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Our Editor In Chief ponders why monitors sound different from each other and what you can do to compensate...
Leopard is finally with us — but while it promises improvements for general Mac users, will it offer anything to musicians and audio engineers other than incompatibility?
This unassuming device has a price that makes it look like a bargain alongside competitors of similar quality.
Behringer offer highly affordable excitement in the shape of two new sub-£100 rack processors.
In 1973, a band from Florida and California went to a studio in Georgia to record a song, provoked by a Canadian, about Alabama - and managed to define the sound of Southern rock while they were at it.
It's so easy to reach for the same audio plug-ins time after time - but MIDI plug-ins such as Arpache can bring something different and shouldn't be overlooked.
With so many exciting features on offer in modern DAWs, it's easy to overlook less glamorous things that you need every day. A prime example is proper monitoring — not sexy, but a crucial factor in successful multitrack recording.
This high-definition omni mic has been designed specifically to work in high-SPL environments, but it is surprisingly good on quieter sound sources too.
Can you expect decent project-studio performance from monitors costing under £300? Let's find out...
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The newest version of Logic features powerful new effects, alongside improvements to existing ones. We explore what they have to offer.
This month we tame a vocal that varies in dynamic range, and look at ways to create 'bigness' in the mix without overcooking levels.
Here are links to the audio files from January 2008's MIX RESCUE article
Music Lab impressed us with the playability and sound quality of their virtual acoustic guitar instrument, Real Guitar — and now they've gone electric...
It's over five years since Native Instruments released the original version of their flagship soft sampler, and its third incarnation takes the Kontakt concept even further, with a streamlined user interface, a new waveform editor and a massive sample library.
Some music applications will completely fail to take advantage of the multiple cores of a modern CPU — but which ones, and why? We find out, and advise on how you can make best use of however many cores your PC has.
Nowadays, we expect software to be able to change the tempo of recorded audio, but the latest version of Pro Tools integrates this functionality in a new and impressive fashion.
Here are links to the audio files from January 2008's PIANO RECORDING article.
I recorded a performance of Handel's Messiah recently, and I was wondering what the common practice is when compressing...