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 when they’re in the studio.
For a huge number of younger rock musicians and fans, … Read More
Just picked up a discount card from AES? Just stumbled onto us through a web search or one of our giveaways? Here’s a good way to get acquainted with what we do at SonicScoop:
See what stories others are enjoying by perusing our Most Popular recent articles. Check out the… Read MoreSonarworks’ Reference 3 Suite.
One of the biggest challenges that professional audio engineers have to deal with today is the actual work environment.
Newly-available technology and shrinking budgets mean that records are often made on the fly and in less than ideal conditions. However, artists and labels still demand no … Read More
Antelope rolled out a trifecta of new hardware products for us at last week’s AES 139: the 10MX Atomic Clock, Orion 32+, Orion Studio, plus a new software reverb, AuraVerb.
Orion 32+
The Orion 32+
The Orion 32+ builds on the Orion 32 platform, delivering 32 inputs and outputs via … Read More
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 Evil: Extinction, “Numb3rs,” “American Horror Story”), he’s spent his time in the spotlight. Clouser was keyboardist/programmer for … Read More
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 round, with participation from a group of private investors.
Scott Freiman, co-founder of Qwire.
Following successful trial runs … Read More
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 out, but not so much so that it sounds super modern.”
My engineer … Read More
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 Miller, French Montana, Maino, and Method Man. We spoke to Josh about his advice to aspiring engineers … Read More
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 dynamic and ribbon microphones. McBoost provides up to 25 dB of boost, coupled with a 3-position high pass filter … Read More
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 for that:
1. I’ve been working to help develop new writers for the site.
The more … Read More
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 overall faithful signal representation.
With a closed-back design, the MT7s are designed to provide isolation of the source, and surrounding … Read More
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 environment, flattening any anomalies identified during room analysis of direct and reflected sounds. And now, with a Windows edition freshly released, it’s … Read More
I’ve been a fan of PSP’s versatile, user-friendly plugins for a while. I think it’s safe to say that at Mason Jar Music, we’ve used the PSP OldTimer compressor on almost every song we’ve mixed.
PSP manages to pair incredibly high-quality processing with simple and thoughtful, yet powerful user interfaces, Read more...
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Universal Audio’s Apollo x4 and Apollo Twin X have landed.
With elite-class A/D and D/A conversion inherited directly from the award- winning Apollo X rackmount interfaces, four Unison-enabled mic preamps, and Thunderbolt 3 connectivity for Mac and Windows, Apollo x4 is the world’s most advanced desktop audio interface.
Built for Read more...
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