This book, subtitled Stompbox Effects for Creative Music Making, is a welcome guide to how the conversation around instrument pedals and recording has evolved over the past few years, especially with...
Tascam released something that will interest growing studios. The SERIES 8p Dyna offers 8-channels of mic pres with 1-Knob analog compressors, phantom power, eight analog outputs (on DB-25 or TRS),...
The decade that had the most impact on my musical growth and development was the '80s; it was a ripe and fertile time for new recording technologies and techniques. Many artists seemed quite intent on...
GIK Acoustics is known for its beautiful, effective, professional room treatment solutions, so you may be asking why an acoustics manufacturer of their stature would bother to offer foam panels at...
Built for the 500 Series format, the Avedis E12G has 12 bands, instead of the customary ten found in many graphic EQs. The additional frequencies provide for 12 kHz (filling the gap between 8 kHz and...
With the release of the new Apollo x4, UA keeps the hits coming with a revised and expanded desktop interface utilizing the recent conversion upgrades found in its rackmount sibling "x" range. At a...
u-he's Satin is a "tape simulation" plug-in unlike any other that I have used. It's not an exhaustive emulation of a specific analog machine, nor is it a simplified saturation box. Instead, Satin aims...
Gamechanger Audio is a Latvian-based company founded in 2015. Since then, they've released the Plus Pedal, the Motor Synth, and this new line of Plasma distortions. With their namesake as a constant...
Leapwing Audio, makers of the exceptional DynOne dynamics plug-in,now approach stereo manipulation with the release of StageOne. With three distinct uses, this plug-in is beneficial in mixing and...
Chase Bliss pedals have become somewhat of an obsession for me as of late. Hopefully, it‘s healthy – I can't tell anymore. Ostensibly a two-channel micro-looping delay, M O O D is Chase...
Andrew Roberts started Purple Audio and came out with the MC76 limiting amplifier in 1997. Informed by Andrew's years as a tech, the MC76 implemented the classic UREI 1176 Revision E compression...
Years back, when I installed my console and sidecar, I sold off most of my outboard preamps. I was looking forward to a new era of not having to choose preamps, and instead just getting on with what...
