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Condenser Microphones
Software Synth [Mac/PC] Truly original and innovative software is a rare thing these days, but Camel Audio’s latest is exactly that. Find out what it is that sets Alchemy apart from the soft-synth crowd... Active Nearfield Monitors
Master Processing Suite [Mac/PC]
Imperfect Samples Braunschweig Piano Sample Library The inaugural product from Imperfect Samples is a sampled piano with a difference... Multi-pattern Condenser Microphone Small size and a choice of polar patterns make this mid-priced, large-diaphragm mic a very versatile performer. Virtual Drum Instrument
Digital Audio Workstation Software For Windows Acid Pro has always offered a fabulous environment for loop-based music creation, but version 7 sees it making a bid for fully fledged DAW status. Universal Audio Twin-finity 710 Hybrid Microphone Preamplifier
Digital Synthesizer
| People + Opinion Kevin Burleigh & Glasvegas: Recording A Snowflake Fell Christmas In Transylvania For most bands and most record labels, trekking to the wilds of Eastern Europe to record a Christmas album would be a project that would remain filed under ‘Nice idea, but...’ Glasvegas, however, are not your ordinary guitar band. Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Jochem van der Saag Seal: Soul 'A Change Is Gonna Come'
Sounding Off: 21st Century Culture David Glasper What can we do to save ourselves from the misery and bathos of 21st century culture? Simple: hide in the past. Leader Editor-In-Chief Paul White likes dreaming up April Fool's blue-sky products, but with the unveiling of MOTU's Volta and Microsoft's Songsmith, fact is indeed becoming stranger than fiction! Technique Advanced Mixing In Logic Pro 8: Part 1 Logic Notes & Techniques A professional producer and mixer passes on his favourite Logic mixing methods, starting this month at the bottom, with tips for bass and drums. Steinberg Cubase Tips & Techniques We explore some of the advanced parallel compression techniques used by top mix engineer Michael Brauer — and how you can recreate them using Cubase. Building A Beatbox In Ableton Live Ableton Live Notes & Techniques We show you how to make Live emulate an MPC-style workflow for composing rhythm tracks. Classic Tracks: Heavy Zebra ‘Karla’ Producer: Heavy Zebra • Engineer: Kevin Byrne
Cubase: Advanced Vocal Compression — Audio Files Hear For Yourself We explore some of the advanced parallel compression techniques used by top mix engineer Michael Brauer — and how you can recreate them using Cubase. Sound Techniques Whether you want to do it for real or fake it, double tracking can add very effective texture to vocal parts. Recording simple ideas quickly Recording simple ideas quickly often helps you to capture a good, fresh-sounding performance — but it can also leave you with frustrating technical problems in the mix. This month, we tackle just such a recording... Mix Rescue: Timo Carlier | Audio Files Hear For Yourself Links to the MP3 preview and high-resolution WAV files that accompany the SOS APRIL 2009 Mix Rescue article for our newsstand/bookstore readers who do not have eSub-access to the main web article. PC Notes If you’re under the impression that installing your audio apps on a non-Windows drive will lead to better performance, you’re in for a surprise. Recording audio tracks to such a drive, though, is a different matter... Recording Techniques For Upright Piano Miking Techniques & Recording Tips We’ve discussed how to record grand pianos in some depth in past issues, but miking an upright piano can present a very different challenge. Recording Upright Piano: Audio Files Hear For Yourself We've discussed how to record grand pianos in some depth in past issues, but miking an upright piano can present a very different challenge... Here are links to MP3 and WAV files to accompany April's recording workshop. Early Genesis for the modern keyboardist Forming a tribute act can be challenging when it comes to getting the sound as close to the original band as possible, and approaching the keyboard rig for a Genesis tribute certainly proved tricky. Sonar: Integrating External Hardware With Your DAW Sonar Notes & Techniques Is it time to lighten the load on your CPU and put that outboard signal processing hardware to work inside your DAW? We explain how... Making the most of your studio space We turn a less-than-ideal square rented room into a workable recording and mixing space. The SOS Guide To Choosing A Modular Synth Plug & Play No longer the preserve of men in laboratories or capes, the modular synth business is thriving, and it’s now easier to go modular than ever before. Read on and we’ll show you how... Digidesign (Avid) Pro Tools Tips & Techniques One of the major new features in Pro Tools 8 is a system for easily assembling 'comp' tracks from multiple takes. We explain how it all works. Apple Notes With the increasing size of audio files and high-quality sample libraries, a Apple MacBook hard drive that seemed capacious just a couple of years ago may now be straining at the seams — but swapping it for a bigger one is easier than you might think. Music Business TV Music From The Inside Your showreel can say a lot about you. And if it’s going to get you work, what it needs to say is: trust me. Sound Advice
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