LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Although still young and with more career ahead of him than behind him, prolific producer/engineer/songwriter and five-time Grammy-winner Devine Evans has seen and heard a lot. A long-time user of Metric Halo’s ChannelStrip plug-in, Evans entered the world of music as a musician and songwriter under the management of Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, a member the 1990s hip-hop and R&B group TLC (the best-selling American girl group of all time). He and his band were signed to Universal in the mid-1990s and were recording their debut (which, for better or for worse, never debuted due to lawyerly machinations inside Universal), when Evans made a connection that would happily alter the course of his career. An eight-year old with a stunning voice and an old soul served as go-between.

Marcelo Cyro - from the Oscar nominated animation, The Boy And The World - demonstrates how to create distance in Pro Tools for dialogue in audio post production using MH ChannelStrip, in this Pro Tools Expert tutorial video.

Click the link to watch the tutorial video: TUTORIAL

To learn more about film sound guru, Marcelo Cyro, visit:
bit.ly/MarceloCyro
www.musicbit.com.br
www.wcdaudio.com

Special Thanks to Pro Tools Expert, Mike Thornton, for posting this tutorial video!
www.pro-tools-expert.com

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Originally from Germany, Ilja Rosendahl is an actor, musician, and a voice-over artist currently based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. As President and CEO of Scene Bridge Entertainment, Rosendahl also has executive production credits for several feature films, including the forthcoming Emerald, which he also wrote and in which he is starring! He speaks seven languages, which allows him to work on diverse projects, including a massive number of Spanish-language television programs. “I have always enjoyed learning languages and being able to communicate with people all over the world,” he said. “And of course, they’re useful for acting and voice-over work.” His solo musical project, Latent Anxiety, has released six studio albums and received critical acclaim and numerous industry awards; its seventh release, Salvation, is due out later this year.

MONTRÉAL, CANADA: Seoul is a dream-pop three-piece operating out of Montréal, and their debut album, I Become A Shade, has quickly become a fan and critic-favorite. The band formed when longtime musical collaborators Nigel Ward and Julian Flavin started working with Dexter Garcia on an as-yet unnamed writing and recording project. Flavin had stayed in Montréal to study at McGill University, and Ward met Garcia at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The trio recorded and wrote on weekend trips to Montréal, and each member recorded parts and ideas on their own in their home studio setups (installed into whatever apartments they happened to be living in at the time).

“Julian and I were never the kinds of musicians who would write a complete song and then go to the studio to record it,” explained Ward. “To us, the recording process is an instrument and at that time, was an integral part of writing. When we started recording and writing with Dex, there was no firm plan what was to happen with the project… just the inspiration to keep working on it because it was coming together so well.”

Recognizing that creative magic was in the works, Ward purchased a Metric Halo 2882 preamp/converter/interface to put the recordings into the “pro-quality realm” and to give them the track count they needed for their occasional larger recording endeavors. Garcia opted for the two high-end preamps of the Metric Halo ULN-2 preamp/converter/interface. The units’ mobility would allow them to track wherever they were living or wherever they needed to go for a particular instrument or sound.

"In this article, I’ll show you how to use a subharmonic generator, the excellent (and free!) Metric Halo Thump Percussive Subharmonic Synth plug-in, to make your kick drum track sound more powerful—while also reinforcing your song’s harmonic structure."

- Michael Cooper
Electronic Musician Magazine

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Metric Halo wishes to thank Pro Audio L.A., for recently featuring the Metric Halo ULN-2 in their "Gear Chain of the Week."

Have a listen to their master using this chain:
https://soundcloud.com/…/gear-chain-of-the-week-the-sum-cab…

Or, bring YOUR stereo mix down to their studio and master it with this and other amazing Metric Halo gear (please call for an appointment).

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: In the remarkably short time that it has been a band, Hiatus Kaiyote has managed to create and record two critically-acclaimed and commercially-successful albums, each of which earned a Grammy nomination in the category “Best R&B Performance.” The band formed in 2011 in Melbourne, Australia and has ever since been producing path-breaking soul music infused with the ethos and attitude of indie rock. For their latest album, "Choose Your Weapon," the members of Hiatus Kaiyote relied heavily on their home studio and the Metric Halo 2882 mic-preamp/converter/interface that connected their heartfelt performances to the world of ones and zeros with warmth and personality worthy of such an intuitive band.

“The Metric Halo 2882 was a huge step up from our previous interface,” explained Paul Bender, bass player for Hiatus Kaiyote and resident of the house that contains their home studio. “We considered stepping our way into the world of truly pro interfaces, but the 2882 is affordable enough to make the leap in a single step. We love the Metric Halo sound – it’s real and solid, and the tracks we record with it always mix well.”

CORPUS CHRISTIE, TEXAS: It was 1983 when Cruz Martínez – then just 12 years old – first took up the keyboard to play in a family band in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. His natural talent and musical intuition inspired La Sombra de Chicago to ask him to produce their album Porque te Quiero four years later – when Martínez was just 16 years old! That album was nominated for an American Grammy Award, solidifying Martínez’ standing in the industry and inspiring his move to Corpus Christi, Texas, where the label Freddie Records had a state-side studio. Soon after, Martínez started playing keyboards for the same Tejano band he was producing for La Sombra. From there, he founded and produced Los Kumbia Kings – arguably The Beatles of cumbia music, complete with a dramatic breakup – and more recently its descendent, Los Super Reyes. Across the decades, Martínez has amassed numerous platinum albums and Grammy nominations, along with five Grammy wins. He currently works out of personal studios in Corpus Christi and Monterrey, Mexico, while making plenty of time to produce, arrange, engineer and song write records for his wife – famous Latin singer Alicia Villarreal – and their children.

From the start, Martínez was fascinated by the technology used to create music and was a (very!) early adopter of the computer’s role in the process.

SAFETY HARBOR, FLORIDA: Vahagn Stepanyan is a talented music producer, arranger, composer, and keyboard player from Armenia who has fully embraced the promise of long-distance collaboration. He regularly collaborates with Turkish mixing engineer Alen Konakoglu. He and Vahagn completed projects with musicians from nearly fifteen different countries, including Eric Marienthal, Nathan East, Eric Moore, Anthony Crawford, Mark Lettieri, Adam Hawley, and Jack Thammarat. In addition, he handles the YouTube post-production for Chaka Khan's bassist Melvin Lee Davis and works with Grammy-winning mastering engineer, Evren Goknar and some others. Vahagn is also a Grammy Recording Academy voting member and recently signed on to score and arrange soundtracks for sixteen documentaries produced by Armenian Public Television.

Bill Evans is an interesting guy. As of October 2016, he will have a PhD in music technology from Manchester Metropolitan University/Glasgow University for an innovative new model of music production called Belexes. Advancing beyond the digital audio workstations (DAWs) of today, Belexes is a virtual audio workstation (VAD) that uses a technology Evans developed called a Volumetric Haptic Display (VHD). As with a computer monitor that displays light, and a speaker that “displays” sound, the VHD projects 3D objects into space with enough force that you can rest your hand on them in mid-air. He uses this technology to create a customized user interface that users can touch and use in space. Remember the movie Minority Report with Tom Cruise? Imagine that instead of (supposedly) solving murders before they happened, Cruise was mixing the cutting edge in progressive rock/pop on those crazy floating computer interfaces… then you have an idea of what Evans is up to… and what you may be up to in the perhaps not-so-distant future!