Industry Talk

Guitar giants Fender have acquired Louisiana pro audio brand PreSonus in a "definitive agreement of merger".

Location recording experts scooped up by parent brand of SSL, Allen & Heath, DiGiCo and Calrec.

Friends and family threw a surprise “British” party for legendary engineer, producer and artist Alan Parsons in celebration of an OBE awarded to him in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June for services to music and music production.

Sequential founder Dave Smith has described the move as "a perfect cultural and technological fit".

New tech troubleshooting service offers access to leading industry professionals.

Software titans announce new partnership.

British microphone makers join fellow venerable UK brands Midas, Klark Teknik, Tannoy and Turbosound.

The music and recording industry's major annual trade show takes place online this week.

The Creative Passport — which is free for artists — has been designed to enable individuals working in the creative industry to better update, manage and share information about them and their work.

The legendary recording engineer has died, aged 86.

It is with great sadness that we report that Chris Huggett, Britain's greatest synth designer of the EDP Wasp and Gnat, OSCar, Novation BassStation and SuperNova, has lost a two-year battle with cancer and passed away on 22 October 2020.

Several employees at Universal Audio have lost their homes and all of their belongings in the California wildfires. Help them get back on their feet...

The legendary London studios have acquired long-running mastering house Alchemy, with the latter facility being rebranded Alchemy Mastering At AIR.

Transient Designer pioneers join established London-based distributors SCV.

Update to Avid's distribution service makes it easy to release Atmos tracks on Amazon Music and Tidal.

Live-streamed event on 28 May 2020 will be titled 'Recording Studio Operations In A Post-COVID World'. Sign up today!

Florian Schneider, one of the original two members of Kraftwerk, and a member of the band until 2008, passed away on May 6th 2020.

Renowned recording complex Real World Studios are hosting a remix competition, in collaboration with Universal Audio.

The Music Producers Guild has launched a survey for both members and non-members alike, with the aim of assessing the impact that the coronavirus will have on music producers, studio owners, mixing and mastering engineers, and other industry professionals.

Coach House Studios in Rockfield, Wales, has played host to such artists as Sepultura, Simple Minds and Oasis — and it could soon be hosting you too, as part of a songwriting retreat set up by collaboration facilitators Pro7ect...

In 1969 Dr. Peter Zinovieff, David Cockerell and Tristram Cary founded Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd, creators of the first commercially available portable synthesizer, the now world famous EMS VCS3.