Sundance Sound Brief: Inside the Audio Post for Four Film Premieres
Audio post pros worldwide have been working year ‘round for this moment, when a plethora of indie films premieres at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The POV style of “Low Down” required a special...
View ArticleSlate Digital Announces The VMS Virtual Microphone System
With their expanding array of hardware and digital audio products, Slate Digital has created a hybrid solution – the Virtual Microphone System. The VMS combines high quality audio capturing with...
View ArticleRupert Neve Designs Debuts 551 – 500 Series Inductor EQ
From the hand of the man, comes yet another audio first. Rupert Neve himself created every nook and cranny of the Rupert Neve Designs 551 Series Inductor EQ – the first and only 500 series EQ that he...
View ArticleMusic in 5.1 Dimensions: How the Best Surround Mixers Approach the Soundstage
Surround sound made its first public appearance in 1941, when Disney released its groundbreaking animated musical, Fantasia. Ever since then, surround systems have increasingly been used to enhance the...
View ArticleJZ Microphones Announces Channel Strip JZ Track
After solid growth since their conception in 2007 JZ Microphones has decided to officially expand their line from high end microphone production to their first channel strip, the JZ Track. JZ...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Apollo Twin – High Resolution Desktop Interface
It turns out there was yet another dimension for Universal Audio to occupy. The latest breakout from UA puts their ideas onto the desktop, via the Apollo Twin High-Resolution Desktop Interface with...
View ArticleManley Labs Debuts The Core Reference Channel Strip
From creators of ultra high quality analog outboard gear produced straight out of Southern California, Manley Labs presents to us the CORE analog channel strip. The core purpose of CORE is to provide...
View ArticleM-Audio Announces Trigger Finger Pro & M-Track Eight Interface
Winter NAMM, 2014 is underway and M-Audio wasted no time introducing two new audio devices that bring new features to their existing line of products. First up is an addition to their M-Track interface...
View ArticleAVID At NAMM: Space, Sibelius & Eleven Rack
With NAMM kicking off yesterday, Avid had a few announcements, though no earth-shattering new releases. Here’s what new from the Avid camp: First, they announced the new Sibelius 7.5 music composition...
View ArticleAPI’s New Lunchbox, New 500 Series Modules
Introduced at NAMM, the new API Lunchbox — the 500-8B — has EIGHT slots, and delivers more power and overall better performance than the six-slot 500-6B. And it costs the same – $499. Can’t complain...
View ArticleMoog Announces Sub 37 Mono/Duo-Paraphonic Synthesizer
Another noteworthy NAMM release comes to us from Moog – The Sub 37 synth. Built on the engine that powers their original Sub Phatty, the Sub 37 includes the same DAHDSR filter, two modulation busses...
View ArticleiZotope & BT Co-Develop BreakTweaker — Beat Machine of the Future
iZotope and BT have collaborated on new technology they’re billing “the beat machine of the future”. Introduced at NAMM, “BreakTweaker” is a new kind of rhythmic instrument — a platform for rhythmic...
View ArticleBell Sound – A Legacy of Looking Ahead
It feels like home. Bougainvillea climbs over the green metal gate, encircling bright blue lounge chairs and a wrought iron table set, picturesque, against the brick patio. Entering Bell Sound The...
View ArticleRadial Announces Space Heater Tube Drive + Summing Mixer, Twinline Guitar FX...
Radial Engineering came through Winter NAMM with some big announcements and the ones that caught our eyes were the introduction of the Space Heater 8 channel tube drive + summing mixer, and the...
View ArticleNAMM 2014 Gear Highlights: 36 Picks to Improve Your Studio
If being thoroughly overwhelmed is your thing, then the music trade show they call NAMM is a great way to kick off the year. NAMM beckons to the industry insiders. The 2014 North American Music...
View ArticleStuder Introduces Vista X Console, with New Infinity Series Processing Engine
Studer is putting a stop to the power struggle. The marquee manufacturer has just unveiled the new Vista X digital console and the Studer Infinity Processing engine, showing off their landmark new...
View ArticleFresh Off the Press: “The Music Producer’s Survival Guide” by Brian Jackson
Brian Jackson has decided to take music career books to the next level. With the MPSG, you’ll learn how to build a fire in the studio…just kidding. In his new book, The Music Producer’s Survival Guide:...
View ArticleNouveau Signal Flow: The New Studio I at The Blackbird Academy
Studio engineers in search of fresh ideas for signal flow: Ready to get an education? Then go inside the intriguing design of the freshly minted Studio I at The Blackbird Academy in Nashville, which...
View ArticleTracktion 5 DAW Released – Enhanced Creativity And Optimized Performance
Seattle-based software development company, Tracktion Software Corporation (TSC) is continuing their successful re-lauch of the Tracktion brand with version Five of their DAW, Tracktion. Tracktion 5 is...
View ArticleThe ABC’s of…Avant-Garde Rock In The Studio: Talking Heads to Sonic Youth &...
The fifth in a series, presenting a primer on the history of musical genres and the studio basics behind them. Previous installments have focused on Blues Rock, Reggae, Punk Rock, and Electronic Rock....
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