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These two-way active monitors provide an upfront sound suited to pop, rock or dance music, at an affordable price.
There's more to plug-ins than audio, as we discover when digging deep into the world of MIDI plug-ins and effects.
Filters are at the heart of many of the weirder sequencer plug-ins, so here we check out what each one has to offer, and how you can obtain weird and wonderful sounds for your mixes.
Interested in Granular Synthesis? This book explains all...
Times change. When announced in 2001, the Chameleon, a reprogrammable DSP unit, looked out of date compared with the software studio concept. But with piracy rife, and software companies being bought out everywhere, the idea of reprogrammable, unhackable hardware now seems quite timely...
The SOS team visit the West Midlands, where Gordon Giltrap's home studio needs help, nestling as it does in the shadow of one of the UK's most powerful TV and radio transmitters.
The baby of Tascam's US range of interfaces dispenses with its big brothers' control faders, but does boast stereo audio I/O with phantom power supplied over USB, as well as MIDI I/O.
As we saw last month, there's much to synthesizing a convincing flute sound — and yet basic analogue monosynths have offered reasonable flute patches for 30 years. Surely the process can be simplified?
TC Electronic's new flagship stereo reverb not only gives you their state-of-the-art VSS4 reverb algorithms, but also emulates a variety of reverbs through the ages.
TC's plug-in powerhouse is now available as an external Firewire-connected rack unit.
A new generation of vocal processors, and a new generation of engineers, confront the possibilities and ethics of digital vocal manipulation.
Liam Watson went against the grain to build a studio with the retro sound he loved. And now that sound is back in fashion, he's had a number one album with the White Stripes.
Business End enables you to have your demo reviewed by a panel of producers, songwriters, musicians and managers drawn from the MPG (Music Producer's Guild).
The Doc offers his diagnosis and cures for another batch of reader-submitted meisterwerks.
Direct Sound Extreme Isolation Headphones are designed to offer more isolation than ordinary closed-back models...
Sonic Eye is a very simple yet useful troubleshooting gadget that will find many uses in both studios and live sound setups.
I have an oldish Mac with only 128MB of RAM, and would like to know how I can squeeze the most out of it with Propellerhead's Reason.
I saw a mic preamp advertised as 'Class A' and 'Transformerless.' What do these terms mean and why exactly are they a good thing?
I'm having some problems understanding exactly how audio-to-video synchronisation works. Can you explain?
I've heard various 'talking instrument' effects which some people attribute to a processor called a vocoder, while others describe it as a 'talk box'. Are these the same devices?