Happy Holidays from Airshow!

As many in our industry scatter for an extended break, we want to say thanks for continuing to be part of our professional lives as we take Airshow into its 33rd year in 2016.

Our Takoma Park location has grown in size thanks to a beautiful new tracking room we're calling Allyworld to serve our recording and mixing clients (with the mastering rooms in the D.C. studio staying quite busy, too). Meanwhile, our Colorado studio has helped deliver masters for hundreds of new and returning clients, as well as a treasure trove of previously unreleased music from the Grateful Dead, who celebrated their 50th anniversary with the 80 CD box set "30 Trips Round the Sun" and the "Fare Thee Well" concert BluRay/DVD release, with much of the mastering done in Boulder by David Glasser. We'd also like to acknowledge Sam Berkow and SIA Acoustics for their dedicated work this year on behalf of both studios (SIA has been nominated for a 31st Annual NAMM TEC Award for their design of Allyworld, too).

We wish you and yours a happy and healthy holiday season. We're looking forward to collaborating on many more great projects with some of you in the new year!

58th Annual Grammy Award Nominees Include Airshow Clients

2016 will mark the 58th annual Grammys, to be awarded in Los Angeles on February 15th.

Congratulations to our Airshow clients! This year's nominees include:

"Love" (Mysterium Music) by Peter Kater, is his first solo piano release in over 10 years. The album was mastered by Airshow's David Glasser and is described as "over 70 minutes of improvisations and compositions all inspired by LOVE" (Best New Age Album)

"Before The Sun Goes Down" (Compass Records) by Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, features the 15-time winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association's "Dobro Player of the Year" award paired with a rising singer and guitarist whose voice has been described as "something of a miracle." The album was mastered by Airshow's Randy LeRoy. (Best Bluegrass Album)

In addition, two large box sets we had the pleasure of working on received nominations:

"30 Trips Around The Sun" by the Grateful Dead, a deluxe box set of concert recordings spanning the Dead's 30 year performing career, was nominated for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. (Doran Tyson & Steve Vance, art directors). David Glasser and Jeffrey Norman shared mastering duties on this 80-disc set.

"The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records Volume 2 (1928-1932)," released by Third Man and Revenant Records, was nominated for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package (Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors). David Glasser and Airshow's Anna Frick restored and mastered the 800 tracks in this volume.

Check out the full list of this year's Grammy nominees here.

Exploring Sound Treatments in TEC Award Nominated Allyworld

One of the first things that people notice right away in Takoma Park's new recording room Allyworld are the really cool pieces of wood hanging on the walls and ceiling. While they look like pieces of contemporary art, our diffusion panels function to create accuracy and tonal balance for our recording sessions.

Learn more about the topic of sound diffusion in our new blog post which highlights the work of SIA Acoustics who are behind the NAMM TEC Award nominated design of Takoma Park's studio expansion.