In this classic Trust Me, I’m a Scientist post from August 8, 2011, Scott Craggs of Old Colony Mastering provides an easy pre-mastering checklist to help improve any mix. For even more on mastering, try the new full-length course from SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti, Mastering Demystified.
As a mastering Read more...
Chicago-based Dizengoff Audio has created quite a buzz for itself by by making shockingly affordable recreations of classic gear with mostly locally-sourced components.
You could think of it as something like “farm-to-table” audio, and the care taken by this new outfit’s designers and builders really shows in the quality of Read more...
Located in North Hollywood, California, Bergatron Music & Post boasts a large selection of analog outboard gear, microphones, and instruments. But the gear isn’t what brings people to this small, sharp-looking studio—it’s all about the experience.
Hidden in the backyard of Brian Starley’s home, past the garden vegetables and inviting Read more...
In many ways, the studio economy is a rental economy across the board. Many studios rent their spaces from a landlord. Artists and producers that don’t own a studio, or want to use a different one than their personal facility, rent a recording/mixing/mastering in the form of studio time. They Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, August 1, 2011.
Joy Division was something of an anomaly.
Existing for fewer than four years and releasing only two albums in 1979 and 1980, the band continues to remain intriguing, relevant, and influential to new generations of musicians and Read more...
When it comes to recording and mixing acoustic drums in the context of modern, punchy record production, a key difficulty is sufficiently isolating individual drums for processing and beefing up.
Bleed (or “spill”) is that natural tendency of a microphone placed next to say, a snare drum, to pick up Read more...
Guitarists are often tweakers, dedicating hours of research and practice to get the best possible tones and comfort from their instruments.
Electric guitarists will audition countless amps, speaker cabinets, individual speakers, picks, strings, and more as they continue on the never-ending search for great tone making some of us acoustic Read more...
Albums are alive and well – and there’s a brave studio that’s ready to back up that notion.
The facility that takes the long-playing view? It’s called Continental Recording Studio, and it’s the latest evidence as to why Long Island City may be the true hub of NYC recording today Read more...
SPL, makers of acclaimed instant-classic outboard gear dating back to the 1990s like the Vitalizer and the Transient Designer, have a couple of new 500-series units out, and I was fortunate enough to get my hands on one of them: The 1503 “DeS” de-esser.
SPL has never been known Read more...
In an industry that measures success by album sales and critical acclaim, it’s refreshing to hear from someone who refuses to subscribe to such a narrow definition.
“I think some people are putting the idea of success too high on a pedestal and are twisting what success actually means,” Justin Read more...
