For years now, I've been a huge fan of MXL microphones. I'm particularly fond of the MXL 2001 cardioid condenser for its smooth, warm and accurate tone. So when the opportunity came around for me to...
Electronic musicians and controller freaks beware! The ReMOTE 25SL, one of the most tricked-out portable MIDI controllers, just hit the streets. This puppy sure packs a punch by cramming a ton of...
As an electronic musician who's been producing music in surround sound with Steinberg's Nuendo, I'm no stranger to instrument plug-ins. In fact, I've been amazed by new virtual incarnations as well as...
Finally, someone has introduced an affordable DAW controller that has enough faders and virtual input strips that it can handle a typical record/mixdown session and feel like a real mixing...
Over the last five years, quite a few DAW controllers have come onto the market that offer up such features as motorized faders, shortcut and transport buttons that give direct access to commonly used...
For those of you on a budget who are looking to get into high-end, cutting edge digital audio... do I have a tip for you! Recently, Steinberg decided to bundle a "lite" version of their Cubase DAW...
Over the last few years, a handful of DAW's have moved past puberty and have become serious, feature- packed, digital-audio production systems. One of the forerunners in this field is Steinberg's...
Every once in a blue moon a deal on equipment comes along that grabs me by the neck and just says "I'm good, and I'm affordable...ya simply gotta buy me!" Recently, one of these little screamers took...
It seems that control surfaces for use with digital audio workstations are the current darling of the hardware industry. There's a good reason for this-they give your computer a tactile, mouseless...
Whether you're an electronic musician who's searching for the right set of sounds to load into your software sampler or an analog bloke who's desperately in need of Amazonian crickets to lay into a...
It's common knowledge to computer-based digital audio geeks (like myself) that USB is the latest, greatest thing since sliced humble pie. For those who are new to the scene, the Universal Serial Bus...
Bucking the trend towards expensive, high-end mic- preamps, the folks at M-Audio have recently released two affordable models that caught my eye. DMP3 Mic Pre First off, the DMP3 dual mic pre ($249...
Twenty-four bit recording is here, and now it nearly approaches the beauty of analog! I recently had the pleasure of test-driving the newly improved Radar 24 System by iZ Technology. The basic system...
