Being precious about your artistic sensibilities is all very well — as long as you don’t mind no-one ever hearing your music.
Large-format mixing consoles have been in decline for years — but could there be life in them yet?
The secret of success is to deal with failure in the right way. Which is easier when your failures don’t cost thousands of innocent lives.
Not many recording studios can boast a history more than a century long. And although Emil Berliner Studios are no longer located in their original site, their story is inseparably linked to some major milestones in the history of recording.
A cosy, friendly atmosphere is considered so important at one German studio that it is named House Of Music and Entertainment — or HOME, for short.
The glory days of Abbey Road and EMI may be gone, but labels and studios are still working hand in hand.
The way composers are treated by some clients is just criminal...
Working ‘in the box’ is all very well, but what happens when the box breaks?
At both the production and consumption ends of music, analogue is making a comeback.
When Sound City Studios closed its doors in 2011, it had been a legendary rock & roll recording venue for over 40 years. Now the premises have been taken over by a producer and sound engineer whose aesthetic is even more retro and analogue-based than Sound City’s.
It’s tempting to think that success is about who you know — but in fact, it’s about what you do.
The decline of churches echoes the fate of studios — but it could present some exciting new opportunities.
Running a successful multi-room recording facility is challenging at the best of times, and relocating such a studio to a different continent is in an entirely different league of difficulty! This, however, is what Francesco Cameli has done.
The rise of the studio as a tourist attraction might seem a little crass — but if it helps to pay the bills...
After almost two years of construction, overseen by architect Marcelo Tavares, the studio opened in early 2012 in a purpose-built facility, conceived as a multicultural space where people from all over the world can feel inspired.
Despite great progress elsewhere in the TV business, music for the media is still overwhelmingly dominated by men. Why?
Studios often fall prey to the real-estate business — but for some people, they present a niche opportunity.
Grand Cru was founded as a private studio by Who guitarist Pete Townshend in the late ’70s, and has been in constant operation since then. Recently, it has been made available to the public...
Learning music production the Abbey Road way isn’t cheap — but if it equips you to work in today’s music business, could it be money well spent?
A reputation for competence is vital — and to get it, you need to take every opportunity going.
