London Bridge Studios: Neves, Studers, and Living History
London Bridge Control Room In 2005, and, with the weight of their purchase heavy on their minds, Jonathan Plum and Geoff Ott painted the walls of their newly acquired studio, London Bridge. By then,...
View ArticleNews Analysis: Will LA Audio Post Rise or Fall Following the Todd-Soundelux...
In an audio post development that took the entertainment industry by surprise, Todd-Soundelux filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. The storied Soundelux faces an uncertain future. The...
View ArticleMesanovic Microphones Launches Model 2 – Handcrafted Passive Ribbon Mic
The Motor City means music – so when a new microphone comes out of Motown, we suggest you pay attention. The Model 2 is a ribbon mic that’s full of surprises. Detroit-based Mesanovic Microphones has...
View ArticleFast Tracking: Butter the Children Write & Record A Song in One Day — on...
Talk about exiting your comfort zone. Brooklyn post-punk band Butter the Children were a million miles from home in Austin, TX, recording a song they had never heard before – because it hadn’t been...
View ArticleZoom Debuts H5 Portable Recorder – High Resolution Multitrack
Mobile audio recorders are packing more and more into small spaces – and affordable ones at that. In keeping with that trend, Zoom has just announced their all-new H5 Handy Recorder. Coming in June...
View ArticleHow (and Why) Are MP3 Files So Damn Small?
A technician works on one of Google’s gargantuan data centers. The MP3 format was first released 21 years ago this Summer. It goes almost without saying that it, and the other compressed audio formats...
View ArticleIK Multimedia Announces SampleTank 3 Sound Workstation
Is bigger better? More than a decade in the making, ST3 is coming. IK Multimedia is betting you’ll say “yes”, but to their credit, massive size isn’t the only exciting thing about the impending release...
View ArticleGrado Launches Third Generation Headphones: The e-Series
Brooklyn-based headphone designer, Grado, has just unveiled their third generation of professional headphones. After 60 years in the making, the company believes it has reached its most sophisticated...
View ArticleComposer Cribs: Heavy Melody Music – New York City
Who ain’t kiddin? These 10-ton gorillas of music for picture: Heavy Melody Music. Founded over a decade ago by Dave Fraser and Neil Goldberg, this is a made-in-Manhattan musical lovefest that just...
View ArticleStudio Prodigy Sessions in LA: Eddie Kramer 6/21-22, “Analog Mastering in a...
Burning for a real learning experience? Engineer/mixer/producer Ryan Hewitt (blink-182, Dixie Chicks, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) has a double shot coming LA way. Eddie Kramer will be available...
View ArticleMy GO TO…Saturation: Three Pros Share Their Secret Weapons
It’s time to dish out some dirt! This edition of the GO TO series is all about everything that’s unclean: Saturation, distortion and harmonics that make our drums gnarly, our vocals gritty or maybe...
View ArticlePromaxBDA Winners of Promotion, Marketing & Design Awards Announced
There’s nothing like networking at PromaxBDA. FX made their presence known at the 2014 PromaxBDA Awards. Whether you were in music, design, or straight up marketing, attending PromaxBDA last week in...
View ArticleAllen & Heath Introduces Qu-32 Mixer – 32-In/28-Out, for Live & Studio
The Qu digital line of mixers from Allen & Heath now include the Qu-32 – a 32 channel digital mixer. The Qu line radically maximizes on the advantages of digital control by including complete board...
View ArticleCulinary Audio Arts: Eating Up the 17th Annual AES AudioMasters Golf...
The Nashville Section of the AES, in cooperation with the Nashville Engineers Relief Fund (NERF), held its 17th annual AudioMasters golf tournament for the benefit of NERF on Thursday and Friday, May...
View ArticleThe Resonant Human: The Science of How Tempo Affects Us
Image courtesy of Flickr user Derek Gavey.You’re walking along, enjoying some of your favorite music on a pair of headphones, when all of a sudden you realize you’re re-enacting Survivor’s “Eye of the...
View ArticleVideo Premiere: Sterling Sound’s Chris Gehringer in RPM #2 – from Ronin...
How would you like 9:33 of inspiration today? Brooklyn mic genies Ronin Applied Sciences will provide it. The creators of astonishing products like the Dove LDC FET mic and Archangel Passive Gain mic...
View ArticleCareer Engineering: Allen Farmelo on Recording Cinematic Orchestra, & That...
Spanning boroughs and spanning the globe, this multifaceted producer/mixer/engineer sees how the world of audio is unfolding. Sterling prose + two video segments! The post Career Engineering: Allen...
View ArticleSoundToys To Launch Surprise New Plug-In at SXSW
If you're down in Austin for SXSW, make sure you hit up the Tape Op Subscriber's Party on Friday, March 18, at Lucky Lounge. SoundToys is a sponsor, and will apparently be giving away some awesome gift...
View ArticleDancing About Architecture: A Dictionary of Audio Terms
Musicians and Engineers often speak different languages. So how can we have productive conversations about the ineffable qualities of sound? The post Dancing About Architecture: A Dictionary of Audio...
View ArticleSoundToys Planning Another Big Launch at SXSW?
You may remember last year SoundToys launched its Devil-Loc plug-in via SXSW + social media blitz. Users spread the news and the free plug-in with a sharing code online, and in doing so became eligible...
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