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Operating rather like a subwoofer in reverse, this crafty device controls low frequencies but takes up far less space than conventional bass traps.
I increasingly hear people extolling the virtues of a multi-bus system for mix processing, where you mix everything to a handful of parallel submasters, each with its own master-bus-style processing, before passing a mix of all those to the overall master bus. What’s the rationale behind this technique?
Can you explain what is meant by ‘panning law’ in the context of a DAW’s setup?
I’m struggling to understand what’s really happening when you use different compression ratios. Can you explain please?
My outboard equalisers have no level or peak indicator, what would be the correct way to output the signal from my DAW (Logic) via an RME Fireface 800 audio interface?
Samplitude’s Elastic Audio editor can be used for pitch correction, harmony generation, and more besides!
We look at what’s new in Reason 9 — including the power to change the background colour.
What you don’t like about Reaper, you can probably change!
Based upon a sampled Steinway B-211, the addition of an impressive library of MIDI performances makes creating that perfect piano track as easy as possible.
Marble is a seamless blend of synthetic and acoustic sources. Its 63 instruments are split into Harmonic, Percussive and Textures, and each patch consists of two components taken from them.
This mic offers an elegant means of getting that ‘reverse speaker’ kick drum sound without you having to butcher your NS10s!
There are two commodities that, if we don’t get in check, will massively affect the quality of recorded music: space and skills.
The Don Camillo Chor: Our engineer records a choir singing in their practice room, and tries to make it sound like it was captured in a church!
Give your musicians the right cue mixes in Studio One, and you’ll make a huge difference to their performances.
TC’s HyperGravity compressor pedal is unapologetically digital and is based on the algorithms developed for TC’s high-end System 6000 platform.
It’s an audio interface. It’s a digital mixer. It’s an eight-way microphone preamp... but how well does the US20x20 perform in use?
Perhaps the only classic Hollywood recording studio of this type that is still open today, Boulevard began as Continental Recorders around 1966. It changed name to Producer’s Workshop, before going on to create musical history in the 1970s.
More analysis of tracks from: Drake • The Steeldrivers • Fifth Harmony • Classic Mix: Prince & The New Power Generation ‘Sexy MF’ (1992)
Combining characteristics from various classic equalisers, including the designer’s originals, the Swift isn’t quite like anything else.
Zähl Audio’s consoles have long been cherished by professionals, and this unit should bring their sound to a wider audience.