Silent Way Media Asset Management and Remote Recording

05/17/2016

Silent Way specializes in live remote multitrack recordings. Any budget can be accommodated. Silent Way is proud to have engineered recordings for over five hundred clients in over a hundred venues, resulting in over ninety noted releases since 1993.

03/14/2016

Silent Way recorded Twenty One Pilots recently for the concert video "Blurryface Live" which is on the MTV Live network this month. The chart-topping band put on a killer show, check it out! http://www.silentway.com/release/twenty-one-pilots-blurryface-live-video

This is one of over a hundred releases from Silent Way projects. To explore audio, video and stories please visit the discography.

06/06/2014

Listen to my recent panel at SF MusicTech Summit, with my research results, building the DDEX standardized schema for communicating credits, and connecting to silos like MusicBrainz. https://soundcloud.com/sfmusictech/musicbrainz-richer-metadata-and-solving-the-credits-problem-to-boost-sales

SF MusicTech Summit XV on May 20, 2014 Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco www.sfmusictech.com All participants were welcome to join an enlightening discussion with industry thought leaders for an exchange of ideas and opinions on the new and emerging issues regarding metadata in today's music tech landscape.

03/04/2014

I compiled this guide to the speeds of wired and wireless standards. The new wireless 802.11ac is 6x faster then Gigabit Ethernet cable! But Thunderbolt 2 takes first prize. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Avv4B16nhNpbdGtJdy1UTUZrQi0tbWdOY0dtLUpNYnc&single=true&gid=0&range=A1%3AC18&output=html&widget=true

09/30/2013

Tomorrow, Tony Brooke will be on a panel at the SF MusicTech Summit, "The Descriptive Metadata Problem: Where We Are Now and What The Standards Are Bringing." Join Maureen Droney (The Recording Academy, Sr. Executive Director/Producers & Engineers Wing) and Tony in an open community conversation at 4:30 in Garden Room A to discuss the latest developments. http://www.sfmusictech.com/schedule/

The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians, and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce....

08/08/2013

A bunch of songs by Train, recorded by Silent Way last year, were released on new deluxe editions of "California 37." On the U.S. release, three live tracks from the Great American Music Hall include the hit "Drive By." Six songs including "Drops Of Jupiter," "Hey, Soul Sister" & "Save Me, San Francisco" from this show were released on a European CD/DVD release too. Check it out, http://www.silentway.com/release/train-california-37-mermaids-alcatraz-tour-edition and http://www.silentway.com/release/train-california-37-deluxe-edition

On 4/11/2012, Tony Brooke recorded Train at the Great American Music Hall...

01/25/2013

"Love Is A Country," another song from last year's Wallflowers live recording was released on a compilation. Check out this live version of their current single! (And watch for the full "Live From The Artists Den" show to repeat on PBS.) http://www.silentway.com/release/wallflowers-love-country

On June 20th 2012, Tony Brooke recorded The Wallflowers at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco for the television program Live From The Artists Den.

12/20/2012

Soundcheck at the Fillmore during a recent recording of Glen Hansard. View 2: Stark lighting, a few lonely road cases on the floor. Life on the road.

12/20/2012

Soundcheck at the Fillmore during a recent recording of Glen Hansard. View 1: Lit for the show, the famous chandeliers, even the empty floor is shiny. The promise of an electrifying live show.

08/28/2012

A video has been released of one song from Silent Way's recent recording of The Wallflowers at Bimbo's. Check out their dub-inflected Clash tribute "Reboot the Mission" here: http://www.silentway.com/release/wallflowers-reboot-mission

This is one of over seventy releases from Silent Way projects. To explore audio, video and stories please visit the discography.

08/23/2012

Wondering what format an old recording is on? I recently built this handy guide to identifying and using audio formats from the 1880's-today. It details the best web and print resources which describe physical analog formats, physical digital formats, and digital files.
http://libraryschool.campusguides.com/audioformats

A guide to audio formats for audio engineers and audiophiles to identify and document recordings. This guide to web and print sources is divided into two categories: the basics and digging deeper.