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My first and best advice to you is: "Don't do it! Let some other bum in the band spend all his hard-earned cash on gear that will go obsolete while […]

Layering disparate elements for seamless effect. To appreciate the technical and creative expertise that an audio mixer brings to a spot, close your eyes the next time a familiar commercial […]

If we had our druthers, SHOOT industry roundtables would be weekly' features. But while the centerpiece of our Spring Music and Sound Design issue was a well-attended and enthusiastically received […]

Do-it-yourself soundtrack technology has some music houses singing the blues. To others, it's a jam session that works. Jeanne Look, owner/executive producer of music house Look Inc., in New York, […]

Abbey Road's Success Formula: STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY LINKED TO STAFF EXPERTISE There can be very few recording studios with such a unique image as that of EMI Abbey Road Studios. Thanks […]

Studio Chief's 40 Years At Abbey Road: FROM BLACK ART TO HI-TECH SUPREMACY 'Venerable' isn't necessarily a complimentary term when it's applied to intrinsically hi-tech operations like recording studios. But […]

Jeff Payne mixes it up at new audio facility. Jeff Payne, founder/audio mixer at Eleven, Santa Monica, is celebrating the two-month anniversary of the opening of his mixing facility. A […]

Sound Lounge - the name has a kind of boho jazz vibe to it, but the only thing boho about this new audio facility is its location in New York's […]

When composers Carlos Chafin and Robbin Thompson left now-defunct Alpha Audio to begin writing and producing commercial spot music on their own, they weren't planning on building a full-blown music […]

The perfect setting for a margarita? The beach, of course. With the launch of digital television (DTV) around the corner, it seems obvious that when new facilities are built, they […]

Rendering sound design for that emotional connection. Stuart Dubey, owner and producer, DubeyTunes Studios, believes he is in the right place at the right time. The place is the South […]

Professional recording studios are resorting to a variety of methods to keep the home recording studios off their turf. For some, it means going after work that can't be done […]

Atanas Ilitch resigned as president of Olympia Entertainment nearly five years ago after taking on a challenge that nobody chooses - cancer. 'Healing is like war, getting better takes a [...]

In February Razorfish acquired sound specialists Audio House and moved the firm into its London HQ. With the paint barely dry and doors stilt to be hung, the team took [...]

When Music Annex President David Porter graduated from the University of Oregon in 1972 with a bachelor of music degree, he saw two choices: play saxophone in a band, or [...]

STUDIO FRUSTRATION comes with the territory, as recording projects are prone to bring on stress from all angles--personal, technical, musical, you name it. Sensitivity and art are inseparable, but all [...]

Audio post-production services in the UK are discussed.

Alternative Spaces For at least five years now, large and mid-sized recording studios have faced serious competition from small MIDI studios. At first, critics predicted the demise of the large [...]

16 L.A.-Area Houses Turn Out For Initial Meeting. LOS ANGELES - Recently organized in New York, the Association of Music Producers (AMP) is moving closer to its goal of becoming […]

Chicago Recording Company is a recording and audio post facility in Chicago that had its genesis in a garage. The garage of founder/owner Alan Kubicka's parents in suburban Illinois, that […]

SHOOT has the poop on recording studio that calls itself Bark. It's a time of change over at Bark, the full-service audio post division of New York-based post house Invisible […]

NEW YORK - Bang Music, the music and sound design boutique headed by founding partners Lyle Greenfield and Christopher Joannou, has opened a West Coast division while fortifying its flagship […]

Open New Music Studios In New York. NEW YORK - Composer/producers Peter Nashel and Jack Livesey, partners in the now-defunct Trembling Chicken Music (TCM) in New York, have rejoined to […]

Machine Head Vets Hammers, Klok Team With Conning And Wagner To Launch Company. SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Composer Johannes Hammers and sound designer Jun Klok, who both left Venice-headquartered Machine […]

Bash Boom Bang !nc. Opens With Alan Pasqua, Chris Desmond, Roger Bashew. PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. - Executive producer John Bashew has launched Bash Boom Bang Inc., a Pacific Palisades-based music […]

Talent, Hard Lessons Keep Facility On Top NEW YORK - Lined floor-to-ceiling with platinum and gold awards from a dizzying constellation of music stars, the walls of Masterdisk are an […]

Clarence recording studio makes beautiful music What's going on: What do the 10,000 Maniacs, Shredd & Ragan, Rick James, Richie Havens, Roy Clark, ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker and former Moody [...]

The husband-and-wife team of Jeanne McKirky-Spencer and Ron Spencer were business partners from the start. The couple met through a mutual friend in 1978 while Jeanne was a student at [...]

A new hybrid analog/digital sound-design studio, combined with the complementary styles of partners Wayne Dykes and Danny Stern, has kept AcousTech Music Productions working at high volume. While the new […]

Former dingle Writer Turns To The Internet. Since its inception in mid-1994, San Francisco-based New Dog Music has developed into one of the Bay Area's premiere music and sound design […]

NASHVILLE - Along with Masterfonics' the Tracking Room and Ocean Way/Nashville, Starstruck Studios reflected several developments in the Nashville studio community when it opened last year: It represented a new […]

NEW YORK - Having the luxury of being able to build a state-of-the-art mastering studio from scratch, Zero Hour Records owner Ray McKenzie and studio consultant Jimmy Biondolillo decided to […]

N.J. Studio Offers State Of The Art PARAMUS, N.J. - New Yorkers are so accustomed to getting everything they need on the tiny island of Manhattan that they often forget […]