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The 131st Audio Engineering Society Convention demonstrated just how thoroughly the personal computer and software have come to dominate and influence audio production. Exponential increases in functionality and versatility had [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- In these fast-changing times, it's especially nice to return to familiar and time-tested ways. Such is life, these days, for legendary engineer/producer Elliot Scheiner. In Studio [...]

There are few experiences more pleasing than to sit at an ornately carved 1881 Steinway D Centennial concert grand piano as its unimaginably honeyed tones fill the room. Add a [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- In the candlelit tracking room at a studio on the Lower East Side, country/rockabilly legend Greg Garing performs in front of a small audience of invited [...]

BROOKLYN, NY -- Here in the creative hotbed of Greenpoint, what may be the ultimate tape-to-disk mastering system is taking shape. Paul Gold, proprietor of Salt Mastering, has recently taken [...]

As the annual Winter NAMM Show drew near, Pro Sound News asked a few professional engineers to share their personal list of 'studio essentials.' In this sampling, a wide range [...]

Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, the area known as DUMBO, has experienced a remarkable transformation over the last decade. Like Williamsburg to the north, DUMBO (also said to stand [...]

May you live in interesting times. Its authenticity is doubtful, but in recent years, this purported Chinese proverb/curse is heard almost as often as an AutoTuned vocal. There are more [...]

Most engineers feel that modeling of analog hardware has progressed to a point at which they can confidently work with software-based emulations. At the same time, new processing plug-ins allow [...]

Anyone see a trend here? Last month, the spotlight was on Welcome to 1979, the Nashville-based, all-analog, retro-vibe studio that is heavy on MCI equipment and offers an abundance of [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Forty years after his untimely death at age 27, Jimi Hendrix remains one of music's most revolutionary artists. In a too-brief career, he redefined the guitar, [...]

The end of the 1970s marked seismic cultural, political and musical shifts. The compact disc was just around the corner, and the MIDI standard would soon dramatically change both the [...]

Forty-two years ago, the late composer/musician Gary McFarland recorded America the Beautiful: An Account of Its Disappearance at New York's A&R Studios. Created in the early days of environmental conservation [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Like MTV before it, the mass adoption of DVD-Video and the World Wide Web further solidified the marriage of music and picture. Whether or not a [...]

To peruse the catalog for Guitar Center's recent Fourth of July sale was to be struck by a scarcity of, well, guitars. The first ad for a guitar, in fact, [...]

From his vantage point in Nashville's bustling Berry Hill, an off-Music Row creative community filled with studios personal and private, John Mayfield is watching the industry grow, and watching the [...]

Solidly entrenched as an established and accepted component of professional recording and mixing, plug-ins are quickly making a similar impact in the world of sound reinforcement. With the VENUE console, [...]

PreSonus, which has earned a reputation for quality audio gear at affordable prices, cemented its status as a serious player with last year's rollout of the StudioLive 16.4.2 digital mixer [...]

In today's world of convergence, multi-faceted training is essential to a viable career in entertainment and media technology. At Knoxville, Tennessee-based Pellissippi State Community College, students of the Media Technologies [...]

To paraphrase a great man, never in the field of audio recording did so many have so much at such little cost. The economy notwithstanding, these are the good times [...]

Nashville's Verge Recording is a fine example of the modern recording studio, in which a diversity of commercial and in-house clients accomplish a broad spectrum of audio production. Recently redesigned [...]

As the history of recorded music grows ever longer, greater grows the need for audio restoration tools. 'Catalog' titles are often a music company's most profitable asset, while the internet [...]

LEWISVILLE, TX -- The ongoing trend of Western companies outsourcing manufacture to overseas locations is plainly illustrated by the recent establishment of BES Audio. In a world of globalization, BES [...]

Over the last decade, plug-ins have become both an accepted and, often, preferred tool for functions previously accomplished with outboard hardware or a console's onboard components. With the corresponding migration [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Harlem Parlour Music Club, a 'down home uptown' collective comprised of top New York-based musicians, is feeling good. The group's recent release, Salt of the Earth, [...]

