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Manikin have shrunk their Mellotron emulator down to desktop module size, but how will it measure up?
For 15 years, Marc Carolan has been in charge of the live sound for one of the biggest — and most technically ambitious — bands in the world.
War Kites: We help a talented indie band achieve a more polished sound from their home recordings.
This month tracks from Krept & Konan, Fleur East, One Direction, Rod Stewart, Tame Impala and our Classic Mix is Britney Spears ‘Toxic’.
My pedalboard seems to be in a permanent state of being rebuilt, and this time around I decided I needed a better power supply...
Sound libraries are great, but making your own sound effects is more fun — and more individual.
As the role of studios changes, so too must that of the new generation of studio managers.
War Kites: We help a talented indie band achieve a more polished sound from their home recordings.
As George Harrison once told my friend Martin Smith at Streetly Electronics, “History is bollocks. If you weren’t there, you don’t know.”
Pro Tools 12.3 sees the introduction of the invaluable Fade Presets, as well as an improved Batch Fades dialogue.
I’ve got to the point at mixdown where I’d usually be thinking about sending everything through a couple of global reverbs/delays with a view to simulating a soundstage. Would this have actually been possible for a mix engineer in that decade?
Bearing in mind my room is untreated and I do the bulk of my mixing on headphones.
What’s the ‘secret’? Shall I not bother with gating them.
Reaper 5.11’s new Subprojects facility opens up entirely new ways of working.
Reason’s Block feature is the key to turning loops and ideas into fully–fledged songs.
Never one to rest on his laurels, Roger Linn’s latest creation aims to bring unprecedented expressivity to MIDI musicians.
Soft-synth specialist Rob Papen has branched out into the world of processors — but his RP EQ is no ordinary equaliser.
By concentrating only on the components that matter, Roswell have managed to create a classic-sounding mic with a budget price tag.
Rhythmic Robot strike again — and with a double whammy! I can only speculate about this labour of love, feeding an Emulator II with a near–endless supply of 5.25–inch floppy disks.