RTW, an audio company based in Cologne, Germany, has been designing and manufacturing broadcast-quality metering tools and other devices since 1965.
This year, two new software releases from RTW bring the most essential instruments from their premium series of hardware meters to an new affordable price point with their Masterclass Read more...
Ah, music streaming. We all know that musicians have a love/hate relationship with it. It’s the dark addiction that opens a battle between good and evil in our very hearts.
Like so many listeners, I want to hear all the music, and explore all the new bands, but I also Read more...
SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti is back once again for a second installment in his vocal processing masterclass.
In this episode of our video tutorial series with B&H, Justin fires up the rig at Joe Lambert Mastering and pulls up a multi-track of the song “Heroes” by AMFM to walk through Read more...
Is it location location location? Or maybe timing is everything? Perhaps he made his own luck?
Better to can the clichés, and just chalk Velvet Elk Studios up to the great taste of its founder, Don DiLego. This singer/songwriter/banjo picker realized a few years ago that as much as he Read more...
As many large-scale recording studios across the country continue to close, the once quintessential path of an up-and-coming audio engineer is changing. Opportunities to “rise up the ranks”—from scrubbing toilets to helming an SSL in a traditional multi-room studio—are fading fast.
Over the past 15 years or so, shrinking budgets Read more...
From The Hook to The Bridge
New York City has long been a home to talented artists, musicians, engineers, producers and world renowned recording studios. But in this age of acceleration, in which recording budgets have shrunk while urban real estate markets have sky rocketed, the era of the large Read more...
SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti is back once again with another mixing masterclass, this time on vocal processing.
In this episode of our video tutorial series with B&H, Justin fires up the rig at Joe Lambert Mastering and pulls up a multi-track of the song “Heroes” by AMFM to help walk Read more...
The madness began with 1989. Not the year, the record.
So beguiling was Taylor Swift’s fifth studio album that none can resist its magnetic pull, not fans nor artists nor engineers nor producers. 9.5 million in sales worldwide and no less than seven singles – including “Bad Blood,” “Shake It Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, September 3rd, 2013.
We now live in a global economy. This means that no matter what path you take in life, if you want anything that resembles a sustainable and fulfilling career in a creative field, chances are that you’re Read more...
It would be difficult to find a producer, engineer, or musician who hasn’t been influenced by the work of Daniel Lanois in some way.
Over the past few decades, the Canadian multi-instrumentalist, mixer, and producer has continuously released his own solo works while collaborating with an array of remarkable, world-renowned Read more...
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