
Craig Parker Adams: Mixing Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa was as fastidious about cataloguing his recordings as he was about making them. The task of mixing this enormous archive falls to one man...
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Frank Zappa was as fastidious about cataloguing his recordings as he was about making them. The task of mixing this enormous archive falls to one man...
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UDO Audio’s highly anticipated debut instrument is a synthesizer with a sound all of its own.
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I’ve been reading about iZotope’s Neutron, and how it is described as automating the process of attenuating some frequencies of audio track B, so that the simultaneously played audio track A, which has signal in the same frequency range, sounds more prominent...
The newest addition to the Quantum range offers a plethora of I/O and excellent latency performance for a very reasonable price.
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