OSSINING, NY: It was a beautiful day for a drive up to Bi-Coastal Music in Ossining to check out the new Audio-Technica (AT) AT4080 and AT4081 ribbon mics. We wanted to do a ribbon mic shoot-out and Bi-Coastal had a very nice array of ribbon mics for us to compare. Read more...
LOWER EAST SIDE: We meet up with producer/engineer Chris Coady as he’s heading into the studio for the day. He’s mixing Abe Vigoda and it’s crunch time so we promise not to keep him too long…
Starting at Quad in the early aughts, Coady’s come up through tumultuous times Read more...
UPPER WEST SIDE: From the land of mediocre restaurants and mid-life crisis, the Upper West Side, come The Postelles. How did this foursome rise above the cultural obstacles of their upbringing, coming from a place where the Gap and Starbucks reign as supreme as in the Topeka suburbs, to make Read more...
Third in a series of in-studio tutorials by Rick Slater, NYC Producer/Engineer/Warrior. Check out Part I: Pre-Pre-Production and Part II: Tracking.
Of all the aspects of engineering, mixing is my favorite and the one I consider to be a black art. The ins and outs are no real mystery, but Read more...
“In the future, we’ll be able to make music with our friends anywhere,” says Ohm Force‘s new Ohm Studio demo video. And the future, they say, is now. Or, at least, it’s in beta.
Check it out:
Ohm Studio is a collaborative music making application as well as a web-based Read more...