This is a guest post by Steve Puntolillo, founder of Mastercraft Recordings,
See Part II of this guide, “What it Takes to Restore an Analog Multitrack Tape Machine,” here.
If you’re thinking about getting into multitrack analog tape recording, putting your old analog warhorse back into service, or just want Read more...
Few topics stir up as much strong emotion among audio professionals as analog tape can.
Musicians and engineers alike love to romanticize about how warm and musical tape sounds, how it forces you to make decisions and commit to sounds without being able to “undo” it all, and how it Read more...
There’s no question that popular music has gone through some monumental changes since the 1960’s. With each passing decade, there are new technological innovations that help to form the “new sound”, and sometimes these innovations become the very identity of some musical artists.
Be it the sound of new guitar Read more...
LOWER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN: Imagine being fully in touch with all of your senses. Would that be a blessing…or a curse?
That’s the delicious predicament borne by Jack McKeever, founder of the fascinating LES facility known as The Maid’s Room. As you talk with this quietly devoted creator of sounds Read more...
SoHo/WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN: Why record your debut album at one slammin’ NYC studio when a dozen would do? That’s what the NYC rock three-piece The NowhereNauts thought as they attacked the making of their stirring, wise-beyond-their-years self-titled release that came out this week.
As it turns out, a dozen studios Read more...
