Here is a playlist of some recent projects mastered at Airshow. (Please view each track individually to see engineer and credit info.) Be sure to visit our SoundCloud page for a lot more music mastered by all of our engineers. Dive in and enjoy!
Naropa Archive Reaches Milestone
This month, Airshow completed the transfer of Naropa University’s complete analog tape collection: 4,148 recordings from the 6,000+-piece archive were transferred by four audio techs over 2+years, resulting in over 4,500 hours of digitized audio ready for online storage. Naropa was founded 40 years ago, during a wave of Western interest in Buddhism. Over the […]
How to Plan A Vinyl Release Without Delays and Headaches
Increased demand pushes the supply chain Since 2012, when Nielsen reported that 4.6 million vinyl LPs were sold, vinyl sales have nearly doubled. Nielsen projects 2014 sales over eight million vinyl units. These stats likely undercount indie vinyl releases, or 7” or 10” discs (the smaller projects that many Airshow clients favor). Infographic courtesy of […]
Audiobooks and the Independent Author Part II: Recording and post-production
Airshow engineers Jon Gold and Anna Frick joined me to explore how we can deploy Airshow’s resources to support independent authors in audiobook production. In Part I, we raised a series of questions an author will want to address in pre-production. In this post, we share recording tips a narrator will find useful, and describe […]
Audiobooks and the Independent Author Part I: Planning your audiobook and its production
Airshow engineers Jon Gold and Anna Frick and I pooled our thoughts on how independent authors could take advantage of pro technical resources and create their ideal audiobook on a real-world budget. In this post, we cover pre-production decisions authors face in creating their audiobook. In the next post, we share tips about recording an […]
Want to Get Paid? Track Your Tracks with ISRCs
Everyone wants to get paid for their music, and with most releases widely available and streaming from all corners of the web, ISRC codes are the key to making sure you get your money. The ISRC, or International Standard Recording Code, is an electronic tag that tells a story about the track to which it is […]
NARAS Visits CO
SF Chapter team shines spotlight on Front Range music scene with two events 10/28, 10/29 Those “for your consideration” emails are starting to fill the in-boxes, so we know it’s GRAMMY season. The first round of balloting began in October. Those wondering about the multi-step voting process that leads to the awards shows will find […]
How Airshow Remastered the Grateful Dead Studio Albums
By David Glasser, Airshow Founder and Chief Engineer Any fan of the Grateful Dead would be thrilled – and a little nervous – if asked to remaster some of the best-known studio recordings of the past 45 years. Workingman’s Dead was my first real (and lasting) introduction to the band, and I wanted to be sure […]