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Many limiters are designed to be as transparent as possible - but Inward Connections' TSL3 is built to sprinkle valve magic over your music.
This combination of preamp and Auto‑Tune processor could be just the thing for adding a radio‑friendly sheen to your live performances.
The stagebox/mixer format has become hugely popular of late. Does Behringer’s affordable take on the concept deliver the goods?
Get into the groove with the new tools in Live 8.
Recording and producing your own music is always a challenge — especially if, like Faith No More, your previous albums have been done by the best in the business!
When Grammy-award winning producer Liam Watson met country-folk singer Pete Molinari, they discovered a shared love of '50s country music, and decided to make an album that would hark back to the glory days of Nashville recording.
Just how do you achieve that extra bit of professional polish for your vocal parts? Find out with our in-depth guide...
Following on from last month's sneak preview, here's the full SOS hands-on test: If you're looking for characterful compression and EQ to warm up your computer-based mixes, Focusrite's Liquid Mix might just be the answer.
Our Mix Rescue expert dips his toe in the Studio SOS waters this month, as he visit's a reader's studio, sorts out his monitoring, and takes him through strategies to improve his mixing.
Even at high sample rates, standard PCM audio ‘smears’ important timing information. A new digital format, MQA, promises vastly improved time-domain accuracy — without the huge file sizes.
If Pro Tools 10 was a watershed release in the product's history, Pro Tools 11 marks the beginning of a new era for Avid's audio production platform.
Can you really achieve 24-carat Neve-style compression on a shoestring, or is this a case of fool's gold?
The metering in most DAWs does little more than tell you if you’re in danger of clipping. Zplane’s plug-in suite provides vital alternative ways of understanding audio levels.
The clever chaps at XILS Lab have given Roland's classic VP330 a new lease of life as a soft synth.
Side-chain inputs on software processors can open up a whole new world of control possibilities — and now Sonar 7's plug-ins have this facility. We show you some ways of using it in your music.
It won't write a Katie Price novel for you, but Ghostwriter is just the ticket for high-quality, Porcupine Tree-style quirkiness.
This month, our mix engineer develops a reader's track and shows that the difference between an average mix and a good one is less about the quality of the gear than about what you do with it!
The Apollo Twin brings impressive sound quality and UA plug-ins to the desktop, along with unusually versatile mic preamps!
Live 9 has been a long time coming, but, along with Ableton’s new Push controller, has the potential to revolutionise music-making.