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Grammy‑nominated producer and musician Hunter Lea currently produces and engineers out of Uptone Recorders in Tacoma, whose vintage equipment was used to produce his nominated favourite sound: the swelling oceanic tones on the 2024 track ‘Real Shoring’.
IamReverb say that convolution reverbs share an inherent flaw — which only their novel IR recording technique can overcome.
IK’s newest iLoud speakers pack serious monitoring into an ultra‑portable format.
Having proved his worth on Tate McRae’s second album, producer and songwriter Grant Boutin played a pivotal role in the third.
A successful musician and producer who happens to be blind, Jason Dasent is helping manufacturers to implement text‑to‑speech and other vital accessibility features.
Through the ’50s and ’60s, Altec’s 436 compressors were often modified and hugely influential. But this keenly priced homage does more than clone these vintage devices.
Some people see modelled equipment as a lacklustre substitute for the real thing. Others view it as an amazing opportunity for modern musicians to access vintage gear...
With its compact footprint and the option to run from a built‑in battery, the ProFX10 Go is Mackie’s most portable mixer ever.
Boss’ Katana:Go has been overhauled, and is now more compact, sleek and portable than the original.
The Heritage Audio Synth Buddy uses only passive circuitry, and that means that it can be used with all manner of unbalanced audio signals, including synths and guitars.
We put this new plug-in to the test to see if it delivers on its promise of being an authentic emulation with useful digital trimmings.
TC’s diminutive one‑knob, one‑switch Ditto looper has proven very popular, but TC still wanted to improve it...
The DitDit takes text as its stimulus and spits out Morse code, which makes for ideal translation into a language of triggers and gates...
Erica’s Perkons HD‑01 is one of the most inventive drum machines of recent years, and the Perkons Voice is a single Perkons’ synth voice in Eurorack form.
Refreshingly shrewd and not a little iconoclastic, Ross Fish founded Møffenzeef Mødular with all the creativity and risk you might expect, given the modules in the Møffenzeef range.
If any synthesizer can be considered to be greater than the sum of its parts, it’s Tom Oberheim’s enduring classic, the Two Voice.
There’s more to this fresh take on dynamics processing than a groovy GUI!
Find your way around large mixing sessions with these power‑user tips.
Would there be a noticeable difference in recording directly and committing (printing) to a Unison plug‑in, versus recording the vocal dry and afterwards adding the preamp plug‑in as an insert?
When I record guitar in my little ‘studio’ at home, it always sounds kinda noisy. What’s the best way to tackle noise?