The designer makes the studio – literally.
While each recording, mixing, mastering, and audio post facility starts with the founder’s vision, their napkin sketch usually gets passed to a studio architect to make it a reality. These sonic-minded structuralists are thriving worldwide, and their prolific portfolios can contain hundreds and Read more...
Some audio solutions are simple to get your head around. Others, you just have to get your ears into to fully understand.
MixRoom, the monitoring environment concept from Nashville-based studio designer Carl Tatz, falls into the latter category. Created to provide mixers with a million-dollar listening environment for a fraction Read more...
GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN: Winters in Anchorage, Alaska are epic. And, as it turns out, ideal incubators of NYC studio innovators.
Erik Braund, chief proprietor of the intriguing new Greenpoint facility known as Braund Sound, explains the musical connection between the sub-Arctic outpost where he grew up, and the 24-hour metropolis that Read more...
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: Putting a new spin on a classic can be a very risky endeavor. Unless you have no choice, that is – in which case you may as well gyrate away with everything you’ve got.
That’s the exact challenge that Mike Crehore and Al Houghton, the founders of 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...
