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Mumford & Sons have dragged acoustic music out of the folk clubs and straight to the top of the charts, with a sound sculpted by producer Markus Dravs and mix engineer Ruadhri Cushnan.
Derek Johnson takes a look at two 88-note master keyboards that provide piano-like feel without breaking the bank.
Recording the White Album was a major project by any standards, not least for Ken Scott, who, at the age of just 21, found himself engineering the biggest band in the world...
Tobias Lindell set himself the difficult task of recreating the sound of his own high-end compressor in a much more affordable box. Did he succeed?
Reason has plenty of tricks up its sleeve for adding character and warmth to a mix.
Dave Crombie gets to grips with Alesis' Tardis-like synth module and finds out that the inside is a lot bigger than the outside.
For Jack White, analogue recording is not about looking back to the past, but choosing the ideal medium for his art.
The quality and variety of orchestral string libraries continues to grow. Which one best suits your needs?
Applied Acoustic Systems have released Tassman 4, the latest version of their flexible synthesis software for Mac OS X and Windows
If you want real musicians playing your composition but have no idea how scores should be presented for them, you can still make playable Logic parts with our simple guide.
The Urei 1176 is one of those classic compressor-limiters that many boutique manufacturers are now trying to put their own spin on. What do Wes Audio bring to the party?
Can energy-efficient, environmentally friendly monitors really offer professional quality? Genelec certainly think so...
Roland bring their HandSonic percussion range bang up to date with the HPD20.
Jazz quintet Polar Bear have always been musical adventurers, and their latest album extends their experimental philosophy to studio techniques.
Many limiters are designed to be as transparent as possible - but Inward Connections' TSL3 is built to sprinkle valve magic over your music.
If you could have one VST Instrument that emulated a hardware workstation, giving you enough polyphony to produce a complete arrangement with a fairly standard computer, would you be interested? Steinberg and Wizoo think you would...
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This compact ‘wedge’ speaker uses a coaxial driver to deliver broad stage coverage and a sound that cuts through.
