It’s our favorite time of year again at SonicScoop: AES TIME!
Once again, our own Justin Colletti will be hosting the Platinum Engineers Panel, and If it’s anything like prior years, we’re expecting the room to fill to capacity, with standing room only left in the back for latecomers. Read more...
R.J. Gordon mixes Front-of-House at Brooklyn’s Shea Stadium, a space that’s part recording studio and part concert venue. Every single show that the venue hosts is recorded, mixed, mastered, archived online, and made available to the public free of charge.
Gordon talks to us about his work at Shea, his Read more...
When the first version of Omnisphere was released in 2008, the world of software synthesis was in a very different stage of development.
The critical mass of users who favored software instruments had yet to crest, and very few musicians would publicly bet their reputations on the sound quality of Read more...
It could happen to you: One minute you’re engineering at the studio that you’ve grown to love, and the next minute… you’re the studio’s owner.
That’s a leap that does take place in the studio world, and most recently at Vinegar Hill Sound (VHS) in Brooklyn. Reed Black met the Read more...
This year, nearly 50 years after its initial release, The Zombies are launching a U.S. tour to perform their classic album Odessey and Oracle in its entirety.
Oracle is now known as a truly great and once “lost” masterpiece of psychedelia.
It is an immaculate collection of music with exceptionally Read more...
Focusrite is one of the most recent companies to jump on the Thunderbolt bandwagon with its new Clarett range of interfaces.
Switching to the high speed Thunderbolt connection offers some great advantages. Anyone who’s been recording in the digital domain knows that latency is a problem, and it’s made even Read more...
We know you’re working on some pretty cool stuff in your studio. We want to hear about it—and help tell the rest of the audio and music production world!
Today, we’re pleased to reintroduce our long-popular “Session Buzz” series, where we peak inside great studios to give the rest of Read more...
Will audio still be fun on the last day of the 139th AES in NYC? You better believe it.
The Game Audio Intensive Workshop will be held on Sunday, November 1, 12-7 PM at the Institute of Audio Research (IAR), 64 University Place, NYC (Early Bird Price $150 before 10/10, Read more...
Need to get away? There’s a planet just for you in New Paltz, New York.
A little patch of utopia upstate, New Paltz has been a college town since 1828, but the latest learning experience there comes from Rogue Planet Mastering. Founded by Mike Kalajian, the facility is all about Read more...
“UBK” is an acronym that stands for “Useless Bank of Knowledge.” It was intended as sardonic and self-deprecating nickname, and Gregory Scott, owner of Kush Audio and Sly-Fi Digital, uses it in place of his real name, almost like a signature, on all his cutting-edge hardware and software designs.
But Read more...
