Business
Ice Rink Transforms Into 7.1 Cinema
The Telluride Film Festival in Colorado has always been aimed at true cineasts, but the annual event takes over a variety of spaces that...
Loudspeakers-Studio Monitors
Product Reviews
Review: Blue Hummingbird Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
Blue's 180-degree pivoting capsule SDC "sounds fantastic, feels expensive."
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Caesar’s Goes All In On Martin Audio
Put the words “Las Vegas” and “Martin” next to each other, and visions of celebrity roasts might come to mind, but when Caesar’s Palace...
Business
Carlson Monitors PreSonus
Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum engineer, producer, and songwriter Smith Carlson favors PreSonus Sceptre S8 CoActual two-way studio monitors, and recently added the company’s ADL 700 preamp/channel...
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Mixing The Billboard Latin Music Awards
Packed with music performances by artists like Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Daddy Yankee and others, the annual Billboard Latin Music Awards, held at the...
Business
PMC Attends Hull University
PMC supplied all the reference monitoring for the new studio at the University of Hull’s School of Music, Drama and Screen, including a pair...
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West One Listens with PMC
West One Music Group has installed PMC twotwo.8 nearfield monitors for critical and reference monitoring at its music production facility in London.
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Dierks Takes PMC to the Dance Floor
Dierks Studios in Cologne, Germany recently presented the “In the Studio with MJ” seminar series with assistance from British loudspeaker manufacturer PMC.
Business
It’s Out With The Big Iron For Veneto West
SANTA MONICA, CA—Ronan Chris Murphy, a producer, mixer, engineer and recording artist whose multi-room Veneto West facility in Santa Monica, CA also provides a...
Business
WAM Opens New Studio With Donations
Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) moved into the former SF Soundworks Studio earlier this year and has since attracted major donations from audio manufacturers including...
Business
Gearing Up With “The Trio of Oz”
by Rich Tozzoli. Recently I’ve been working on a recording project that was just so refreshing, I wanted to write about it. Sometimes, especially...
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VKA Co-Hosts Listening Sessions
Vintage King Audio recently co-sponsored a listening session for composers, engineers and musicians at Woodshed Recording in Malibu, CA, owned by scoring composer and...
Gear and Technology
Third Annual St. John Recording & Review Retreat
For the past three years, Rich Tozzoli has organized a grand recording, gigging and equipment review opportunity by gathering his most fun-loving musician and...
Business
Studio Showcase: Island No More: Bikini Atoll Leaves LA for Nashville Community
What is now Bikini Atoll Studios lured its owner, audio engineer Grant Goddard, from his former home of Los Angeles to the creative environment...
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COMPLETING THE CIRCLE: SOUND AFFAIR BACK HOME, BACK TO VINYL
SANTA ANA, CA—After more than three decades in the industry, Ron Leeper has come full circle, once again mastering to vinyl, and in the...
Business
Sharing Space To Cover Mic To Master: A “GOLDMINE” DRESSED IN BLUE VELVET
SANTA ANA, CA—Punk rock musician Dan Balistreri and his wife, Nicole, also a musician, went looking for a music-related business a couple of years...
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Martin Audio Heats Up Weenie Roast
Los Angeles radio station has held its annual KROQ Weenie Roast and Fiesta for years, and the 2015 edition served up the likes of...
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PMC Aids Miles Copeland Retreat
Attendees at the recent two-week Writer's Retreat at Miles Copeland's Château Marouatte in France had access to various rooms equipped with a selection of...
Business
Putting The Funk In Boston’s FunkBunker
BOSTON, MA—Like many aspirational producer/engineers, Jimmy Fox—a Boston-area musician— has been recording a wide range of musical acts for years now, all out of...
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ASCAP Offers Music-Makers Information And Inspiration
HOLLYWOOD, CA—The ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo, celebrating its tenth anniversary in Los Angeles, put nearly 200 panelists and performers in front of hordes...
