At its best, music creates an emotional experience for the listener. The best way to get there: A recording process where the audio engineers have an equal emotional investment.
You can hear that journey clearly in “Is That All?” by Rick Clark. A Nashville-based songwriter, music supervisor, and producer, Clark Read more...
Choices, choices, choices. Book time to track at most any pro recording studio, and they’ll proudly show you a mic locker with dozens of omnis, ribbons, LDC’s and 123’s.
But what happens when there aren’t a million choices for capturing sound? As any experienced engineer knows, the limitations are often Read more...
What’s your concept-to-completion workflow?
For the emerging pop synth duo Stereo Telescope, song creation comes via a complete 360 – part rehearsal space, part personal studio, part commercial facility. The single, “Fires”, from the Boston-based band’s new album On and Running is a perfect example of how everything comes together, Read more...
NOHO, MANHATTAN: Riddle us this: When is your first album not your debut album? The answer is…When you’re The Kin, and you’re in the studio recording your emotionally moving pop-rock creations with none other than Tony Visconti producing.
Founded in 2005 by the Australia-to-NYC transplants Isaac and Thorald Koren, The Read more...
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: It’s fun to imagine what Matt Boynton, founder of the thriving Williamsburg studio Vacation Island, might do if someone presented him with a marketing plan.
He might make it into a little hat. If it had a lot of pages, he may be able to construct some type Read more...
