Audio Solution Spotlight: MixRoom Monitoring Environment by Carl Tatz
Some audio solutions are simple to get your head around. Others, you just have to get your ears into to fully understand. MixRoom, the monitoring environment concept from Nashville-based studio...
View ArticleBehringer Launches FIREPOWER FCA1616 Audio Interface
It’s time for a new audio interface to arrive on the scene – Behringer is kindly obliging. The multifaceted manufacturer has launched the FIREPOWER FCA1616, a new USB/FireWire audio interface....
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches ENGL Amp Plugins for UAD & Apollo
Audio engineers can officially add amp lust into their list of professional obsessions. The impetus is the latest plugins for Universal Audio’s UAD Powered Plugins platform and Apollo Audio interface:...
View ArticleBuilding A Scene: On The Ground and Online
You want to go see a show. You peruse the upcoming acts at your local venues and decide that not only is there little in common from one band to the next, but a lot of the bands just don’t seem very...
View ArticleAkai Releases iMPC App for the iPhone
Akai Pro MPC had originally released iMPC for the iPad and now all of the core capabilities are available on the iPhone. Apart from the hundreds of internal samples, the iMPC app contains a ton of...
View ArticleDowntown Music Publishing Opens Los Angeles Office, with New SVP Amy...
Downtown continues to build up crosstown – or cross-country, to be precise. Amy Driscoll-Dunning comes to Downtown Music Publishing from Fox Filmed Entertainment. Downtown Music Publishing, part of of...
View ArticleHOBO Audio (NYC) Creates 7.1 Theater Mix for Coke “Security Camera”
You don’t have to read the rest of this article, but be sure to watch this spot — it really does make you feel good. NYC audio post specialists HOBO Audio recently executed the new 7.1 theatrical mix...
View ArticleBehind The Release: Grandfather On Making In Human Form
In July of 2010, my band Grandfather recorded its debut album, Why I’d Try, with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, in Chicago. It was a defining experience for us [documented here on SonicScoop.] The...
View ArticleFree Fridays! Fave New Freeware Picks – Saturation, Full-On Synthesis,...
We here at SonicScoop realize that everything comes at a price these days – times can be tough. So for the 13th time, we have wrangled up these lucky freeware picks that we fell head over heels with...
View ArticleiZotope Announces RX 3 and RX 3 Advanced Audio Restoration Software
Save the sounds! iZotope has announced the arrival of RX 3, which marks a much more refined version of their popular RX 2 audio restoration software. The purpose of RX 3 is to save previously un-usable...
View ArticleHiFi-M8 Launches: Audiophile D/A Converter/Amp for Mobile & Pro Playback Devices
Music lovers on the go, rejoice! Pronounced “Hi-Fi Mate”, CEntrance has created a portable sound card for upper-class audio playback from iPods to laptops: The HiFi-M8 is battery powered and excels at...
View ArticleSmart Startup: Blend.io — A Fresh Take on Creative Collaboration
For a medium built from the ground up for collaboration, the Internet hasn’t always come through – especially for musicians and music producers. Blend.io launched in 2013, with some new ideas for...
View ArticlePro Tools 11 Pioneer — Part Two: Building a Buddy System
I’d like to start by thanking everyone who read my last article. I’m humbled by all the compliments, and feedback. I felt like a mountain climber ready to scale Everest, as friends and family cheered...
View ArticleEastWest Releases SSL/EW-FX Global Suite for PLAY 4
EastWest gone off the beaten path from their core soundset offerings, and partnered with SSL to create the SSL/EW FX Global Suite which, rather than a theme-based sound set, is actually a customized...
View ArticleLA Event Aug. 24-25: “The Art of Recording a Big Band,” with Al Schmitt &...
Los Angeles will be the most educational place on the planet this weekend. Two of the world’s best demonstrate big band techniques this weekend at Capital Studios. (click to enlarge) Ambitious audio...
View ArticleSpark Management Launches in NYC
NYC-based music talent manager Ollie Hammett has launched a new venture, Spark MGMT, with an expanded roster of producers, songwriters and engineers. Under Spark, Hammett continues to represent his...
View ArticlemacProVideo.com Launches Educational DSP Plugin for Logic Pro X
Why go outside from being in the box? macProVideo.com has launched the macProVideo player, which opens up directly inside Logic X. Audio education specialists macProVideo.com have realized there’s no...
View ArticleFocusrite Releases Free Recording App – Tape for iPad
Focusrite has delved deeper into the mobile recording scene with Tape for iPad. The app allows for 2-track recording or single stereo recording from any Core Audio compliant audio interface. Tape has...
View ArticleNYC Indie Labels: Kanine Records
It’s been ten years since Lio and Kay Kanine put out their first release: a compilation of 20 undiscovered bands, most of them from Brooklyn, titled NY: The Next Wave. Lio Kanine (then known by his...
View ArticleMan Made Music Produces Modern Dads Theme
New on A&E NYC-based Man Made Music created the opening theme for A&E’s newest reality series, Modern Dads, which premiered last night. Led by award-winning composer Joel Beckerman, the Man...
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