The Ins and Outs of Licensing Recordings and Cover Songs on YouTube
In past articles, we’ve looked at how to take control of your creative rights online, and how to monetize your music using services like YouTube’s ContentID. But what about when it’s someone else’s...
View ArticleiZotope Releases Ozone 6 Creative Mastering Platform
The famed mastering suite from iZotope has officially been upgraded with the release of Ozone 6. The new version is still focused on mastering, but through a more creative process. The newly designed...
View ArticleJBL Announces 7 Series Master Reference Monitors
JBL is not standing still. The sound of the new JBL 7 series will surprise you. After making waves on the high end with their flagship M2 Master Reference Monitor, and winning over the affordable...
View ArticleMaster Plan: SING Mastering — Atlanta
In the Wiki for Atlanta, you see it is considered an “alpha-” or “world city”, ranking 15th among world cities and sixth in the nation with a gross domestic product of $270 billion. Colin Leonard heads...
View ArticleAlexB Launches ORbital eQ, ORbital Dynamics Plugins – Classic EQ &...
When AlexB launches a new plugin – we listen. Nebula3 can house two new modeled classic units from AlexB. His latest editions start with the ORbital eQ, an “American classic all-purpose equalizer”...
View ArticleRecording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing to Honor Nile Rodgers
A studio giant is getting his due, and then some, at the GRAMMY Awards in February. The legendary Nile Rodgers is about to add another accolade to his portfolio. (Photo Courtesy of The Recording...
View ArticleReview: BIAS Desktop Pro, Guitar Amp Modeler – by Gabe Lamorie
Guitar amp software has slowly been gaining popularity in the audio software industry. Considering the cost of what it actually replaces, it’s no wonder that consumers demand it. In that spirit,...
View Article10 Mistakes Intentionally Left In Classic Recordings
Music isn’t perfect. It never was. And it never will be. By nature, people are flawed. Inadvertently, so is the music we create. But isn’t that what also makes it so amazing? Indescribable, intangible...
View ArticleNYC Event: “The Business of Music Seminars” Debut November 13th
This changing music business calls for a new way to navigate the landscape. A new series, “The Business of Music Seminars” (BMS) aims to make it easier for producers, engineers, artists, and...
View ArticleAllen & Heath Launches Wireless Personal Monitoring for Qu Compact Mixers
Like Uber and coffee makers, wireless monitor mixing is something we’ll wonder how we ever lived without. Can you see you with Qu-You? Sensing this, Allen & Heath has announced the addition of...
View ArticleLightning Boy Audio Introduces Flux Bender Equalizer — Stereo Passive EQ
When we first stumbled on to Lightening Boy Audio, they were developing stellar tube pedals. Since then, LBA has honed in on their design philosophy to release the Flux Bender Equalizer. At first...
View ArticleRoland Announces M-5000 Live Console
The new M-5000 console from Roland is ideal for the live sound environment. With the included O.H.R.C.A. based architecture, the bounds of console routing remain limited only to its physical I/O. The...
View ArticleAble Baker: An NYC Firm Hears the New ABC’s of Music Supervision
Call it an inner convergence. The latest music supervision service providers are bringing together more tools to help brands and content creators. A new NYC-based example is Able Baker. The firm is...
View ArticleHow the Emulation Is Made: Universal Audio’s Manley Variable Mu Limiter...
Adore analog? Dig digital only? Nothing blurs the audio lines like software emulations of hardware processors. Producers and engineers who are evolving their studios now have an embarrassment of...
View ArticleTascam Announces the DR-700 Audio Interface for DSLR Production
Ready to get the picture? This new recorder goes with a DSLR camera like a peanut butter and chocolate converge in a Reese’s. Tascam’s DR-700 covers a wide array of production uses where compact...
View ArticleNew Pro Tools Licensing Now Available, for Access to Future Cloud Features &...
The newly available licensing plan for Pro Tools users is all about the long view. Pro Tools gets future-proofed with the newly available licensing plan. It’s complicated, and some of the details that...
View ArticleSoftube Releases Solid State Logic XL 9000 K-Series for Console 1
Console 1 is Softube’s solution for closing the analog console-DAW gap. Their system allows users to mix audio with their hardware interface that resembles a horizontally layered channel strip. The...
View ArticleBlack Lion Audio Announces B12A MKII
Mod extraordinaire Black Lion Audio has announced their B12A MKII single channel mic preamp straight out of Chicago. Their new preamp, like Black Lion’s original B12A, is based on the API 312A but...
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot – 825 Records, Brooklyn (Video Tour)
He’s not the hardest-working man in music — yet. But give Matty Amendola time, and the Brooklyn producer/engineer/composer/multi-instrumentalist may yet get a share of that coveted title. There’s...
View ArticlePro Sound Effects Launches Enhanced Hybrid Library & Expansion Program for...
Robin Hood has returned! The Hybrid Library from Pro Sound Effects packs 338 GB of sounds on a USB 3.0 hard drive. There may be no more beautifully benevolent bundle in the world of audio then the...
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