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Recording in a Rolls-Royce
Capturing his latest track in a Rolls-Royce Phantom, UK Grime artist Skepta brings a whole new meaning to 'high-end mobile recording,' but he's not...
Recorders/Players
Music, Etc
Music, Etc.: Styx—Atmospheric Reentry
With a vast catalog of albums already in hand and having achieved the commercial success that most bands can only dream of, Styx could...
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
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
Big Little Lies Loads Up On Sound Devices
Brendan Beebe, CAS, who got his first break handling communications on Titanic, has been using a cart-load of Sound Devices gear on HBO’s Big...
Music Production
Silver Archives Gems at United
Bonnie Silver, president of Tru-Gems Music Group, is working with United Recording's new archiving division to transfer a multitude of analog tape masters produced and...
Music Production
Record Plant Remote Rolls with TASCAM
The Record Plant Remote (RPR) location recording truck has preserved hundreds of important events over the years; recently, recording engineer Kooster McAllister used TASCAM's...
Music Production
Tascam Tracks Jordan’s Soundscapes
Guitarist/composer Glenn Jordan has been using the new Tascam DR-100mkIII handheld digital recorder while working from his home base in Los Angeles.
Music Production
No Sound Too Small for Slater
With the help of Sound Devices and Video Devices recorders and a new microphone technology, Remote Acoustic Sensing (RAS), Dan Slater is merging aerospace...
Music Production
Podcaster Gets Creative with TASCAM
Bruce Wawrzyniak, who advises up-and-coming entertainers on the business side of their art through his free weekly Now Hear This Entertainment podcast, has upgraded...
Music Production
Allen Captures Cars, Crickets with Tascam
Rick Allen, whose music, sound effects and sound design appear in films, radio, TV, games and ads, has been using Tascam remote recorders for...
Music Production
Mackie Lands Backstage at Chesney Tour
Kenny Chesney is either rehearsing or on the road for six months of the year, so if his crew and band aren’t family at...
Music Production
Farmer Takes A Mixer
Emmy Award-winning production sound mixer Simon Farmer used a Sound Devices 442 mixer and 744T recorder for his work on the British drama series,...
Music Production
The Solutrean Caught with Sound Devices
Production sound mixer David Husby upgraded to the Sound Devices 688 mixer/recorder and CL-12 linear fader controller in time to work on The Solutrean,...
Music Production
Parker Takes Off with Product Trio
Jesse Parker, a production sound mixer from Los Angeles-based location and post-production audio company ToneMesa, Inc., was on board with equipment from DPA Microphones,...
Music Production
Clark Sticks with Sound Devices
Adam Clark, co-owner of Toronto Sound with Aaron Gaistman, has worked on thousands of location sound jobs, using his Sound Devices 688 mixer/recorder and...
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...
Music Production
Gambell Captures Maron Series
Production sound mixer Jamie Gambell, first introduced to Sound Devices in 2004, now uses a 688 as his main recorder with the SL-6 powering...
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...
Business
Things Get Stranger with Lectrosonics
Atlanta-based production sound mixer Chris Durfy is currently at work on Stranger Things, a new supernatural original drama series for Netflix, starring Winona Ryder, with...
Business
The Studio Where Time Stood Still
Walking into the lobby of Valentine Recording Studios, located on Laurel Canyon Blvd.
Business
Zacher Globetrots with Sound Devices
Production sound mixer André Zacher has captured audio for more than 50 documentary and feature films worldwide in the past 11 years with recording...
Business
Holubec Leans on Lectrosonics
Location sound engineer Michal Holubec, C.A.S., based in Prague, who has been using Lectrosonics wireless equipment for more than 20 years, recently completed work...
Business
Soundgeek Adopts Sound Devices
Production sound mixer Zack Allen, owner of Soundgeek Productions in Fresno, CA, recently switched to Sound Devices on a project for the National Geographic...
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
Craca Captures White House Chats
On a recent trip to The White House, sound mixer Tom Craca recorded President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Dr....
Business
Community Rolls Into New Velodrome
Cycling is an old sport, but current-day velodromes are just as modern as any other kind of arena. Take the new Kolodruma Velodrome in...
Business
Dodd’s Piano Gets Real with Orpheus
Realpiano, the brainchild of Jonathan Dodd, is using Prism Sound's Orpheus audio interface system to offer clients the unique sound of the very best...
Business
Nashville’s Welcome To 1979 Goes Direct-To-Disc
NASHVILLE, TN—The old adage says that you can have it fast, cheap or good—pick two.
Product Reviews
Review: beyerdynamic MCE 86 II Electret Condenser Shotgun Microphone
A shotgun microphone is simply a tool worth having in any “workhorse” microphone collection, and the MCE 86 II is an ideal specimen.
Business
Holmberg Records For Film On The Fly
Danish audio recordist Allan Holmberg recently wrapped work on the television show Rita and its miniseries spinoff Hjørdis. Here, he shares ways he used...
Business
Green Films Lost Art with MixPre-D
Prior to filming the HBO documentar, Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson, award-winning filmmaker Barbara Green met with Jon...
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The Ever-Evolving Subscription Model
It seems like only yesterday we covered changes in subscription software—last March, to be exact. But, in “computer years,” six months can be an...
Business
Music To Tune A PA By
The advent of digital recording has forever changed the music industry, and it’s certainly affected the live sound experience, too.
Business
Cphonic Mastering: Modular and Minimalistic
Kevin McNoldy now resides in the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area of North Carolina, but has experienced the American recording scene unlike most “secondary market” audio...
Business
Propellerhead Proffers Pocket Production
Propellerhead, the Swedish software developer behind such products as Reason, Re- Cycle and ReBirth, has launched a new social music-making platform that enables musicians...
Business
Inside Espinoza Paz’s Private Studio
Guitar Center Professional and the New York-based Malvicino Design Group recently collaborated on a private production facility for Mexican regional music star Espinoza Paz.
Business
Atlanta Sound Summit Announced
DPA Microphones, Lectrosonics and Sound Devices, LLC have announced the third in a series of U.S. regional events, Sound Summit Atlanta, to be held...
Business
M3 Captures The Touring Dead
Music Mix Mobile (M3) recently recorded the Grateful Dead's final excursion—the "Fare Thee Well" (Dead 50) five-date concert tour.
Product Reviews
Review: Blue Hummingbird Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
Blue's 180-degree pivoting capsule SDC "sounds fantastic, feels expensive."
Business
Sound Devices Record a Hero
When production sound mixer Frank Stettner needed a new digital audio recorder with sufficient tracks for HBO’s new mini-series, Show Me a Hero, he...
Business
Getting Good Audio From Bad Girls Club
Oxygen network’s Bad Girls Club follows the antics of seven girls living together under one roof, day and night, all of which requires a...