Back to Basics: How to Improve Gain Staging In Your DAW (Video)
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...
View ArticleBrooklyn Event: Meet API’s BOX Console at Strange Weather — Thursday, 4/9
API is all about New York City this week. API’s BOX takes over NYC this Thursday, at a free-to-attend Open House in Brooklyn. Don’t miss the opportunity to get up close and personal with API’s BOX...
View ArticleRecreating Bird: Returning to Detroit’s Legendary “United Sound Systems”...
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...
View ArticleReview: Steinberg’s Cubase Pro 8 – By Andrew Koss
Presented with the opportunity to write a review about a DAW, my initial reaction was, “How can anyone cover an entire DAW in a single article?” Cubase Pro 8 is the latest version of Steinberg’s...
View ArticleMuse Research Launches Receptor VIP2 – Hardware Plug-In Player
San Jose, CA-based Muse Research has released their second iteration of their popular Receptor VIP Plug-In player. The Receptor VIP2 comes loaded with new I/O, processor, expandable RAM and over $900...
View ArticleSolid State Logic Announces δelta-Control for Duality and AWS Consoles
SSL is raising the veil on a significant upgrade to two of its major consoles — meet Duality δelta and AWS δelta. What makes these desks “Delta” is the introduction of δelta-Control (δ-Ctrl), which...
View ArticleKaleidoscope Sound: Evolution of the Engineer-in-Residence
If you want to know what New York City recording is coming to – or rather, where it’s going – cast your eyes towards the Garden State. While Brooklyn was seen for decades as an affordable haven for...
View ArticleExponential Audio Releases Excalibur – Multi-Effects Plugin
There are so many plug-ins to choose from these days. If only a developer was kind enough to bundle them up into a single plug-in with tons of modulation options and minimal effect on the CPU. Well...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Next-Gen Apollo Thunderbolt 2 Audio Interfaces,...
Universal Audio has announced four new Apollo interfaces and the industry’s first and only Marshall-branded amplifier plug-in at Musikmesse 2015. Available today is the Apollo 8 – A single rack...
View ArticleBack to Basics: 3 Simple Steps to Improve Your Mixes with Subtractive EQ
When I first started mixing, I thought the only way I could improve a sound was to add something to it. I piled dozens of plugins and EQ boosts onto every track, and my mixes sounded muddy and...
View ArticleMusikmesse 2015: Antelope Audio Introduces MP8d, Eight-Channel Microphone...
Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany is in full swing with a bunch of big announcements from around the world of audio. There are quite a few noteworthy additions to the industry but we would firstly like...
View ArticleReturn of “Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”! (And SonicScoop Contributing Editor...
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist” returns! This week, we’re excited to announce that one of our favorite sister sites, Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, will be relaunching as a member of the SonicScoop content...
View ArticleStudio Stories: Galuminumfoil Upgrade, Part I “Before”
There's two sides to every renovation. Chris Cubeta, co-founder of this busy Williamsburg facility, walks us through the front end of the redo.
View ArticleMOTU Releases Their Universal Sampler – MachFive | 3
MOTU is a company known worldwide in professional audio production for their high-quality hardware interfaces for studio and mobile purposes. MOTU is also well known for their intuitively designed DAW...
View ArticleCarter Burwell: On Scoring Twilight, Breaking Dawn & Other Works and Workflows
With film scores, like records, we know when we're hearing something inspired and real. Thanks to Carter Burwell, we get to have these experiences even in big blockbuster films.
View ArticleMOTU Launches Digital Performer 8 — 64-Bit, 17 New Plugins, Better Video
Devotees of the DAW known as Digital Performer – and there are many – got some welcome news today. MOTU announced that is now shipping Digital Performer version 8. They describe it as “a major...
View ArticleMOTU Launches Digital Performer 8.0 for Windows
The latest version of MOTU’s Digital Performer is made for the other half. Or however large the percentage of music producers that work all or in part on a PC — which may be a bigger segment than...
View ArticleStudio Stories: Galuminumfoil Upgrade, Part I “Before”
This summer, Chris Cubeta set out to raise his game: As the multitasking/muli-instrumentalist co-founder of the busy Williamsburg recording/mixing/mastering facility Galuminumfoil, he and his staff...
View ArticleMOTU Releases Their Universal Sampler – MachFive | 3
MOTU is a company known worldwide in professional audio production for their high-quality hardware interfaces for studio and mobile purposes. MOTU is also well known for their intuitively designed...
View ArticleCarter Burwell: On Scoring Twilight, Breaking Dawn & Other Works and Workflows
TRIBECA, MANHATTAN: It was like a scene out of a movie. Film score composer Carter Burwell wrote the final cue to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part I) at his piano in the country by the...
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