In Defense of the Laptop Record
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...
View ArticleBobby Owsinski Launches 101 Mixing Tricks Coaching Program
On his journey through the winding corridors of the wondrous music industry, Bobby Owsinski has gathered a personal collection of mixing and audio engineering tricks that he is willing to share with...
View ArticleWendy Starland: On Protecting Producers, Bands & Brands, and Bringing Up Lady...
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...
View ArticleThe AMP Act is Introduced to the House: Legislation to Provide Producers,...
Are more dependable royalties on the way for producers, mixers and engineers – by the letter of the law? (L-R)The Recording Academy’s Daryl P. Friedman, Chief Advocacy & Industry Relations Officer;...
View ArticleHoRNet Plugins Releases BSharry Side Chainer – Auto Sidechain Compressor Plug-In
HoRNet Plugins has released their second plug-in created in collaboration with DJ BSharry. Side Chainer delivers on their design goals of simplicity making kick drum pumping, or any sidechain...
View ArticleNYC Event: Audio Power Tools Open House – Brooklyn, 3/26
Eye candy, ear candy, and refreshments for your bod + brain – if this isn’t the perfect evening, what is? Let us beseech ye no more, and point directly to the answer: The Audio Power Tools Open House...
View ArticleIs SXSW Worth It for Musicians? A Photo Tour of Austin’s Biggest Music Festival
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...
View ArticleiZotope Releases Ozone 6.1 Update – Tube Limiting, Adaptive Release for...
Ozone 6 from iZotope was launched back in October, 2014 and now officially has its first patch. Many of the feature updates for Ozone 6.1 were a result of customer feedback so users should be pleased...
View ArticleSmarter in :60 II: How Music Can Milk Seth Godin’s “Purple Cow”
How now to truly stand out? Stand the #@$& back! Mark Hermann uses the force of Seth Godin as marketing jujitsu on YOU. The post Smarter in :60 II: How Music Can Milk Seth Godin’s “Purple Cow”...
View ArticleFor Orchestra Accelerates: Building Up an Online Music Business, the Natural Way
Original ideas, music, and commerce are comfy companions in the hands of Walt Ribeiro. Can you, too, bend the Web to your will? The post For Orchestra Accelerates: Building Up an Online Music Business,...
View ArticleStudio Sweet Spot: Luminous Velocity Productions
Get it all done, and then some, with the talent on hand in this multifaceted East Flatbush enclave. The post Studio Sweet Spot: Luminous Velocity Productions appeared first on SonicScoop.
View ArticleMonitor Motivation: Guzauski-Swist Audio Systems
It takes determination -- and discerning ears -- to start a monitor company. Why GRAMMY winning mixer Mick Guzauski and studio designer Larry Swist took the plunge. The post Monitor Motivation:...
View ArticleGame Scoring: Pure Rhythm Drives “From Dust”
In Connecticut, game maestro Tom Salta and a pair of master percussionists gladly disobeyed the rules of game music. The post Game Scoring: Pure Rhythm Drives “From Dust” appeared first on SonicScoop.
View ArticleSmarter in :60 II: How Music Can Milk Seth Godin’s “Purple Cow”
“INDIE BAND ROCKETS TO STARDOM OPENING FOR AEROSMITH AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN WHILE STANDING IN SILENCE FOR 3 MINUTES — 3.5M HITS ON YOUTUBE” U must b da Purple Cow. What, you didn’t hear about this!?...
View ArticleFor Orchestra Accelerates: Building Up an Online Music Business, the Natural Way
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: There’s more than one way to be a rock star. For Walt Ribeiro, Founder of NYC-based For Orchestra, the path to a global music stage is paved with bass clarinets, bowed tremolos –...
View ArticleStudio Sweet Spot: Luminous Velocity Productions
Do you have tunnel vision, or are you constantly expanding your media universe? In East Flatbush, many disciplines are in action at Luminous Velocity, a nonstop melting pot of music and vision....
View ArticleMonitor Motivation: Guzauski-Swist Audio Systems
MOUNT KISCO, NY: In lands near and not so very far away something sonic has been brewing. Boutique audio gear manufacturers – from cables to compressors — are proliferating at a nice pace in the New...
View ArticleGame Scoring: Pure Rhythm Drives “From Dust”
NORWALK, CT: Among the flavors of the Nutmeg State, deep tribal rhythms are not necessarily what this sleepy Northeast enclave is known for. But as you soar through the clouds and into the sanctum of...
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