MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: As if becoming a master of your craft weren’t challenging enough, now in the world of apps we must invent entirely new crafts to master.
Not surprisingly, Jordan Rudess, virtuoso mad-science keyboardist of cornerstone NY prog-rockers Dream Theater, is always up for just such a task. To that Read more...
After each Buke and Gass show, it is quite common to see a line of guys (mostly guitarists and engineers) queueing in front of Aron Sanchez to ask him one simple question: “How the heck do you get that crazy tone?”
When they approach him on the stage, they normally Read more...
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: In the past few months, Mission Sound has hosted current buzz-generators Matt and Kim, Arctic Monkeys and Animal Collective, as well as perennial punk-rock veterans Bad Religion. This month, Oliver Straus’ Williamsburg studio welcomes Brooklyn shoegazers Dead Leaf Echo and UK-born producer John Fryer. We stopped by Read more...
Midtown Manhattan: NYC audio icon Howard “Howie” Schwartz has a perspective on the NYC audio and post-production landscape that spans nearly four decades. He’s certainly spent enough time behind a mixing desk, built enough rooms, expanded, upgraded, re-tooled and kept his business growing for enough years to be able Read more...
HARLEM, MANHATTAN: As artistic as the purpose of New York City recording studios may be, it’s fair to compare these houses of sound to modern-day warriors. Every one goes into battle with the belief that they’re invincible. Many fall – but some grow stronger.
Uptown, the facility known as Stadium Read more...
HARLEM, MANHATTAN: Everything old is new again for Ricardo Gutierrez, the Chief Mastering Engineer at Stadium Red Studios’ new mastering facility. A disciple of the legendary Herb Powers, Gutierrez honed his ears and technical chops at The Hit Factory, where mastering studios and recording facilities worked harmoniously together under one Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Sometimes a winning idea is pure as the driven snow, and other times it’s a more complex combination. The progress of NYC-based Wines That Rock shows that a great music business concept only requires one simple spin on the obvious to get ahead.
Launched in 2009, Wines That Read more...
Tribeca, Manhattan: Watching AMC’s serial thriller Rubicon this past Fall, our ears perked up big time. The original score — composed by Peter Nashel — brought the picture to life in such an exhilarating and unexpected way as it advanced an often dialog-free puzzle of a plot, uncovering a Read more...
When iZotope released RX 2 earlier this year, it significantly updated one of the industry-leading audio restoration programs with a slew of helpful new features. The original version wowed customers with its intuitive visual editing capabilities, which uses a spectrogram and advanced processing to wipe away unwanted elements of a Read more...
Ben Sisario of the New York Times reports that Barry Weiss will be leaving Sony for Universal in April, and is expected to run Universal’s East Coast operations.
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