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If you want to use both a high-quality analogue mixer and a DAW control surface, you'll probably want to put them both in the same place. Well, now you can — and you get a multi-channel audio interface to boot.
Italian company RCF have a good pedigree. They helped design and manufacture for Mackie when the latter first entered the live sound market. We check out RCF's own entry in the portable powered PA stakes.
If digital perfection leaves you cold, the Aardscape can lend an analogue quality to your recordings. Hugh Robjohns warms to the idea...
Can this mic preamp really deliver 'expensive' sound quality at a mid-market price?
My band members and I wish to find an easy and affordable way to record and disseminate arrangement ideas. Currently, we...
Decent shockmounts can actually improve the sound you get from your mics, but they can be expensive and not always durable. Rycote aim to solve both problems with their new designs.
USB and Firewire mixerfaces abound these days, but not all allow you to record multiple channels simultaneously to separate tracks in your DAW. Enter the M164UF...
A Russian ribbon mic brings this classic technology to a new low price point.
This UK-designed and built processor offers two channels of easy-to-use compression and gating for under £200. Paul White's backing Britain.
Do TL Audio's designs stand up without valves, or is it a case of tubeless tires? Paul White endeavours to find out.
The mid-priced studio monitor market is competitive. So what sets KRK's new offerings apart from the crowd?
The Blue Tube preamp accepts both mic and instrument inputs, and lets you add as much tube warmth as you like using real valve circuitry.
High-end digital converter manufacturers Apogee are Apple's audio partner of choice, and their latest Firewire interface is aimed squarely at Mac users with a taste for quality.
Paul White tests the solid-state counterpart to Rode's recent NTK valve mic.
If you need a compact Firewire audio interface, the paperback-sized Duafire from ESI might be just the thing to slip into your laptop bag.
You can have TL Audio's new series of vintage-styled valve devices in any colour you like — as long as it's black!
Marantz's dual-deck CD writer uniquely allows the creation of a Red Book CD from a CD-R recorded in Track-at-once mode. Paul White finds out if you really can compile masters in the studio without a hard disk recorder.
Digitech's VTP1 seeks to outpace the competition in the crowded valve mic preamp market by offering built-in 4-band EQ and a digital output. Paul White sees how it runs...
These stylish new powered monitors sit alongside the M1 Active MkII, rather than replacing it, and won't break the bank.
DPA have used their hi-tech miniature microphone capsules to produce a pair of mics that you can use on just about any sound source.