A lot has changed in the recording industry since the 1940’s. The road from acetate masters to digital streaming has been a long one, and there are still music critics who feel that it is simply impossible to make recordings today that can deliver the same sound, feel and emotional Read more...
Gain Staging is an important part of dealing with audio when recording and mixing.
In this tutorial, I’ll go through some of the issues that are big red flags. If you’re needing some help with gain staging in your sessions, I’ll help you to solve them with some quick and Read more...
Digital wireless microphones sometimes get a bad rap. Early models, especially those operating in the 2.4 GHz band, did not sound as good as analog and were beset by dropouts and interference.
Combine that with a general preference for “analog” products among your average audio engineer, and many live sound Read more...
Audio post in Brooklyn is not news anymore. Owing to the larger spaces available and the convenience, an ever-growing contingent of filmmakers and media producers want to mix sound in their borough of choice.
And the options available are slowly growing. From Rumble Audio in East Willimamsburg/Bushwick to the new Read more...
Is a trip to the annual South by Southwest festival worthwhile for musicians? Judging by the fact that over 2,000 official acts, representing 53 countries, played in over 111 Austin venues this past week, it seems that many artists would say “yes”.
For many of them however, the trip may Read more...
Wendy Starland exudes the ideal of the modern entrepreneurial recording artist. She is also famous for having discovered and developed Lady Gaga at NYC’s famed venue The Cutting Room – a fruitful relationship that led to regular songwriting collaborations for years to follow.
Starland introduced Lady GaGa to Rob Fusari, Read more...
Many studio veterans maintain a certain stigma against “laptop records.” By laptop records, I mean recordings that are made outside of a traditional recording studio, without a collection of expensive analog gear. They are sometimes demonized in discussions during down time in pro-level sessions, even though many of them exhibit Read more...
Producing the debut EP for an artist means pulling double duty: You don’t just want them to be heard – you want them to be discovered.
That was the mission for Peppina, a singer/songwriter whose music, lyrics and voice have been attracting attention across the globe, from her native Finland Read more...
Plugins: They are commonplace and nearly mandatory in today’s studios and workspaces, and for some, have entirely replaced hardware processors. There is now even an entire generation of audio fiends that have never worked outside the box. For some, analog processing is still considered the holy grail—at least for certain Read more...
Making a move is something Joe Lambert knows how to do – in more ways than one.
Lambert went solo in 2008, after a decade plus of mastering at bigger NYC houses. Hanging out his own shingle as Joe Lambert Mastering was a risk, but one that’s paid off as Read more...
