Island Def Jam Partners With NYC-Based Photo Finish Records, Taps Matt Galle...
Island Def Jam Music Group has entered into a worldwide joint-venture partnership with Matt Galle’s Photo Finish Records. Matt Galle Additionally, Galle – who’s also the co-founder of the Bamboozle...
View ArticleCentipeak Launches Drum Experience – Deep New Drum Sampler
Centipeak wants to take drum samplers to the next level with Drum Experience. Swedish software developer Centipeak has launched an advanced new drum sampler called Drum Experience. Centipeak put a huge...
View ArticleLine 6 Is Shipping StageScape M20d, Smart Mixing System for Live Sound
Back in January, SonicScoop got psyched about the first showing of the Line 6 StageScape M20d, which debuted at NAMM but wasn’t quite yet ready for prime time. StageScape brings a host of intuitive...
View ArticleJohn King is Baack! Chung King Studios Returns
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: There is something afoot on West 37thStreet. Taking a stroll down this intensely bustling block, those in the know may see a sudden influx of familiar faces – a producer, an...
View ArticleClear Channel Media to Purchase NYC’s WOR 710 AM
Although Clear Channel Media already owns five FM stations in the NYC market — 103.5 KTU, Q104.3, Z100, 106.7 Lite fm and Power 105.1 – a presence on the AM side of the dial was clearly important to...
View ArticleImagem Music & Cantora Records Launch Joint Publishing Venture
NYC-based Imagem Music USA – the pop music division of Imagem Music Group – and Brooklyn record label Cantora Records (MGMT, Bear Hands) have launched a new publishing joint venture. Imagem U.S. will...
View ArticleSound Smack! By AfroDJMac – Resampling Part III: Deja Delay & Reversed Reverb
Over the past few months we have discussed how resampling can rejuvenate your tracks and breathe new life into old gear (see Part 1 and Part 2in this series). Over the next few installments, I want to...
View ArticleSAE NY Open House Taking Place on Saturday, August 18th
With summer winding down, education is in the air. The sonically-inclined who have been considering SAE NY will get the opportunity to find out more about the school via an Open House taking place on...
View ArticlekiloHearts Releases Faturator Saturation Plugin
AU’s and VST’s made with love is what you will find in the young plugin developers line-up. kiloHearts latest addition is – Faturator– is a plugin that offers several distortion effects and for the...
View ArticleiZotope Launches Alloy 2 — Mixing Tools Suite
iZotope has announced the first major update to its Alloy mixing tools suite, since first introducing it in 2009. With Alloy 2, mixers can experience a number of new sound shaping capabilities, as well...
View ArticleVintage King’s New L.A. Showroom: Putting the 1176 in 1176 West Sunset Blvd
ECHO PARK: Stepping into Vintage King’s brand new showroom in L.A.’s Echo Park neighborhood, it’s hard not to feel your heart skipping a few beats; unless of course, the sight of racks and racks filled...
View ArticleTaking Back Sunday Signs Publishing Deal With Razor & Tie
One of Long Island’s finest emo exports, Taking Back Sunday, are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their Platinum-selling debut album, Tell All Your Friends, and their new publishing deal with...
View ArticleBritish Audio Engineering Now Shipping 10DC Compressor/Limiter
Three of the sweetest words in sonics come together in the name of the company British Audio Engineering. A.K.A., BAE, the company announced that it has begun shipping is new 10DC Compressor/Limiter,...
View ArticleCo-Founders Jeff Price and Peter Wells Gone from Tunecore
One of New York City’s most prominent music business disruptors has suddenly had his own career disrupted: Jeff Price, Tunecore’s CEO/President, announced that he is no longer with the company that he...
View ArticleEngine Room Recordings Presents…Pinkerton, Part 3 – Dinosaur Feathers
LOWER MANHATTAN: Next up in our video series documenting the making of Engine Room Recordings‘ Pinkerton tribute album is…Brooklyn indie-rock band Dinosaur Feathers doing “Tired of Sex”. This is the...
View ArticleProducers Weigh In On Kickstarter Recording Budgets
Over the past two years, crowdfunding – whether it’s through Kickstarter, Indiegogo, PledgeMusic, or a custom page on an artist’s website – has grown at a rate that’s impossible to ignore. At the...
View ArticleSonic Union Mixes Ira Glass, Mike Birbiglia “Sleepwalk with Me” Film Promo
Funny is GOOD. So watch the promo for the Sundance Audience Award-winning comedy Sleepwalk With Me below! (l-r) Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass usher in a new era of shameless self-promotion. The film,...
View ArticleEvent Alert: Teenage Engineering OP-1 Accessories Launch Party (w/ Reggie...
Swedish synth innovators Teenage Engineering – makers of the desirable OP-1 Portable Synthesizer – will celebrate the launch of their new OP-1 Accessories with a NYC event at AC Gears on August 28....
View ArticleMackie DL1608 Digital Live Sound Mixer Now Shipping
They say good things come to those who wait. Mackie is backing that up with the announcement that the long-anticipated DL1608 16-Channel Digital Live Sound Mixer is now shipping. The Mackie DL-1608 has...
View ArticleGenelec Launches SpeakerAngle App for iOS Devices
Here’s a $.99 app you can really use, whether you’re making music or just listening to it: Genelec has introduced the SpeakerAngle app for iOS devices. You’ll always get the angle right with...
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