10 Mistakes Intentionally Left In Classic Recordings
Music isn’t perfect. It never was. And it never will be. By nature, people are flawed. Inadvertently, so is the music we create. But isn’t that what also makes it so amazing? Indescribable, intangible...
View ArticleNYC Event: “The Business of Music Seminars” Debut November 13th
This changing music business calls for a new way to navigate the landscape. A new series, “The Business of Music Seminars” (BMS) aims to make it easier for producers, engineers, artists, and...
View ArticleAllen & Heath Launches Wireless Personal Monitoring for Qu Compact Mixers
Like Uber and coffee makers, wireless monitor mixing is something we’ll wonder how we ever lived without. Can you see you with Qu-You? Sensing this, Allen & Heath has announced the addition of...
View ArticleLightning Boy Audio Introduces Flux Bender Equalizer — Stereo Passive EQ
When we first stumbled on to Lightening Boy Audio, they were developing stellar tube pedals. Since then, LBA has honed in on their design philosophy to release the Flux Bender Equalizer. At first...
View ArticleRoland Announces M-5000 Live Console
The new M-5000 console from Roland is ideal for the live sound environment. With the included O.H.R.C.A. based architecture, the bounds of console routing remain limited only to its physical I/O. The...
View ArticleAble Baker: An NYC Firm Hears the New ABC’s of Music Supervision
Call it an inner convergence. The latest music supervision service providers are bringing together more tools to help brands and content creators. A new NYC-based example is Able Baker. The firm is...
View ArticleHow the Emulation Is Made: Universal Audio’s Manley Variable Mu Limiter...
Adore analog? Dig digital only? Nothing blurs the audio lines like software emulations of hardware processors. Producers and engineers who are evolving their studios now have an embarrassment of...
View ArticleTascam Announces the DR-700 Audio Interface for DSLR Production
Ready to get the picture? This new recorder goes with a DSLR camera like a peanut butter and chocolate converge in a Reese’s. Tascam’s DR-700 covers a wide array of production uses where compact...
View ArticleNew Pro Tools Licensing Now Available, for Access to Future Cloud Features &...
The newly available licensing plan for Pro Tools users is all about the long view. Pro Tools gets future-proofed with the newly available licensing plan. It’s complicated, and some of the details that...
View ArticleHidden Hit-Makers: History’s Most Iconic Session Musicians
A handful of documentaries released since the turn of the new century, from 2002’s Standing In the Shadows of Motown to 2013’s Muscle Shoals, have helped us put names and faces to the backing musicians...
View ArticleEssential Event: Spend An Evening with Producer/Engineer Glyn Johns — 11/14...
“Glyn Johns was there.” – Sir Paul McCartney All along, Glyn Johns has been contemplating this book tour. That only begins to tell the story of how important this engineer’s engineer is to recorded...
View ArticleSSL Releases AAX Versions of Duende Native Plugins
Catering to the growing ProTools 11 community, SSL is now offering their Duende plug-in collection in AAX Native 64-bit format. Users can celebrate with an intro price until November 25th The Duende...
View ArticleNew Room: ReAmp Recording Studios, Studio G – Orange County, CA
Dreamin’ California? If so, Orange County is coming on strong. Some interesting action is unfolding there, with a fresh wave of studios coming online in a market they see as overtalented and...
View ArticleRenew Your Room Acoustics, Part 2: Rays Are Reflections
This is the second article in a series by Dennis Foley of Acoustic Fields. See “Part 1: Waves and Pressure” here. In the first part of this 6-part series, I discussed waves and rays of energy. Waves...
View ArticleEP Preview: Erica Glyn’s “Dollars for Thieves” — Five Fun Recording Facts!
Erica Glyn, NYC artist/engineer/mixer/producer (and SonicScoop contributor & video chanteuse!) will be launching her next work, the EP Dollars For Thieves in 2015. Comin’ at ya exclusively is this...
View ArticleTK Audio Announces Mono Blender
Based out of Sweden, hardware developer TK Audio is now introducing the Mono Blender. Parallel processing is easier than ever with TK Audio’s Mono Blender. This 500 series module makes parallel...
View ArticleThink You Can’t Sing? The Myths and Mysteries of Vocal Technique
From Star Search to American Idol to The Voice, television producers have made millions off of a simple conceit: Anyone can be a great singer, just not everyone. Image of Karen O courtesy of Flickr...
View ArticleSugar Bytes Releases Looperator Plug-In
Always on their game with effects processing, Sugar Bytes now introduces their Looperator Plug-In. Looperator is a sequencer with a variety of modulation curves and effects that can be controlled via...
View ArticleAbleton Launches Texture Beats – New Partner Instrument by Flatpack
Need an engrossing new source for beats? The latest partner instrument from Ableton, Texture Beats, sounds like reason enough to get deeper into Live. Texture Beats is available now for 49 Euro, or...
View ArticleAbleton Launches Texture Beats – New Partner Instrument by Flatpack
Need an engrossing new source for beats? The latest partner instrument from Ableton, Texture Beats, sounds like reason enough to get deeper into Live. Rise up! It’s Flatpack Texture Beats for Ableton...
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