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When it comes to recording, this might just be the most versatile valve guitar amp we’ve seen...
Keeping your music PC hooked up to the Internet, with security software active, has a surprisingly small impact on performance...
Alan Tubbs reviews the Cakewalk Z3TA+ 2.1 plug-in for PC VST, Sam Inglis takes a look at the Dada Life Sausage Fattener plug-in for Mac AU & VST and Windows VST as well as the Waves The King's Microphones plug-in for Mac AU, Mac & PC VST & RTAS.
Pitch-correction plug-ins are the key to the current trend for weird vocal effects. Here’s how to achieve them in Pro Tools.
I recently spent €4000 on professionally designed and installed acoustic design and treatment. I then spent a further €4000 on...
This month I'm planning a week's worth of recording for a commercial release of my own viola-led instrumental music, and I'd...
I'd like to know what the advantages and disadvantages are of using stand-alone word clock units, like Apogee, Lynx, Antelope...
I'm currently involved in composing music tracks for a self-help medical audio program and I would like to be able to create...
I have recently invested in the range of UAD2 plug-ins, but am afraid I am not sure how to read the VU meters correctly. I am...
In the first of a two-part series on using impulse responses in Reaper’s ReaVerb, we look at the basics: selecting, loading and editing. • Read Part 1
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Reason’s new mixer has useful features you may not have noticed...
After much hard work, Yamaha and Steinberg persuaded Rupert Neve that they could faithfully model his latest hardware in plug-in form. We pit the virtual Porticos against the real things...
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Here's the problem: you're working on a project and you decide you need some kind of shaker or tambourine part, but you'...
Sonokinetic's Tutti eschews the approach taken by most orchestral sample libraries, offering, instead, a selection of effects designed to bring your pieces to life...
Sontronics’ DM-series mics are specially designed for close-miking of drum kits. How do they perform in a real-world session?
The modern producer has a vast array of sounds at his command, but does that make for musical misery?