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Swedish bass‑equipment manufacturers EBS’s updated MultiComp pedal is intended to make transparent‑sounding bass compression easy to achieve. Matt Houghton investigates...
With so many mastering processors already on the market, is there room for another compressor, EQ and limiter? Fabfilter certainly think so...
Matt Stedeford and his team at Imperfect Samples have created their own niche in the overcrowded and highly competitive piano...
For those of us who find our headphone mixes don't translate well, Focusrite have created a virtual listening environment that replicates the experience of monitoring on speakers.
Can you really achieve 24-carat Neve-style compression on a shoestring, or is this a case of fool's gold?
How do you create a hit album that stands with the synthpop greats, yet at the same time sounds thoroughly modern? In Hurts' case, with a great deal of time and effort...
Through his work with David Guetta, Rihanna and now Katy Perry, Sandy Vee has taken the French house sound to the top of the US charts. He tells us how it's done.
It's April, so what has Paul been dreaming up this year?
You might be surprised at just how much you can discover about the mix of a hit record if you use a structured approach to listening, learn to interpret your meters, and try a few technical tricks...
Discover how to control your hardware synths using Max For Live.
Livid Instruments' new control surface boasts not only an unusual flexibility — courtesy of its custom editing software — but also some fine handmade wooden end-cheeks...
Expand your monitoring options with clever routing in Logic Pro.
M-Audio's debut synth may have a pristine white exterior, but it hides a sample-based synthesis engine capable of getting down and dirty...
We discover that if you need to cure problems with bass instruments in your mix, you might well have to aim a bit higher...
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• Matt Cardle 'When We Collide' • Bruno Mars 'Grenade' • Ellie Goulding 'Your Song'
Title? Composer for the media. Job description? Squaring the circle...
This month, our US correspondent speaks to producers and engineers who have had to broaden their horizons in order to keep up with the ever-changing music industry.
The launch of Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors hasn't gone as smoothly as it might have done — and the saga continues...
When two sounds happen very close together, we hear them as one. This surprising phenomenon is the basis of musical pitch — and there are lots of ways to exploit it in sound design.