Vintage King Blog

Avid Application Specialist, Jeff Komar, sits down with Vintage King to talk about the power that Pro Tools|HDX puts at your fingertips. Providing higher audio quality and making your workflow more functional, Pro Tools|HDX offers up 5x more power per card enabling you to focus on your mix and not your mixer. Continue reading →

For years, we've been staring in awe at the amazing studios featured on the covers of Mix Magazine. This time, we're in awe because it's our own. Yes, all of us at Vintage King feel kinda giddy and mostly honored to have our Los Angeles store featured on the cover of the March issue of Mix Magazine. Continue reading →

Dave Pensado of Pensado's Place sits down with one of the most important figures of the recording industry, the legendary Rupert Neve! As a developer of microphone preamplifiers, equalizers and large format mixing consoles that are cherished throughout the industry for their incredible sound and build quality, the name “Neve” is synonymous with good sound. Continue reading →

On February 23, A-list engineer Ryan Hewitt will be rolling up his sleeves, pulling up a session, and passing along valuable insight about the mixing process. Vintage King is proud to sponsor the event, which is a part of the Studio Prodigy Master Class Series. This particular session could not be taking place in a better listening environment. Universal Mastering Studios is opening its doors, letting a small group of guests revel in their highly regarded Zero Reflection (ZR) acoustic space, crafted by Delta H Designs. Continue reading →

Vintage King Los Angeles recently helped Truphonic Recording solve a gear challenge when they came looking for the perfect kick drum sound. Teaming together with Carl Dito and Jeff Leibovich, the Truphonic crew tested several condenser and ribbon microphones with actual kick drum tests. By far and away, the Truphonic team felt that the Bock iFet captured a warm presence on tracks that left a big impact. Continue reading →

Built and opened by producer George Apsion in 2004, Kore Studios is a shining example of how great control room monitoring can be. Gaining a reputation of being a studio that truly honors the sound of your music, the studio is said to have an extremely transparent recording set-up. With a classic list of clients including Florence and the Machine, Plan B and Ronnie Wood, Kore has already been pumping out amazing records in its first eight years of existence. These artists have to come love the studio's API analog console that runs through a Pro Tools HD rig. The studio was honored two years ago with the title of "Best Studio" at the UK Music Producers Guild Awards 2010. Continue reading →

Today, Shadow Hills, Universal Audio, and Brainworx, unveiled a brand-new addition to the impressive UAD plug-in lineup — a UAD-compatible version of the renowned Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor. Continue reading →

One of our recent Tech Shop restorations is featured in the November issue of Electronic Musician! For the recording of the latest trio of records, the band dropped their Dalcon board from their studio, Jingletown Recording Studios, and picked up a Neve 8068 32-channel console from Vintage King. Continue reading →

We're really excited that Resolution Magazine has tapped us for a special multi-part series. Over the next few months, the magazine will be detailing how we run the VK Tech Shop and our views on preserving recording history. Continue reading →

In the 83rd episode of Pensado's Place. Dave and Herb are joined by GRAMMY Award-winning mix engineer Tom Elmhirst!