IK Multimedia and Mesa Engineering Announce Amplitube MESA/Boogie
IK Multimedia’s guitar and bass tone-creation software, Amplitube 3 Custom Shop, has a new addition – The Amplitube MESA/Boogie collection. This new suite was co-developed with the R&D team at Mesa...
View ArticlePlugin Alliance – Last Chance For Summer Sale
Haven’t quite scavenged the funds together for a full price license to SPL’s TwinTube plug-in? How about an Elysia Museq EQ? If your answer was along the lines of “no (#sadface)”, then the next 30 days...
View ArticleMore of Less: The Art of Stacking Compressors
Sometimes, the tweak of a single decibel of gain reduction can be the deciding factor in whether or not a mix pops out of the speakers just right. Dan Gluszak makes the case for compressing in stages,...
View ArticleRODE Microphones Acquires Aphex
RODE Microphones founder and Managing Director, Peter Freedman, announced the acquisition of US-based audio hardware manufacturer, Aphex, on July 24th. RODE and Aphex are at the top of their league in...
View ArticleZampol Productions: Mastering Moves On Up to the Lower East Side
Milestones are abounding for Oscar Zambrano. This New York City mastering engineer is smiling because he’s just completed his 100th project of the year in mid-July, a new album for singer-songwriter Jo...
View ArticleRoland Debuts Compact M-5000C Live Mixing Console
Roland’s new M-5000C comes to us as another addition of their O.H.R.C.A. series of live mixing consoles. The M-5000C is a compact version of their flagship M-5000 mixing console. The same O.H.R.C.A....
View ArticleVideo Studio Tour: Platinum Sound with Serge Tsai
Check out our latest video studio tour with Serge Tsai of Platinum Sound in NYC. Serge has worked with artists including Kanye West, Shakira, Bono, Akon, Raekwon, Lil Kim, Lil Wayne, Mick Jagger,...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Announces 3 New Plug-Ins for UAD-2 and Apollo with UAD...
The UAD-2 DSP accelerators and Apollo interfaces are capable of pushing some of the most sonically detailed plug-ins available. With the release of UAD Software v8.3, Universal Audio is now featuring a...
View ArticleReview: Novation Launchpad Pro
If you’re a producer or engineer who hasn’t heard about the Novation Launchpad series by now, it’s likely you’ve either been dead, avoiding electronic music production at all costs, or living under a...
View ArticleComposer Brian Tyler To Keynote 2nd Annual Production Music Conference – 9/9...
The non-profit Production Music Association (PMA) was founded in 1997 with a mission to “elevate the unique value of production music and to ensure the viability of the production music industry”....
View ArticleSlate Digital Introduces Yearly and Monthly Plug-In Subscription Programs
Slate Digital has a wealth of plug-ins to choose from. Of course it’s ideal to own as many of these plug-ins as possible! But how does one expect to pay for all of that beautifully crafted DSP? Slate...
View ArticlePull Scores For Nike’s ‘Inside Small-Sided’ Online Film Series
NYC music company Pull got its kicks scoring an online film series for Nike. Their decidedly outside-the-box soundtrack accompanied a set of segments about small-sided soccer in Latin America....
View ArticleInterview with Reaper Founder, Justin Frankel
This week we had the privilege of sitting down with the creator of Reaper, Justin Frankel. The latest version of his company’s flexible and cost-effective DAW comes out tomorrow, August 12th. We talked...
View ArticleNovation Launches New Launchkey Controller Series
Novation has never been shy announcing their product compatibility with Ableton Live – As they put it in this case, their new Launchkey controller series is “pretty much the quickest and easiest way to...
View ArticleThe Neve 1073 LB Reviewed by Nic Hard
Engineer/producer Nic Hard test out the new 500-series Neve 1073LB at Bushwick Studio and Mission Sound, putting it up against a Vintech X81 and the classic Neve console 1073s.
View ArticleNew Gear Review: ADAM S3X-H Studio Monitors
ADAM’s new S3X-H Studio Monitors. I’ll start with the cliché — “you’ll have to pry these out of my dead hands” — first. I love them. I started using ADAM‘s original S3A monitors shortly after they came...
View ArticleNew Gear Review: Novation Circuit
The battery-powered, speaker-sporting, Novation Circuit. Let me start by saying this: The Novation Circuit is fun. I didn’t even read the manual, and I was making music from scratch within minutes....
View ArticleNew Gear Review: Radial Twin Servo 500 Mic Preamp
The new Twin Servo 500 from Radial Engineering brings the astonishingly hi-fi performance of the Jensen Twin Servo to a compact 500-series package. Those of you lucky enough to know what a Jensen Twin...
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New Gear Review: Burl B16 Mothership
A closeup view of two of the B16’s modules. Early in 2016, Burl Audio announced its new B16 Mothership, the little brother to their flagship B80 interface. The original B80 Mothership—an enormous,...
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New Gear Review: karacter rack “Coloring Box” from elysia
A view of the new rack version of the karacter “coloring box” from elysia. Unlike the original 500-series module, the 19″ rack format includes CV control capabilities so that you can “play” your...
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