Boz Digital Lab’s +10db – A Big Review of a Mixing Plugin
A friend of mine in the mixing/producing game refuses to use anything but the Waves CLA 76 on his vocal chain. Even though he believes other emulations of the famed hardware piece trounce the CLA—the...
View ArticleNYC Event: “Who You Gonna Call? The Tech Experts”— March 5th, Presented by...
Calling all composers in the trenches! Here’s an extra dose of survival skills. The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) will be hosting a panel, “Who You Gonna Call? The Tech Experts” on March 5th...
View ArticleArturia Announces KeyLab 88 MIDI Keyboard Controller
Originally making its debut at Musikmesse 2014 in Germany, Arturia’s KeyLab 88 is now gracing us with its presence stateside. The Keylab 88 is a high-end MIDI instrument for tech savvy pianists who...
View ArticleMax Out Your Mix: 3 Essential Tips For Mixing with Samples
Sampling is amazing for making songs sound huge: you’re taking parts of an already mixed and mastered song and putting it into your own. From a production standpoint it opens up a world of...
View ArticleStam Audio Announces SA-2A Leveling Amplifier
Give a warm welcome to the SA-2A Opto Compressor, coming straight out of Chile and Stam Audio. This South American beauty claims to be a faithful reproduction of the classic 1968 Teletronix LA-2A...
View ArticleVocal Focus: Peppina —‘Follow Your Gravity’
Producing the debut EP for an artist means pulling double duty: You don’t just want them to be heard – you want them to be discovered. Finnish artist Peppina came to NYC to record her debut EP “Follow...
View ArticleEplex7 DSP Releases Bassblaster VST Plug-In
Although this is the first we’re seeing Eplex7 here at SonicScoop, we’re sure it won’t be the last. Their new plugin Bassblaster is a niche VST that generates low frequency after-effects on each signal...
View ArticleSoundtoys Launches Little AlterBoy – Free Voice Alteration Plugin, + “Plugged...
Soundtoys know how to party with the best of ‘em at SXSW, and 2015 is no exception – yet again they’ve launched a free plugin for the festival, and this one should be plenty of fun. Prepare to worship...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Laptop Record
Many studio veterans maintain a certain stigma against “laptop records.” By laptop records, I mean recordings that are made outside of a traditional recording studio, without a collection of expensive...
View ArticleVinyl Revival: Infrasonic Sound, L.A.
L.A.-based recording, mastering and vinyl hub plugs “The Value of Vinyl” at SXSW, 3/17.
View ArticleVintage King’s New L.A. Showroom: Putting the 1176 in 1176 West Sunset Blvd
A tour of the new retro-futuristic VKLA studio/showroom and Infrasonic Mastering, with studio designer Robert Maune.
View ArticleInfrasonic Sound Announces New Ownership of Recording Studio
M&A activity is alive and well on the studio level. Along those lines, Infrasonic Sound Recording Inc., the audio mastering and recording company owned by Pete Lyman and Jeff Ehrenberg, announced...
View ArticleInfrasonic Sound Adds Mastering Engineer Dave Gardner
A midwestern mastering master has moved all the way to West. Dave Gardner joined the roster of Infrasonic Sound in LA. LA-based audio and vinyl mastering studio Infrasonic Sound has announced the...
View ArticleVinyl Revival: Infrasonic Sound, L.A.
EAST LOS ANGELES: For Pete Lyman, mastering engineer and co-founder of L.A.’s Infrasonic Sound, ‘revival’ is not the right word for what’s happening with vinyl. In his world, the format never died in...
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...
View ArticleInfrasonic Sound Announces New Ownership of Recording Studio
M&A activity is alive and well on the studio level. The new owner of Infrasonic’s recording studio, Eric Palmquist is at far left, along with Justin Goings, Spencer Schuck, and Riley Bray of the...
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Infrasonic Sound Adds Mastering Engineer Dave Gardner
A midwestern mastering master has moved all the way to West. Dave Gardner joined the roster of Infrasonic Sound in LA. LA-based audio and vinyl mastering studio Infrasonic Sound has announced the...
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