UPPER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN: When faced with stiff film festival competition, the soundtrack can make all the difference. Sundances of all shapes and sizes are the key to breaking indie director’s careers, and when Andrew Hunt put together “The Love Game” he gave himself a leg up by paying Read more...
CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN: This ‘hood is better known as “Crooklyn”, but resident Neil Benezra is only a thief of hearts. The founder of Brooklyn Sound Society, he charms the pants off his film/TV mix, art installation and 5.1 surround clients by being advanced, involved and efficient.
With two films he Read more...
In late November, we hooked up with audio engineer Paul Vazquez backstage at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. As Papercuts sound-checked, we had a look at Vazquez’s single-tower live recording station he’d setup at stage right to record Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura, the night’s headliners. This live recording would Read more...
New mics for every app were on display at Winter NAMM this year, including noteworthy new products by Audio-Technica, Mojave, Telefunken, Earthworks and more.
Audio-Technica introduced its first-ever ribbon microphones — the AT4080 and AT4081 Bidirectional Active Ribbons mics. The AT4080, whose footprint is that of a classic “suspension cradled” Read more...
Plenty of awesome looking product introductions in the music production / DJ realm coming out of Anaheim the last couple days….We picked a few to profile here, from Korg, Akai, Ableton and Denon. For a more complete list of DJ products, check out DJ Tech Tools’ show report. For a Read more...
ThinkIndie, the “BastardlyBrainChild of a bunch of IndieRecordJoints,” is a new online music store featuring select digital downloads and physical product, as well as exclusive content, from a collective of independent record stores around the country. Founded by record store owner-members of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS), ThinkIndie Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Enlisting robots to do our dirty work is nothing new. Humans have been enslaving machines in some fashion or another since about 3:00 PM on the day the wheel was invented. It’s been uphill or downhill ever since — whatever you want to call it.
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The mpressor is a digital recreation of elysia’s hardware unit of the same name. The plug-in was developed with the team from Brainworx, a new-ish software company that if you don’t know yet, you will know soon.
In contrast to the last few years of plug-ins focused on emulating the Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: On January 16th, NYC music lovers will witness a very welcome sight: the Tower Records on Broadway and 4th Street will be open once again. There will be an important twist, however: CDs (remember those?) will not be on sale, customers will not jam the aisles, Read more...
Telefunken Elektroakustik is heading out to Winter NAMM next week where it will introduce the new AR-51 large diaphragm tube condenser microphone. The AR-51 is the latest addition to Telefunken’s affordably priced R-F-T line of tube mics.
The AR-51 has been designed in the tradition of the classic mics of Read more...
