New Music Seminar Announces 2013 NYC Conference – New Format & Venue
The New Music Seminar is returning once more to NYC, hitting Manhattan June 9-11. The NMS is ready to take off in NYC next month. Since the music industry is always evolving, it follows that NMS would...
View ArticleThe Blackbird Academy Launches – Recording & Live Sound School at Elite...
There’s an ambitious new option in the audio education sector: The Blackbird Academy is officially open for business, launching their new landing page in preparation for their first class starting...
View ArticleIK Multimedia Launches White Channel – Analog Console Channel Strip
A signal path recharge awaits. IK Multimedia announced a number of new and updated additions to its T-RackS mixing and mastering plugins collection. Foremost among them is the White Channel, designed...
View ArticleMOTU Launches Digital Performer 8.0 for Windows
The latest version of MOTU’s Digital Performer is made for the other half. Or however large the percentage of music producers that work all or in part on a PC — which may be a bigger segment than...
View ArticleRecording Sweet Spot – Mother Brother Studios, Bridgeport, CT
Connecticut isn’t often accused of being a cultural hotspot, but don’t underestimate the sonic steadfastness of the Nutmeg State. One studio that’s seen the musical persistence of CT is Mother Brother,...
View ArticleStephen Arnold Music Expands with New NYC Office
A prolific creator of sonic branding and original music has just expanded its East Coast presence. Noelle Alanís is Director of Licensing, Northeast USA, for Stephen Arnold Music. Dallas-based Stephen...
View ArticleFirst Look: Universal Audio Apollo 16 Launch at VKLA
Last week, VKLA hosted the West Coast premier of Universal Audio’s new Apollo 16 interface, presented through a live demonstration by Fab Dupont and an interview with Universal Audio founder Bill...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Ocean Way Studios Dynamic Room Modeling Plugin
There were rumors that this plugin existed – now it’s a fact. Universal Audio (UA) has announced today the release of their newest plugin, which represents a highly advanced new approach to acoustic...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Releases SPL TwinTube, Sonnox Oxford Inflator UAD Plugins
Universal Audio’s newly debuted UAD Software v7.0 is making a grand entrance. Take on the TwinTube — in virtual style, via the UAD platform. In addition to the just-announced Ocean Way Studios plugin,...
View ArticlePalm Mute Piano Launched – Finger-Dampened Virtual Instrument
Looking for a new twist on an old standby? You’ve just found one. A new piano perspective — the Palm Mute Piano. Paper Stone Instruments, a new Kontakt Library development company with some fresh...
View ArticleDMAX Audio Launches Audio Mastering Studio for iPad
It’s time that the iPad mastered mastering. That’s happening now, thanks to the release of Audio Mastering Studio, from the Russian developer Igor Vasilyev, working in cooperation with DMAX Audio....
View ArticleThe Garden: Intensively Equipped to Mix and Create in Brooklyn
CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN: If there’s one thing New York City needs more of, it’s gardens. Just the word itself has a therapeutic effect, invoking a harmonious convergence of beauty and order. So it’s no...
View ArticleAegean Music Launches Amp Vision – Guitar Amp Distortion and Effects Plugin
Get some BIG boxes inside your box. The developers known as Aegean Music have launched Amp Vision, an ambitious new guitar tone shaper – you could call it an amp simulator, but that seems to sell this...
View ArticleHarrison Debuts MPC5 Film Console
It’s not every day that a new large-format digital mixing console is officially unveiled to the world – but today just happens to be one of those days. The newcomer is from Nashville-based Harrison,...
View ArticleElements of Mixing with Bassy Bob: Speeding up Remote Revisions
You know what I really hate? Revisions, revisions, revisions… Sometimes they go on for days. Endless prints, emails, lists of notes, confusion over which version were talking about. You get the...
View ArticleA.O.M. Releases tranQuilizer Graphic EQ Plugin
Alchemically Organized Music, or A.O.M., is a Tokyo-based developer that has a few interesting, quality plugins already out – their latest being the tranQuilizer. TranQuilizer is a feature-rich plugin...
View ArticleReview: ADAM F5 Studio Monitors
I mix quite a bit for film and TV where dialogue is king. For those projects, I like monitors that put the human speaking voice front and center. Many consumer TV’s, flat screens, laptops, tablets,...
View ArticleFREE ReacTable Concert Wed. 5/15 in NYC – Play a ReacTable Yourself at...
Opportunities like this don’t come along every day. Tonight, Wednesday May 15th, at 7 PM, may be your best chance to get up close and personal with the revolutionary electronic instrument ReacTable,...
View ArticleGlobal Music Elite Gather in NYC for Phil Ramone Tribute
How do you say goodbye to Phil Ramone? Pictured L-R, seated: Paul Simon, Quincy Jones, Karen Ramone, BJ Ramone, Matthew Ramone; L-R, standing: Steve Gadd, Josh Groban, Dave Grusin, Ed Cherney, Nikki...
View ArticleDestination Studio: Old Soul Studios, Catskill, NY
Back in 1995, Kenny Siegal was living in New York City, working out of a personal studio in DUMBO, long before that neighborhood had turned into the chichi business district it is today. His studio at...
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