When you’re recording a drum kit it helps to have the right gear for the job. With each part of a drum kit living in vastly different frequency ranges, it benefits to have enough I/O to accurately grab the performance.

When Jeff Shiffman and Kate Finan of Boom Box Post approached the Westlake Pro Design Services Group for help gearing up their new post-production facility, they already had an idea of what they wanted. “This was our first project with WLP, and until now we’ve been able to feel our...

With the music and post-production worlds constantly evolving, it takes a lot to stay on the cutting edge and be the first to try something new. When Rucker Sound was looking to make the jump to Dolby Atmos, they called the Westlake Pro Design Services Group for help constructing the...

Kendyle Paige's story is one of love, hard work, and serendipity. Born to a Grammy-winning family, Kendyle has taken her own path and risen to international notoriety after a series of successful television appearances and producer collaborations. This includes the hit single “Cravin” produced by Stileto, which has garnered acclaim,...

Chiller Sound was founded in 2001 by Jon Altschiller.  Known for his attention to detail and extensive mixing credits, Jon recently moved his studio onto a 9-acre piece of land in Pound Ridge, New York, and has been hard at work creating truly immersive mixes. Westlake Pro’s Matt Knobel helped...

Chiller Sound was founded in 2001 by Jon Altschiller.  Known for his attention to detail and extensive mixing credits, Jon recently moved his studio onto a 9-acre piece of land in Pound Ridge, New York, and has been hard at work creating truly immersive mixes. Westlake Pro’s Matt Knobel helped...

Steve Chadie has been a mainstay in the Austin, TX, recording scene since 1995. As a Recording Engineer, Producer, and Mixer, Steve has made a name for himself, working with the likes of Willie Nelson, Los Lonely Boys, Sublime, Dolly Parton, and Meat Puppets. With multi-platinum and GRAMMY-nominated projects under...

Founded in 2016 by Emmy-Nominated Foley Artist Sanaa Kelley, Reel Foley Sound is an award-winning Foley Studio based in Costa Mesa, California. RFS creates the sounds for Film, TV, Animation and Video Games, and their work can be heard on Ted Lasso, Those Who Wish Me Dead, and Shameless, just...

About this Post Westlake Pro is proud to welcome David Arnold to our team in Nashville. We brought some of his most popular Studio Build Blogs over to our site to give you a look at some of his previous work. Enjoy! Almost exactly one year after outfitting, designing, and...

Westlake Pro is proud to announce the addition of Pro Audio Specialist David Arnold to our Nashville sales team. David's expertise has been integral in the design and execution of several studios, and with varying workflows - a unique skill set that makes him the perfect candidate to join the...

Farewell to Recording Legend Al Schmitt

When it’s time for studio owners to make some serious upgrades, they know to turn to the trusted professionals at Westlake Pro to make sure the job is done right. When Bang Zoom! Studios in Burbank needed to upgrade their 9.1 system to a Dolby Atmos 11.1.6 Home Theatrical system...

Westlake Pro is proud to have talent like Kendyle Paige on our team, and we’re excited to share her latest music video for her new song Brainless – watch it below!

About this Post Westlake Pro is proud to welcome David Arnold to our team in Nashville. We brought some of his most popular Studio Build Blogs over to our site to give you a look at some of his previous work. Enjoy! Well, I am officially back from New Jersey… ...

About this Post Westlake Pro is proud to welcome David Arnold to our team in Nashville. We brought some of his most popular Studio Build Blogs over to our site to give you a look at some of his previous work. Enjoy! In this particular blog entry, we traveled to...

An Interview with Donnie Reis founder of Nashville’s Twelve3South Studios How’d you get into the audio industry?  Actually I got into the recording industry out of necessity.  I’m a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter.  I started out as a violinist at the age of 10, and then over time picked up...

Mills Logan (Toby Keith, Luke Bryan, Josh Turner) tells us how he wound up mixing songs for Atmos, some of the creative and exciting methods he's come up with to do the job well, and what Dolby Atmos might mean for music listeners in the future.

Brandon Proctor is a CAS Award-nominated Re-Recording Mixer known for his work on Black Panther (2018), A Quiet Place (2018), Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020), and A Quiet Place Part II, which is set for release in 2020. We had the pleasure of chatting with Brandon about how he...

For more than two decades, veteran re-recording mixer Jonathan Wales has had an incredible career in both film and television. Recent highlights include Get Out (2017) and What About Love (2020), as well as critically acclaimed shows like The Mist (2018).

We sat down with GRAMMY-award-winning recording engineer Tony Maserati to get an inside look at his career, workflow, and outlook on the current musical landscape.

In this Spotlight, we sat down with David Gnozzi of MixBusTV. The story behind his emergence as a YouTube Audio Guru begins all the way back in his home country of Italy, with several surprising turns along the way.

Westlake Pro presents an original interview series, Studio Spotlights featuring Marti Humphrey of The Dub Stage.

When Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, and Quentin Tarantino need sound on film, they go to one place – Inventure Studios in North Hollywood, CA. In addition to 35MM Dolby Digital, Inventure houses the only Datasat (formerly DTS) 70mm film encoder in the world to produce the film soundtrack for major...

Henry's the founder of Strange Electronic, which has come up with all kinds of cool gadgets: there's "Set List" (a live-performance software that's been used by Post Malone, Mac Miller, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, A$AP Rocky, Lil' Wayne, & more); a Wii remote he connected to Ableton for Kanye to...

The release of Neutron 3 brings new tools like Mix Assistant and Sculptor modules along with big performance improvements and updates to favorites like the EQ and Masking Meter.

Whether you know it or not, if you’ve been to the movies lately, you’ve heard the work of Composer/Sound Designer Anthony Baldino. He’s responsible for composing the action-packed music featured in the trailers for many of today’s biggest blockbusters, including Interstellar, Star Wars: Rogue One, Zero Dark Thirty, Avengers: Infinity War, Prometheus, and Ex-Machina. Obviously,...