By Steve Harvey Capitol Studios hosted a DVD launch party for The Art of Recording a Big Band, starring Al Schmitt. The documentary, directed by Shevy Shovlin and available from Hal Leonard, captures a two-day recording session in the facility's legendary Studio A with the 19-piece Chris Walden Big Band.
by Clive Young When it comes to Broadway, the only word on anyone's lips for the last year has been Hamilton. Having generated arguably the biggest buzz over a musical since The Producers, the show has become a modern phenomenon, but while the music and lyrics have captivated fans around the world, they don't mean a thing if you can't hear them. Which is why Glenn Kiser, director of the Dolby Institute (pictured), recently interviewed the man who ensures that happens every night—Hamilton's sound designer, Nevin Steinberg—for The Dolby Institute and SoundWorks Collection's Conversations with Sound Artists podcast, which you can hear right now in this PSN Peek.
"I said, if you want to build a world-class studio, I'm happy to help you out. If you want to build this, good luck." - producer/engineer Ron Saint Germain
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