How (and Why) Are MP3 Files So Damn Small?
A technician works on one of Google’s gargantuan data centers. The MP3 format was first released 21 years ago this Summer. It goes almost without saying that it, and the other compressed audio formats...
View ArticleIK Multimedia Announces SampleTank 3 Sound Workstation
Is bigger better? More than a decade in the making, ST3 is coming. IK Multimedia is betting you’ll say “yes”, but to their credit, massive size isn’t the only exciting thing about the impending release...
View ArticleGrado Launches Third Generation Headphones: The e-Series
Brooklyn-based headphone designer, Grado, has just unveiled their third generation of professional headphones. After 60 years in the making, the company believes it has reached its most sophisticated...
View ArticleComposer Cribs: Heavy Melody Music – New York City
Who ain’t kiddin? These 10-ton gorillas of music for picture: Heavy Melody Music. Founded over a decade ago by Dave Fraser and Neil Goldberg, this is a made-in-Manhattan musical lovefest that just...
View ArticleStudio Prodigy Sessions in LA: Eddie Kramer 6/21-22, “Analog Mastering in a...
Burning for a real learning experience? Engineer/mixer/producer Ryan Hewitt (blink-182, Dixie Chicks, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) has a double shot coming LA way. Eddie Kramer will be available...
View ArticleMy GO TO…Saturation: Three Pros Share Their Secret Weapons
It’s time to dish out some dirt! This edition of the GO TO series is all about everything that’s unclean: Saturation, distortion and harmonics that make our drums gnarly, our vocals gritty or maybe...
View ArticlePromaxBDA Winners of Promotion, Marketing & Design Awards Announced
There’s nothing like networking at PromaxBDA. FX made their presence known at the 2014 PromaxBDA Awards. Whether you were in music, design, or straight up marketing, attending PromaxBDA last week in...
View ArticleAllen & Heath Introduces Qu-32 Mixer – 32-In/28-Out, for Live & Studio
The Qu digital line of mixers from Allen & Heath now include the Qu-32 – a 32 channel digital mixer. The Qu line radically maximizes on the advantages of digital control by including complete board...
View ArticleFocal Announces Alpha — Affordable Powered Studio Monitors Series
The renowned French speaker designers have done it: Focal released an extremely accessible line of reference monitors aimed at those who accomplish their mixing and recording in the home studio. The...
View ArticlePositive Grid Unveils BIAS Desktop – Amp Designer, Modeler, and Matcher
BIAS Desktop isn’t your average guitar amp designer environment. The new software from Positive Grid features a unique amp matching system that will analyze and replicate any direct or pre-recorded...
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot – Catch This Music, Nashville
At the core of a rebirth, an essential element of the original may still remain. That’s the case with Catch This Music Recording Studio (CTM), which revived a Music Row space while retaining something...
View ArticleSAE NY 3rd Annual Alumni Awards – Wed. July 2nd, The Cutting Room
May the best audio maven win! For those who can handle the suspense of a live awards show, the Cutting Room will be the place to be this coming Wednesday, July 2nd. That’s where SAE New York will host...
View ArticleStudio Creativity: Controlling Your Audio With Audio — Video Tutorial
For those of us who are passionate about writing, creating, producing, recording, or mixing music, we spend a lot of time looking at waveforms on a screen. We invest endless hours of our lives...
View ArticleResearch & Development: How AirTurn Invents Musical Solutions, Apps & More
Are you trying to ensnare the whole world with your next creation? Or should you perhaps be casting a narrower net? Hugh Sung wants to enable musicians with fresh tech. The story of musical solution...
View ArticleZAOR Furniture Designers Announce Affordable ONDA Media Workstation
Romanian studio furniture designers ZAOR are advancing their cost-conscious CLASSIC series of furniture with the ONDA media workstation. The ONDA comes to us with practicality, aesthetic appeal and...
View ArticleAlexB Announces Modern Flagship Dynamics Compressor Library
Modeled after classic, physical hardware, AlexB has announced the release of his Modern Flagship Dynamics sampled library exclusively for the Nebula VST environment. If we were betting folks, we’d say...
View ArticleBoz Digital Labs Launches T-Bone – Slant EQ Plugin
Treat yourself this 4th of July weekend, and go wonkless. That’s just one of the many benefits of the latest plugin from Boz Digital Labs, via their new release, the T-Bone Slant EQ. Besides the lack...
View ArticlePro Audio LA: How Custom Cables Led to Bigger Business
When you see the large, open space of the workshop, the quaint coziness of the demo room and the impressive construct of the studio control and live room, it’s hard to imagine just two guys sitting in...
View ArticlescoreAscore Names Jake Weinreb Director of Business Development
The music-for-picture resource scoreAscore.com (sAs) has just added new muscle at the executive level. scoreAscore has scored Jake Weinreb for its team. A pioneering platform founded in 2010, Los...
View ArticleMackie Now Shipping Re-Designed SRM450 & SRM350 Portable Loudspeakers
As we all know, Mackie has been in the live sound gig for years. In fact, their original SRM450 was the first active, portable loudspeaker! Breathing new life into the SRM series, Mackie has included a...
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