Postmodern Jukebox: The Making of a Multi-Million View YouTube Music Channel
Scott Bradlee was living in New York City in 2009, and finding it difficult to make ends meet through gigs and sessions alone. “I didn’t have a lot of work as a jazz musician, which is what I trained...
View ArticleTELEFUNKEN To Introduce M60 FET Microphone at NAMM 2015
TELEFUNKEN is on top of it once again — with something new for NAMM. The M60 FET is TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik’s first non-vacuum tube, FET-based, solid-state condenser microphone. The M60 features...
View ArticleReview: Splice — Cloud Platform for Music Creation, Collaboration and Sharing
In my opinion, cloud file management/sharing services are some of the coolest and most useful digital tools to come into the mainstream. Right now, everything I do gets uploaded to my own little plot...
View ArticleSound Radix Releases Drum Leveler Plug-In
Sound Radix has released a different type of transient design plug-in for drum and percussion tracks, and loops. In the mixing process, drums can be a challenge to tweak – especially in stereo tracks....
View ArticleVideo Tutorial: Ducking Delays, Dynamic Delays and Other Automated FX
(This is second in a series of video tutorials for SonicScoop by producer/mixer/engineer Jake Antelis. See his first one here, “Editing Trills in Melodyne with Shortcuts for Speed & Efficiency.”)...
View ArticleDAW Evolution: Cakewalk Launches New Membership Model + 3 New Versions of SONAR
Cakewalk is making a strong break with DAW tradition — the company has launched an evolved audio software model with their new SONAR Membership program. This is NOT a subscription, which according to...
View ArticleEli Janney: Mixing For Wilco, Wheat & People He’s Never Met
"One thing I learned a long time ago is to listen to the mix in the 'wrong' place in the room…Before I finalize a mix, I’m always listening in places like the far corner by the doorway." The post Eli...
View ArticleZulu Pearls Signs To Cantora Records
Cantora Records, the Brooklyn-based label that launched MGMT, has signed a new band - Zulu Pearls. Zulu Pearls is singer/songwriter/rocker Zach Van Hoozer, a Washington, D.C. native who has been living...
View ArticleInputOutput Interview: Ian MacKaye, Part I
Geoff and Eli reconnect with punk icon Ian MacKaye for a look back at the early D.C. hardcore punk scene. The post InputOutput Interview: Ian MacKaye, Part I appeared first on SonicScoop.
View ArticleEli Janney: Mixing For Wilco, Wheat & People He’s Never Met
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: We think it would be QUINTUPLE cool to be Eli Janney. He grew up in Washington, DC (#1). He honed his audio chops with Don Zientara of Inner Ear Studios and recorded groups like...
View ArticleZulu Pearls Signs To Cantora Records
Cantora Records, the Brooklyn-based label that launched MGMT, has signed a new band – Zulu Pearls. Zulu Pearls is singer/songwriter/rocker Zach Van Hoozer, a Washington, D.C. native who has been...
View ArticleInputOutput Interview: Ian MacKaye, Part I
As a member of seminal hardcore punk bands The Teen Idles, Minor Threat and Fugazi, and a founder of the pioneering indie label, Dischord Records, Ian MacKaye led a musical movement out of Washington,...
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