Composer Cribs: Charlie Clouser, Los Angeles, CA
Some composers live a career behind the scenes – Charlie Clouser is not one of them. While he currently spends his days and nights creating high-visibility soundtracks (the entire Saw series, Resident...
View ArticleQwire Music-to-Picture Cloud Platform Raises $2.5 Million; Licensed by ABC...
Qwire is a platform for professionals involved with putting audio to motion picture. Launched in 2014, NYC- and LA-based Qwire has seen fast growth, recently raising $2.5 million in its initial funding...
View ArticleRode NTR Active Ribbon Microphone Review
The Røde NTR Ribbon Microphone. At one of my earliest recording sessions, I tried to describe a sound I was going for: ”Dark, but not muddy; mid-heavy but not crowded, and with enough high end to peak...
View ArticleUp & Coming Engineers: Josh Gannet on Assisting, Tracking, and Being Prepared.
Josh Gannet is an audio engineer and producer who has racked up a ton of major credits as an assistant engineer, working in the studio with artists including Redman, Keith Richards, Slash, Steve...
View ArticleRadial’s McBoost Now Shipping — Ribbon & Dynamic Mic Booster
Another all-steel, book-enclosed module is brought to us by Radial. Radial Engineering’s McBoost is powered by 48V phantom power. The McBoost is a dual FET class-A circuit for boosting low-output...
View ArticleMix Tips From Your Mastering Engineer
We keep churning out great new stories on SonicScoop every day. But If you haven’t seen many articles from me personally on SonicScoop lately, there are a three very good (and very exciting) reasons...
View ArticleYamaha Announces HPH-MT7 Monitor Headphones
Yamaha Announces HPH-MT7 Monitor Headphones With the HPH-MT7 monitor headphones, Yamaha has sought to produce a pair of headphones that can deliver a flat frequency response, proper stereo image, and...
View ArticleSonarworks Releases REFERENCE 3 Room Calibration Software for Windows
REFERENCE 3 from Sonarworks is a room calibration software that analyzes the listening environment through a calibrated microphone. After analysis, the software produces a calibration profile for that...
View ArticleJames Brown Lives. In New York. And He Mixes Records.
Engineer James Brown (Foo Fighters, Jane’s Addiction) on working with Butch Vig, Flood and Alan Moulder, and helping The Pains of Being Pure at Heart re-invent their “twee-pop” sound.
View Article5 Questions With Matt Pinfield: Taking Over TV Again with the Return of “120...
New Jersey's ultimate music maven on happy returns & the myriad challenges that face NYC rock radio.
View ArticleJoe D’Ambrosio Management (NY) Opens European Office
Joe D’Ambrosio, founder and CEO of Mamaroneck, NY-based producer/mixer management firm Joe D’Ambrosio Management, Inc. (JDMI) has announced the opening of a European office based in Paris, France: Joe...
View ArticleLIVE in the Studio
How a beauty company's warehouse became both a pro studio and one-of-a-kind live concert venue.
View ArticleGet “That” Guitar Tone: Foo Fighters Edition
A guitar player doesn’t have to be a storied virtuoso to deliver a great tone that countless musicians and fans seek to emulate—or to simply keep in their ears as an extremely useful reference point...
View ArticleJames Brown Lives. In New York. And He Mixes Records.
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN: We know what you’re thinking. You’ve seen this name somewhere before. And not only on the marquee of the Apollo or littered among the best of your old soul 45s: this James...
View Article5 Questions With Matt Pinfield: Taking Over TV Again with the Return of “120...
LOWER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN: People parked in front of their TV’s at 1:00 AM, EST on Saturday, July 30th either got a blast from the past or an exciting new music jolt, depending on their carbon date....
View ArticleJoe D’Ambrosio Management (NY) Opens European Office
Joe D’Ambrosio, founder and CEO of Mamaroneck, NY-based producer/mixer management firm Joe D’Ambrosio Management, Inc. (JDMI) has announced the opening of a European office based in Paris, France:...
View ArticleLIVE in the Studio
THE VALLEY: Fonogenic Studios sits almost directly off of the 405, down Haskell just past where apartments and gas stations fade into warehouses and corporate parks. The studio itself is tucked away...
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Get “That” Guitar Tone: Foo Fighters Edition
A guitar player doesn’t have to be a storied virtuoso to deliver a great tone that countless musicians and fans seek to emulate—or to simply keep in their ears as an extremely useful reference point...
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7-Time GRAMMY-Winning Engineer Darrell Thorp on Audio Work Ethic & More
It’s funny, a lot of times when I’m working on big projects my friends leave me alone, and when it’s slow, my friends start calling me asking if I can mix their records. It’s a total bro favor which I...
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