Back to Basics: How to Improve Gain Staging In Your DAW (Video)
Gain Staging is an important part of dealing with audio when recording and mixing. In this tutorial, I’ll go through some of the issues that are big red flags. If you’re needing some help with gain...
View ArticleBrooklyn Event: Meet API’s BOX Console at Strange Weather — Thursday, 4/9
API is all about New York City this week. API’s BOX takes over NYC this Thursday, at a free-to-attend Open House in Brooklyn. Don’t miss the opportunity to get up close and personal with API’s BOX...
View ArticleRecreating Bird: Returning to Detroit’s Legendary “United Sound Systems”...
A lot has changed in the recording industry since the 1940’s. The road from acetate masters to digital streaming has been a long one, and there are still music critics who feel that it is simply...
View ArticleReview: Steinberg’s Cubase Pro 8 – By Andrew Koss
Presented with the opportunity to write a review about a DAW, my initial reaction was, “How can anyone cover an entire DAW in a single article?” Cubase Pro 8 is the latest version of Steinberg’s...
View ArticleMuse Research Launches Receptor VIP2 – Hardware Plug-In Player
San Jose, CA-based Muse Research has released their second iteration of their popular Receptor VIP Plug-In player. The Receptor VIP2 comes loaded with new I/O, processor, expandable RAM and over $900...
View ArticleSolid State Logic Announces δelta-Control for Duality and AWS Consoles
SSL is raising the veil on a significant upgrade to two of its major consoles — meet Duality δelta and AWS δelta. What makes these desks “Delta” is the introduction of δelta-Control (δ-Ctrl), which...
View ArticleKaleidoscope Sound: Evolution of the Engineer-in-Residence
If you want to know what New York City recording is coming to – or rather, where it’s going – cast your eyes towards the Garden State. While Brooklyn was seen for decades as an affordable haven for...
View ArticleExponential Audio Releases Excalibur – Multi-Effects Plugin
There are so many plug-ins to choose from these days. If only a developer was kind enough to bundle them up into a single plug-in with tons of modulation options and minimal effect on the CPU. Well...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Next-Gen Apollo Thunderbolt 2 Audio Interfaces,...
Universal Audio has announced four new Apollo interfaces and the industry’s first and only Marshall-branded amplifier plug-in at Musikmesse 2015. Available today is the Apollo 8 – A single rack...
View ArticleBack to Basics: 3 Simple Steps to Improve Your Mixes with Subtractive EQ
When I first started mixing, I thought the only way I could improve a sound was to add something to it. I piled dozens of plugins and EQ boosts onto every track, and my mixes sounded muddy and...
View ArticleMusikmesse 2015: Antelope Audio Introduces MP8d, Eight-Channel Microphone...
Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany is in full swing with a bunch of big announcements from around the world of audio. There are quite a few noteworthy additions to the industry but we would firstly like...
View ArticleReturn of “Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”! (And SonicScoop Contributing Editor...
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist” returns! This week, we’re excited to announce that one of our favorite sister sites, Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, will be relaunching as a member of the SonicScoop content...
View Article“Pensado’s Place” Goes to Washington: An Interview with Dave Pensado and Herb...
Pensado for President! Could audio’s most visible personality be plotting a run for the Oval Office in 2016? All things Pensado are live and in person in Washington DC, this weekend. The pundits here...
View ArticleComposer Cribs: NYC’s Stenfert Charles Takes the Tribeca Film Festival
With the Tribeca Film Festival tearing into Week 2, it’s good to know that home-grown talent is being heard on the soundtracks. (l-r) Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are locked to picture. We refer...
View ArticleGreg Norman Outside Electrical Audio
What a regular day at the office looks like for Greg Norman. Greg Norman has been Steve Albini’s right hand man at Electrical Audio since the beginning. He has worked at the influential Chicago studio...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Neve 88RS Channel Strip Collection, Tube-Tech CL 1B...
Say “Neve”, and most audio pros can’t help but feel a glow inside. Need Neve? The new UA Neve 88RS Channel Strip Selection Now Neve is new all over again, with the release of UAD Software v8.1, a...
View Article2015 AMP Awards Winners Announced at City Winery in NYC
The Association of Music Producers’ AMP Awards are a music business event like no other. A grand convergence takes place: music producers, ad agency creatives, composers, music supervisors, audio post...
View ArticleLA Event: Meet Sontronics’ Trevor Coley – Friday, 5/8 at Westlake Pro
Who’s the man behind the mics? You’ve got a chance to meet him. Make no mistake — meet Sontronics at Westlake, on Friday, May 8th. LA recording mavens can meet Trevor Coley, founder and mic designer of...
View ArticleStudio Monitor Switch: Alex Sterling — Upper West Side
Listen closely, and you can hear them – an emerging generation of engineers who care deeply about audio. Alex Sterling has an ear for detail. Among them is Alex Sterling, whose eponymous studio on the...
View ArticleWaves Releases H-Reverb Plug-In
Waves has introduced H-Reverb and it appears to bring us fresh and exciting tech for more control than Waves has produced in previous reverb plugins. Integrating their new FIR engine (Finite Impulse...
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