Massey VT3 & CT5 Plugins Ported to VST
Massey’s VT3 EQ and CT5 compressor plug-ins are now available in VST format for both Mac and Windows. Massey CT5 2.4 The VT3 ($69) is a 3-band equalizer with a crisp, unique sound. And the CT5 ($75)...
View ArticleReggae in The Studio: The Broad Influence – Bob Marley to Sean Paul & Matisyahu
In the late 1960’s, a genre emerged in Jamaica that would revolutionize the music industry forever. When Bob Marley laid down his anthem to Jamaica, “One Love,” who knew that reggae music would be...
View ArticleCreative Media Design Adds Mixer/Sound Designer Bob Kirschner
The NYC audio post action continues unabated. Bob Kirschner leads Creative Media Design’s expanded audio post presence. Creative Media Design (CMD) is behind the latest development, announcing the...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Ocean Way Studios Dynamic Room Modeling Plugin
There were rumors that this plugin existed – now it’s a fact. Universal Audio (UA) has announced today the release of their newest plugin, which represents a highly advanced new approach to acoustic...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Releases SPL TwinTube, Sonnox Oxford Inflator UAD Plugins
Universal Audio’s newly debuted UAD Software v7.0 is making a grand entrance. Take on the TwinTube — in virtual style, via the UAD platform. In addition to the just-announced Ocean Way Studios plugin,...
View ArticleFilm Soundtrack Spotlight: Music Supervising “Love Sick Love”— From Score to...
Love and obsession – it’s a match made in cinematic heaven. It’s not just a love story — “Love Sick Love” has it’s own musical history as well. The latest film to go there, and then go deeper, is Love...
View ArticleNYC Event: Ableton Advanced Users Meetup – Thurs., May 9th, at Tekserve
The atmosphere was electric last month at Tekserve when electronic music aficionados packed the place for the official Live 9 & Push Preview event. Sound designer, music technologist, composer and...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of a Studio Guitar
Guitars, like people, come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Also much like people, when you look beneath the surface, they’re all made of the same stuff: In this case, wood, metal, plastic and curves....
View ArticleFocusrite Announces Scarlett 18i8 & 6i6 – New USB 2.0 Audio Interfaces
Two new audio interfaces are on the way. The latest in their Scarlett line, Focusrite has added a pair of ruggedly-built options available to recording artists, producers, and bands with the newly...
View ArticleNew Studio Review: Strange Weather, Brooklyn
Generally, I try to stay objective when I write about new studios. But when it comes to East Williamsburg’s Strange Weather recording, I just wouldn’t be telling the whole story if I neglected to...
View ArticleLine 6, Topspin Media Launch WHAT’S NEXT Musicians’ Conference – NYC, LA,...
Live music is taking center stage, at a new music conference coming to many of the globe’s music capitals. This stage-centric event series is in NYC on June 8th, and LA on August 10th. The WHAT’S NEXT...
View ArticlePalm Mute Piano Launched – Finger-Dampened Virtual Instrument
Looking for a new twist on an old standby? You’ve just found one. A new piano perspective — the Palm Mute Piano. Paper Stone Instruments, a new Kontakt Library development company with some fresh...
View ArticleDMAX Audio Launches Audio Mastering Studio for iPad
It’s time that the iPad mastered mastering. That’s happening now, thanks to the release of Audio Mastering Studio, from the Russian developer Igor Vasilyev, working in cooperation with DMAX Audio....
View ArticleThe Garden: Intensively Equipped to Mix and Create in Brooklyn
CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN: If there’s one thing New York City needs more of, it’s gardens. Just the word itself has a therapeutic effect, invoking a harmonious convergence of beauty and order. So it’s no...
View ArticleAegean Music Launches Amp Vision – Guitar Amp Distortion and Effects Plugin
Get some BIG boxes inside your box. The developers known as Aegean Music have launched Amp Vision, an ambitious new guitar tone shaper – you could call it an amp simulator, but that seems to sell this...
View ArticleHarrison Debuts MPC5 Film Console
It’s not every day that a new large-format digital mixing console is officially unveiled to the world – but today just happens to be one of those days. The newcomer is from Nashville-based Harrison,...
View ArticleElements of Mixing with Bassy Bob: Speeding up Remote Revisions
You know what I really hate? Revisions, revisions, revisions… Sometimes they go on for days. Endless prints, emails, lists of notes, confusion over which version were talking about. You get the...
View ArticleA.O.M. Releases tranQuilizer Graphic EQ Plugin
Alchemically Organized Music, or A.O.M., is a Tokyo-based developer that has a few interesting, quality plugins already out – their latest being the tranQuilizer. TranQuilizer is a feature-rich plugin...
View ArticleReview: ADAM F5 Studio Monitors
I mix quite a bit for film and TV where dialogue is king. For those projects, I like monitors that put the human speaking voice front and center. Many consumer TV’s, flat screens, laptops, tablets,...
View ArticleFREE ReacTable Concert Wed. 5/15 in NYC – Play a ReacTable Yourself at...
Opportunities like this don’t come along every day. Tonight, Wednesday May 15th, at 7 PM, may be your best chance to get up close and personal with the revolutionary electronic instrument ReacTable,...
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