As usual New York’s Sonic Scoop newsletter had a few gems worth checking out this month. GEORGE MARINO On June 4th world-renowned NYC mastering engineer George Marino passed away after losing his battle with cancer. Marino had a tremendous career as illustrated by a long and legendary discography that includes such classic albums as Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions AC/DC’s Highway to Hell John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction Metallica’s Black Album Coldplay’s A Rush of Blood to the Head and his latest of three career Grammy wins – Arcade Fire’s 2011 “Album of the Year†The Suburbs. Full article here. A GUIDE TO POPULAR STUDIO HEADPHONES Today there’s a near endless variety of high-quality headphones on the market. However according to this article it just might be more important to have a good-quality headphone reference now than at any other time in history. Find out more here. TONY VISCONTI WITH THE KIN AT GERMANO STUDIOS A visit with The Kin during a recent session at Germano Studios in NoHo showed that they were already in a highly productive groove with Brooklyn born Britain-bred bassist composer and arranger Tony Visconti. Visconti started working as a producer in 1967 and never stopped making his name producing 12 David Bowie albums (including Space Oddity The Man Who Sold the World Young Americans Low Heroes Lodger Scary Monsters and Heathen) as well as thirteen albums for Marc Bolan’s T. Rex Thin Lizzy The Moody Blues The Alarm and many more. More here. SESSION BUZZ Recording in and around NYC this month have been: The Beach Boys and Animal Collective Empire of the Sun and Tiësto Kurt Elling Beirut 50 Cent and Amanda Palmer – just to mention a few – have all been working on new releases in NYC-area studios. Which producers and engineers have been tracking mixing and mastering these projects? And where? Read on … SIGN UP FOR OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER VIA ‘MAILING LIST’ BUTTON ABOVE
