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This Monday, join producer/ engineer/ songwriter/ musician Karen Kosowski, Hill Kourkoutis and Graham C Walsh to discuss their recording and production methodologies, their mixing techniques and their approach to sound. Joining us for the event will be David Roman and Jason Salzman, visiting Toronto from Universal Audio, as well as Ray Wilson and Tim Condon from Yorkville, the Universal Audio distributor for Canada. Karen Kosowski is a Nashville-based producer, songwriter,

Queen of The Lair Toronto has so many interesting nooks and crannies, stories and tales, and especially talent. What one may forget, as the endless grey cold rainy days drag on during what is supposedly called spring here in Toronto, is that there are incredibly creative people shining like homing beacons through the gloom, reminding all of us that creativity and art are always here to guide us out of the darkness and into the light. And Hill Kourkoutis is absolutely one of t

Millenia's Imersiv D-1, HDR-A DAC It’s Stereo! Don’t let the IMERSIV moniker fool you; we’re not talking Dolby Atmos. We’re talking about an incredible 168 dB of headroom. The IMERSIV D-1 is a full 28-bit stereo DAC in a class of its own, thanks to Millennia’s HDR-A Multi-path technology. HDR-A stands for High Dynamic Range Audio, and the results are astonishing. Retailing at $16,799, the IMERSIV D-1 is positioned as a critical-listening mastering DAC suitable for the world’s

Subterranean Chief Engineer Scott Lake Don’t you love the feeling of finding something precious or rare? Well, I think I found a gem: Subterranean Sound, Toronto Located in a subterranean space right in the heart of downtown Toronto, I met up with the super friendly and highly experienced mixing engineer Scott Lake. After a brief conversation about the studio’s history, Scott took me to the pièce de résistance, the magnificent and nearly one-of-a-kind AIR Montserrat Neve with