Mackie’s engineering team had a tantalizing challenge staring them in face: Create a system for live sound designed to seamlessly combine wireless mixing with hardware controls.
That called for designing a hardware control surface that would converge seamlessly with their popular DL32R 32-Channel Rackmount Digital Mixer and Master Fader control Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist on April 2, 2012.
Recorded music has been getting louder over for the past few decades. So much louder in fact, that everyday-listeners have begun to hear about it in general-interest papers like the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Read more...
Today we’re going to look at a handful of the best affordable acoustic guitars for the recording studio. In this roundup, we’ll focus on steel string acoustics that can be had for well under $1,000.
Know What You NeedWhat are our criteria? A great acoustic guitar for the studio Read more...
Check out part 1 of our interview with the legendary Joe Chiccarelli, producer/engineer for White Stripes, Spoon, Alanis Morissette, Morrissey, U2, Elton John, Beck, Frank Zappa and many more.
In this part of their B&H interview series, Chiccarelli talks with SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti about best strategies for tracking, mixing Read more...
Last week Frankfurt, Germany was the central gathering place for dealers, developers and distributors of musical instruments and music production tools from all over the globe.
Following directly behind Prolight + Sound, Musikmesse played host to new product releases and demos, along with attendees from over 130 countries. Here are Read more...
What adventures can your audio passion lead you to?
In a perfect world, our obsessions are satisfied simultaneously with building up our communities. By that measure, the podcast known as Room Tone is produced in absolutely optimal conditions. Created by William Garrett, a longtime audio professional and owner of the Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist on April 2, 2013.
When we spoke, I kept hoping Chicago producer and musician John McEntire would regale me with tales of studio magic, or at least studio mischief. Did he ever mic drums from the top of a stairwell Read more...
Have you heard the story of how Phil Xenidis, better known as Phil X, went from painting garages to playing with Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe to playing almost every guitar track on the first Daughtry album, to becoming the lead guitar player for Bon Jovi?
If yes, then Read more...
Founded in 2007, UK-based Spitfire Audio’s products have rapidly become a de facto part of many a modern composer’s sample-based toolkit.
Back in 2011, Spitfire released their Albion Volume I, an orchestral library which has been used a in a myriad of scores and productions since its release.
In Read more...
One supergroup deserves another.
On the artist side, you’ve got The Last Shadow Puppets. Made up of the Arctic Monkeys’ lead vocalist/guitarist/principal songwriter Alex Turner, and singer/guitarist Miles Kane, together with Simian composer/producer/drummer/keyboardist, James Ford, their rocked-up baroque pop resulted in 2008’s #1 debut album, Age Of The Understatement. Now Read more...
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