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“I’d like the industry to reach a point where gender isn’t mentioned. The question should be ‘are you a producer?’ Not, ‘are you a female producer?’ It’s like some subcategory where you have a different way of operating an SSL with your vagina.” Catherine Anne Davies, aka The Anchoress, reflects scathingly on the ongoing debate about gender inequality in the music industry, particularly within studio settings. Over the last five years, Catherine has fought her way to great acc...

Pro Tools & Melodyne Essential Melodyne Essential now comes bundled with Pro Tools 2020.11, so lets explore what it offers. After what seemed like a long period of what I’d describe as ‘tweaks’ from Avid, November 2020 was a month of satisfyingly significant developments. There was of course the release of Pro Tools | Carbon, Avid’s first piece of in‑house audio hardware for roughly a decade and a return to a type of product many believed Avid were no longer active in. Carbon has...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. PBS KVIE Selects New Avid Workflows to Transform its Production Infrastructure Avid Technology, Inc.February 17, 2021 GMT BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avid ® ( Nasdaq: AVID ) today announced that KVIE, a PBS member television station and one of America’s leading producers of public television programming, has selected Avid to help transform its key workflows as part of a tec...

Jazz: Universal Language or Community Divider? Jazz: Universal Language or Community Divider? Noelle / Staff Illustrator Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. In this week’s episode, reporters Noah Sheidlower and Sam Hyman capture the voices and issues surrounding jazz at Columbia. How has the community’s perception and involvement in jazz progressed over the years? What are the concerns about...

Photo by Jorge “JP” Peniche The first time photographer Jorge “JP” Peniche met Nipsey Hussle in person, on the set of the “Hussle in the House” video, he noticed the rapper was already a “hometown hero” in his native Crenshaw neighborhood.  “Every car driving by was playing his music,” Peniche says, remembering the experience of being on Slauson and Crenshaw in 2009. “Someone was on a motorcycle blasting his music out loud. At that point, I’d been in the game for a coup...

Tomorrow, the new Foo Fighters album, Medicine At Midnight, will be released. On one hand, you probably already know if this is of interest to you or not: The Foo Fighters aren’t exactly the most sonically or stylistically adventurous band on the planet, so if you’ve historically enjoyed their particular brand of pop-infused hard rock, there’s a decent chance you’ll be curious to give the new one a spin. On the other hand, this isn’t quite the same collection of songs you’d normal...

SSL DAW controller unveiled SSL are no strangers to the world of DAW control — their Nucleus consoles have all offered some form of hands-on interaction with recording software — but until now theyve never made a truly standalone hardware controller. The newly announced UF8, priced at £999/$1299, is exactly that: an eight-fader surface, with motorised and touch-sensitive faders, assignable encoders, illuminated buttons throughout, and a hi-res OLED screen above each channel strip. The UF...

Solid State Logic (SSL) consoles have been the choice of world-class studios for decades. However, getting one of those expensive (and large) devices into a home situation really wasn’t feasible — until now. The rear panel of the SSL2+ interface is loaded with connections, from combo 1/4”/XLR audio inputs and 1/4” outputs for monitors, and two headphone connections, as well as full-size MIDI in and outs and red/white RCA jacks for monitoring or routing to a DJ setup, Hi-Fi amplifier or ...

For many artists, the impact of COVID-19 forcing people to collaborate remotely might not matter too much due to sending beats and verses over the internet. But for someone like Drake who works so closely with longtime friend and producer Noah ’40’ Shebib, it could have presented a problem. Luckily for 40, he’s been able to use a software called Unity Connect, along with Zoom, to his advantage. During a virtual interview with Pensado’s Place, the producer broke down his process of reco...

Why I Love... My DAW John Walden I’m addicted to YouTube. A couple of weeks ago, its slightly scary algorithms coughed up a video clip from BBC TV’s 1980s ‘new technology’ programme Tomorrow’s World. This clip featured Michael Rodd exploring the original TEAC/Tascam Portastudio 144 (see https://youtu.be/fPFPGjhIUUo). It brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. If there was ever a single device that enabled the home recording studio revolution, the humble TEAC 144...