NYC Event Alert: Premier Studios Session Seminar w/Anthony Daniel, 2/21
Ready to tackle three big audio topics in four hours, with an accomplished pro? If that sounds appealing to you, then there’s an upcoming Premier Studios Session Seminar to put into your calendar: an...
View ArticleRIP Joseph Grado — Founder of Grado Labs
A patriarch of audio has departed us. Today, Brooklyn-based Grado Labs released the following statement: Joseph Grado lived a life of sound. It is with a heavy heart for the Grado family to say that...
View ArticlePSP Audioware Introduces Master Quality Rotary Speaker Plug-In, L’otary
Producers of a variety of hardware modeled plug-ins, PSP Audioware is now introducing their first rotary speaker emulator with L’otary. The new plug-in is modeled after the legendary Leslie 122, and...
View ArticleComposer Jóhann Jóhannsson — On Scoring “The Theory of Everything,” Abbey...
Jóhann Jóhannsson is on a roll – of a different sort. The circular motion of the imagery in the brilliant film that he scored, The Theory of Everything, inspired the spherical structures of the...
View ArticleAnalogue Solutions Announces Nyborg-12 Monosynth Module
Developed by UK-based Analogue Solutions, Nyborg-12 couples the monophonic synthesizer with their SEM 12dB/octave multimode filter. The filter’s design is inspired from Tom Oberheim’s original 1974 SEM...
View ArticleChung King Studios Closes — New Direction for Classic Rooms at 36 W. 37th Street
Chung King Studios has closed – again. And with John King’s exit from 36 West 37th Street, comes a new chapter for this coveted space. John King has exited the Chung King Studios located he helmed for...
View ArticleWaves Releases dbx 160 Compressor/Limiter Plug-In
Flash back to the 70s when artists like David Bowie and Led Zeplin were topping the charts with tracks mixed and produced by Eddie Kramer. One of his go-to pieces of outboard gear? The original dbx 160...
View ArticleSlate Digital Launches Virtual Console Collection 2.0, Featuring ‘Brit 4K E’
One plus five=2.0. The VCC has expanded in with V 2.0. We speaketh of the latest VCC from Slate Digital, aka Virtual Console Collection 2.0, which has added a sixth emulation to the pack of five...
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot: Transmitter Park Studio — Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Shed your skin, begin again. It happens everywhere in nature, and as it turns out, in Brooklyn too. At Transmitter Park Studio, the renewal was only clear to owner Abe Seiferth and his crew after they...
View ArticleWarner/Chappell Production Music Launches New Artist Series with Peter...
There are always new twists on music licensing – just ask Warner/Chappell Production Music. The company’s fresh spin comes via its just-launched Artist Series, providing music supervisors, producers,...
View ArticleBoz Digital Lab’s +10db – A Big Review of a Mixing Plugin
A friend of mine in the mixing/producing game refuses to use anything but the Waves CLA 76 on his vocal chain. Even though he believes other emulations of the famed hardware piece trounce the CLA—the...
View ArticleNYC Event: “Who You Gonna Call? The Tech Experts”— March 5th, Presented by...
Calling all composers in the trenches! Here’s an extra dose of survival skills. The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) will be hosting a panel, “Who You Gonna Call? The Tech Experts” on March 5th...
View ArticleArturia Announces KeyLab 88 MIDI Keyboard Controller
Originally making its debut at Musikmesse 2014 in Germany, Arturia’s KeyLab 88 is now gracing us with its presence stateside. The Keylab 88 is a high-end MIDI instrument for tech savvy pianists who...
View ArticleLady Gaga, T-Pain, Keith Richards Recording at Germano Studios
Germano Studios has been going non-stop in 2011, between multiple months of lock-out sessions with Lady Gaga, and sessions with a host of other major artists. Gaga and crew have been working out of...
View ArticleSession Buzz: Who’s Recording In & Around NYC — A Monthly Report
Find out where Lady Gaga, the Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra, Steve Reich, Austin TV, Tony Yayo, and more produced their latest.
View ArticleSession Buzz: Who’s Recording In & Around NYC — A Monthly Report
Our midsummer look at local studio action...featuring Björk, She and Him, 50 Cent, Frank Zappa, Ace Hood and Lou Reed/Metallica.
View ArticleCome To Our AES Platinum Producers and Engineers Panels This Week!
As previously announced, this Friday and Saturday, SonicScoop will present two of the AES’ Platinum Series Panels as part of the 131st Convention going on at the Javits Center. Helping kick off the...
View ArticleGermano Studios Installs New Custom Exigy Subs
A couple of the loudest rooms in NYC just got louder.
View ArticleLady Gaga, T-Pain, Keith Richards Recording at Germano Studios
Germano Studios has been going non-stop in 2011, between multiple months of lock-out sessions with Lady Gaga, and sessions with a host of other major artists. Gaga and crew have been working out of...
View ArticleSession Buzz: Who’s Recording In & Around NYC — A Monthly Report
GREATER NYC AREA: Both through the grapevine and straight from the source(s), we’ve been hearing about a number of different recording projects going on in studios throughout the NYC area. The...
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