Amaze AV

11/28/2019

Is our show file, created after weeks (or months or years) of rehearsals and shows – and with all of our intellectual knowledge and experience – our property or the property of the band? Plus, an attorney weighs in on the question as well.

08/22/2019

Peace keepers within the loudness war.

You really need to know about a new type of audio metering that measures perceived loudness if you want to do mastering or create a collection of songs.

03/20/2018

Here's a nice video showing how the venerable Neumann U87ai mic is built.

03/12/2018

Era’s

Enter a world of tape, circuits and mechanical madness

03/07/2018

A guilty pleasure is watching “how to mix video’s”... That’s with, that’s without... classic

11/07/2017

Interesting!

07/06/2017

A-Bing Vintage to Emulations. It's pretty darned close. I hear something stingy in the presence of the Emulations. Do you?

Jacquire King, Celebrated Producer-Engineer for Tom Waits, Norah Jones and Kings of Leon, Pushes Apollo to Its Limits with an All-Star Cast

06/17/2016

If you've ever wondered...

In 2009, The Discovery Channel did a segment on Royer Labs for its How Stuff’s Made series. See how every Royer mic is hand built in our Burbank, CA factory.

06/09/2016

Using a series of 10's of thousands of blips, beeps, tones and coloured noises measured at thousands of variable volumes, "they" are now able to create algorithms to emulate old analog audio machines with great precision. For the low price of $399.00 (or free for hackers) you can now emulate the millions of dollars of analog equipment at Abbey Road Studios, where The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Radiohead etc recorded some of their best albums. Even the highest audiophile experts attest to the fidelity of these emulations.

11/25/2015

Early elevator music technology.

It's a tumultuous time for streaming music services. One of the year's biggest albums, Adele's 25, was released on November 20, but not made available on...

10/01/2015

Meet Audio and Video technician, James Lanbro. A Kitchener native, James has worked a variety of high profile shows and events including the recent Pan-Am games, cross Canada political candidate t...

03/20/2015

This is HUGE. It may not look like much, but if you're involved in music production, recording, mixing or mastering, this image could be the most