Audio Problem-Solving: Reinventing the B&H Speaker Room
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: Among many of life’s mysteries, the question of how to audition studio monitors during a store visit has long beguiled mixers, producers, and vendors. Turning a wall of speakers...
View ArticleSonicScoop Video Launches Stacie Rose’s Suite Songs NYC: Episode 3: “Standby”
Ready to check in? Then check THIS out: SonicScoop Video announces the launch of Episode 3 of SUITE SONGS NYC: An original series about the personal and collaborative process of song making, features...
View ArticleAudio Post Moves: Sound Lounge Names Vicky Ferraro Executive Producer
Loyalty is still rewarded in this business, as evidenced at the NYC audio post house Sound Lounge. Vicky Ferraro now reigns as Executive Producer at Sound Lounge. The facility announced that longtime...
View ArticleDigital Synesthesia: Harvestworks Launches New TEAMLab Online Class Program
The dearly departed Ravi Shankar wanted his audiences to understand that they could get high without using drugs. Now the NYC non-profit digital arts center Harvestworks has the same idea about that...
View ArticleBlack Iris Music (Feat. Rachel Fannan) Produces “Beautiful Dreamer” For TV...
The NYC/LA/Richmond-based Black Iris Music is releasing a new arrangement of “Beautiful Dreamer” they originally produced for a TV spot via GREY New York. The track, featuring vocalist Rachel Fannan of...
View ArticleAllen & Heath Launches OneMix – Personal Monitoring iPad App for iLive
Have you gotten familiar with iLive yet? Allen & Heath’s highly flexible digital mixing system offers multiple control and networking possibilities, working with everything from full-blown touring...
View ArticleCerwin Vega P-Series Portable Powered Loudspeakers Unveiled in NYC, LA
The right way to roll out a new live sound speaker is with a real live event, right? Manufacturer Cerwin-Vega!, long known for its home audio systems, held parties on both coasts recently to show off...
View ArticleTuneSpring Offers New Workflow For Ad Music
As music licensing has become a bread-and-butter revenue stream for so many recording artists, songwriters and composers, a number of licensing companies have emerged in recent years, promising to help...
View ArticleEmpirical Labs, an Analog Leader, Moves “Furiously” into Digital
Dave Derr, designer of the instant-classic analog Distressor, says his high-end audio company is ready to move “furiously” and “excitedly” into the digital domain. Dave Derr of Empirical Labs got his...
View ArticleFree Fridays! Fave New Freeware Pics – Frequency Shifter, Channel Processor,...
Hello fellow audio peoples and welcome to Free Friday issue 11! Consider this plethora of freeware a stocking stuffer from Santa, SonicScoop and heaven. Go ahead and take a look but it might be best to...
View ArticleSoundToys Launches Radiator — Altec 1567A Tube Mixer Emulation
Simplicity can be the pathway to serious creativity. SoundToys is helping producers, mixers, and engineers to experience that happy magic for themselves with the launch of its new Radiator software...
View ArticleMoog Music Launches Animoog V2 for iPad – Adds 4 Track Recorder, New Controls...
The best argument ever for owning an iPad? The original version of this expressive synth was up there already, and now the Animoog V2 has just launched. Moog’s extremely creative polyphonic synthesizer...
View ArticleStudio Survival: How A.L.L. Digital Mastering Came All the Way Back from...
Next month, on January 1st, 2013, my mastering studio A.L.L. Digital will turn 20 years old. I had envisioned a party, perhaps a night out with my clients, or at least some sort of commemoration of the...
View ArticleWave Alchemy Launches Transistor Revolution – Authentic 808/909 Recreation
Among the holy grails of analog sound, the famed Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines rank right up there. UK software developer Wave Alchemy has taken the task of virtually recreating these two...
View ArticleSound Smack! By AfroDJMac — How to Set up Wi-Fi MIDI for iPad
The iPad and iPhone offer musicians a plethora of tools on a single device. There are guitar tuners, ear trainers, chord charts, synthesizers, and the list goes on and on. While it can be great to...
View ArticleTeenage Engineering Xmas Gift – Free OP-1 Drumkits by the Klirrfaktor
There’s nothing quite – or remotely! – like the OP-1 portable synthesizer from Teenage Engineering. Jam out anew on your OP-1 with a free new set of Klirrfactor drum samples. As a gift to the universe...
View ArticleWSDG (NY) Completes Recording/Teaching Studio Complex for Berklee Valencia...
An international music education has become a lot more accessible – and enticing – thanks to recent developments at Berklee College of Music. The renowned contemporary music education school has opened...
View ArticleLightning Boy Audio Introduces Bolt Bender Tube EQ w/Passive Baxandall...
This FX pedal is made for more than just guitar. Lightning Boy Audio – HQ’d in bucolic North Collins, NY — wants to expand your sonic options with the latest addition to its pedal FX line, the Bolt...
View ArticleMOTU Launches Breakout – Flexible Connections for Track16 Desktop Interface
Highly comprehensive I/O is a big part of the appeal of Track16, the compact 16×14 desktop interface from MOTU. Now there’s even more ways to tap into that aspect of Track16 via Breakout. Sold...
View Article15 Songs in 14 Days: Making “The Storm Is Passing Over” Sandy Benefit Album
KENSINGTON, BROOKLYN: The mantra of Brooklyn multimedia collective Mason Jar Music is “Preserving Analog Principles in a Digital Age”. But that applies to a lot more than just recording techniques....
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