The phrases, 'Strength in numbers' and 'Diversify,' may be cliches in the recording-services business, but 'maxim' and 'axiom' surely apply to these words as well. In Richmond, VA, three partners [...]

The new, 76,000-square-foot Center for Creative Arts at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) is the crown jewel of the Cleveland-based institution's Recording Arts and Technology (RAT) and Media Arts and Studies [...]

The 2010 Winter NAMM Show, held January 14-17 at the Anaheim Convention Center, demonstrated the unabated innovation in, and seemingly limitless possibilities of, effects and virtual instrument plug-ins. Through comprehensive [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Just as the Beatles have once again demonstrated the durability of their oeuvre with their newly remastered catalog, other artists from rock's 'classic' era find a [...]

It has been an eventful year for David Amlen. Likewise, the first decade of the 21st Century has been eventful, and tumultuous, for the commercial recording industry, and nowhere more [...]

Forty-five years after RCA supplemented its legendary Studio B, now Ben's Studio, a.k.a. RCA Studio A, has opened to the public. The 'Ben' in Ben's Studio is artist Ben Folds; [...]

With regard to professional audio software, the 127th Audio Engineering Society Convention was as notable for the companies that did not exhibit as for those that did. Nonetheless, in a [...]

Just one year after relocating from East Coast to West, Playback Recording Studio exemplifies the successful modern studio. A one-room, owner-operated studio that takes advantage of a small-footprint console and [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- 09-09-09: A date that will live in infamy. Four years in the making, the digitally remastered Beatles catalog was issued on that auspicious date. Concurrently, The [...]

It's always been an up-or-down business,' says Nashville, TN-based engineer Randy Poole, 'and now the roller coaster dips a little lower. In August, I could have used two of me; [...]

The ability to alter the pitch of a vocal performance has significantly altered the sound of popular music and the work methodology of audio professionals. As innumerable recordings demonstrate, pitch [...]

As preparations for the AES Convention heat up, industry observers may note the extraordinary pace of change in its host city, New York. The first decade of the 21st Century [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Les Paul, a name familiar to all in the worlds of audio recording, the electric guitar and rock 'n' roll, passed away August 13 at the [...]

SAINT-ETIENNE, FRANCE -- Focal-JMLab, manufacturer of acoustic loudspeakers and transducers, is marking 30 years in 2009. Known for most of its existence for home and car audio products, the manufacturer [...]

We were four guys,' John Lennon said of the Beatles. Strictly speaking, that is an accurate statement. But within the four walls of Abbey Road Studio Two, those four guys--'just [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- David Amlen, veteran of the New York commercial recording industry, has launched Manhattan Sound Recording, a two-room studio suitably equipped for modern music and post production. [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Officials of Joe D'Ambrosio Management (JDMI) and location recording specialist Remote Recording have announced a strategic partnership in which they will provide both mobile recording trucks [...]

Software gathers no moss. Development is rapid, be it new products or updates to existing applications. A Pro Sound News sampling of audio professionals indicates ongoing interest in--and reliance on--a [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- As they have for decades, the East Village and Lower East Side remain a haven for creatives. Hardscrabble and dangerous or gentrified and overpriced, this part [...]

ST. BARTHELEMY, FRENCH WEST INDIES -- Hollywood-based Ocean Way Recording has launched a new studio at the Eden Rock hotel and resort on this island in the Caribbean Sea. Housing [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The console's evolution toward a smaller footprint and DAW integration fits with the trend toward personal studio environments. But commercial studios are also taking to small-format [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- In a second year of recession and some nine months after the dissolution of Lehman Brothers sparked a precipitous decline in a multitude of economic statistics, [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Post-production complex audio-Engine, located on Broadway just south of Union Square, boasts several spacious, bright and airy suites customized to the engineer's taste and specifications. Among [...]

Marking its 10th anniversary, Ableton is now shipping the latest version of its Live platform, Live 8, along with Suite 8, which adds a huge sound library and virtual instrument [...]

NASHVILLE, TN -- In a move that both gathers disparate assets and manifests the brand in a new market, the Norbert Putnam-designed Studio D from House of Blues Studios in [...]