For a while now, I have been searching for a simple, USB-powered interface that I could use with my laptop to capture ideas while on the road. There are plenty of options available from a myriad of...
It was at last year's NAMM show that I saw the VoicePro for the first time. One of the engineers from TC walked me through some of the features and gave me a demo on a beta unit. The box was designed...
Sony purchased Sonic Foundry's desktop audio and music production family in 2003-a deal that included Sound Forge, CD Architect, and ACID. Sound Forge is a powerful audio editing program for PC that...
In the quest for building the best signal paths to capture the sounds we want in our recordings, it's easy to become myopic and overlook the source. There used to be a saying, "we'll fix it in the...
I remember borrowing a friend's Echoplex in 1983 in order to add echo sounds to the electronic recordings I was creating at home. I was in heaven to be able to create real tape regeneration and nice...
The Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5042 is a two- channel tape emulator and line-driver. Like other units in the Portico line, the 5042 is a half-rack design. It is equally at home as a desktop unit or...
These days, it's important to optimize every link of the audio chain, starting at the source. Often this source is a guitar pickup. Despite the name, the Steel Guitar Black Box is a device that fills...
The Triwave looks exactly like its name suggests: ludicrous. It's a customizable sound generator housed in a small metal box covered with lots of knobs-anywhere from ten to twenty of them-which stick...
Giving Z-Vex a run for its money, Austin-based Devi Ever has been creating some of the most unique effect pedals around for just a bit over two years. I recently had a great time trying out a couple...
Free VST plug-ins for Windows Like a lot of people who read this magazine, I'm a hardware guy, and I've resisted using computers to make my music for a long time. But I recently realized that you...
For years, David Marquette cultivated a reputation for elegantly racking and powering Neve, Telefunken, and other desirable vintage modules. He eventually decided to branch out and produce his own...
Long held as an irreplaceable tool for electronic musicians to compose and perform their music, Ableton Live is increasingly gaining favor with the rest of the music world. As one of many professional...
