If you’ve been craving an excuse to escape to the Green Mountain State, allow us to present the perfect reason:
Vermont recording studio Guilford Sound will be hosting an analog tape workshop with engineer Larry Crane manning the helm – editor and founder of renowned Tape Op magazine.
The big, … Read More
Making a move is something Joe Lambert knows how to do – in more ways than one.
Lambert went solo in 2008, after a decade plus of mastering at bigger NYC houses. Hanging out his own shingle as Joe Lambert Mastering was a risk, but one that’s paid off as … Read More
Bring fourth the personnel changes at Elias Arts.
L-R: The updated LA team at Elias Arts includes Production Coordinator Allee Futterer, Executive Producer Vicki Ordeshook and Head of Production Katie Overcash.
There’s been a quartet of additions and promotions at the bicoastal music shop, which has added Joey Netter … Read More
The SONAR Membership Program from Cakewalk was announced earlier this year, putting an end to “versions,” and allowing users to receive all SONAR DAW enhancements and content as they become available.
The Braintree release is now live for SONAR members.
Using the convention of naming their major releases after cities … Read More
Plugins: They are commonplace and nearly mandatory in today’s studios and workspaces, and for some, have entirely replaced hardware processors. There is now even an entire generation of audio fiends that have never worked outside the box. For some, analog processing is still considered the holy grail—at least for certain … Read More
Give a warm welcome to the SA-2A Opto Compressor, coming straight out of Chile and Stam Audio.
This South American beauty claims to be a faithful reproduction of the classic 1968 Teletronix LA-2A compressor, with the goal of making its sought-after sound for vocals and bass accessible to … Read More
Although this is the first we’re seeing Eplex7 here at SonicScoop, we’re sure it won’t be the last. Their new plugin Bassblaster is a niche VST that generates low frequency after-effects on each signal sent through it.
The deep end is beckoning.
The variety of unique bass tones is the … Read More
Soundtoys know how to party with the best of ‘em at SXSW, and 2015 is no exception – yet again they’ve launched a free plugin for the festival, and this one should be plenty of fun.
Prepare to worship Little AlterBoy, an exciting new tool for dramatic voice alteration. … Read More
Many studio veterans maintain a certain stigma against “laptop records.” By laptop records, I mean recordings that are made outside of a traditional recording studio, without a collection of expensive analog gear. They are sometimes demonized in discussions during down time in pro-level sessions, even though many of them exhibit … Read More
Are more dependable royalties on the way for producers, mixers and engineers – by the letter of the law?
(L-R)The Recording Academy’s Daryl P. Friedman, Chief Advocacy & Industry Relations Officer; Maureen Droney, Managing Director, P&E Wing; and Neil Portnow, President/CEO with Michael Huppe, President & CEO of SoundExchange, and … Read More
HoRNet Plugins has released their second plug-in created in collaboration with DJ BSharry. Side Chainer delivers on their design goals of simplicity making kick drum pumping, or any sidechain compressor effects for that matter, as easy as placing the plug-in on the host track.
Pumping effects, pronto.
The side … Read More
Eye candy, ear candy, and refreshments for your bod + brain – if this isn’t the perfect evening, what is?
Let us beseech ye no more, and point directly to the answer: The Audio Power Tools Open House may just be that optimal nighttime activity you seek. This purveyor of … Read More
Is a trip to the annual South by Southwest festival worthwhile for musicians? Judging by the fact that over 2,000 official acts, representing 53 countries, played in over 111 Austin venues this past week, it seems that many artists would say “yes”.
Crowds of music fans at SXSW. Photos and … Read More
San Jose, CA-based Muse Research has released their second iteration of their popular Receptor VIP Plug-In player. The Receptor VIP2 comes loaded with new I/O, processor, expandable RAM and over $900 worth of onboard virtual instruments and effects.
Play all the plug-ins your heart desires. Expand the RAM when your … Read More
SSL is raising the veil on a significant upgrade to two of its major consoles — meet Duality δelta and AWS δelta.
What makes these desks “Delta” is the introduction of δelta-Control (δ-Ctrl), which marks a brand new analog console automation platform for SSL. The objective of Delta — … Read More
If you want to know what New York City recording is coming to – or rather, where it’s going – cast your eyes towards the Garden State.
While Brooklyn was seen for decades as an affordable haven for audio mavens, that era appears to be coming to a quick end. … Read More
There are so many plug-ins to choose from these days. If only a developer was kind enough to bundle them up into a single plug-in with tons of modulation options and minimal effect on the CPU. Well Exponential Audio is that developer, and Excalibur is that plugin.
Intimidated by modulations … Read More
Universal Audio has announced four new Apollo interfaces and the industry’s first and only Marshall-branded amplifier plug-in at Musikmesse 2015.
Available today is the Apollo 8 – A single rack interface with onboard UAD-2 DUO processing, with an available UAD-2 QUAD option. Along with the complete line of new … Read More
