choices
Date of Birth: October, 2006
Facility Focus: As a company specializing in audio post production, we offer the following services: Recording, editing, surround mixing, sound design, music Read more...
This just in from Masterdisk in Midtown Manhattan: Owner and mastering engineer Scott Hull announced that Howie Weinberg has left his longtime post at the studio to head out West and set up shop in Los Angeles.
In his place, Scott has promoted engineer Matt Agoglia to the position of Read more...
HARLEM, MANHATTAN: Who are the lighthouse keepers for New York City’s brilliant musical beacon? The giant of jazz known as Wynton Marsalis surely stands as one such sentry, an adventurist and nine-time GRAMMY winner radiating original sound experiences from our musical epicenter out to the world.
The master capped off Read more...
Blue Microphones has put out the second generation of Mikey ($99 list), a stereo condenser mic built solely for the iPod and iPhone.
With the ability to record 44.1kHz/16bit audio to your Apple device with its dual cardioid condenser capsules, Mikey is a high-quality device for field recording, interviews, lectures, Read more...
Danish pedalmaker T-Rex Engineering is kicking off the new year with three new guitar pedals. Facelifts have been given to their Twister Chorus/Flanger and Reptile Delay pedals, and their affordable Tonebug line now includes a sustainer.
The Twister 2 ($369) can be used as either a Chorus or a Flanger, Read more...
Reverb. In the early days of the all-inclusive DAW the poor quality of reverberation plug-ins were always high on the list (a long list) of a given engineer’s complaints. In fact, the poor quality reverb of early plug-ins was enough to dissuade anyone from mixing in the box.
I remember Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: There’s more than one way to be a rock star. For Walt Ribeiro, Founder of NYC-based For Orchestra, the path to a global music stage is paved with bass clarinets, bowed tremolos – and a brainy, instinctual knowledge of the ‘Net.
Driven with a by-all-means-necessary mindset when it Read more...
THE FIVE BOROUGHS: 2010 has been busy all right. For anyone involved in New York City’s expansive business of music – producer, publisher, entrepreneur, engineer, artist, and many more – the environment remains fast-paced, ultra-competitive and constantly changing.
With 2011 looming, SonicScoop looked for the news, trends and topics that Read more...
HARLEM, MANHATTAN: When you sit down to write that next hit song, your great American novel, that killer app, or to find that just right music to fit a crucial scene for the movie you’re music supervising, where do you stop to get the job done?
Is it the first Read more...
GOWANUS, BROOKLYN: Back in the Fall, we took a ride over to a newish studio in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn called Let Em In Music.
Owned and run by engineer/producer Nadim Issa, Let Em In will appeal to musicians and producer/songwriters for a few reasons, but first Read more...
