On the cover, we have the Trigger Finger Pro, M-Audio’s latest and most ambitious pad controller. We put it through its paces.
We have oodles of reviews including a look at the ADK Frankfurt 49T microphone, four analogue synth modules from Studio Electronics called Boomstars, Audient’s new ASP880 eight-channel mic preamp and converter, as well as Native Instruments’ take on the Minimoog: Monark.
There’s also reviews of gear from Eve Audio, Orchestral Tools, Polar Audio, Waves, Roland, Rode, Rob Papen, McDSP, Pulse Code, Seymour Duncan, Kush, Korg, IK Multimedia , Presonus, Allen & Heath and more.
As always, we bring you some great features this month too. In Classic Tracks we get the story behind Peter Gabriel’s transition from prog rock to pop with his 1986 smash-hit ‘Sledgehammer’. We catch up with Thomas Troelsen who has made his name producing and writing South Korean pop music. And we also talk to Joseph Mount, the man behind Metronomy and find out how and why they avoided computers for their latest album, Love Letters.
We examine sound design for visual media, the recording of a baroque-music duo in a church, and in our live section we find look at the realities of engineering a band competition.
On top of all that, we have regulars such as The Mix Review (Coldplay, Sam Smith, Paolo Nutini, Elvis Presley), DAW workshops, Notes From The Deadline, Studio File and Spotlight, which this month rounds up decoupling monitor stands.
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