First Look: Universal Audio Apollo 16 Launch at VKLA
Last week, VKLA hosted the West Coast premier of Universal Audio’s new Apollo 16 interface, presented through a live demonstration by Fab Dupont and an interview with Universal Audio founder Bill...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Ocean Way Studios Dynamic Room Modeling Plugin
There were rumors that this plugin existed – now it’s a fact. Universal Audio (UA) has announced today the release of their newest plugin, which represents a highly advanced new approach to acoustic...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Releases SPL TwinTube, Sonnox Oxford Inflator UAD Plugins
Universal Audio’s newly debuted UAD Software v7.0 is making a grand entrance. Take on the TwinTube — in virtual style, via the UAD platform. In addition to the just-announced Ocean Way Studios plugin,...
View ArticleFilm Soundtrack Spotlight: Music Supervising “Love Sick Love”— From Score to...
Love and obsession – it’s a match made in cinematic heaven. It’s not just a love story — “Love Sick Love” has it’s own musical history as well. The latest film to go there, and then go deeper, is Love...
View ArticleNYC Event: Ableton Advanced Users Meetup – Thurs., May 9th, at Tekserve
The atmosphere was electric last month at Tekserve when electronic music aficionados packed the place for the official Live 9 & Push Preview event. Sound designer, music technologist, composer and...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of a Studio Guitar
Guitars, like people, come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Also much like people, when you look beneath the surface, they’re all made of the same stuff: In this case, wood, metal, plastic and curves....
View ArticleFocusrite Announces Scarlett 18i8 & 6i6 – New USB 2.0 Audio Interfaces
Two new audio interfaces are on the way. The latest in their Scarlett line, Focusrite has added a pair of ruggedly-built options available to recording artists, producers, and bands with the newly...
View ArticleNew Studio Review: Strange Weather, Brooklyn
Generally, I try to stay objective when I write about new studios. But when it comes to East Williamsburg’s Strange Weather recording, I just wouldn’t be telling the whole story if I neglected to...
View ArticleLine 6, Topspin Media Launch WHAT’S NEXT Musicians’ Conference – NYC, LA,...
Live music is taking center stage, at a new music conference coming to many of the globe’s music capitals. This stage-centric event series is in NYC on June 8th, and LA on August 10th. The WHAT’S NEXT...
View ArticlePalm Mute Piano Launched – Finger-Dampened Virtual Instrument
Looking for a new twist on an old standby? You’ve just found one. A new piano perspective — the Palm Mute Piano. Paper Stone Instruments, a new Kontakt Library development company with some fresh...
View ArticleDMAX Audio Launches Audio Mastering Studio for iPad
It’s time that the iPad mastered mastering. That’s happening now, thanks to the release of Audio Mastering Studio, from the Russian developer Igor Vasilyev, working in cooperation with DMAX Audio....
View ArticleThe Garden: Intensively Equipped to Mix and Create in Brooklyn
CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN: If there’s one thing New York City needs more of, it’s gardens. Just the word itself has a therapeutic effect, invoking a harmonious convergence of beauty and order. So it’s no...
View ArticleAegean Music Launches Amp Vision – Guitar Amp Distortion and Effects Plugin
Get some BIG boxes inside your box. The developers known as Aegean Music have launched Amp Vision, an ambitious new guitar tone shaper – you could call it an amp simulator, but that seems to sell this...
View ArticleHarrison Debuts MPC5 Film Console
It’s not every day that a new large-format digital mixing console is officially unveiled to the world – but today just happens to be one of those days. The newcomer is from Nashville-based Harrison,...
View ArticleElements of Mixing with Bassy Bob: Speeding up Remote Revisions
You know what I really hate? Revisions, revisions, revisions… Sometimes they go on for days. Endless prints, emails, lists of notes, confusion over which version were talking about. You get the...
View ArticleEvent Choice: “The Art of Scoring for Documentaries” – Tues. 5/28 in NYC
Documentaries are on the rise in the world of filmmaking, with the number of producers and subgenres all seeing consistent expansion. Wendy Blackstone will be pointing the way on documentary scoring...
View ArticleRoyer Labs Launches 15th Anniversary R-121 Limited Edition Ribbon Microphone
Ribbon mic fans prepare to get happy – and move fast. Burbank, CA-based Royer Labs announced that the 15th Anniversary R-121 Limited Edition Ribbon Microphone is now available, but only in the...
View ArticleReview: XILS-lab LeMasque Delay 1.5
The world of delays is a huge one. Up there with the almighty reverb, delays occupy a big presence in the sound and style of studio/live musicians, mixers and sound designers around the world. Whether...
View ArticleNative Instruments Launches Abbey Road 50s Drummer — New Virtual Instrument
Ready to go back…to the future? Native Instruments is happy to facilitate, via the UK studio that’s beginning to loom larger than (virtually) any of the artists that have recorded there – we speak of...
View Article“Sound Business”: Meet Pralaya Productions — Composing and Sound Design,...
A magician never reveals his secrets – but fortunately some composers are more than happy to share. As it’s name suggests, Pralaya Productions is purely musical. Even though music-for-picture maven...
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