The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, P&E Wing To Honor Neil Young
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The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records "Paramount Records, above and beyond any label from the time period, had the very worst sound quality and the very worst pressing technology available," states restoration/remastering engineer Christopher King of Long Gone Sound Productions. "Most of the recordings were done using the cheapest materials; I think they even ground up chairs and tables and threw them in with the shellac mix to make it go a little further."
The Recording Academy P&E Wing To Honor Neil Young Every year, the week leading up to the Grammy Awards finds arms of the Recording Academy holding numerous events, and its Producers & Engineers Wing is no exception. This year, the P&E Wing will hold its seventh annual Grammy Week event as it honors two-time Grammy Award winner Neil Young on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, at The Village Studios in West Los Angeles.
Billie Joe and Norah's Harmonious 'Foreverly' "Billie had been listening to this record and had grown attached to it," explains Chris Dugan, the go-to engineer/mixer for Billie Joe Armstrong's projects, with and without Green Day. The album referenced is The Everly Brothers' Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, a collection of folk standards originally released in 1958.
Motion Picture Sound Editors Elect Board of Directors Elected to two-year terms in Executive Seats are Frank Morrone, President; Christopher Reeves, Secretary; and Ruth Adelman, Sargent at Arms. Morrone and Reeves are incumbents and join continuing officers Mark Lanza (Vice President) and Paul Rodriguez (Treasurer).
Steinberg Cubase Version 7.5 The latest upgrade to Steinberg's Cubase ($49.99) incorporates important workflow enhancements, version updates to its instruments and new effects. At the top of the new features list is TrackVersions for creating, renaming and managing multiple versions of one or more audio, MIDI and instrument tracks. Re-record mode features instant record restart at the original position, while Track Quick Control assignments can now be saved and loaded as presets and applied to different track types. Cubase 7.5 and Cubase Artist 7.5 feature Groove Agent SE 4, a powerful MPC-like drum sampler with detailed sound editing capabilities and pattern playback. Groove Agent SE 4 also provides automatic alignment of drum maps with the Drum Editor and Beat Designer, and includes 30 new drum kits and more than 200 grooves.
CEntrance MixerFace Mobile Recording Interface CEntrance announces a crowd-funding effort to speed up the production of MixerFace, which connects professional microphones with smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Review: Vienna Teng, 'Aims' (Soltruna Records) For her fifth studio album, singer/songwriter/keyboardist Vienna Teng has paired with producer/musician Cason Cooley to create a texturally rich and stylistically diverse album that's heavier on electronics and sampling than her previous efforts, but is still carried by her pleasingly elastic vocals and compelling songwriting.