“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...
View ArticleMix With The Masters Announces Jack Joseph Puig Seminar – April 23-29, 2014
South of France…Jack Joseph Puig – six words that match up harmoniously together. Three names — infinite wisdom: learn from Jack Joseph Puig via Mix with the Masters this April. That’s not the only...
View ArticleNo More “Stupid Deals”: Why Dave Stewart Launched First Artist Bank
Former Eurythmics member Dave Stewart has proved his talent for innovation remains undiminished, with the recent announcement of his plans to launch a new bank designed specifically for musicians and...
View ArticleSony Pictures Installs Harrison MPC5/Xrange Film Console System
Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, CA, has just made a major upgrade. Now onsite is a new Harrison MPC5/Xrange film console system with MC² – 64 wide monitoring and Object++ 3D panning software. The...
View ArticleReloop Launches Three Next-Gen Turntables: RP-7000, RP-7000 LTD., RP-8000
Reloop has released three new turntables proving that vinyl is alive, adaptable and kicking. For DJs playing vinyl and DVS the Reloop RP-7000 (black) and the Reloop RP-7000 LTD. (white) are classic...
View ArticleMade in CA: Nothing like Little Labs
“I needed to come up with something. There’s so much gear out there now. It’s like… what, another EQ? Another compressor?” “[But] there is nothing out there that does what the Pepper does,” Jonathan...
View ArticleYouTooCanWoo: Recording, Composing, and Rebelling in Brooklyn
As if one rebellion weren’t enough, now David Perlick-Molinari is thick in the midst of another. We speak not just of the perennially inventive indie rock duo French Horn Rebellion which he co-founded,...
View ArticlePreSonus Ships Compact Eris E4.5 Studio Monitors
The Eris series of two-way monitors from PreSonus continues to expand – and shrink at the same time. The latest model to arrive is the ultra-compact Eris E4.5 studio reference monitor. PreSonus’ Eris...
View ArticlePloytec Releases Pi L Squared Duophonic Mono Synthesizer
Expanding their audio capabilities to the hardware realm, Germany-based company Ploytec has released their first synthesizer and it’s small enough to fit into our palm. The mostly digital PL2 packs...
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