NYC-based Thwak Music! , an original music/sound design and music supervision company led by founder Tony Verderosa, did all original music for the cinematic :60 Sony spot, “Surgeon”. The commercial was shot by director Noam Murro and debuted Sunday, Feb. 6 during Super Bowl XLV.
Thwak! worked within a tight Read more...
This week, we visited Rare Book Room Studios in Greenpoint to spend an afternoon with producer Nicolas Vernhes and Norwegian-born songwriter Sondre Lerche.
Vernhes, who’s explored distinctive and sometimes jarring sounds with Dirty Projectors, Black Dice, and Deerhunter, might seem like an unexpected choice for Lerche, an artist best known Read more...
FASHION DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: If you could burrow inside the mind of Bob Power, chances are it would sound mighty good in there. For this softly-spoken but hugely influential member of the New York City production scene, music is always the message.
Certainly, just the track record of this multi-multi-platinum GRAMMY-nominated, Read more...
Hello New York! There is an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime-type event coming up at Avatar Studios next week — an immersive, weekend-long experience in recording and mixing with some of the best engineers on the planet. And as a media sponsor of this event — the METAlliance “In Session with The Guys” Read more...
FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN: Like so many indie labels before it, True Panther Sounds began on a whim. Founder Dean Bein and his bandmates in a short-lived San Francisco punk band wanted to go on tour, so they pressed 500 copies of a 7”, booked a DIY tour and promptly sold Read more...
The latest in a series from SonicScoop columnist Mark Hermann, where he builds on the inspiration he draws from sage sources.
HARLEM, MANHATTAN: Do you remember the feeling you got when you decided to try something new for the very first time?
Maybe it’s when you decided to pick up Read more...
Matt McCorkle of EqualSonics.com offers a case study on recording violin, viola and cello.
The Mission: A String Tracking Session At Tainted Blue Studio NYC
Producer Andrew Koss, owner of Tainted Blue Studio, recently requested my services tracking string overdubs for Maxine Linehan‘s version of the Leslie Gore hit “You Read more...
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: John Davis and Aaron Nevezie have been building up the fortifications at their Brooklyn-based Bunker Studio for the better part of a decade. What started as a project studio in a shared live/work space has since evolved into one of the busiest (and most down-to-earth) studios in Read more...
In the world of music and audio production, the nature of dynamic compression can mean many different things to many different engineers. From subtle level riding to drastic bone-crunching limiting, a compressor’s job is as varied as the genres of music that we tackle on a daily basis.
In Read more...
By Howard Stock, for Delicious Audio
Right out of the box, you can tell the folks at Hardwire know what it’s like to schlep gear to some sticky dive bar with a stage so dark you can’t see your strings.
They throw in extras that don’t have to, Read more...
