MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA – OCTOBER 2019: Built in the 1960s by Rick Hall, FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama was the first and most prominent studio to curate the Muscle Shoals Sound, a unique and ultimately ineffable combination of country, gospel, rock, and soul. Listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. FAME… Read more »
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – OCTOBER 2019: If you’re going to properly compare 250 microphones, you have to make sure the source is identical 250 times. But because no human is capable of singing the same every time into 250 microphones, using an actual singer might cause you to falsely attribute vocal performance differences… Read more »
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – AUGUST 2019: For over 25 years, Ken “Duro” Ifill has been mixing the living history of urban hip-hop and R&B. His client list includes Jay-Z, NAS, Pharrell, Erykah Badu, Will Smith, Beastie Boys, Usher, and on and on, and through a singular focus on making everything he works on as… Read more »
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – AUGUST 2019: Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee is not known for half-measures. “At Blackbird, the bar is extremely high,” noted John McBride, Blackbird’s founder, owner and visionary. “We do everything we can to create a setting where artists and engineers are equipped and inspired to create music that can change the world.”… Read more »
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JULY 2019: TransAudio Group, U.S. distributor of high-end professional audio recording equipment, is pleased to announce that the much-anticipated Drawmer 1974 Stereo Parametric EQ and Drawmer 1976 Stereo 3-Band Saturation and Width Processor are now shipping. In addition, both units will be on prominent display at TransAudio Group’s Summer NAMM Booth… Read more »
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 2019: Michael Ashby is a young recording and mix engineer with an incredible work ethic who has taken the blessing of great sonic instincts and leveraged it with dedicated study at New York City’s SAE Institute. After just a decade behind the console, Ashby has five Platinum albums… Read more »
Netflix has stepped their audio quality with the help of ATC monitors! Read the WIRED.com article HERE.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 2019: Patrick Leonard has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a producer, composer and keyboardist beginning in the 1970 and early 1980s with keyboard gigs and tours with Frank Zappa, The Allman Brothers Band and Michael Jackson. From there, he began an extended tenure with Madonna, helping to… Read more »
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 2019: Veteran engineer Ed Cherney has added a fourth Grammy to his figurative trophy shelf for Willie Nelson’s tribute to Frank Sinatra, My Way. It won “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album,” the same category Nelson and Cherney won in 2017 for Nelson’s Gershwin tribute album, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin…. Read more »