Category Archives: Trust Me I’m a Scientist

Plugin Roundups: Workhorse Compressors and Frequency Analyzers

This month, we wrote two plugin roundups and published them first on SonicScoop. Click to read all about Alternative Workhorse Compressors and Frequency Analyzers and Metering Tools.

Made in NY: Awesome Channel Amplifier

Is it possible to fit an entire vintage console into a single box roughly 5” wide and 6” high? Recording engineer and gear designer Dave Raphael is determined to try just that. His audaciously-named “Awesome Transistor Amplifier Comp...

Input\Output Audio Review: UA Apollo vs. World-Class Recording Studio

In the latest installment of Input|Output, Geoff and Eli put the Universal Audio Apollo up against a world-class studio with vintage Neve 8068 console and classic Studer 827 tape machine, to see if the two could possibly compare. Click h...

Behind The Release: Grizzly Bear Shields

The sound of Shields is the last thing you’d expect from a collaboration between the abstract indie rockers Grizzly Bear and a mainstream mixer like Michael Brauer. Although he’s not well-known outside of the record industry, Braue...

Has The Internship Turned Evil?

Two weeks ago, I wrote a quick post on my personal blog about Amanda Palmer’s refusal to pay musicians and was amazed by the sheer magnitude of interest. A groundswell of popular pressure eventually convinced to Palmer to reverse her...

Theremin, A Mania

This is a guest post by Steve Macfarlane In keeping with the season, let’s talk a little bit about what is perhaps the most typecast instrument in the history of film scoring: the theremin. You know it the instant you hear it – that fl...

The Studio as an Instrument

The 133rd AES Convention is right around the corner, and in just a few short weeks, my editors at SonicScoop will be flying me out to San Francisco to check out all the festivities, talks and new technologies and report back. Last year, I ...

An Appreciation: Grizzly Bear’s Shields

More than once in my life, I have been called a “hater”. That is only half-fair. It’s true that once I find out which direction the bandwagon is headed, I run the other way, but I prefer the term contrarian. “Hater,” to me, impli...

In Defense of Pre-Production

Vinyl Record Notebook Courtesy of Flickr User "Stacie Stacie Stacie" Among self-financed musicians, pre-production is arguably the most neglected step of the recording process. This is a regrettable state of affairs, but it’...

The Bob Power Interview (Podcast Link)

Geoff Sanoff and Eli Janney with Bob Power and Honey at Stratosphere Sound, NYC. In this episode of Input|Output, Geoff and Eli interview legendary “Soul Music Producer” Bob Power. In the 80s, 90s, and 00s, Power worked with some of th...