MIDTOWN MANHATTAN: Public Enemy musician/producer Brian Hardgroove has returned to Manhattan Center, the 34th Street entertainment and studio complex where he came up as an assistant in the 90s. Hardgroove has taken over and reconfigured Studio 4, renaming it “The Fuse Box,” after his nationally syndicated radio show, which will Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Electronic music is mos def staying strong in the multimedia world — Georg Bissen is making sure of that. As both a notable solo artist and composer/sound designer for NYC’s cutting-edge house MetaTechnik (AT&T, Sierra Mist, Burker King), it’s his job to keep his tasty tastes on top Read more...
Second in a series of in-studio tutorials by Rick Slater, NYC Producer/Engineer/Warrior. Check out Part I: Pre-Pre-Production HERE.
By now, the decision of which tracking facility to use has finally been made. In a delicate balance between vibe, gear, and cost, the ultimate studio for the task at hand Read more...
UPPER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN: The continuum continues for Umar Bin Hassan. As a core member of the Last Poets — the landmark NYC group widely recognized as one of hip hop’s founding fathers – he’s been impacting music, rhyme and rhythm for four decades nonstop.
While the Last Poets are Read more...
While Antares Auto-Tune has inspired plenty of musical garbage, as well as comedy gold (such as YouTube sensation Auto-Tune the News), Celemony Melodyne first came to us as a sort of Auto-Tune on growth hormones. It offered not only pitch correction, but also the editing of note length and timing Read more...
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS: The only thing low-key about Chris Adler is the man himself. While he may be a bastion of calm, the rhythms that emit from his arms and legs form a veritable shit storm of electrification.
As the drummer for platinum metal act Lamb of God, there Read more...
Once upon a time, you would have been hard pressed to find a band that talked enthusiastically about its “intellectual content” or “digital assets.”But now, an artist’s ability to produce multimedia content and propagate it across multiple platforms, is considered an enormous leg up with potential investors or record labels. Read more...
By Josh Clark
So you’re a band or musician that needs to record. Cheaply. You have a rehearsal space with a reasonable level of isolation and some basic recording gear. It can be done, but as easily as it could sound great, it could also come out sounding terrible.
It’s Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Want a hot Internet tip? Visit the Wikipedia page for “organization” and go to town with it, it’s such a deep topic. SonicScoop was hooked from the starting sentence, “An organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, controls its own performance, and has a boundary separating Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Seems like new, small- to mid-sized rooms are blooming again in NYC. Just in time for spring, Sear Sound has opened up Studio D, an analog/digital hybrid room that adds a welcome new dimension to the city’s offerings.
A mix/edit/overdub suite, Studio D stands out for a few Read more...
