Allen Farmelo

When a life is big, the details that make a person special tend to get washed away in the broad strokes of their success and influence. This has been true of Bob Power , one of the most...

The small-diaphragm condenser category is, like all mic types, a crowded one; and these days, finding something special or unique is probably not...

While shopping around for some XLR connectors, I came across the NC3MXX-B-CRYSTAL connector from Neutrik and just laughed. A ring of Swarovski...

I've writing about clocks in Tape Op for close to ten years now, and I can sum up my opinion on the often-ridiculously-touchy subject like this...

In a conversation I had a few years ago with Bob Muller, Co-Founder and President of Dangerous Music, Bob alluded to his plans to sell a D/A...

At this point in history, there is simply no good reason that people aren't getting excellent sound out of their computers. It's obscene...

Master clocks are a near necessity if you own multiple digital audio devices that are interconnected. Sure, you can forgo a master clock and just...

The DA-3000 is a high-quality, stereo, digital master recorder capable of both PCM (up to 24-bit, 192 kHz) and DSD (2.8 and 5.6 MHz) operation, and...

Converters and clocks are hotly debated topics, and it’s been my opinion for a while now that the reason they’re such sore topics is that people are...

I don't need to spell out the fact that countless recordists who work on digital systems are on the quest to get a warmer sound. Nor do I need...

The French company Focal has dominated the audiophile speaker market since its inception in the 1970s. Today, Focal helps to form what I consider to...

These days, I work with more than a few artists who use MIDI-based electro-rigs as part of their sound, including synths, sequencers, samplers, and...

Have you ever read a review in which the writer goes into all the details of a really versatile and esoteric piece of gear, only to find yourself...

After years of reviewing gear, I have come to the conclusion that A/B comparisons are not able to tell me what I want to know about a piece of...

The reason most mixers use speakers like the Yamaha NS-10M and Auratone — or small radios, cheap computer speakers, and other assorted “crappy...

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With so much amazing boutique gear available these days, I have to confess that I don’t get all that excited when I hear about yet...

Assuming that one of the goals in treating a mix room is to achieve flat frequency response at the mix position, one must simultaneously grapple with...

Joel Hamilton and Allen Farmelo each spent extended time working with the AnaMod AM670, a solid-state recreation of the Fairchild 670 Limiter, one of...

A console review can be rather involved, so let me just say up front that I think the SSL AWS consoles are absolutely excellent. The sound is...