Mike Kosacek

It’s easy to spot JoeMeek gear in a rack – that vibrant green color from the '90s to '10s is unmistakable. Now it is back in the 500 Series...

I was setting up my drums at a live gig, and I saw the sound engineer slip a thin baffle in front of the guitar amp to reduce the volume out front. I...

I have a pair of Lauten Audio LA-220 V2s above my drum kit, and I’ve previously reviewed the Lauten Snare Mic , Tom Mic , and Rim...

I had ruled out mic mounts that attach to a drum’s rim after trying some in my studio years ago, only to find that they transmitted way too many bad...

The boxy, rectangular shapes, light grayish-white painted bodies, and contrasting black windscreens of the new dynamic microphones in Universal Audio...

Drum-specific mics have been around for some time, but innovative companies such as Lauten Audio are still finding ways to improve them. Recently...

I've found both the Lindell Audio LiN76 and LiN2A compressors to be extremely useful in my studio, so I jumped at the...

For drummers, while playing it’s sometimes a challenge to change between brushes, sticks, and mallets. Of course, studio magic allows us to do that...

I have quite a few snare mics, but none that are actually named “Snare Mic.” That's about to change. I'm a drummer, and I've mic’d a...

I watched and waited for over a year before I finally purchased the Steven Slate Audio VSX headphone mixing system. VSX is a set of over the ear...

When I first saw the Lindell Audio LiN2A Vintage Leveling Amplifier, I admit I got excited. I use my Lindell Audio LiN76 quite a bit...

I like to think of my mixing desk as the control center. I hate running around the studio, behind racks, or bending down to search for a power...

I’ve been looking for a hardware compressor for tracking purposes, so when I saw the attractive price of Lindell Audio’s LiN76, I decided to grab...

I love the sound of ribbon microphones, and I put one in front of a guitar amp nearly every time I record one. I ran across the Samar Audio Design...

Universal Audio has been quietly updating some of their previously released plug-ins with new features that you may have overlooked if not watching...

With varying COVID-19 restrictions still in place across the world, home recording and podcasting products are in demand. Broadcast-quality dynamic...

Recently, I read about the MorphVerb plug-in and thought, “Do I need another reverb?” If you are like me, you already have a bunch of reverb...

Maybe I've been hiding under a rock, but I recently found out there are replacement wheels for rolling studio (or office) chairs. No more...

BABY Audio's new Parallel Aggressor combines elements of some of their other plug-ins to add punch or weight to a track or mix. But this...

I've been using the same nearfield studio monitors for almost ten years now. My main pair is no longer in production, and my alternate pair is...

Full disclosure: I saw an introductory promotion offering the United Plugins FrontDAW plug-in for free, so I downloaded and registered it. The...

MXL has been making affordable microphones since 1998 (the ubiquitous MXL 2001, anyone?). One of their latest offerings is the PA-5K Pro six piece...

While reading Tape Op#128, I came upon Larry Crane's review of Qdea's Synchronize! Pro X backup software. About half way through I came...