Double-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 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...
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...
View Article9 Questions with Michael Lau of Round Hill Music: Rethinking Publishing for...
Getting creative means shaking things up. That’s a fact not just for songwriters, but for publishers too. One publishing company that’s proven unafraid to make some waves is Round Hill Music (RHM)....
View ArticleMan Made Music Expands Creative & Brand Partnerships — Promotes Dan Venne,...
Additional manpower has just been added to Man Made Music. Dan Venne is now VP, Supervising Producer at MMM The most recent expansion for Joel Beckerman’s prolific music company is within its Creative...
View ArticleShure Launches 3rd Annual “Get the Gig” Internship Competition
Do you have what it takes to be “one part roadie, one part blogger, and one part administrative genius”? Go and get it! If so, then you best be psyched for the Third Annual Shure “Get the Gig”...
View ArticleReview: IK Multimedia iLoud
There is no doubt that audio technology has become less expensive, more transparent, more powerful and more portable. In terms of real cost-to-performance, anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand...
View ArticlePositive Grid Releases ToneCloud – Amp Sharing Cloud Platform
California-based developer Positive Grid recently released their popular iPad app BIAS allowing musicians to create a huge variety of custom amp models. Now with the release of ToneCloud, artists can...
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