Record and Mix With Some of the Best Engineers on the Planet at Avatar (Feb 19-20) with SonicScoop Discount

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” (Feb 19-20) — SonicScoop is offering discounted passes to our readers. (see below!)

Phil Ramone and Al Schmitt and group in the recording portion of METAlliance's inaugural event last year at Capitol Studios, Hollywood.

Check it out: over two days at Avatar, attendees will participate and interact in live recording and mixing sessions with none other than Phil Ramone, Al Schmitt, Elliot Scheiner, Ed Cherney, Chuck Ainlay, Frank Filipetti and George Massenburg. Organized in phases, the sessions will be extremely intimate and hands-on, capped at 8 attendees per section.

In this format, the event will work like a practicum for engineer attendees (established and up-and-coming) looking to up their game by learning from the best. Over the course of four sessions, the group will record and mix with Brooklyn synth-pop band Lazer Cake and jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson.

In the Recording portion of the program, attendees will get a close-up look at tracking and mic techniques in two sessions and two environments:

Session One: Phil Ramone and Al Schmitt recording Kat Edmonson
Session Two: Elliot Scheiner and Ed Cherney recording Lazer Cake

In separate mixing sessions, they’ll be presented with the detailed procedures in significant detail, plus experience in-depth critical listening workshops. Mixing methods will also be explored in two different studio environments…

Session Three: Chuck Ainlay mixing on an SSL console
Session Four: In-the-box “home studio mixing” with Frank Filipetti and George Massenburg in a home studio environment

Elliot Scheiner with his group at the Capital Studios sessions.

Over the course of this program, attendees will be gaining practical recording and mixing expertise from the engineers behind some of the most sonically distinctive records ever by legendary artists including Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Paul Simon, Steeley Dan, Dire Straits, The Rolling Stones, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Brown, James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Diana Krall, and Neil Young. And that’s the super short list.

Attendance to all four sessions of this event is $2,495, but you can save $500 through our negotiated sponsorship at SonicScoop by contacting Janice Brown at janice@sonicscoop.com.

Visit http://www.metalliance.com for more information and to register now!

Food and refreshments will be provided to attendees throughout the program, and Avatar will also host a special private meet-and-greet gathering on Friday, February 18 to kick off the weekend’s events.

Attendees will also be automatically entered in drawings for a series of gear giveaways, including a Steinberg Nuendo 5 Education Edition with Nuendo Expansion Kit (value: $2340.99 + $390.99), a Lexicon PCM Native|Reverb Bundle ($399), and an iZotope Ozone/RX/Nectar plug-in bundle ($897).

Get in on these sessions! Email for details of the SonicScoop discount.

Other valuable products provided by the METAlliance Pro Partners will be put to use throughout the sessions.

METAlliance stands for Music Engineering and Technical Alliance. The seven founding engineers participating in this event at Avatar are the recording industry’s advocates pushing for better audio standards.

Through research and development, efforts in standardization and cross platform interoperability, education and mentoring, METAlliance is working to ensure the highest standards of audio production and delivery through developing consumer formats.

Events like this one, and the inaugural “In Session With” event held last year at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, help to fund the METAlliance’s continued efforts, and provide a platform for sharing expertise with working, up-and-coming and aspiring recording and mixing engineers.

For more information, and to register, visit http://www.metalliance.com.

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