“Recording Lounge” Recap & Mixtape Feat. Au Revoir Simone, Ski Lodge & More
If you didn’t make it to the annual Just Managing Recording Lounge – held this year at Mission Sound in Williamsburg – you missed out! Artists including Ski Lodge, Tweens, Ghost Wave and Au Revoir...
View ArticleBlue Cat Audio Releases PatchWork – Virtual Patch Bay For Audio Plug-Ins
Well known for their audio analysis plug-ins, Blue Cat Audio has now created a new integration tool for DAWs that allows users to store multiple plug-in chains. PatchWork can support a total of 64...
View ArticleThe Fest For Beatles Fans 2014 Confirmed for Feb. 7th in NYC — 50th American...
It will be a fabulous three months of anticipation for fans of the Fab Four. It was 50 years ago in February… That’s because The Fest for Beatles Fans, which bills itself as “the world’s longest...
View ArticlePurple Audio Announces MFtwenty5 – Rack Mount Discrete Summing Mixer for 500...
Here comes a chemistry set for your 500 modules. Purple Audio, the specialty manufacturer born in Andrew Roberts’ NYU dorm room circa 1997, recently announced the MFtwenty5, a 1RU Dual input 10×2 mixer...
View ArticleRecording Retreats: Pilot Recording Studios, Berkshire County in Western MA
By now, we’ve heard enough stories about the closing of large-scale Manhattan recording studios for it to have become something of a cliché. We all know how it goes: Rising rents and a floundering...
View ArticleZynaptiq Releases PITCHMAP 1.5 With Cross-Platform Support
Zynaptiq’s intriguing pitch shifting tool is now available in version 1.5 (free to existing users) with cross-platform support with upgrades. PITCHMAP recognizes, then allows users to take control of...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Announces New Fairchild Plugin Collection
Universal Audio has announced the new “Fairchild Tube Limiter Plugin Collection“, featuring new and improved modeling of the Fairchild 660 and 670 studio classics. According to the press announcement:...
View ArticleThe ABC’s of…Electronic Rock in the Studio: The Doors to Depeche Mode & LCD...
The fourth 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, and Punk Rock. A musical...
View ArticleSteinberg Launches VST Connect Pro – Remote Multitrack Recording
Two applications from Steinberg — VST Connect SE and Pro — are similar as far as allowing real-time stereo remote recording sessions through Cubase + live video chat – the performer records via the...
View ArticleSound Devices Intros New Portable 633 Field Mixer — 6-Input Mixer with...
Field mixers and recorder specialists Sound Devices has introduced another addition to their portable line with the 633 Mixer, a six-input mixer with integrated 10-track recorder. Squarely aimed at the...
View ArticleLive Venue View: Barbés – Music that Breaks Boundaries
Barbés is an unusual venue. It’s a rare place where you can walk through the door on almost any evening, expect to hear a band that you’ve never heard of before, and practically without fail, that band...
View ArticleEar Trumpet Labs Releases Myrtle Microphone — Early Broadcast Inspiration
The “unholy offspring” of former software developer Bricoleur Philip Graham, Ear Trumpet Labs and its utterly distinctive line of microphones has a look all its own. The latest addition to Ear...
View ArticleGlyph Introduces BlackBox – USB 3.0 Mobile Hard Drive
Glyph has announced a new super-fast external hard drive. The BlackBox is a mobile storage solution that is USB 3.0 compatible only, allowing for much faster transfer speeds than traditional USB 2.0...
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 ArticleProducertech.com Announces Mastering Course – Mastering In The Box With...
Professional mastering engineer Nicholas D’Ombrain of Zeitgeist Mastering has taken a new approach to Ableton Live’s native devices by developing Mastering In The Box With Ableton Live. The course...
View ArticleMGMT Channels the Grateful Dead — The Tapers’ Section at the Barclays Center
In 1984, the Grateful Dead officially made room for the bootleggers that had been recording their shows since their first performances in the mid-1960s by giving them their own space, the aptly named...
View ArticleXILS-lab Releases R.A.M.S.E.S. Rhythm and Motion Multi-Effect Plug-In
Rhythm And Motion Stereo Engine System (R.A.M.S.E.S.) comes to us from soft-synth pros XILS-lab. The new multi-effect plugin can completely reshape an audio source by targeting specific sections using...
View ArticlePro Tools 11 and AAX 64 Support for UAD Powered Plug-Ins Available in Mac...
Mac users are moving closer to a grand convergence between their UAD Powered Plug-ins, with support for Pro Tools 11 and AAX 64 now in free public beta. The beta for UAD software v7.4..1 can be...
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