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While home recording has become much less costly in recent years, there are still some expensive items on most people’s wish lists. So how do you work out what to splash out on when budget is an issue?
Things get messy as we explore Live’s numerous distortion effects...
M-Audio’s latest interfaces offer a lot of bang for relatively little buck and utilise the up-and-coming USB Type-C connector.
Flex your Logic Pro X muscles with half a dozen more tips and tricks.
The unambiguously named Dual Looping Delay from 4ms consists of two time-sync’ed delays in a single 20HP module...
It’s always fun to discover modules with a different slant on things. The ADDAC503, or Marble Physics, is a CV source that models the behaviour of a marble on a square tray...
Qu-Bit’s Wave is presumably named after the Wave (wav) format samples it plays — up to four of them at once. A 4GB MicroSD card is included, ready-populated with drum hits, vocals, synths and sound effects, easily enough to get you going...
Despite great progress elsewhere in the TV business, music for the media is still overwhelmingly dominated by men. Why?
The rise of the studio as a tourist attraction might seem a little crass — but if it helps to pay the bills...
Orchestral Tools expand their series with a quartet of solo strings and a pair of intimately-recorded soloists.
The Cali76 puts the sound and feel of a Urei 1176 into a guitar pedal, providing epic compression and sustain with studio-like transparency and low noise.
Our engineer transforms a bedroom-recorded rock song into release-ready territory.
A bundle of the most common studio effects, specifically delay, phasing, flanging, chorus, enhancement and a preamp emulation...
In a market that seems, er, saturated with dedicated distortion processors, what sets Overstayer’s latest device apart from the rest?
This Russian guitar-amp modelling plug-in is a souped-up recreation of the Engl E530 rackmounting studio preamp...
Developed in collaboration with top mixing engineer Andrew Scheps, Waves' Scheps Parallel Particles plug-in is probably the closest you’ll get to a ‘more of everything’ processor.
This plug-in is based on engineer/producer S Husky Höskulds' Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorder, which he had modified to act as a distortion processor.
A few years ago I decided to concentrate on producing my own music. I’ve since spent thousands of hours going through...
I recently acquired a Blue Rocket Stage 2 with cardioid B8 capsule, and although I really like the sound it seems a bit ‘stiff’ — in the same way that a speaker can sound ‘stiff’ until it’s been ‘burned in’. Do mic capsules ‘relax’ over time or will that stiffness persist?
How can you tell that a particular recorded vocal or bass track includes resonances? I’d like to know how to identify where the resonances are visually.