This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, October 3, 2011.
Advertisers will have you believe that condenser microphones are the key to quality recordings. In the past, these super-sensitive transducers were the elite of the microphone world and commanded high prices. In recent years, it seems there’s Read more...
Delicious Audio recently interviewed Brooklyn indie-rock band Snowmine about their recording process – they self-produced their debut EP, Laminate Pet Animal. They also, more recently, recorded at Germano Studios, with producer/engineer Jake Aron. The band is fronted by new-classical composer Grayson Sanders, whose vocals have been compared to Robin Pecknold Read more...
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: I met microphone designer Dimitri Wolfwood and his [Ronin Applied Sciences] business partner Fenton Joseph at the Tape Op party during AES New York last fall. Joel Hamilton had arrived with them and introduced us, and Dimitri immediately took me into his world of ultimate microphone design. Read more...
“I try my best to take each project on a completely individual level,” says Producer/Engineer Alex Newport.
It’s the only method that makes sense for a man who began his career playing uncategorizable sludge metal with Fudge Tunnel in 1989 and ended up earning a “Best Alternative Album” nod at Read more...
SoHo, Manhattan: Travis Harrison — record producer, engineer, founder of Serious Business Records & Studio and Guided By Voices super-fan — met late era GBV guitarist Doug Gillard when his band, The Unsacred Hearts, shared a bill with Gillard at Piano’s.
Harrison gushed about GBV, Gillard dug The Unsacred Hearts, Read more...