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Appelbaum Has Faith in PMC
Maor Appelbaum Mastering, a West Coast facility equipped with PMC IB1S main monitors and a Maselec MTC 1X console, recently mastered Sol Invictus, the...
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Barefoot Launches Masters Series
Barefoot Sound has launched a new video series, Masters of the Craft, with a first episode that features Eddie Kramer, Chris Lord-Alge, Jack Joseph...
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Meyer Moves Into Studio City Mesa
Studio City Mesa’s roadhouse theatre, the Cooper Auditorium, in Caspar, Wyoming, recently had a 7.1 Meyer Sound cinema system installed to supplement the...
Business
PMCs Take Up Residence in London
In London, Resident Studios has upgraded Studio A with a pair of PMC twotwo.6 active speakers, complementing the facility’s SSL 6000 G+ series console...
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Yankovic Keyboardist Takes On Galaxy
When Weird Al Yankovic hits the stage, part of what makes his parodies work so well is the note-perfect renditions from his backing band....
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PMC, VKA Share at ASCAP Expo
PMC and Vintage King Audio presented sessions with music industry leaders sharing their knowledge and experience for the sixth consecutive year at the ASCAP...
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Harman Brings 3D to Cube
Initially a black box performance space, the Cube at Virginia Tech has been reimagined as an immersive data exploration environment supported by audio technologies...
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VR’s Kushner Takes On PMC
Dave Kushner, known for his work on FX Network’s Sons of Anarchy and with bands such as Loaded and Velvet Revolver, has upgraded his...
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Cohen Focuses on Sonodynes
Emmy-nominated composer, producer, arranger, re-mixer and mixer Greg Cohen used a pair of Sonodyne SM 100AK reference monitors on recent projects with DJ Cassidy.
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Stardelta Masters with PMC
Mastering engineer Lewis Hopkin’s relocated Stardelta Audio Mastering now boasts a fully active PMC MB2S XBD-A speaker system.
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GCPro Takes A Spin
Spin classes are an increasingly popular form of exercise—one that Fit Revolution, a cycling studio outside Boston, teaches daily. While Guitar Center Professional, the...
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UWL is On-Air with PMC
In England, Ealing School of Art, Design and Media, part of the University of West London, has installed PMC twotwo.5 active loudspeakers in new...
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Toto Return with JBL
Toto’s latest album, Toto XIV, released March 20, was recorded at Hollywood’s The Treehouse using Harman’s JBL LSR6300 Series studio monitors.
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Satriani Has Fun with ATC
Engineer John Cuniberti and Joe Satriani recently cut tracks for the guitar virtuoso’s forthcoming album, Shockwave Supernova, using ATC SCM25A three-way active monitors.
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McGill Installs JBL M2 Monitors
The Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal has three JBL M2 master reference monitors in its main studio in an LCR...
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Masters Mix Barefoot
La Fabrique studios in the South of France, home to the "Mix With the Masters" week-long seminar series hosted by Al Schmitt and Eddie...
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Ferguson First with PMC
UK singer Rebecca Ferguson has reportedly become the first artist anywhere to record an album using the new PMC QB1-A reference loudspeakers and then...
Business
Engineers Think Global, Master Local
The internet has opened up an international marketplace for mastering services, according to Maor Appelbaum of Maor Appelbaum Mastering. LOS ANGELES, CA—The digital revolution...
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Studio Showcase: Just What The Doctor Ordered
Recording engineer Daniel Charles—owner/proprietor of houston, TX’s Sonic Pharmacy recording studio—was honed on punk rock, thus well prepared for a future working with DIY...
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Studio Showcase: Larrabee Takes Over Schnee Studio
LOCATION—What is a facility to do when the recording studio right next door goes up for sale?
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Destination Recording: Panoramic House Combines Recording With Relaxation To Fuel Creativity
WEST MARIN, CA—As the affordability of quality recording gear has sparked the rise in home studios, it has also challenged professional studio designers with...
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d&b Up All Night In Croatia
A favorite night spot in Cakovec since opening in 1998, The Arcus Cafè and Night Bar recently got an update that included a sizable...