Audio Post Artistry: Creating Loop Group for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”
“You’ll never see a movie the same way again,” Dann Fink assures me. A partner in New York City-based Loopers Unlimited, Fink doesn’t know how right he is. I’m about to embark on a very curious journey...
View ArticleNYC Event Choice: Women in Music Annual Holiday Party – 12/4 at Le Poisson Rouge
The holiday season officially begins on December 4th this year. That’s when Women In Music, one of the hardest working organizations in NYC – or nationwide for that matter – relaxes for a night with...
View Article“Sync Summit Hollywood” Preview – 5 Questions for Founder Mark Frieser
What’s the current state of sync? Mark Frieser, founder of the upcoming Sync Summit Hollywood, has two ways to answer that question. Attendees are a big part of the action at SyncSummit. One is with...
View ArticleHiFi Project Launches NYC Studio
The Santa Monica and Minneapolis-based music production company, HiFi Project, has expanded with a new studio in Midtown Manhattan. HiFi brought NYC-based executive producer Jack Bradley (previously of...
View ArticleReview: iZotope RX 3 Advanced by Zach McNees
Unwanted noise is the ultimate menace. This is one thing on which all audio professionals can agree! In music, post production, restoration and archiving, or even forensics, engineers everywhere are...
View ArticleBlipsonic & CreateDigitalMusic Announce MeeBlip anode Compact Bass Synth
The MeeBlip is a cool open-sourced bass synth created in collaboration between Calgary-based electronics company Blipsonic and Berlin-based music website Create Digital Music. The simple digital/analog...
View ArticleMoby Releases “The Perfect Life” Single on Blend.io for Remixing and...
Moby, always the audio adventurer, is charting a new course yet again. This time, the artist will be releasing his new album, Innocents, in an interactive and remixable form on the music collaboration...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Maag EQ4 Plugin for UAD Platform & Apollo
A hit-making hardware EQ has just jumped into the box. The titillating tone-shaper? No less than the Maag EQ4, developed by Universal Audio in partnership with the German software geniuses Brainworx...
View Article“BeatzByGirlz” IndieGoGo Campaign Launched by Erin Barra — Empowering Women...
Music listeners everywhere can agree: There’ll be even more to listen to, when women everywhere are engineering as much as they’re performing. BeatzByGirlz needs YOU. That’s why the multitalented...
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot: Four Foot Studios – Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Hidden amongst the residential blocks of Williamsburg is a distinctive studio. Part Millennium Falcon, part time warp, part laboratory, part art gallery, its Four Foot Studios. The first thing that...
View ArticleCakewalk Launches ScratchPad – Groove Machine for iPad
Cakewalk’s first foray into the iOS world looks like fun. Cakewalk is taking their synth experience into the land of iOS with ScratchPad. Today, the Boston-based developer announced the arrival of...
View ArticleTimeless Sound Bites: 11 Insights from Bruce Swedien
When a true legend speaks, people listen – especially when what he’s talking about is…listening. Now you’re talking: L-R: Top Row: Francesca Smith, APRS; Maureen Droney, Sr. Executive Director, The...
View ArticleTone2 Audiosoftware Releases Nemesis —“NeoFM” Synthesizer
Leave it to Tone2 for discovering advanced synthesis methods and different types of sound generation. The synth developers have now added the Nemesis soft-synth to their arsenal that utilizes an...
View ArticleDouble-Feature Review: Rupert Neve Designs 5060 Centerpiece Mixer & 511 Mic Pre
Couple months back, I was invited to Downtown Studios for the unveiling of a new Rupert Neve mixer. I knew it would be small – I’d read rumors of a desktop mixer with the guts of the 5088 console. And...
View ArticleSteinberg Releases Cubase 7.5 and Cubase Artist 7.5 Updates
Steinberg’s flagship DAW, Cubase, has gotten a turbo boost, adding new functionality from workflow enhancements to instrument and effects additions. A major update in the latest version, now Cubase...
View ArticleRecording Drums, Part III: Placing Room Mics
Welcome back for Part 3 of our free drum mic video series. Get off those laptop speakers and switch your video stream to HD as Justin Colletti takes us through a handful of the most popular approaches...
View ArticleGrado Labs Launches Limited Edition Bushmills x Grado Labs Headphone
Friendship, music and whiskey have converged in an unprecedented new way at the Brooklyn HQ of Grado Labs. This NYC audio hotspot has distilled – and just launched – the limited edition Bushmills x...
View ArticleVintagetools Debuts Sonic Summarizer & Sonic Summarizer PRO — Analog Vintage...
The new summing amps from Vintagetools take a vintage approach on design and components with the Sonic Summarizer and Sonic Summarizer PRO. Components and summing design are based off of broadcast...
View ArticlePositive Grid Releases JamUp Plug HD Guitar and Bass Interface for iOS Devices
The successor to Positive Grid‘s original JamUp Plug now captures audio in high quality 24-bit/48kHz with improved signal-to-noise ratio with the JamUp Plug HD. The super small interface plugs straight...
View ArticleInside WNYC & WQXR’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space
TRIBECA, MANHATTAN: The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, with its huge street-level windows, is fittingly public for a venue that’s run by New York Public Radio. Looking at the Greene Space from the...
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