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What’s in a name? A lot — if you play your cards right.
When we looked at Pioneer’s flagship monitor last year, we were hugely impressed. Does its smaller sibling have the same charm?
Production music is rarely glamorous, but it can be very lucrative. In the first of a major new series, we explain how to get your foot in the door.
Pioneer’s DJ-inspired performance sampler is the start of something new.
Disappointed with the commercial mix of his band’s track, Barnabas Koch sought the help of our tame engineer...
Pro Tools users have requested five feature additions above all others. But can you work around their absence?
How much preparation is required before a recording session, and when should it all begin? We asked some top producers to share their wisdom.
I think I understand what crosstalk is, but I don‘t know how it sounds. I can’t find a proper explanation of how mixes sound with and without it. Also, is crosstalk in plug-ins something to look out for, or is it a myth?
Rather than offer a straightforward overdrive pedal, the Regency Pre-Drive combines a clean signal level booster with a separate, more restrained drive section.
Timphonia is fairly conventional, focusing on the kind of timpani instruments that are typically used by classical orchestras. Nevertheless, the library does include some quite experimental patches...
As the title suggests, all the sound sources are guitar-based, but their treatment here is very much aimed at providing a further palette of pad, ambience and soundscape-style sounds...
Here’s how to ensure your Reaper projects will still be accessible a year from now — or even a decade.
Bringing together the samples from their previous three Thunder libraries, X3M adds some 6GB of new sample content and adds a new Kontakt front-end...
This latest Expansion for Toontrack’s EZdrummer was recorded by Steve Albini in his Electrical Audio studio and, through the kit pieces and the tunings used, offers something of his signature sound in bottled form.
Valuable lessons from a media composer...
Find out how Sonar’s enhanced Matrix View can help speed up your workflow.
Sonokinetic have been carving out a niche for themselves in phrase-based orchestral libraries, and with their latest offering, Maximo, that niche just got a whole lot bigger!
Tablet-controlled mixers are nothing new — but some engineers are still wary of mixing without physical faders. Enter the DigiLive...
Since being acquired by Music Group, TC Electronic’s engineers have continued to add to their pedal line, and the three on review here are all based on traditional analogue circuitry.
Tech 21 have turned their focus to recreating, in pedal format, that part of a vintage console’s signal path that was often pressed into service for the direct recording of both guitars and basses back in the day.