SOUND ON SOUND
With over 400 pages and 12 chapters, author Mike Senior covers both the technical concepts and practical techniques necessary for capturing musical performances of all kinds.
Sample Magic have plundered their back catalogue and bounced everything they selected from it onto tape and vinyl!
Despite enormous popularity in the 1980s, Casio’s CZ range has never been made into a soft synth, until now.
No-one has come near to producing a convincing copy of a Pultec EQP-1A at a wallet-friendly price. Until now!
A marriage of East and West, this stunning new mic from Russian makers Soyuz sounds just as classy as it looks.
Native Instruments’ Session Horns Pro combines high-quality samples with some useful arrangement tools.
We put the largest models in Yamaha’s new DBR range to the test at a real-world gig, where they proved more than equal to the task.
More collections of drums, guitars and basses in the Indie genre.
Study photos of recording sessions from the ‘60s and ‘70s, and you’ll often look in vain for a microphone shockmount.
No control room is acoustically perfect, but the right correction system can help to deliver more accurate monitoring.
With development accelerating under new ownership, Notion continues to challenge the established names in the music notation market.
The Theremini’s pitch-quantisation and price tag make it the most accessible Theremin instrument yet.
Finnish company Amphion may be little-known, but they are certainly no strangers to the principles of good speaker design.
Mic stands are an essential bit of gear that few people spend enough time thinking about. Really well–engineered stands are frustratingly rare, though.
If you read my review of the Electro–Harmonix B9 Organ Machine effects pedal, their C9 will look very familiar but this latest pedal offers different sounds.
Akai’s MPX16 has more pads and functions than its MPX8 predecessor, but remains just as reasonably priced.
The Korg MS20 rides again... again! The latest version takes the form of an expanded desktop module with accompanying sequencer.
The Ensemble Thunderbolt isn’t just an update — Apogee have completely redesigned it, and the results are impressive.
In the post-console world, some of us lack facilities we used to take for granted. These ‘Latency Killers’ aim to plug one of the gaps.
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