Florida’s Full Sail Upgrades Studio B Full Sail University recently renovated its Studio B Control room with a wide variety of new and vintage gear, installing Spire 9140 Series multi-bay equipment racks from Argosy Console to showcase the collection. Pictured are students in the newly renovated Studio B at Full Sail’s Winter Park, FL location.
Heartsounds Track Follow-up In Bay Area Following up their 2011 release, Drifter, Laura Nichol and Ben Murray (founding members of Heartsounds) are back in the studio to track their third fulllength, Internal Eyes. Hunkered down in Castle Ultimate Studios in Oakland, CA, the duo are teaming up with engineer Zack Ohren to hash out the release. Interal Eyes is scheduled to drop Oct. 15th. Get full details at http://heart soundsband.com.
Goldstein Tracks Lonely Island With 20 years of experience, Jason Goldstein is esteemed for his work on the contemporary R&B/hip-hop scene and has been featured in Mix Magazine, Sound On Sound, SonicScoop, and Pro Sound Web. Most recently, he mixed both The Wack Album and Turtleneck & Chain (nominated for a Grammy and an Emmy for Best Comedy Album) for the Lonely Island. Pictured is Goldstein and comedy group Lonely Island. For further updates, visit http://jasongold steinmixer.com.
Royer, Mojave Shine At Universal Royer Labs and Mojave Audio held an event at Universal Mastering Studios in Hollywood, CA recently. The who’s who of the audio world came together to check out the latest and greatest from these two iconic microphone companies. Pictured (l-r): Bridge Gardiner, SAE West Coast Director; Tommy Vicari, engineer; Pete Doell, engineer; Ellis Sorkin, Studio Referral Service owner; Al Schmitt, producer-engineer; Dusty Wakeman, Mojave President; and Candace Stewart, EastWest Studio manager.
More Studio News SOUNDTOYS RELEASES VERSION UPDATE FOR LOGIC, ABLETON, MORE: SoundToys has announced version 4.2 with 64-bit support for Audio Units and Windows VST formats. This release covers the company’s full line of real-time native hosted plug-ins. With this release, SoundToys plug-ins are now compatible with Logic Pro X, Ableton Live 9, Digital Performer 8 on Mac and other 64-bit Audio Unit hosts. On the PC, it now supports 64-bit VST hosts such as Cubase,
Nuendo, Sonar, and Ableton Live 9. Speed for Logic X is still in development. This upgrade is free for all registered SoundToys V4 users, all Boutique Series owners (Devil-Loc, Radiator, Little MicroShift, etc.). See https://soundtoys.com/acct. VATTNET VISKAR RELEASE STUDIO UPDATE: Vattnet Viskar have compiled a “Making of” video of their time in the studio recording Sky Swallower, their debut
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full-length album. Sky Swallower was recorded at Universal Noise Storage in Massachusetts, under the watchful eye of producer Brett Boland, and features eight songs’ worth of black metal, filtered through the members’ own hardcore pasts. The album is due out Sept. 3 on Century Media Records. See the studio video at http://youtu.be/3Tf0fGPbNxg.