The really cool thing about nice microphones, is even if they’ve been meant for one application...
Home Recording
How to record music using recording gear, software and instruments.
REVIEW: ART TubeMix 5-Channel Mixer
The 5-channel TubeMix from ART is a pretty handy device that would serve a small home studio well,...
MEET YOUR MAKER: Black Lion Audio
How Long Have You Been in Business? We incorporated in December, 2006. How did you get started? We...
Studio Diary: This Blue Heaven
This Blue Heaven – Recorded at Camp St. Studios, Cambridge, MA This Blue Heaven is a fantastic Boston-based, female fronted pop/rock band. The group recently held a sold-out video release...
GEAR GUIDE: Home Mixers
While many programs have integrated mixers that can entail hours of clicking away to make the perfect mix, there are physical mixers that can be used to make the process easier and leave the power...
Extend the Life of Your Gear
A little bit of knowledge about care, use and preventive maintenance can extend the life and maximize the performance of the gear you already own. Shure’s Bill Ostry shares tips that will...
Studio Diary: The Bynars
Straight from the band’s collective mouth, “This is our first full-length LP. We self-released three EPs in 2008 and 2009. The album is about two-years and a few hundred songs in the...
Gear Guide: In-Ear Monitors
Get the Perfect Stage Mix Every Time The worst experience a singer can ever have is playing a live show in front of hundreds or thousands of people and not being able...
Studio Diary: Spirit Kid
Boston’s Spirit Kid has been generating quite the buzz locally, and that word-of-mouth is sure to spread with their latest 7-inch release. Emeen Zarookian, the...
GEAR GUIDE: USB and Firewire Interfaces
It is easier (and cheaper) than ever to record professional quality audio, and with the added convenience of recording gear becoming smaller with each passing season, the market is currently flooded...
The Loudness War
How Do We Perceive Leadership? There is an entire field of research that deals with how we humans perceive sound. This is called “psychoacoustics.” These scientists spend their careers studying how...