In The Spotlight – Aspen Pittman’s Designs Aspen Pittman’s designs have been coveted by legendary musicians and record producers for nearly 40 years. His best selling Tube Amp Book has sold over 140,000 copies. He has designed dozens of tube guitar amps, stage and studio microphones, and has designed and built over a dozen unique […]
Manley Labs Factory Tour and Interview with President EveAnna Manley The president of Manley Labs EveAnna Manley is a sharp individual. Her manufacturing operation is based out of Chino, California and is capable of producing metric tons of both pro-side and audiophile goods – all hand assembled in the US. I briefly ran into EveAnna […]
One Year Later – Strange Weather’s API Legacy AXS Console One Year Later: Strange Weather’s API Legacy AXS Console JUNE 2018; BROOKLYN, NY: Last year, Strange Weather studio installed a 32 channel Legacy AXS at its Brooklyn facility. The studio had been home to a 1608 console since 2007, with expansions added over the years, […]
Avantone CLA-10 Designed in conjunction with the expertise of mixer Chris Lord Alge, the CLA10 studio monitors are the faithful modern reproduction of the most iconic studio monitor of the last 30 years. Mix with the studio monitors that truly define “the sound of hits”. Cabinet A tremendous amount of attention has been put into […]
MOTU Release the 8PRE-ES 24×28 Thunderbolt/USB Audio Interface Introducing the 828es Thunderbolt/USB interface for Mac, PC and iOS Re-engineered with renowned ESS Sabre32™ DAC technology and a new front panel design, the 828es connects to a Mac, PC or iOS device over Thunderbolt™ or USB with low latency, high performance drivers to deliver 60 total […]
Slate Virtual Recording Studio – Free Demo – The VRS Experience When I was twenty years old, I was interning at a pro studio in Boston, Massachusetts where I had the fortune of working with high end gear like vintage mics, tape machines, consoles, and all the rack gear you could ever want. Then I’d […]
Manikin Electronic ‘The Most Authentic Melltotron Sound Library. The Choice of Tangerine Dream’ The dream of a digital Mellotron has existed since the birth of digital sampling, and the promise of Mellotron chips for the 360 Systems Digital Keyboard had me on tenterhooks for years in the mid‑1980s. Since then, there have been myriad PCM‑based emulations […]
Family Guy Composer Walter Murphy Shares His Process In this Youtube feature from Sound On Sound magazine, composer Walter Murphy shares the process he goes through to score an episode of Family Guy, the hit Fox series Walter has been scoring since the show’s very first episode in 1999. Walter also details how he collaborated with the […]
