SynthTemple – a hybrid facility combining a fully operational recording studio with a museum of electronic instruments – the Melbourne inner-city suburb of Kew has quickly become a major attraction for musicians, producers and synth aficionados from around the globe.
Central to its vision is an immersive monitoring environment built entirely on Genelec’s Smart Active Monitoring technology.
As the TED Organisation’s relationship with its PA supplier neared its end, audio consultant Michael Nunan was working on a TED Countdown…
French company Smode Tech has struck a partnership with Cercle Odyssey, the world’s first large-scale 360° immersive concert, to provide…
Marking five decades of late-night Saturday Night Live TV show, SNL50: The Homecoming Concert was staged audiences at the Radio City…
When it was suggested to Toto FOH Ken Freeman he swap his desk for a DiGiCo he agreed. Starting with an SD 10, then a Quantum 338, he…
Adjacent to the Oxo Tower on the south bank of the Thames, the 12th Knot cocktail bar sits on the rooftop of Sea Containers Hotel and is known for its views across London and its atmosphere.
Needing to upgrade its audio system, the hotel turned to Tateside, who already provides managed A/V services across various areas in the hotel.
As Denmark’s new national centre for contemporary dance and choreography, the scope of flexibility required by the Copenhagen Dansehallerne’s performance spaces reflects the needs of its designers, choreographers and performers.
Matching the freedom of the spaces, there are no permanent loudspeaker placements.
Engineer, producer and educator Bob Bullock began his career in Los Angeles working alongside Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac and Art Garfunkel during the 1970s – as a number of LA studios were installing Harrison Audio’s first mixing console.
Having relocated to Nashville in the early 1980s, he has been reacquainting himself with its sound through the addition of Harrison’s new 500 Series analogue modules to his Cool Springs Mix studio.
When professional digital audio made its entrance, the limitations of early technology combined with the excitement of some advocates made it a soft target for purists and sceptics. Then, as the tech found its feet and its potential became tangible, there was no going back.
Digital audio’s eventual coming of age, however, has brought on a hunger to revive the nuances of analogue.
Opened in the early 1960s as Moonglow Records, The Sound Factory’s name was coined by David Hassinger, who purchased the LA facility in 1969. A decade later, the facilty was sold to Sunset Sound Recorders owners Paul and Tutti Camarata, who ran it until it changed hands again in 2017.
To reflect changing technology and musical styles, the current leaders recently upgrade the space, contacting George Augspurger to create new main monitors.
Hosted by broadcast presenter Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes, an expert on high-performance sporting cultures and visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, The High Performance Podcast turns the lived experiences of high performers into life lessons.
Over the past four years, they have interviewed more than 250 guests to uncover the secrets behind their success.
Equipping its 900-capacity main room with L-Acoustics L-ISA immersive audio technology has made The Other Side the first club in the world to fully embrace spatial audio. This move not only honours Amsterdam’s legacy of innovation, but offers a new standard for clubbing experiences worldwide.
‘It was our mission to make spatial audio available to the public,’ says Jasper Löwik, one of the venue’s two founders.
Setting up in the Hollywood Studio Symphony at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, producer and score mixer Christian Amonson recently recorded ‘Across the Stars (Love Theme from Star Wars: Episode II)’ by John Williams.
‘There’s a lot of pressure that comes when producing a piece that’s been recorded – and loved – before, especially Star Wars,’ Amonson says. ‘But that’s the kind of pressure I want...
With a history spanning more than 125 years, the University of Greenwich is regarded as one of the world’s top universities, and offers more than 200 courses across its Greenwich, Avery Hill and Medway campuses in the UK.
Recently, the university forged partnerships with Sennheiser and video collaboration solutions provider AVer to bridge the gap between in-person and remote education.
Run entirely by volunteers and broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, UK Community Radio station Mix 92.6 is now quipped with the largest Vicbooth Ultra modular sound insulation pod in the UK following assistance provided by HHB Communications on moving to its new premises.
Taking the lead on this project for 92.6 was Dave Neal, a long-time volunteer who is currently working in the engineering team for the station.
With the ambition of the first Leslie emulation pedals finally fulfilled, the story of the Shin-ei Uni-Vibe has come full circle. In its wake we have phasers, flangers and digital modelling pedals, each having taken their shot at replacing the Leslie loudspeaker cabinet and finding their own unique niches.
Common sense would have cast the Uni-Vibe aside somewhere along the way. But the final twist in the Uni-Vibe story is its own heritage.
Having been individually and jointly involved in mixing some household names in the music industry, the latest venture shared by Lewis Chapman and Geoff Swan combines a closer partnership with a desire to move into Dolby Atmos mixing.
These goals have resulted in an new Atmos room opening at The Ranch Production House near Southampton – which features a Merging Technologies and Neumann solution that is quickly proving successful.
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