Back Stage Indie Report

A LOOK AT ANTELOPE AUDIO’S ORION 32+ BY 4X LATIN GRAMMY WINNING PRODUCER “ECHO” ” …with the Antelope Orion 32+ AD/DA Converter, I can have nothing in-between the music and beautiful, authentic sonic clarity.” – Echo see bio below Having just moved to a new home this year, my thoughts immediately turned to the construction of my home project studio.  I have used every major Miami studio facility, as well as national and international state-of-the-art facilities for producing artists.  This including  Mor Play Studios  in the famous Wynwood arts district area of Miami where I am a partner.  At Mor Play Studios we use the Antelope Audio’s Orion as the I/0 for the SSL XL desk.  Now, with my youngest daughter tuning five, I wanted to work from home when I could.  However, I needed to keep the projects at that high level of the major recording studios that my artists and the labels demand.  Having a structure on my property that was id...

Rastatt, November 13, 2017 Lawo Launches Online Academy for mc 2  Console Trainings Lawo, German manufacturer of pioneering audio, video and control solutions, supplements its Lawo Academy training programs with a new online product training opportunity. The new Lawo Online Academy provides in its first course a free mc² Audio Console Tutorial. “In this video-based tutorial, new users can learn how to operate a Lawo mc²56 console. And as the workflows of all Lawo mc² consoles are very similar, this course will also help operators to work with any mc²36, mc²66 or mc²96 console”, says Christian Struck, Senior Product Manager Audio Production at Lawo. The course is structured into six chapters, the complete course takes about 3-4 hours. Participants can interrupt their lessons at any time and continue at a later stage. To enhance the learning experience, every chapter is followed by a short test. At the end of the mc² Audio Console Tutorial, participants can pass an exam ...

Warm Audio EQP-WA Tube Eq Review The EQP-WA Tube Amplified Program Equalizer, to give it its full name, is a single-channel 2U rack-mount unit based upon a design that’s now over 60 years old. The original Pultec design that has been a staple in studios worldwide remained in production for almost 30 years and has been copied numerous times – however this new model isn’t a direct clone, although its vintage styling gives it that familiar Pultec look there are som distinct improvements.The old units were 3U high behemoths but Warm has managed to slim it down by one third, while offering some additional frequency settings, both in the low-end and the high-frequency Cut control. The unit’s Cut control was named Atten (attenuation) on original models and, in a further nod to modernity, the ancient CPS (Cycles Per Second) nomenclature has been replaced with Hz and kHz.As a Program Equalizer, the EQP-WA is best when processing wideband material such as sub-groups and complete ...

Nashville Report – Chris Canterbury Back Stage Indie Report Chris Canterbury I saw Chris Canterbury play for the first time at a local writer’s round in Nashville called Revival 615 .  Chris helps run this event every Tuesday at the Tin Roof on Demonbreun Street.  I was lucky because this was one of my first writer’s rounds after moving to Nashville, and it set the bar so high for all the other live music venues in town.  Nobody tells you this before moving to Nashville, but there’s a lot of BS in the music scene here.  There are a lot of people who just want to be famous and don’t focus on the art of the music.  Also, a lot of people who only write songs about girls in bikinis and drinking beer.  It can get exhausting listening to the local music scene night after night, but artists like Chris Canterbury are a refreshing exception. Chris...

Compressor Settings for Mastering Mastering Compression Compressor Settings for Mastering Back Stage Indie Report   brings you another in our series of recording techniques! In most Mastering situations you will be working with very different levels of each section of the song.  It’s important that you don’t compress away the natural dynamics of the music.  In a great many common situations, you should avoid using attack times that are too short.  Short Mastering attack times can cause you to lose important natural transient hits.  Generally, Mastering attack times range from 20ms to 100ms.  Look for release times between 200ms to 2,000ms ( 2 Seconds) and can even go to 5 seconds in some situations.  There is no one-size-fits-all answer, it is solely dependent on the music at hand. Dont worry if it is still confusing, it take practice and experience to determine these setting for a particular piece of music. Lets ...