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Wendy Starland: On Protecting Producers, Bands & Brands, and Bringing Up Lady Gaga

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Wendy Starland exudes the ideal of the modern entrepreneurial recording artist. She is also famous for having discovered and developed Lady Gaga at NYC’s famed venue The Cutting Room – a fruitful relationship that led to regular songwriting collaborations for years to follow.

Wendy Starland has important advice for collaborators … Read More


The AMP Act is Introduced to the House: Legislation to Provide Producers, Mixers & Engineers with Digital Royalties

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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 Releases BSharry Side Chainer – Auto Sidechain Compressor Plug-In

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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

NYC Event: Audio Power Tools Open House – Brooklyn, 3/26

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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 SXSW Worth It for Musicians? A Photo Tour of Austin’s Biggest Music Festival

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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

iZotope Releases Ozone 6.1 Update – Tube Limiting, Adaptive Release for Dynamics Module and More

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Ozone 6 from iZotope was launched back in October, 2014 and now officially has its first patch. Many of the feature updates for Ozone 6.1 were a result of customer feedback so users should be pleased with iZotope’s offering in the free update.

Two main features include Tube Limiting and … Read More

Plug & Mix Releases Chainer – VST Chaining Wrapper

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Plug & Mix proudly offers dozens of effects pedal VSTs that can be combined to create a wealth of signal chains. With the introduction of Chainer, users of the P&M plug-ins can now save their signal chains within Chainer.

Chain VSTs in series or parallel and save the signal … Read More

Brooklyn Audio Post Bravado: Fall On Your Sword Unveils The Foundry — 7.1 Dolby Mix Room

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Audio post in Brooklyn is not news anymore. Owing to the larger spaces available and the convenience, an ever-growing contingent of filmmakers and media producers want to mix sound in their borough of choice.

And the options available are slowly growing. From Rumble Audio in East Willimamsburg/Bushwick to the new Read More


PSP Releases MasterQ2 – Successor to Their Original MasterQ Mastering EQ Plug-In

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The original MasterQ from PSP Audioware has been around the block. Their customers loved it so much that they decided to make it even better.

Bigger, stronger, Q-er.

MasterQ2 is a mastering EQ plug-in that PSP created to focus on precision and maintaining quality of the original signal throughout processing. … Read More

The Case for Digital Wireless Microphones

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This is a guest post by Alex Milne of RF Venue.

Digital wireless microphones sometimes get a bad rap. Early models, especially those operating in the 2.4 GHz band, did not sound as good as analog and were beset by dropouts and interference.

Combine that with a general preference for … Read More

iZ Releases Radar Studio – Native PC + Audio Interface + More

Line 6 Now Shipping Firehawk FX – Wireless Multi-Effect Guitar Processor

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If a wire is good, then wireless must be better.

That’s been the prevailing fact in all the other tech we touch, so why shouldn’t it apply to our guitar (and synth) effects? Line 6 agrees wholeheartedly, hence the announcement that Firehawk FX is now available.

We first saw Firehawk … Read More

Recreating Bird: Returning to Detroit’s Legendary “United Sound Systems” Recording Studio

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A lot has changed in the recording industry since the 1940’s. The road from acetate masters to digital streaming has been a long one, and there are still music critics who feel that it is simply impossible to make recordings today that can deliver the same sound, feel and emotional … Read More

Review: Steinberg’s Cubase Pro 8 – By Andrew Koss

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Presented with the opportunity to write a review about a DAW, my initial reaction was, “How can anyone cover an entire DAW in a single article?”

Cubase Pro 8 is the latest version of Steinberg’s full-featured DAW.

The project was to take Steinberg’s Cubase Pro 8 for a serious test … Read More

Muse Research Launches Receptor VIP2 – Hardware Plug-In Player

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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


Solid State Logic Announces δelta-Control for Duality and AWS Consoles

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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

Kaleidoscope Sound: Evolution of the Engineer-in-Residence

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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

Exponential Audio Releases Excalibur – Multi-Effects Plugin

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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 Launches Next-Gen Apollo Thunderbolt 2 Audio Interfaces, Marshall “Plexi” Super Lead Plug-In for Apollo and UAD-2

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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

Back to Basics: 3 Simple Steps to Improve Your Mixes with Subtractive EQ

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When I first started mixing, I thought the only way I could improve a sound was to add something to it. I piled dozens of plugins and EQ boosts onto every track, and my mixes sounded muddy and undefined.

I soon learned that I could achieve even better results by … Read More

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