Larry DeVivo
Gear Review
Juice Box tube DI
Mar 15, 2012
The Retrospec Juice Box is an all tube, Class A direct-
injection box for recording musical instruments. It is fairly simple in layout and unique in...
Gear Review
REQ-2.2 Resonance Equalizer
May 15, 2009
I recently sold my beloved solid-state Pultec EQP-1A3 equalizers, so I was in the market for a new unit to fill the empty void left in my mastering...
Gear Review
DNA1 processor
Nov 15, 2007
The Weiss DNA1 is a 2RU-height audio restoration dynamo that performs several noise- reducing tasks via the DeClicker/DeCrackler and DeNoise modules...
Gear Review
PreMaster CD 1.1
Sep 15, 2006
PreMaster CD is Sonic Studio's entry-level, host-based software for creating DDP masters and standard Red Book Audio CDs. I was anxious to try...
Gear Review
Dangerous Master
May 15, 2006
The Dangerous Master has taken my mastering console up quite a notch. Integrating it with the Dangerous Monitor (Tape Op #34) has truly given me the...
Gear Review
Dangerous Monitor
Mar 16, 2003
I've been asking for a high-quality monitoring system like the Dangerous Monitor ever since I started mastering some seven years ago. Many...
Gear Review
EQ1-LP and EQ1-DYN Digital Equalizers
Sep 15, 2002
You know, mastering engineers can dream too. I know what it is like for Tape Op readers to dream about getting that one special Neumann U 47...
Gear Review
HEDD 192
Nov 16, 2001
One of the more interesting signal processors to come along has to be the HEDD 192 from Crane Song. HEDD stands for Harmonically Enhanced Digital...
Gear Review
z-Q2 stereo digital mastering equalizer
Sep 15, 2001
My dad used to have two sayings that he liked to use. One, use the right tool for the job and two, put it back where you found it when your done. The...
Gear Review
L2M Mastering Limiter/Expander
May 15, 2001
You know how there are certain things that come in to your life and once they do you realize that you just can't live without them? That was the...