Live Sound
Linkin Park Rolls with Klang
Currently making the rounds on its One More Light tour, backing its new album of the same name, Linkin Park is traveling with more...
audio processing-digital
Music Production
Studio Tilts in SSL’s Favor
Tilt Recording, a new, ground-up commercial facility in Sweden, features a new 48-channel Solid State Logic Duality Delta console.
Music Production
The Mastering Palace Turns 10 in Harlem
Location is everything in real estate. So when Dave Kutch found a suitable building for his Mastering Palace in 2007 in an area of...
Music Production
WSDG Completes Beijing Studio
Walters-Storyk Design Group recently completed 55TEC Recording Studios, a 5,000-sq.-ft. two-room facility located in a residential building in one of Beijing’s most exclusive neighborhoods.
Music Production
House of Rock Marks Anniversary
First opened as a rehearsal facility in 2012, last year saw Santa Rosa’s House of Rock become a 15,000-square-foot venue/recording studio/education facility . A...
Music Production
Chiarelli Banks on Manley
Multiple Grammy-winning mix engineer Rob Chiarelli may only use a specific audio tool when it serves the song or the recording, but there's reportedly...
Live Sound
Clear-Com to Debut Dante Card at NAB
Clear-Com will debut its new Dante interface card for the Eclipse-HX matrix (E-Dante64-HX) at NAB 2017.
Live Sound
Hard Rock Café Rolls with QSC System
The Hard Rock Café is known the world over, and that omnipresence no doubt helped ready Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia,...
Music Production
Facebook Unveils 360 Audio Tech
For the first time, Facebook engineers have revealed some of the technical details behind the platform’s new 360 audio encoding and rendering for virtual...
Live Sound
Montreux Jazz Festival Digitizes Archives
Forever ahead of the technological curve, the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival has recently been digitizing its entire archive in conjunction with the Claude Nobs...
Live Sound
Meyer Aids London’s ‘School of Rock’
London-based Autograph Sound has been providing Meyer Sound LEO Family reinforcement systems for numerous West End musicals, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock:...
Music Production
All-Stars Weigh In on Album Production
LOS ANGELES, CA—The era of putting a microphone up, passing the signal through a mixing console and into a tape recorder has largely gone...
Music Production
Oufitting a Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Mount Olive High School (MOHS), rated among the top schools in the nation, made some major upgrades to its facilities over its summer recess,...
Music Production
Mastering Rock’s Past for the Future
For mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum, good communication is the key to any successful project.
Music Production
Nevo Multitasks with DiGiGrid
Key to Yoad Nevo’s dynamic workflow is his DiGiGrid DLS soundcard, which enables the producer, mixer and plug-in developer to multitask while working with...
Recording
Gershin Adds Nugen Audio Tools
Sound designer and feature film supervising sound editor Scott Gershin, who recently joined Technicolor as its director of sound editorial, has installed Nugen Audio's...
Live Sound
DiGiCo Rolls with Pink Floyd Tribute
At first glance, it might seem like overkill to use DiGiCo SD consoles for a tribute act, but the Australian Pink Floyd Show is...
Music Production
Balding Upgrades with Genelec
Multiple Grammy-nominated producer engineer Jeff Balding recently upgraded his studio with Genelec 8351 three-way Smart Active Monitors (SAM) and a 7360 SAM subwoofer.
Music Production
WildSound Builds WSDG Mix Room
WildSound Studios owners Mike Idioma and Tony Tuviera recently called on WSDG - Walters-Storyk Design Group to create a Dolby Atmos audio mixing studio...
Live Sound
DiGiCo Desks Hit the Road with Adele
Adele has been making the rounds this year on her first arena tour, with audio production by Germany-based Black Box. Key to that, of...
Live Sound
Masque Takes On 3D Sound with ASA
In the theatrical world, creating immersive sound for the audience has long been a goal. Netherlands-based Astro Spatial Audio has developed SpatialSound Wave Software...
Music Production
Appelbaum Masters with Manley
Mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum has been using two Manley Stereo Variable Mu limiter-compressors (Vari Mu), two Mini Massive EQs and a Massive Passive EQ...
Music Production
Dolby, Jaunt Launch VR Portal
Dolby Laboratories and Jaunt are launching the first dedicated VR content portal featuring titles mixed in Dolby Atmos.
Music Production
Remastering the Ramones at Abbey Road
Abbey Road mastering engineer Sean Magee recently worked on the 40th anniversary deluxe edition of the first album by the Ramones, with the active...
Recording
Blend, EastWest Bow Competition
Blend.io, a collaboration network for music creators, and virtual instruments developer EastWest have announced a music competition.
Live Sound
Mixing Mariah Live in Europe
Mariah Carey recently toured Europe for the first time in 13 years, packing arenas along the 22-city route. Ensuring that audiences could hear every...
Music Production
AES Heyser Lecture To Get Immersive
Immersive Audio has been all the buzz in recent times, portending a future of surrounding, interactive sound. The Audio Engineering Society aims to keep...
Music Production
Sound Generation Goes DiGiGrid
At Sound Generation in Manhattan’s West Village, recently acquired DiGiGrid technology enables the studio to switch between music and post production sessions.
Music Production
Secret Eventide/Visconti Project Nears Release
Eventide and legendary producer Tony Visconti have spent the last two years working on a secret, David Bowie-inspired plug-in that is nearing completion.
Music Production
Genelec, AES Talk 3D Audio in Boston
One of the most active chapters of the Audio Engineering Society in the US, the Boston Section held its most recent meeting at the...
Music Production
Fitting the Entire Sea in a Box
Concert by the Sea, one of the best-selling jazz records of all-time and arguably pianist Erroll Garner’s greatest concert album, was restored, remastered and...
Live Sound
Recording Katy Perry, Patti Smith Live
They might come from different sides of the musical spectrum, but Katy Perry and Pattti Smith have at least one thing in common: They’ve...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Jump Jive An’ Jingle With The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Brian Setzer may be best known as a Stray Cat, but the man’s more like a chameleon.
Business
Mark Knopfler Tour Makes Tracks
Dating back to his days with Dire Straits, guitarist extraordinaire Mark Knopfler has always been a stickler for sound, perhaps culminating with his 1985...
Gear and Technology
Software Tech: Stability Wars
As we become ever-more dependent on computers, we increasingly run the risk of being blindsided by our tools.
Business
The Pros’ Go-To Gear: Studio Essentials
You’re stranded on a desert island, but were able to salvage only a handful of your favorite pieces of recording equipment. What did you...
Business
Marciano’s Movie Music Methodology
Producer/engineer Matteo Marciano has worked around the world on different pop, rock, metal, hip-hop, R&B, funk, electronic and orchestral music projects, but he’s made...
Business
Recording Tech at AES: From Classic to Cutting-Edge
Advancements in microprocessing technology allow for an increasing number of affordable digital recording tools to be created with each passing year.
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Not Just Good; Thorogood
George Thorogood is many things—a guitar slinger, band leader and the man who wrote “Bad To The Bone,” the go-to track for every Eighties...
Gear and Technology
The 139th AES Convention Anderton Awards
It was a cliff-hanger that had showgoers panicked—but literally minutes before the show opened, all lawsuits concerning the catered food at last year’s Anderton...
Business
Breach Cleans Up with Prism Sound
British DJ and producer Ben Westbeech, also known as Breach, has installed a Prism Sound Titan USB multi-track audio interface at his seven-room studio...