SOUND ON SOUND
In his latest eBook, Samplecraze's Eddie Bazil explores the concept of 'Beat Construction' — which he is at pains to point out means drum beats, rather than full productions.
Another slice of Abbey Road history is now available in your plug-in folder, thanks to Waves.
The latest addition to RME's OctaMic range of multi-channel preamps is designed to interface with digital recording systems of all stripes.
Have Presonus got what it takes to break into the already crowded market for affordable monitors?
Novation's new controller keyboard has bright lights, friendly buttons and a newt-like orange underbelly. Splendid.
What do you get when you cross Klein + Hummel's pedigree in speaker design with Neumann's decades of industry experience? A very good monitor indeed...
Moog are best known for their synths, but could all their analogue expertise also make for a delicious delay?
The HV37 makes Millennia's highly regarded solid-state preamp design available in a more affordable format. Does it cut any corners?
Sonokinetic's classical range of virtual instruments includes everything from symphonic orchestras to individual instruments like the electro mechanical piano.
Considering that these are boutique, hand-built pedals from Poland, the cost is very reasonable.
Sample Magic's ingenious plug-in makes A/Bing fast, fair and simple.
Tobias Lindell's latest range aims to deliver pro-quality outboard processing at a price that's within reach of the home studio masses.
Korg's single-handed analogue revival continues unabated with the release of the Volca range of super-affordable grooveboxes.
To really put this system through its paces, we set it up as the main system at an outdoor festival playing to thousands of people.
With over 370 pages, author Mike Major's book is crammed with advice, practical tips and useful pictures and diagrams.
The French company behind many of the software plug-ins for the Creamware DSP platform have branched out into analogue guitar pedals and produced something quite different!
Ueberschall's Elastik-based library series now runs to dozens of titles and Bass Saxophone is one of the latest additions and features 140 samples.
When it comes to D-A conversion, this company is called Benchmark for a reason. How have they raised the standard this time?
With its bundled Pro Tools Express software, Avid's new interface could be just the thing for anyone getting started with music production.
By stripping this mixer down to the bare bones of preamp, EQ and stereo summing, Geoff Tanner shows us that less really can be more when it comes to quality vintage-style consoles.