As a mix engineer, I’ve spent increasingly more and more time in front of my home rig in the last couple years and less time in front of big mixing consoles in studios stocked with outboard gear.
Because of this, it’s essential that the tools I’ve grown accustomed to in Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: You’re not ready until you’re ready to take it on the road. With all bets officially off on all other forms of music revenue, touring is one of the most tangible avenues available for promoting a band.
David Galea, an agent at the NYC office of the elite Read more...
It pains me to say it, but the days of mixing entirely in the analog domain and using your DAW as merely a tape machine are waning.
As proof of this, the number of high quality tape emulation and saturation plug-ins on the market has grown considerably in the past Read more...
Kips Bay, Manhattan: NYC indie synth-pop band Bellevue’s Finest self-produced their latest, eponymous EP in a variety of environments on a range of gear — bouncing between Mboxes and Neve consoles, laptop Logic systems and full-blown Pro Tools HD rigs. The modern indie band’s secret weapon is its production Read more...
“INDIE BAND ROCKETS TO STARDOM OPENING FOR AEROSMITH AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN WHILE STANDING IN SILENCE FOR 3 MINUTES — 3.5M HITS ON YOUTUBE”
What, you didn’t hear about this!?
Don’t bother Googling the story. It didn’t really happen. But wouldn’t it be cool if it did? You’d certainly stand Read more...
CHELSEA, MANHATTAN/LIVERPOOL: Open spaces, sight and sound are all fair game for the arts group No Longer Empty (NLE). Now the vision of this NYC group, which temporarily transforms vacant spaces into artistic beehives, is starting to spread out internationally.
For those who have the time – and the scratch Read more...
HEAT (Harmonically Enhanced Algorithm Technology) is Avid’s new software that runs within Pro Tools and adds tape and tube like saturation to all the audio tracks in a session.
It runs as a globally activated plug-in that is applied to all active audio tracks in a session (although it does Read more...
Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Last year, we reported on an impressive new recording studio that had soft-launched in South Williamsburg, called One.Point.Six Media. The facility had been years in development, its owner and designer working closely with Michael Blackmer of Blackmer Sound to perfect the acoustics. Studios can be complicated businesses, Read more...
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN: No slave to the studio, Nic Hard. For this in-demand indie producer/engineer/mixer (The Bravery, Aberdeen City, The Church, The Kin), professional recording often means a move away from controlled conditions into creatively comforting confines.
Hard’s latest project, capturing the arresting rock/new wave/electronic concoctions of Baltimore’s the Read more...
Much of America is familiar with Gabe Roth’s authentic heavy-soul sensibilities from his Grammy-winning work behind the glass with Amy Winehouse. Despite this blockbuster success and continued work with major label artists, it’s the homegrown label Daptone Records that may prove to be his most enduring legacy.
Since co-founding Daptone Read more...
