If you blinked during Sunday’s GRAMMY telecast, you might have missed the fact that the iconic jazz recordist Rudy Van Gelder was honored by the Recording Academy with a 2012 Trustees Award.
Van Gelder is credited with engineering thousands of jazz recordings from his Englewood Cliffs, NJ studio. Although many Read more...
CHELSEA, MANHATTAN: Last week, in-demand NYC freelance engineer Ari Raskin (Whitney Houston, Wyclef Jean, Meshell N’Degeocello, Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West, J.Dilla and Illa J – Yancey Boys, and Justin Timberlake) let us in on five of his top studios in the city. Now, he clues us in to four Read more...
(Note: See Part II of this “Nomad Engineer” series here.)
CHELSEA, MANHATTAN: No one can say Ari Raskin hasn’t paid his dues. This in-demand freelancer engineer may regularly make the rounds of NYC’s top studios today, but it’s only after he’s sweated it out for a decade-plus, making Read more...
Matt McCorkle of EqualSonics.com offers a case study on recording violin, viola and cello.
The Mission: A String Tracking Session At Tainted Blue Studio NYC
Producer Andrew Koss, owner of Tainted Blue Studio, recently requested my services tracking string overdubs for Maxine Linehan‘s version of the Leslie Gore hit “You Read more...
Facility Name: Brownstone Recording Studio
Website: http://www.warrenhenry.net
Location: Harlem, Manhattan
Neighborhood Advantages: Near every train line in New York City
Date of Birth: April 1988
Facility Focus: composition, mixing, audio post and tracking
Mission Statement: “We always jump with two parachutes”
Clients/Credits: Jennifer Hudson, VH1, Warren Henry Project, Daryl Doleman, Read more...
