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Grado Labs Launches Limited Edition GH1 Brooklyn Tree Headphones

Hand-crafted audio hardware has been emanating from Grado Labs in Brooklyn for over 60 years. Now that connection to the Broken Land has grown even deeper with their announcement of the new Grado...

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Plugin Review: Vertigo Sound VSM-3 from Brainworx & Plugin Alliance

We’re always hearing about the good old days of analog, when all of the non-linearities of tubes, transistors, transformers and tape combined to color recordings in a wonderful way. From the beginning...

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The Best Peak Limiter Plugins on the Market

Peak limiters have become ubiquitous in music production. With the advent of digital processing, limiters can now “look ahead” and react instantaneously to audio peaks, providing true “brickwall”...

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A Concise Guide to Soundproofing and Acoustic Treatment

Justin Colletti is back on the SonicScoop video blog! This time, learn all of what he knows about soundproofing studios and using affordable acoustic treatment options to get the best possible sound...

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Audio-Technica Shipping BP40 – Large-Diaphragm Dynamic Broadcast Microphone

The spoken word is the star with the BP40 from Audio-Technica, an ideal microphone for vocal broadcasting: Podcasts, overdubs, radio, post-production, and more. The dynamic BP40 with the optional...

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BB4 Studios: Mix & Master Unified in Brooklyn

Is it a nightclub? A lounge? A sushi joint? A few months ago, passersby on a vibrant stretch of Bedford in South Williamsburg saw an awning go up over 327 Bedford Avenue, and started to wonder exactly...

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IK Multimedia and Mesa Engineering Announce Amplitube MESA/Boogie

IK Multimedia’s guitar and bass tone-creation software, Amplitube 3 Custom Shop, has a new addition – The Amplitube MESA/Boogie collection. This new suite was co-developed with the R&D team at Mesa...

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Plugin Alliance – Last Chance For Summer Sale

Haven’t quite scavenged the funds together for a full price license to SPL’s TwinTube plug-in? How about an Elysia Museq EQ? If your answer was along the lines of “no (#sadface)”, then the next 30 days...

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Composer Brian Tyler To Keynote 2nd Annual Production Music Conference – 9/9...

The non-profit Production Music Association (PMA) was founded in 1997 with a mission to “elevate the unique value of production music and to ensure the viability of the production music industry”....

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Slate Digital Introduces Yearly and Monthly Plug-In Subscription Programs

Slate Digital has a wealth of plug-ins to choose from. Of course it’s ideal to own as many of these plug-ins as possible! But how does one expect to pay for all of that beautifully crafted DSP? Slate...

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Pull Scores For Nike’s ‘Inside Small-Sided’ Online Film Series

NYC music company Pull got its kicks scoring an online film series for Nike. Their decidedly outside-the-box soundtrack accompanied a set of segments about small-sided soccer in Latin America....

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Interview with Reaper Founder, Justin Frankel

This week we had the privilege of sitting down with the creator of Reaper, Justin Frankel. The latest version of his company’s flexible and cost-effective DAW comes out tomorrow, August 12th. We talked...

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Novation Launches New Launchkey Controller Series

Novation has never been shy announcing their product compatibility with Ableton Live – As they put it in this case, their new Launchkey controller series is “pretty much the quickest and easiest way to...

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Plugin Review: bx_opto and bx_opto Pedal from Brainworx

The “bx_opto” from Brainworx and Plugin Alliance Last month, Plugin Alliance and Brainworx released the bx_opto compressor and the bx_opto Pedal—the latter of which is essentially a “diet” version of...

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Austin, TX – Recording Bootcamp Presented by Keith Gary Productions August...

Keith Gary Productions is an audio production outfit out based out of Austin Texas lead by —  you guessed it! — Keith Gary. Keith Gary in his natural habitat. Gary has been working professionally in...

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139TH AES Convention in NYC Announces Project Studio Expo’s Return

Don’t look now, but AES is approaching – and it’s New York City’s turn in 2015. YESSSSS — AES is on its way to NYC this October. The 139th AES International Convention will take place at the Jacob...

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Image-Line Launches FL Studio 12.1

The DAW universe has just expanded a touch with the launch of FL Studio 12.1. FL Studio goes up to 12 – point 1. Image-Line’s flagship workstation includes lifetime free updates, which makes it a safe...

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Studio Pro Profile: Mike Kuz, Head Mixing Engineer — SweetSounds, NYC

Meet Mike Kuz, who’s been Head Mixing Engineer for the New York City studio SweetSounds since Spring of this year. With recent collaborations including Slaughterhouse, Walé, OnCue, Common, Smoke DZA,...

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Anatomy of a Mix: John Agnello on Mixing “3 Shots” by Hollis Brown

John Agnello. Photo by Andrew Kesin. Legendary indie rock producer John Agnello looks back on mixing 3 Shots, a recently-released album by Brooklyn-based indie Americana band, Hollis Brown. Agnello is...

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Waves Releases Cobalt Saphira – Add and Enhance Harmonic Content

Waves continues to broaden their developmental horizons with the release of a harmonic enhancement plug-in, Cobalt Saphira. Saphira is the first of Waves’ new Cobalt-series – “Analog that Only Digital...

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