Grammy Award-winning British powerhouse Sam Smith has officially stepped into a luminous, deeply personal new era. Stopping by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Smith delivered a stunning, soul-stirring performance of the track “Oh Mother” alongside the 28-member vocal collective TwoCity Chorus, while peeling back the curtain on their highly anticipated fifth studio album, Hazel … Read more
Executive Overview In the modern landscape of digital audio workstations (DAWs), endless plugin libraries, and an ever-expanding market of hardware synthesizers, MIDI controllers, and outboard gear, music producers face a psychological hurdle previously unknown to earlier generations of artists: option paralysis. While the democratization of music production technology has lowered the barrier to entry, allowing … Read more
Executive Overview In the modern landscape of digital and analog music production, creators are confronted with an unprecedented cornucopia of options. From infinitely expanding plugin bundles and virtual studio technologies (VSTs) to endless variations of hardware synthesizers, MIDI controllers, studio microphones, and audio interfaces, the contemporary studio is rarely short on gear. For many modern … Read more
Executive Overview For elite session musicians and touring artists, the physical environment of creation is often sacrificed at the altar of transience. Life on the road—sandwiched between tour buses, international airports, green rooms, and rented hotel beds—rarely affords the luxury of acoustic design, vintage outboard routing, or customized spatial acoustics. Yet, for Hazel Mills—a luminary … Read more
