SonicScoop’s AES 2015 Preview and Highlights
This year, the Audio Engineering Society is back in New York City, bringing the 139th International AES Convention to the Big Apple from October 29th to November 1st. Whether you’ll be there to learn,...
View ArticleSoftware Review: Boom Library’s Virtual Foley Artist
The interface for Virtual Foley Footsteps. Anyone who works with sound for picture is probably familiar with Boom Library’s collection of sound FX libraries. Boom Library products cover a vast array of...
View ArticleGet “That” Guitar Tone: Foo Fighters Edition
A guitar player doesn’t have to be a storied virtuoso to deliver a great tone that countless musicians and fans seek to emulate—or to simply keep in their ears as an extremely useful reference point...
View ArticleNew to SonicScoop? Start Here.
Just picked up a discount card from AES? Just stumbled onto us through a web search or one of our giveaways? Here’s a good way to get acquainted with what we do at SonicScoop: See what stories others...
View ArticleAES 2015: Top Picks & Pics from the Showroom Floor
This was a memorable weekend to be in New York City. The Mets were embroiled in the World Series, the NYC Marathon powered through all five boroughs, and Halloween fell on a Saturday night, capped by...
View ArticleNovation Will Fly You To Berlin to Perform Live for Free…
…If you are the lucky winner! Novation has partnered with hello LIVE, Producertech.com, and Loopmasters to present the opportunity to anyone who is willing to answer a simple question. Prizes...
View ArticleSlate Digital Releases FG-Bomber – Impact Enhancer Plug-In
Slate Digital’s new plug-in promises to enhance depth, and impact of your sounds. The FG-Bomber is an abstracted signal chain that includes analog-modeled compressors, filters, harmonic generators,...
View ArticleMix Analysis: How Nic Hard Mixed “Shofukan” by Snarky Puppy
Who wouldn’t want the best of both worlds? Every Snarky Puppy performance is unique.Mixer Nic Hard certainly does, and realized he could have it via an intriguing project for Grammy Award winning...
View ArticleUp & Coming Engineers: Ryan Benyo on Radio, Recording and “Kid Pan Alley”
Ryan Benyo at work.Ryan Benyo produces an independent and internationally syndicated radio show called Passport Approved. Airing on over 30 stations across the world, Passport Approved was the first...
View ArticleGenelec Debuts 1236 Smart Active Monitoring (SAM) Main Monitor System
Genelec’s Smart Active Monitoring line adds functionality not typically found in studio monitors, let alone far-fields. The SAM tech can measure the response of the listening area to compensate for...
View ArticleLIVE in the Studio
How a beauty company's warehouse became both a pro studio and one-of-a-kind live concert venue.
View ArticleMade in CA: Nothing like Little Labs
A look inside the inventive, boutique pro audio company and the mad scientist behind it.
View ArticleBell Sound – A Legacy of Looking Ahead
How one of the oldest studios in Hollywood stays young...and open.
View Article17 Hertz Studio: A True (North) Hollywood Story
How both a man and a studio went from extreme lows to dreams come true.
View ArticlePro Audio LA: How Custom Cables Led to Bigger Business
The successful blend of creativity and technical prowess that grew a custom cabling business into a full service pro audio company and state-of-the-art studio.
View ArticleLIVE in the Studio
THE VALLEY: Fonogenic Studios sits almost directly off of the 405, down Haskell just past where apartments and gas stations fade into warehouses and corporate parks. The studio itself is tucked away...
View ArticleMade in CA: Nothing like Little Labs
“I needed to come up with something. There’s so much gear out there now. It’s like… what, another EQ? Another compressor?” “[But] there is nothing out there that does what the Pepper does,” Jonathan...
View ArticleBell Sound – A Legacy of Looking Ahead
It feels like home. Bougainvillea climbs over the green metal gate, encircling bright blue lounge chairs and a wrought iron table set, picturesque, against the brick patio. Entering Bell Sound The...
View Article17 Hertz Studio: A True (North) Hollywood Story
A beautifully renovated, 10,000 sq. foot studio space in the hip NOHO Arts District of North Hollywood seems perfectly placed. With three beautiful, state-of-the-art studios and five smaller...
View ArticlePro Audio LA: How Custom Cables Led to Bigger Business
When you see the large, open space of the workshop, the quaint coziness of the demo room and the impressive construct of the studio control and live room, it’s hard to imagine just two guys sitting in...
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