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Cults Release New Album: To the Ghosts

by Geoff Stanfield

NYC-based duo Cults have just released their fifth album, To the Ghosts. The album was co-produced by the band's Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin with Shane Stoneback, mixed by John Congleton and mastered by Heba Kadry. Check out Cults on the...

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Larry Chats with Manny Marroquin at a Mix with the Masters session

by Geoff Stanfield

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The Sudden Motion Sensor Hates Your Mobile Session

by Scott Evans

  Lots of laptops use an accelerometer to detect that the computer is falling. When that happens, the computer parks the hard drive heads to prevent them from bouncing on the HD platter. Apple calls this the Sudden Motion Sensor. On...

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Listen to our SXSW "Producing in the 21st Century" Panel

by Larry Crane

Hey, have a listen to the panel we did at SXSW.  Jesse Lauter is an American producer/mixer/engineer. He has worked with The Low Anthem, James Blood Ulmer, Ingrid Michaelson, Elvis Perkins, Marco Benevento, Smokey Hormel, Alela Diane, Diamond...

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Rupert Neve Discusses Creating His First Transistor Based Mixing Console

by Geoff Stanfield

I love this series of simple video interviews with Rupert Neve from Rupert Neve Designs. Here he discusses creating his first transistor-based mixer.

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Giggle~ (or, the best one-liners from Cycling 74's Max/MSP Expo)

by Vijith Assar

Last week Cycling 74 released the tremendous version 6 update to Max/MSP, their flagship multimedia programming platform, which provides an appealingly artistic interface into audio, MIDI, and video focused logic at a nonetheless ...

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The Psychology of Analogue

by Geoff Stanfield

Excellent mini-documnetary The Psychology of Analogue, featuring Julie McLarnon. Definetly worth 30 minutes of your time!

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U2's Songs of Innocence "Review"

by John Baccigaluppi

I'm not actually going to review the music on this record; it's free, just go get it and listen to it yourself. Instead, I'm a bit fascinated by the mechanics of the release itself. As my wife said when I told her I had the record, "Does anybody...

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Larry Crane at Wordstock, Portland, OR, Nov. 8

by Larry Crane

That’s right, somehow a lowly engineer and magazine editor that can’t even type has been asked to read some excerpts from Tape Op: The Book About Creative Music Recording Vol. II and moderate a panel at world-renowned literary event,...