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Having teenage children is a great way to stay in touch with the next generation. So imagine my surprise when my eldest’s number one request for Christmas 2023 was... a CD player!
As Neuzeit Instruments, German designer Thomas Hutmann is creating marvellous, original designs for Eurorack.
Kiwi producer and songwriter Noema Te Hau III is based at Big Fan Studios in Auckland, New Zealand.
The adoption of the DAW as the central creative instrument in pop music represents a new era of using the studio musically and expressively.
From this month we’ve decided to widen the scope of Inside Track, and where better to start than with perhaps the hottest producer of the moment.
Back in the pre‑computer days, manufacturers saw the need for straightforward and affordable mixers to handle the stack of electronics and bring it all down to a simple stereo pair, or even just a mono output.
If we’re not going to embrace new technologies, if we’re not willing to learn and exploit new tools, what are studios going to be for?
Henrietta Smith‑Rolla, aka Afrodeutsche, bridges musical worlds like few others. The crossing of borders has always been a subject close to home for the British‑Ghanaian‑Russian‑German composer, DJ and producer, whose moniker was chosen after an exploration of her heritage.
Since a work trip to the Seychelles, I’ve created a sonic album of every trip I’ve been on and it’s glorious; I can’t believe I didn’t think to do it earlier.
Paul White and Hugh Robjohns pick their software and hardware highlights from the last 12 months.
You can get superb results from a free soft synth or a £100 mic, but confident mixing decisions still require a high‑quality monitoring system in a decent acoustic environment.
Mexican‑Canadian songwriter and producer Andrea Rocha was classically trained and has worked with some of pop’s brightest stars, including Ellie Goulding, Gabrielle Aplin and Becky Hill.
Our ears are so used to hearing music made in recording studios that it can sound quite different to hear something that was recorded with an ambience...
There’s something inspiring about stories of unexpected success, and by ensuring the quality is there, we can at least open up the possibility of success.
It was roughly a decade after moving to the UK from West Tokyo in 2004 that Japanese producer and artist Koichi Yamanoha came up with the kaleidoscopic mix of folk, art‑rock and psychedelia he calls Grimm Grimm.
If you were to ask me which electric guitar I most pick up when I play for pleasure, not work, I do have an answer, absolutely and definitively.
Patriotism doesn’t always come naturally to Britons, but if anything can provoke a swell of national pride, it’s our track record in mixing console design.
American musician and technologist Corry Banks, aka Bboytech, is the driving force behind Modbap.
“I have an impulsive streak,” confesses Puerto Rican‑Italian artist Becca Mancari. That impulsive streak brought Mancari to Music City around a decade ago, and it was in Nashville that they met a host of future collaborators.
The Nagra VI is a visually stunning, operationally simple, and a technologically versatile 8‑track digital audio recorder, derived from a long genealogy of superb‑sounding and beautifully engineered machines...