SOUND ON SOUND
Neil Rogers, or 'Bugs' to many, has over 20 years of experience performing and engineering in recording studios. He owns and runs Half-ton Studios in Cambridge and has produced recordings for Captain, Steven James Adams, The Travis Waltons, Freeze the Atlantic (ex Reuben and Hundred Reasons), The Broken Family Band and The British Public, to name but a few.
Created in partnership with Empirical Labs, these two emulations form a characterful yet capable channel strip.
Audio examples to accompany our May 2021 review of the Warm Audio WA-87 R2 capacitor mic.
Saturation effects can be used in different ways to make mixing easier. Find out how...
Audio files to accompany SOS May 2021's Saturation Stratgeies workshop.
Warm Audio’s revised take on the Neumann U87 gets even closer to the real thing.
These audio examples accompany April 2021's review of the Telefunken TF11 FET microphone.
We try out Telefunken’s affordable take on an Austrian classic.
The kings of dynamic convolution take on producer Mike Dean’s signal chain.
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We test this stylish take on a classic EQ design.