In Resolution this month…
Sylvia Massy’s credits include Tool, Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers and System of a Down – Massy has now added educator, book author and illustrator to her skills – shotguns, sledgehammers and audio filters made of cheese all feature on her recordings. Dean James Barratt explains why he prefers mixing on hardware and turns his screen off, and Italian hardcore producer Maxx Monopoli shows us round his unique SonicFab facility in Milan. We review the Sontronics Apollo 2 and RØDE NT-SF1 Soundfield microphones, Arturia’s feature-packed Audiofuse interface and Eventide’s Anthology XI plug-in bundle. We profile a fantastic orchestral comparative listening project featuring 26 DPA 4006 and 15 orchestral instruments recorded with 14 stereo pairs, plus our six-page Microphone round-up is FREE to download
Top night with AMS Neve and PMC Speakers dealer SX Pro and over 30 guests at SX's Letchworth HQ last week. Highlight of the night – apart from all the food and booze(!) – was a hands-on mastering demo with leading mastering engineer Streaky. And yes, that's a PMC QB1-XBD system in the back there, £140k worth of kit... You should have heard Coldplay's Yellow playing back through it... ooh, the sibilance is a bit strong, isn't it Dale Chapman?!
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Strongroom London – Recording Studio Vs. Property Developer
Strongroom are asking for support: you can help by writing an email or attend Hackney Town Hall meeting on Wednesday 12th#SAVESTRONGROOM UPDATE: Despite the incredible support of you fine folks, the press, and our legal team, the application for 118 Curtain Road will go to the Hackney Council Planning Sub-Committee for review next Wednesday, 12th December.
We're disappointed to learn that the Planning Officer overseeing this case has entirely ignored all of our concerns, and is recommending the committee grant the application. This is a heinous, reckless decision that would set the precedent for further similar large-scale redevelopments with no consideration of the serious impact to existing communities and industries. We absolutely cannot allow this to happen.
We received no notification for the submission of the application along our party wall, we were begrudgingly granted a site-visit to asses impact, only after threatening legal action, and have been forced to resort to public pressure and FOI requests to obtain any fair information on the status of this critical threat that is already affecting our operation. Our protests and inquiries have been met with silence, we have been undermined and ignored by both the applicants and the planning officer who is now recommending its approval.
However:
• There is still time to write objection letters to the sub-committee imploring them to throw this application out. Email planning@hackney.gov.uk and use case number 2018/0363 in the subject line. This MUST be done by Tuesday 11th at the latest.
• JOIN US at Hackney Town Hall to protest the application, and encourage the sub-committee to resist the rampant march of culture-washing and gentrification in our borough: www.facebook.com/events/1171193883005387/
• Please keep up the pressure, keep sharing, keep writing and get as many people you can down to Hackney Town Hall on Wednesday as you can. This directly affects Strongroom, but represents a wider issue spreading like wildfire across the country. It's time to make a stand: bit.ly/savesr
17 hours ago
The Recording Academy / GRAMMYs nominations have been announced, and several of Resolution magazine’s audio pro interviewees are in with a chance of winning🥇 eu.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/12/07/2019-grammys-nomination-announcement-full-list-nomine...
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Happy 70th birthday to the first vinyl LP! Columbia Records was the company that first introduced the world to the LP. Research began in 1941, was suspended during World War II, and then resumed in 1945. Today marks 70 years to the day since Columbia Records first introduced the 12″ 33 1⁄3 RPM microgroove 'Long Playing' record with a copy of Mendelssohn’s Concerto In E Minor, performed by violinist Nathan Milstein with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter.
3 days ago
Top 2019 Music Producers Guild - MPG honour for Hugh Padgham – the engineer who made stone drum rooms fashionable in the ’80s, recording high-profile projects including Peter Gabriel’s “Biko” and “Games Without Frontiers”, XTC ’s Black Sea and YES (official)’ Drama. In 1981, Padgham produced and mixed The Police’s 3x platinum Ghost in the Machine and Phil Collins’ 5x platinum Face Value, “In The Air Tonight” (THAT drum sound), while recording Genesis’ 2xplatinum Abacab as well... era defining🎚
Producer Hugh Padgham To Receive Top Honour At The 2019 Music Producers Guild Awards
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The Music Producers Guild will honour internationally acclaimed British producer Hugh Padgham at its 2019 Awards ceremony by presenting him with its PPL Presents The MPG Award For Outstanding Contribution To UK Music. One of the UK's most successful producers of all time, Hugh Padgham has produced,....3 days ago
The 🎅🏻 festive give-aways keep on coming! Calrec Audio have a set of Bose noise-cancelling cans up for grabs 👍🏻
Ho ho ho, etc.
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Steinberg Dorico 2.2 adds MIDI recording
Dorico 2 now includes real-time MIDI recording, an overhauled MIDI transcription engine, new features for media musicians and jazz, and dozens of other improvements across the whole application. Dorico 2.0 introduced a suite of features aimed at helping composers, orchestrators, and copyists working in media music for film, TV, and games, including support for composing […]
API Legacy is a ‘Plus’ for MacEwan University
Canada’s MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta are confident their students will benefit from a benchmark experience, recording with their API 32 channel Legacy Plus console in the university’s brand new recording studio space. Designed by David Kotch of Criterion Acoustics, the studio boasts top notch studio gear, which MacEwan sought in establishing an unparalleled recording […]
VRT OB vans keep on trucking with Stage Tec
Stage Tec has upgraded two of Flemish broadcaster VRT’s OB trucks with powerful RMDQ audio DSP units. The HD01 and HD02 OB vans were each equipped with six DSP boards in their NEXUS STAR routers. With them, the OB trucks are now ready for all production requirements. For example, depending on the configuration, 44 mix […]
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