Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer are currently travelling the world with their Everyone’s a Star! World Tour, making the sound team an early adopter both of L-Acoustics Source Intelligence – after participating in its development – and Shure’s Axient Digital in-ear monitors.
Opened less than a year ago in downtown Nashville by studio manager and engineer Grace Ritter and her partners, Covered Bridge Recording…
Music production company OnlyCproduction has installed the first Solid State Logic Origin analogue mixing console in Vietnam. The…
Armed with Sennheiser HD 300 PROtect headphones, Sennheiser MKH 8020 mics and a bespoke 3D hydrophone array, nature sound recordist…
The recent Music of Zimmer vs Williams show at the Royal Albert Hall brought a spatial twist to the sound through use of a 64-channel…
‘It was one of the greatest experiences of my life – we’d throw little vocal challenges at each other, and this game of one-upmanship resulted in some beautiful vocal renditions. We are really proud of the results. I wish people could see how much fun we had.’
You couldn’t ask for a better commendation for live studio recording. But how many of today’s recording studios are able to support a live session?
Hired by Lord Doberman, the richest man in the world, Anode Enzyme moves into Mollusc Hall as resident genius. Here he discovers the formula for worldly success – mediocrity.
If it was meant to be an entertaining contention when cartoonist John Glashan penned it in his Genius cartoon strip in the late 1970s, it has become a truism for the majority of today’s music charts.
It was all so good... then suddenly it became a first class, impedence matched, wi-fi enabled, 192kHz nightmare.
I was on the verge of the idea that would become the talk of my generation. Then the shadowy figure of the Health N Safety Sheriff busted in and ruined everything. It’s all going horribly wrong (I think Jeremy Clarkson is in here somewhere) then an alarm rings...
Mixing anecdote with hard-won wisdom is something Robbie McGrath does as effortlessly as mixing the biggest bands of the past 40 years.
Today his audience is a group of students that he is encouraging to become the next generation of live sound engineers. But where McGrath is upfront about getting into the business by being in the right place at the right time, they don't yet realise how lucky they are...
A recent Facebook discussion on the state of popular music making threw out an interesting benchmark – the ratio between ‘shit’ and ‘the shit’. Let’s call it S/TS. If that’s reminiscent of signal-to-noise (S/N), it’s no accident.
Much of the blame for the swing towards the ‘S’ end of the scale was assigned to major record labels. The rest came technology’s way.
When did you first meet Kevlar? Think carefully, your answer may betray a lot about your past.
If it was sometime around 1976, you were either enjoying the finer points of cutting-edge reference loudspeaker performance or reading spec sheets in the hope that you soon would be. If you were five years ahead of the audio boys, you were more likely risking your life for country or cash.
The characteristic noises of death and destruction are contrived by nature to be unpleasant. If their cause is indifferent to their creation, then our ears ensure that we read them as alarming, even terrifying.
Certainly, this was the case with many of the records released in the wake of the introduction of CD. The sound of corporate exploitation, combined with artistic apathy, was as excruciating as it was depressing.
It is the early hours of Saturday morning. I'm somewhere in a cold, dark wood with a film crew. The Marantz has just died on me...
My hands are almost too cold to change the batteries in the recorder. The director, crew and cast are waiting to start the next take. I am beginning to doubt I will ever be warm again. Batteries changed. Camera rolling. Sound rolling. Slate!
I read an iPhone app review on iTunes yesterday: ‘I’ve stopped using the Google Analytics website and just use the app…’ it claimed. It’s a big claim, given the extent of information Analytics provides. So I downloaded the app and gave it a try. And I had to agree…
Apps are changing our approach to mobile devices, and shaping future computer use.
A recent TED presentation saw Sarah Angliss examine the connection between Britain’s Industrial Revolution and Detroit’s motor industry, and the music they have produced. In the reflections of unforgiving industrial environments, she can see an ‘art out of noise’ model at work.
Curiously, I’ve drawn exactly the opposite conclusion over the way modern businesses have turned music back into industrial noise.
For a while, each visit I made to America was preceeded by a delivery of fine Cuban cigars. In a very Bond-like arrangement, I was to take these with me ‘for personal use’ and deliver them to an American whom we shall call Steve.
It was quite legal but it had an enjoyable air of opulence and sedition... and it was intimately tied in with cutting-edge digital audio.
The term ‘social networking’ is on a lot of lips at present – from university graduates through IT specialists to pro audio and A/V companies, and most acutely, broadcasters. A subject that, until only recently, was the preserve of anthropologists, sociologists and other academics, has now become mainstream, with direct relevance to our personal and professional lives.
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