When RED released the GIO Scope tool in October 2014, it bridged the worlds of cinematography and The Zone System. Zebras and false-color IRE tools are all well and good, but when you have a camera that can record 16 stops of dynamic range, you want to know more than …
Bluegrass and Beyond: Audio Production and Engineering Techniques at IBMA 2017
Manifold Recording is excited to be participating in the IBMA 2017 educational track! We are presenting “Bluegrass and Beyond: Audio Production and Engineering Techniques” which is aimed at artists and engineers interested in learning how to get fresh, new sounds from traditional bluegrass ensembles. The roots of this session joined …
Colin Wolfe: Producer-in-Residence
How many musicians have worked with both Dr. Dre and Michael Jackson? Madonna and Björk? George Clinton and Ben Folds? Colin Wolfe spans the musical spectrum as a player, writer, and producer. And he’s spending nearly a month as an Artist-In-Residence at UNCSA, culminating in a performance at Moogfest 2017. …
Wayne Krantz coming to the Miraverse, Feb 15 2015
Guitar virtuoso and teacher Wayne Krantz and his trio are coming to the Miraverse February 15, 2015, and we are so excited! I first learned about Wayne from the AbstractLogix catalog. My love of the music created by John McLaughlin, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Herring, and others of that sort predicted I would …
Experience the Mixing Process at Manifold Recording
Last year, John Heitzenrater and the band Hindugrass came to Manifold Recording to track their new album. John used crowd-funding to help defray the costs of the tracking session, and to use his home studio to edit and mix the resulting tracks. The theory was that by going “all in” …
Alex Machacek and Gary Husband at Manifold Recording
Alex Machacek and Gary Husband spent several days with us recording a new album for their label, AbstractLogix. Gary has just finished touring the East Coast with John McLaughlin, and Alex flew in from Los Angeles. Both had been writing, practicing, and sharing notes about the music they would be …
Acoustic Magic (part 2)
In Acoustic Magic (part 1), we talked about techniques for getting great sounds from players in an indie rock band that plays with a horn trio. Now it is time to turn our attention to Hindugrass, a band that brings together Sarod, Tablas, guitar, cajone, percussion, and a string quartet. …
Acoustic Magic (part 1)
In previous blog postings, I previewed that we would have a very busy spring at the studio, and this has indeed come to pass. We’ve done a lot of tracking, a lot of mixing, and not–unfortunately–a whole lot of blogging in the process. Let’s work on that, shall we? There …
More than a coincidence: Frederic Chiu records at Manifold Recording
When an artist makes a recording at a studio, there is always a coincidence–two things happening at the same time and place. One is the interpretation and the performance of the artist, the other is the creative capture of that ephemeral performance so that it can be replicated and experienced …
Moments of Enlightenment with Béla Fleck and Brooklyn Rider
At the Dōjō where I train, the black belts begin every class by saying “Shiken Haramitsu Daikoumyo,” reminding themselves that “every moment is an opportunity for enlightenment.” I have been training for a year, making good progress, and if I keep it up, I might earn my black belt in …