Back when I entered the audio program at SUNY Purchase around the turn of the millennium, a bachelor’s degree in “Studio Production” still seemed like something of a novel concept. Since then, enrollments for both 4-year and short-term programs in this once-niche market appear to have exploded nationwide.
Occasionally, engineers Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: There have certainly been some down years in recent recording biz history, but 2011 was not one of them.
By all accounts, this was a big year for recording in NYC: There were the major mainstream Made-in-NY albums, i.e. Lady Gaga’s Born This Way (Germano Studios), Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: It’s midsummer…the middle of a traditionally “slow season” for recording with so many bands out on the road. But this is the city that never sleeps, and slow is a relative term. The following is but a sampling of recent sessions, and works in progress…a snapshot Read more...
The Killers drummer Ronnie Vannucci has just released his debut solo album under his Big Talk guise. Coming out on his personal imprint Little Oil/Epitaph Records, the eponymous record was mastered at The Lodge by Emily Lazar and Joe LaPorta.
Vannucci created Big Talk following nearly a decade of touring Read more...
