Neil Mclellan
Gear Review
Red Range
Jul 15, 2017
The Red Range is Focusrite’s latest series of audio interfaces, currently comprised of the Red 4Pre and Red 8Pre. The former has four built-in Red...
Blog
The Inaugural Advanced Audio + Application Exchange (A3E) in Boston: A Gear Geek Love Letter
Nov 24, 2014
This past September, I attended the inaugural A3Exchange in Boston and had one of the most enjoyable conference experiences in years. A small team of forward thinkers, under the leadership of Paul...
Blog
Tuesday Night Recording Club
Jun 13, 2013
Brian Charles and his friends at Zippah Studios are recording in the style of past hits, and then detailing how they did it. It's a weekly series. The latest post, in which they take an...
Gear Review
8801 channel strip
Jun 3, 2013
The 88RS console-inspired 8801 incorporates a mic preamp with hi and low-pass filters; four-band EQ; and a compressor and gate. You can reorder the...
Gear Review
Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb plug-in
Sep 15, 2011
I first became acquainted with the Lexicon 224X digital reverb in Studio One at the Strongroom around about 1989. It was the first time we had made...
Gear Review
UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins
Mar 15, 2010
When I recently wiped the system disk of my primary music computer to replace Windows XP Pro with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, I installed only the...
Gear Review
Fat Track tube production suite
Sep 15, 2008
These days, my business partner Neil Mclellan spends just as much time working on the road with his laptop or on his home rig as he does in big SSL...
Gear Review
Duende Mini plug-in processor w/ Drumstrip, X-EQ, X-Comp add-on plug-ins
Jul 15, 2008
When my colleague Neil Mclellan informed me that he'd be flying out to L.A. to mix the new Adam Freeland album, which features Tommy Lee on...
Gear Review
XLogic SuperAnalogue Channel Duende plug-in processor
Mar 15, 2007
I don't think there's a single working engineer that hasn't heard of SSL. However, many engineers fail to realize that SSL is also a...
Gear Review
VoicePro voice processor
Jan 16, 2006
It was at last year's NAMM show that I saw the VoicePro for the first time. One of the engineers from TC walked me through some of the features...
Gear Review
BM9S active subwoofer
Sep 16, 2005
As the Gear Reviews Editor, one of my responsibilities is matching up recording equipment with reviewers. In other words, if there's a piece of...