AmpKit Launched for Mac Users — Guitar Amp, Effects, and Recording App
Mac users who want to use one of the top guitar apps for iPhone and iPad can come in from the cold. Agile Partners announced that AmpKit has been launched on the Mac App Store, for $49.99. The app has...
View ArticleNYC Premiere of ‘The Sea in Between’ Doc from Mason Jar Music, Thurs. Dec. 6th
One of NYC’s most innovative music companies, the Brooklyn collective known as Mason Jar Music, have a very special evening planned on Thursday, December 6th, 9:00 PM at the 92Y Tribeca. That night,...
View Articleu-he Releases Uhbik-D Tape Echo Delay Rack Extension
u-he, the face behind the popular Diva and Zebra mega-synths have provided the world a new toy – Uhbik-D. This new Rack Extension fx utility for Reason is extremely versatile with tons of extras. Stay...
View ArticleDelicious Audio: Devi Ever Console Project
Delicious Audio recently posted on a new open source platform for developing effects. See below, by Gus Green, or click to read on Delicious Audio. Devi Ever:FX Console This is one of the coolest and...
View ArticleSoundproofing the Small Studio
For one reason or another, whether it’s culture, commerce or community, people all around the world have huddled closer to one another with every passing year. In 1900, fewer than 40% of Americans...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Releases Windows 7 Support for 64-Bit UAD Plugins, UAD-2...
PC producers have an audio turbocharge in store. Windows 7 and UAD are now two peas in a pod. Universal Audio has announced the availability of UAD Powered Plug-Ins v6.4 software. The release brings...
View ArticleHow Do You Stack Up? Compare Music Industry Salaries with New Berklee Study
Are your earnings lagging, ahead of your colleagues, or right on target? Berklee has some very valuable information for you. Now you can find out with Berklee College of Music’s newly released Music...
View ArticleSonnet Launches Echo Express II Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis for PCI Express...
Looking for a more compact way to bridge the gap between your PCI Express cards and your Thunderbolt machine? A smaller footprint distinguishes Sonnet’s Echo Express II. Sonnet has the solution: the...
View ArticleTONE2 Unveils Rayblaster – Impulse Modeling Synth Explores New Territory
Ready to wake your ears up? Something different has arrived. One of our fave synth and plugin developers, Tone2 Audiosoftware, announced the launch of Rayblaster. Available now for $199 in a variety of...
View ArticleBuilding a Smarter Music House: Butter Grows in SoHo
SOHO, MANHATTAN: How do you become an overnight success? It only takes about 14 years of busting your tail. This music house knows how to stay hungry. A perfect illustration of this measured move to...
View ArticleWaves Launches REDD Consoles Plugins – Recreates Iconic Abbey Road Desks
Working with a piece of recording history just got a little easier. Waves announced that its latest release is a painstaking recreation of the REDD consoles (named after Abbey Road Studios’ in-house...
View ArticleHow NOT to Tour – 10 Traps to Avoid
Every musician on this planet has dreamt of the day when they would travel across the fruited plains and over purple mountain majesty, to bring their talents to the multitude of starving American ears....
View ArticleEarthQuaker Devices Releases Hoof Reaper Octave Fuzz Pedal
EarthQuaker Devices has been building pedals out of Akron, Ohio since 2004 and now brings back a once limited pedal – The Hoof Reaper Octave Fuzz. The pedal is a 2-in-1 one style device that includes...
View ArticleTrust Me I’m A Scientist: A Point of Departure with Producer Scott Solter
In this month’s issue of Trust Me I’m A Scientist, Brooklyn musician Daniel Shuman talks to Scott Solter, the producer and engineer behind distinctive sounding records by John Vanderslice, Mountain...
View ArticleShop Talk: Rock Frontman Turned Capitol Tech, Ian Sefchick
HOLLYWOOD: With the right mix of ambition and creativity, a true do it yourselfer will be unstoppable. And Ian Sefchick is a true do it yourselfer. From serving as front man, singer and guitar player...
View ArticleEvent Alert: Phil Ramone To Be Honored Tonight by Salvation Army – Aretha...
One of New York City’s most decorated producers, Phil Ramone, will receive recognition of a different kind tonight, Wednesday December 5th. At the Salvation Army’s 65th Annual Gala/Dinner at New York...
View ArticleRadial Launches ChainDrive 1×4 Distro and Line Driver 500 Module
It’s raining Radials! 500 Series Modules, that is. In yet another 500 Series release from Radial Engineering, the prolific provider of modules has just announced the ChainDrive 1×4 distro and line...
View ArticleRIP Dave Brubeck – Pianist and Jazz Composer
SonicScoop was saddened to learn of the passing of jazz master Dave Brubeck. Jazz was the language of Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012. A resident of the tri-state area since the 1960’s, when he moved to...
View ArticleThe End Re-Launches With New-And-Improved Studio A
GREENPOINT: The recording and performance venue known as The End has made some changes of late – re-tooling their rooms and refining their concept. In business just over a year, and that much older and...
View ArticlePlugin Review: iZotope Trash 2
Today’s audio processors tend to fall into two broad categories: Those that try to recreate the past, and those that tire of it. iZotope’s new Trash 2 plugin falls squarely in that second camp. iZotope...
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