Who ain’t kiddin? These 10-ton gorillas of music for picture: Heavy Melody Music.
Founded over a decade ago by Dave Fraser and Neil Goldberg, this is a made-in-Manhattan musical lovefest that just keeps on producing. HM has its hands in some of everything – movies, TV, ads, trailers, video games…they’ll Read more...
The MP3 format was first released 21 years ago this Summer. It goes almost without saying that it, and the other compressed audio formats that followed, changed the music world forever.
Today, there are tens of millions of Americans who grew up with a music marketplace almost entirely different from Read more...
Over the past few years, my engineering work has become a hybrid between music recording and post-production for TV and film. Often times, the projects I work on are independent, self-financed films and documentaries with modest budgets, which inevitably means that all post production audio requirements fall squarely on my Read more...
It’s a rock and roll story of transformation. But the onstage characters of Hedwig and The Angry Inch aren’t the only ones who were changed by this Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical.
Up for an impressive eight awards at the just-completed Tonys, Hedwig obviously made a big impact on the psyches Read more...
There’s always a song in the #1 slot. But not all those chart-toppers are destined for true greatness – they come and then they go, entertaining millions for a shining moment before fading away.
“All of Me” by John Legend is not that kind of #1. It’s the other kind Read more...
Producer Steve Evetts listens intently to the sound of Ben Weinman’s guitar coming through his headphones.
“A little more to the right,” he tells a studio tech adjusting a microphone in front of Weinman’s guitar amp. Evetts’ eyes search the sky as the tone from the mic gradually changes. He Read more...
Zen – it’s a school of Mahayana Buddhism; a meditative state; an audio interface.
If that last category seems out of place, you may not know the thinking that went into making Zen Studio, the portable audio interface from Antelope Audio. But this unit was designed to satisfy and soothe Read more...
If Mark Needham is experiencing downtime, it’s strictly self-imposed.
Few mixers keep busier than Needham, whose talents seem always to be in demand. His discography of platinum artists span decades, and they tell the story of his success better than anything: American Authors, Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, Imagine Dragons, The Killers, Read more...
We often make hundreds or thousands of decisions on any given project. How many of them really count?
Most of us like to tell ourselves—and others—that although any one of our little tweaks may be too small to be heard, it’s the net effect of all of them together that Read more...
Sound is crazy. It travels in invisible waves, difficult, if not impossible to visualize. With the right speakers you hear what was recorded and mixed in the original studio, no extra or missing frequencies, the balances hold up.
Likewise, we trust our speakers to give us an even and reliable Read more...
