F. Reid Shippen

Don’t tell my wife I just bought another compressor. She thinks I have “enough” or maybe even “too many,” and I have to admit, I’ve been pretty lucky...

It's no secret that I love this Mäag stuff. I own a dozen ribbon mics and use the Mäag PREQ4 preamp on them all the time. And the EQ4 [Tape Op...

This story begins badly, but stick with it; it gets better. Naturally, I was amped to fondle the new RETRO 2A3 Dual Program EQ, whose circuits are...

There's a really strange little song that's been stuck in my head for most of my life - "The Means Are The End" by Noel Paul...

This is going to be a short review. Pretty much everyone on the planet knows about Jeff Steiger's Classic Audio Products of Illinois stuff by...

Perhaps in a bid to thumb his nose at Thermionic Culture's usurpation of avian nomenclature, Dave Hill has come out of the Crane Song...

The Maag EQ4, from the designer of the venerable NTI EQs with their legendary Air Band, isn't really an equalizer at all. So if you're...

Here’s another game-changing product that deserved multiple opinions. Allen Farmelo, who also collected opinions from several other well-known...

Before you read F. Reid Shippen's review below, let me first explain to you why I chose a Monitor ST/SR system for the client theatre at The...

I never really set out to "review" gear, per se; it just sits around the studio until it fights its way into the workflow. I'm sure...

About a year ago, several of my peers were involved in an audio geekfest here in Nashville centered around a shootout between several vintage Neve...

When the request went out for a review on the Blue Sky Big Blue speaker system, I figured what the hell. I've been toying around with the idea...

Here's another "double" review of a monitoring system-this one orchestrated by F. Reid Shippen. The first viewpoint is from Reid, who...

The Folcrom RMS216 is a 1RU passive summing unit with standard D-Sub connectors providing 16 balanced inputs on the back and two XLR connectors for...

I am a compression junkie. I admit this freely and without shame, because I've found that certain boxes give me a character that I can't...

What impresses me most about Eventide is the company's ability to reinvent itself more than Madonna. This company's been making audio gear...