Engine Company Records (NYC) Expands, Relaunches as ECR Music Group
NYC-based Engine Company Records is marking a decade of expansion with its relaunch as ECR Music Group. James McCartney is one of several artists on board with the workflow of ECR Music Group. Begun in...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Sonnox Oxford EQ Plugin for UAD-2
Partnerships can be a beautiful thing. In the audio sector, the pairing between Universal Audio and Sonnox is bearing fruit with today’s release of the Sonnox Oxford EQ plugin for the UAD-2 Powered...
View ArticleRupert Neve Designs Launches 5059 Satellite at EastWest Studios
HOLLYWOOD: This past Sunday in Studio 1 at L.A.’s venerable EastWest Studios, Rupert Neve Designs launched their brand new 16×2+2 summing mixer, the 5059 Satellite. Rupert Neve Designs 5059 Satellite,...
View ArticleThe Best Extreme and Unusual Compressor Plugins
For years there have been plenty of compressors plugins on the market that offer tremendously clean and transparent dynamic control. Later on came countless emulations of the classics, which seem have...
View ArticleEngine Room Recordings Presents… Pinkerton, Pt. 2 – Jenny Owen Youngs
LOWER MANHATTAN: Indie pop/rock artist Jenny Owen Youngs remembers Weezer’s Blue Album and Pinkerton being in heavy rotation during some of her more formative, budding-rocker years. Coming September 4...
View ArticleMarc Alan Goodman’s Building Strange Weather Blog: Framing & Wiring
Latest in the “Building Strange Weather Blog” series by producer/engineer and studio owner Marc Alan Goodman. Click to start at Step 1: Finding A New Home; #2: Design; #3: Waiting For Permits (Part 1)...
View ArticleDrums On Demand Introduces New Line of Drum Sample Kits
Drums On Demand, a manufacturer of drum loops, samples and music production tools announced recently that it has released seven new drum sample kits. The new sample kits from Drums on Demand provide a...
View Article8th Annual Afropunk Festival Adds Headliner TV on the Radio – Big Lineup...
In what promises to be one of the standout NYC music festivals this busy summer, the Afropunk Festivalis returning to Brooklyn’s Commodore Barry Park for the 8th Annual Afropunk Festival on August...
View ArticleJosh Freese Drumloops CD Launched: 28 Tracks in New Compilation From The...
The Compound Studio, the API-equipped recording facility in Long Beach, CA, has launched an electrifying and essential new drumloops release. Let Freese’s drumloops free you up! Their new arrival is...
View ArticleIcons: Eddy Offord Re-Emerges in NYC With THE MIDNIGHT MOAN
In music, the hope of finding the diamond in the rough holds a power all its own. As satisfying as it is to cultivate great talent, discovering it takes that charge to a whole new level. (l-r) The...
View Article2CAudio Releases B2 Reverb and Dynamics Processor
2CAudio is a future-forward plugin developer with many unique approaches to their plugin designs and functions. The company continues these methods with the new B2 plugin that has a massive amount of...
View ArticleGear Talk: iPad & Studio Apps
Out today is a brand new short, where you can hear Geoff and Eli talk about inventive control surfaces, new software for mixing music on iPads, and programs that allow you to conduct remote mix...
View ArticleDynaudio Professional Launches M3VE Main Monitor Solution
Denmark-based Dynaudio Professional continues to NOT be kidding around in 2012, the year of its 20th Anniversary. The proof? The launch of its M3VE main monitoring solution, which combines the...
View ArticleGorgeous Ladies of Comedy Podcast Debuts, Recorded at Sound Lounge
“Earthquaking ladies” + comedy + podcast? Nothing could be more righetous to the ears. This crafty combination converges in “GLOC Talk: Girl, Do You,” the new podcast from G.L.O.C. (Gorgeous Ladies of...
View ArticleRain Computers Introduces Event A2: Mini Audio Computer For Songwriters
Because the songwriters outnumber the producers, engineers, and studios, NJ-based Rain Computers announced today that it has released the new version of its Event Mini Audio Computer, the Event A2....
View ArticleAudio Power Tools Evolves, Expands Brooklyn Retail Experience
In March, an intensive microphone comparison served notice that NYC-based Audio Power Tools was transitioning from a rep service into a retail operation. That metamorphosis is now complete, with the...
View ArticleSkyzoo’s A Dream Deferred Produced By Illmind in Brooklyn
Brooklyn rapper Skyzoo will put out his sophomore LP, A Dream Deferred, on October 2 via his newly established label, The Faculty – distributed through Brooklyn-based Duck Down Music, Inc. (Pharoahe...
View ArticleNARM, digitalmusic.org to Bring Entertainment & Technology Law Conference to...
Like it or not, lawyers and today’s music business go together like peanut butter and jelly. Underscoring that fact is the return of the Entertainment Music business association NARM (National...
View ArticleThe Quirky Habits of Great Mixers
Anyone who has worked on enough records knows that it’s not the tools that make a great mix, but the way that they’re used. And in a day and age where great-sounding gear has become something of a...
View ArticleBrooklyn Electronic Duo Beacon Signs with Ghostly International
The always ahead-of-the-curve label Ghostly International has swooped into NYC once again, this time signing the Brooklyn electronic duo known as Beacon. Beacon, from Brooklyn, attracted the attention...
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