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Jan 15, 2025 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Los Angeles, CA (January 15, 2025)—As firefighters begin to slow the spread of the fires blazing across Los Angeles, the message from the media and entertainment industry is clear: The show must go on.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Los Angeles, CA (January 14, 2025)—A week into the raging wildfires that continue to scorch large swaths of the Los Angeles area, with more high winds forecast, organizations and corporations are pledging much needed assistance to tens of thousands displaced and homeless residents, including in the music industry.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Los Angeles, CA (January 10, 2025)—A series of wildfires, fueled by tinder-dry vegetation and driven by hurricane-force winds, roared through several L.A. communities this week. Just in the two biggest blazes, in coastal Pacific Palisades and in Altadena, 25 miles inland to the east, as many as 10,000 structures are estimated to have been charred by the days-long conflagrations and 10 people so far are reported to have died.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Brooklyn, NY (December 17, 2024)—“I’m in a weird age group; I grew up in the analog era, but came of age as digital was coming about,” says engineer, mixer and producer Reed Black, owner of Vinegar Hill Sound. Black bounced back and forth between recording formats for years before arriving at the analog-heavy hybrid setup at his studio, which is in a 19-century former warehouse in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. A 1980s-era Studer A800 2-inch tape machine looms large in the control room.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Appalachian State University in Boone, NC was somewhat ahead of the curve, building out a Dolby Atmos control room even before Apple took immersive music mainstream with its Spatial Audio service. Being in the vanguard came with challenges, admits Scott David Wynne, professor and chief recording engineer at the school’s multi-room Robert F Gilley Recording Studio.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Southern University has opened a new recording studio next to the Recital Hall in the Tourgee A. DeBose Music Hall on the university’s main campus in Baton Rouge, La. that is outfitted for Dolby Atmos work. The facility was built to support a Bachelor of Music program focusing on music technology and recording arts that started in fall 2024. A Bachelor of Digital Media Arts with a concentration in recording arts is scheduled to begin Fall 2025.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Stephen F. Austin State University’s School of Music unveiled a new recording studio equipped with an SSL T S500 console and a 7.1.4 immersive monitor speaker setup at its East Texas campus at the beginning of 2024. The room, Studio B, is part of an expansion of the school’s Griffith Fine Arts Building, which houses the sound recording technology, filmmaking, theater, dance and musical theater programs. James F.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Don’t pass up Part 1!Long Island University’s Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment, founded by Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter in 2008, recently unveiled a new Dolby Atmos studio on its campus. Not only is Roc Nation School the first program in Brooklyn to offer a fully integrated Dolby Atmos Music curriculum—in partnership with the Dolby Institute—but the facility is also one of the largest professional Atmos music recording studios in New York.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Don’t pass up Part 1and Part 2!In September, Florida’s Full Sail University opened what it says is one of the largest Dolby Atmos-enabled classroom facilities on a university campus. To celebrate, award-winning industry legend Bob Clearmountain hosted two educational sessions in the space for students within the Recording Arts, Audio Production and Music Production programs.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
mixonline.com | Steve Harvey
Looking back, the June 2021 launch of Apple Music’s Spatial Audio service was a major milestone. Dolby Atmos had long since become commonplace in the cinema, starting with Disney/Pixar’s Brave in 2012. Five years later, Netflix rolled out its Dolby Atmos support and set off an explosion of new and upgraded immersive mix rooms worldwide. However, Spatial Audio was a proverbial pivot point, supported and encouraged by the major record labels and various pro-audio manufacturers.
