Milestones are abounding for Oscar Zambrano.
This New York City mastering engineer is smiling because he’s just completed his 100th project of the year in mid-July, a new album for singer-songwriter Jo Kroger. But that’s not the only magic number that’s working for him now.
Zambrano is also hoping that Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: New works by David Bowie, Vampire Weekend, She & Him, Azealia Banks, John Scofield, Common and more have been in production all over the city – in the studios highlighted below. Where’s everyone recording? And who’s working with who? Here is our neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to recent Read more...
Scott Hull’s Masterdisk announced today that veteran mastering engineer Vlado Meller has joined the company. He will work out of Masterdisk’s studios at 545 W. 45th Street.
Meller brings assistant engineer Mark Santangelo and booking manager Peter Cho with him to his new position, continuing the team’s 10-year working relationship. Read more...
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS: Scratch below the surface of any of today’s independent masring engineers, and most likely you’ll find a team player there. There are a lot of one-person shops dotting the NYC landscape, but these individual practitioners weren’t always flying solo.
Case in point: James Cruz, founder and Read more...
It’s been a minute since we checked in with The Magic Shop, one of NYC’s favorite, longest-standing recording studios. Here’s what’s been happening:
Moby at The Magic Shop’s custom wrap-around Neve series 80 console. Photo posted at Moby’s blogLegendary engineer Ken Thomas (David Bowie, Public Image Ltd., Sigur Ros) Read more...
