Reverb.com Acquired By Etsy For $275 Million

In only a few years Reverb.com has established itself as the premier site for musicians wanting to buy and sell used music and audio gear, so it’s no surprise that larger online sales companies would eventually want a piece of the action. Yesterday the company announced that it was being acquired by the online marketplace […]

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New Music Gear Monday: Avid S1 Control Surface

For everyone that’s admired the various Avid S-series control surfaces but felt they were out of reach price-wise, the company just announced it’s new S1, the smallest of all its offerings that looks like it will fit in just right in any small studio environment. The S1 packs a lot of punch into a small […]

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Gibson’s Collaboration Policy Might Be The Future For Other Manufacturers Too

Gibson has certainly been through a rough few years but it seems that the ship is now righted, with the introduction of new throwback instruments at lower prices and better dealer relationships. That said, it seems to have gone over the top protecting its brand with a rather public lawsuit against Dean Guitars and a […]

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LANDR Gets More Investment For Audio AI Products

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (there’s a difference) is being used in more and more software audio products these days, and the online mastering platform known as LANDR has been at the forefront of the technology. It looks like we’ll see even more on the AI side from the company as it’s just closed […]

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How To Time Reverb To The Pulse Of The Song

When signal processing is timed to the pulse of the track, everything in the mix sounds a lot smoother. This applies to compressors, delays, modulators, and especially reverb. One of the questions I get a lot is, “How do you time your reverb to the track?” Here’s an excerpt from the 4th edition of my […]

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Amazon Music, Aerosmith In Vegas, And Producer/Engineer Greg Penny On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Greg Penny, who has produced hits with k.d. lang, Cher, and Paul Young among others, but a meeting with Elton John while Greg was in his teens turned into an award-winning mixing journey with the legend many years down the road.  Besides producing and mixing Elton’s many albums in surround, Greg […]

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New Music Gear Monday: Abbey Road Studio 3 Headphone Reference Plugin

Everyone knows how difficult it is to actually mix on headphones. Since the drivers are so close to your ears, you lose the sense of space that you get with speakers, which means that some of your balance, panning and low-end decisions can be out of wack with what you hear on a pair of […]

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Music In 10 Years, Tinnitus, Pro Tools Computers, And Primephonic CEO Thomas Steffens On My Latest Podcast.

My guest on the podcast this week is the CEO of Primphonic, Thomas Steffens. Primephonic is a music streaming service dedicated to keeping classical music alive and serving the needs of the classical music consumer.  Most streaming networks are geared towards modern pop music and don’t serve classical well. It’s difficult to find what you want, and labels, […]

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Here’s What An 80 Inch Gong Sounds Like

A gong is a wonderful percussion instruments with a lineage that goes back centuries in most countries of Asia. It’s a member of the bell family, made from bronze or brass alloy, and has a wonderful unmistakingly unique sound. What you might not know is that there is a such a thing as a “Gong […]

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Is Mastering An Endangered Audio Job?

Mastering engineers are some of my favorite people in the music business and many of the best are friends that I speak with frequently. One subject that’s been coming up more and more in conversation is how much that business has changed, and that work is getting much harder to find. It’s No Surprise This […]

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Building The “World’s Second Best Speakers”

All of us have embarked on a do-it-yourself project from time to time, sometimes out of necessity when money is tight, sometimes to try to improve a piece of gear we already own, and sometimes just for fun. If that describes you, here’s a project that you might want to try building – something that’s […]

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New Music Gear Monday: United Plugins FireCobra Enhancer Plugin

Track enhancer plugins are all the rage these days and most of them do a great job of making a track or mix sound more alive. A new enhancer with a different approach is the FireCobra from United Plugins, which features a very unique user interface. The FireCobra is a fairly simple plugin with an […]

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New Billboard Charts, Smuggling With Speaker Cabinets, And Smart Studio’s Jim Dunne On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Jim Dunne, founder and senior acoustic consultant of the ground-breaking Smart Studio, which completely disrupts how recording studios and dubbing theaters have been built. Smart Studio supplies a modular system that provides not only isolation but excellent acoustic design. Jim has over 30 years experience in the acoustics and noise control […]

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The 4 Reasons To Add Reverb To A Track

Like many other aspects to mixing, the use of reverb is frequently either overlooked or misunderstood. Reverb is sometimes added to a track to create width and depth, but also to dress up an otherwise boring sound. The real secret is how much to use and how to adjust its various parameters. When you get […]

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Reconstructing Notre-Dame Cathedral’s Famed Acoustics

The recent Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in Paris was devastating, but work is now well underway for a complete reconstruction. Over a billion Euros have been pledged for the rebuild, and 40 teams of workers under the watchful eyes of 4 lead architects are now on-site. But as fighting over how much to modernize rages on […]

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