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Having begun as a Prince Tribute band, Beautiful Strangers comprises highly talented musicians. Check out their song “Shades” below to get a taste of their highly anticipated debut album.

https://youtu.be/XTccs1kbnzI

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Shades Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDSShades · Beautiful StrangersShades℗ Beautiful StrangersReleased on: 2022-06-17Mixer: Pieter VonkProducer: Marc ManginProducer: ...

Need some new music for the weekend? We’ve recently added a lot of great new releases to our Valhalla Studios New York Project Playlist on Spotify! Go check them out.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ckrSARjLw1WzgF2HSeCTh?si=63b5317fb9ab4401

Nadie Reyhani describes her music as “a dreamy world full of escapism and wonders.” If you haven’t already, go check out Reyhani's latest single, ‘Free’. This is a song about "breaking free from all the veils".

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Hard to believe it’s already been 3 years since we announced that this talented duo is joining us at Valhalla Studios New York!

Thank you for all the hard work. We can’t wait for even more exciting projects in the future!

Check out singer-songwriter, Vincenzo Tunnera’s “Nach Vorne” - an emotional song about making change!

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Power and Precision - the backbone of the [extensive] PMC monitoring system in Studio 1

Here’s something for your morning commute. Listen to our Mixing Engineer Ronald Prent discuss his early career, making an album great, and other related topics!

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“Thanks to today’s communication technology, it’s easier than ever to collaborate with someone long-distance.

Mixing and mastering workflows can generally be easily adapted to include live
streaming or sending files to session participants in other locations. This allows the key members of the production team to be involved throughout the entire process and to receive immediate feedback from the other team members.

The recording end of things still very much depends on the artist being recorded in a good, quiet location and with good-quality well-placed microphones, so working remotely can be a bit more challenging for that phase of a project if there isn’t an engineer on-site with the artist to see to these things. Many artists, though, are acquainted with microphones and placement techniques, and streaming allows for immediate feedback from the engineer, so it can be a productive way of working.

The current technology for facilitating long-distance workflows has opened up a world of exciting possibilities on the creative front in music production. It allows for artistic collaborations that might have been difficult or even impossible a few years ago”.

Kick off your week with some orchestral jazz, and check out “Two Places” by the Brussels Jazz Orchestra

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While trailblazing at the forefront of technology is a priority for us, it’s important to remember that the real magic in music production comes from the creative minds of the people involved.

When setting up Studio 1 we wanted to allow for maximum creativity during the mixing process.

If you haven’t already, check out Bekah Brudi’s debut indie-jazz album, “Expectations”. Brudi reflects on her journey to accept herself by giving up on the expectations that others have set for her as well as the ones she has set for herself.

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Valhalla Studio New York’s dream team Ronald Prent & Darcy Proper recently served as panelists at the MixNYC: Immersive Music Production event. This event was the first in the industry to focus entirely on immersive audio.

Let us know what questions you have about immersive audio!

“Artists can make a session difficult if they are very indecisive and unsure of what they want, or if they are sure of what they want, but unable to communicate it in a constructive fashion.

In the first case, indecisiveness can lead to a lot of energy spent in non-productive pursuits. It’s fine to experiment a bit in the studio when time and budget allow, and it’s even a lot of fun, but sessions should ideally be approached with focus – working toward a tangible goal rather than wildly casting about in multiple directions hoping for inspiration to drop out of the sky.

In the second case, an artist’s ability to communicate [their] wishes to the engineer is key to a productive, successful session. For example, “That sucks!” is not a particularly useful comment in terms of helping the engineer to understand and address an issue, while comments like, “I’d like that rolling bass to feel tighter and more compact” or “The crash cymbals are getting in the way of the guitars in the chorus” are far more useful in leading the engineer to the sound that the artist has in mind.

Engineers don’t expect artists to communicate in technical terms like frequencies and decibels, but we do want to know what [they’re] hearing in musical/emotional terms specific enough to help us understand the goal. It’s our job as engineers to then translate that information into what gear to use and how to use it.

In short, constructive feedback is key to a great session and the lack of it can be disastrous”.

Here’s a highlight from the MixNYC: Immersive Music Production! Pictured here with are Jeff Francis and Barry Bongiovi.

“Jeff is a friend and former colleague of mine from Sony Classical Productions and Sony Music Studios where he was an extremely talented Maintenance Technician. Jeff is currently the Coordinator of Audio Recording at the University of South Carolina School of Music.

Barry is a legend in the industry, having managed the iconic Power Station, Hit Factory, and Right Track track studios in NYC. He was Studio Operations Manager at Sony Classical Productions while I was there in the 1990s. He’s currently a marketing and facilities operations consultant to NY’s magnificent Jungle City Studios”. - Darcy

Here are some characteristics that make a session fun/productive for the engineer!

Save the date! This Saturday, August 6th, Ronald Prent & Darcy Proper will at the MixNYC Panel!

They will be on the 3rd & last panel discussing the complicated deliverables on all immersive audio formats and other workflow challenges.

For more information and to find out how you can register go to https://www.mixonline.com/business/new-mixnyc-panel-mixing-mastering-and-distributing-immersive-music

If you missed it, check out Hanin Al Kadamani’s “Alright”. This was Kadamani’s first solo single, and was released after she competed on season 11 of The Voice Of Holland.

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The name for our studio was an easy choice: Not only because the Norse mythology means a lot to us, but also because our Studio 1 looks like a Viking ship (upside down).

“Decades ago, it was commonplace to get an “entry-level” position at a large studio, record company, or agency without a formal education and to train entirely “on the job”, moving slowly up through the ranks as experience and knowledge were gained there.

Now, this is very rare and most facilities/companies will not even consider hiring someone who hasn’t made a commitment to his or her field through acquiring some type of formal education”

Want to know more about the music industry? Send us your questions!

Congratulations on the release of this great album! It was an pleasure to host the mastering of “One of Us” here.

🎉 Our album ‘One of Us’ is out now! Should’ve been released two years ago but hey! Here it is! As independent artists we are very proud to have survived the pandemic (so far) and to release our fifth record! Despite the struggles we had a lot of fun making this album! Hope you like it too ☀️ Link in bio!

ICYMI: SweetLemon’s single “All She Had” perfectly captures the sound of “early Summer Melancholy”. Check it out below!

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ICYMI - Check out the official music video for “Frames” by Rosemary & Garlic. This dream-like song encourages the idea of breaking “the frames around a fixed picture and let[ting] curiosity take the lead”

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ICYMI - Faux Noir is a blended-genre band from the Netherlands/Belgium. Their 2021 emotional debut single “T’es Con” discusses growth after a toxic relationship.

Check it out on Apple music or Spotify!

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