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I’ve been using the Haas delay effect to add some nice width to my guitar parts. It sounds great, but I’ve noticed that when I listen in mono my guitars pretty much disappear from the mix. Any advice?
I get the impression that manufacturing tolerances for mid-range and cheaper microphones are not always as tight as one would desire. If I found a mic I liked, and were then to go out and buy that model of mic, might the one I tested and the one I bought sound significantly different?
I often wonder exactly what gets matched when microphones with interchangeable capsules are bought as a stereo pair. Is it the bodies, the capsules, or both?
When I sit at my listening position, at the apex of an equilateral triangle with my monitors, everything sounds OK. When I shift my head things that were panned centrally move immediately to the side, and seem to come just out of that one speaker. Is this the way it’s supposed to be?
The new RV7000 MkII Reverb is the star of the Reason 8.3 update.
Double basses are notoriously difficult to amplify live. Have Danish mic makers Remic cracked it?
These classy modules bring the best of Mr Neve’s classic designs into the 21st century.
Of all the record producers and engineers I’ve interviewed over the years, few impressed me as much as Joey Sturgis, so when I heard that he was the Executive Producer of Drumforge I was very keen to take a look at the product.
Vintage Strings is a Kontakt library intended to sit alongside Vintage Vibe and Vintage Horns and, like those products, uses original samples recorded in a fashion intended to replicate how it might have been done in Motown.
The fifth of MusicLab’s ‘Real’ virtual guitar instruments, RealEight is modelled on an eight-string guitar, currently popular for metal, prog metal, epic rock and all things dark and demonic.
Signal, deals with pulse sounds and is described by Output as the world’s most powerful dedicated pulse engine.
The success of Slaves’ debut album depended on producer Jolyon Thomas finding a way to bottle their raw live energy.
Buenos Aires remains one of these places in the world where rock & roll still plays a vital cultural role.
This month we introduce Studio One users to some of the riches on offer in the new version 3.
The SOS team travel to a Stourbridge community centre to solve some low-end problems and build some speaker stands.
After a number of years in the wilderness, Tracktion is back with its second major update in just over 12 months.
As one of the world’s leading mastering engineers, Vlado Meller has enjoyed great success — and his share of controversy.
Thanks to the addition of powerful pitch-correction and manual time-warping features, Revoice Pro 3 offers a complete vocal-processing toolkit.
As it reaches its second incarnation, we ask: is Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere the world’s best soft synth?