by Clive Young A legendary studio by any measure, New York's Avatar Studios has gone up for sale. One of the last surviving big recording facilities in Manhattan, the studio was founded in 1977 when industry legend Tony Bongiovi bought a failed TV soundstageitself a former ConEd power plantand converted it into a recording facility, christening it The Power Station. Since then, more than 400 Gold and Platinum records have been recorded at the site.
by Clive Young Given that women have better hearing than men and also comprise more than half the professional workforce in the U.S., you'd think they'd be better represented in the pro audio world. That's not the case yet, but SoundGirls.Org, founded in 2013, is helping change that situation. To find out more, we sat down with website co-founder Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato.
"What I try and do is enhance the hooks and push those things up. People buy tickets, have a good time and that's it; it's gone. They're not going to listen to it again."Nigel Green, FOH engineer, Shania Twain