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New Music Gear Monday: Eventide Ultratap Delay Plugin
If delay is your thing when mixing, then you probably have a couple of multitap delays in your toolbox. It’s probably safe to say that none of them are as powerful as Eventide’s new Ultratap, which may very well be the ultimate example of the genre. What makes Ultratap so special? It goes beyond just […]
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Meet The Atomic Hard Drive
If you think “I hate carrying around all those 2TB flash drives,” or “I wish someone made a hard drive larger than 10 terabytes,” then you’re in luck. A new drive designed by Dutch researchers promises to fit 62.5 terabytes on a drive the size of a postage stamp and is 500 times more dense than […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Proximity Audio Patchrat Documentation System
If you work with more than a few pieces of analog audio gear on a regular basis, you know how tedious the documentation can get. Trying to get the same sound back has been the bane of engineers for decades, and a variety of methods have been developed over that time period. Most of these […]
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Everything You Wanted To Know About SD Cards
We live in a glorious age where we’re no longer tethered to large bulky hard drives for capturing audio and pictures in the field. Today, so much of our audio lives on the simple, yet not always understood SD card, a true wonder of electronic storage. The problem is that we’re faced with a wide […]
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FX Rentals Most Requested Products Since 1992
FX Rentals in London has been open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since 1992, and has been the place to rent any piece of audio or music gear (and more recently DJ gear) that your heart desires. The company was recently featured on PSN Europe and one of the most interesting pieces […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Universal Audio Ox Amp Top Box
Universal Audio is one of those rare companies that excels in both hardware and software, so when it puts both together in a product, you know you have something worth a long look. If you’re a guitar player or want to offer guitar players more choices in your studio, then the company’s new Ox Amp […]
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Unusual Microphone Choices Of The Masters
You’d think that all the engineer and producer greats would use the same vintage microphones that have become just as famous as they are, but that’s not the case. U47’s, C-12’s, U67’s – they all have a place in the hall of fame for good reason. That said, it’s interesting that some of the greats […]
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New Music Gear Monday: BAE Hot Fuzz Guitar Pedal
There are tons of guitar pedals available, and so many in the distortion/overdrive category that selecting just one to use is almost overwhelming. That said, you have to take notice when a high-end pro audio manufacturer like BAE Audio introduces one. The company’s Hot Fuzz isn’t your typical distortion pedal though, and that’s exactly what […]
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Don’t Look Now But Audio Tubes May Be In Jeopardy Again
Things looked bad for vacuum tube-based audio gear once upon a time as both American and British tube manufacturers shut down their plants to go solid state. Luckily, the slack was taken up by tube plants in Russia, China and Yugoslavia, and the audio and MI business never missed a beat. Things might get tight […]
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New Music Gear Monday: PLUS Pedal Instrument Sustainer
Pedals, pedals everywhere. Guitar players have tons of them and are always buying more. The majority of new pedals are derivative of a few trailblazers that have come before however, and it’s hard to find something that’s truly new. It seems there was a new idea for a pedal right before our eyes all along […]
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Royal Studios – A Look At Some Memphis History
With commercial studios in large cities succumbing to high real estate costs and lower budgets, it’s always great to hear about a “vintage” studio that is still rolling (and rolling tape) after all these years. Royal Studios in Memphis was the home of producer Willie Mitchell during the heyday of the Memphis Sound, and his […]
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4 Good Reasons For Hanging Your Microphone Upside Down
Everyone has seen the photos of the vintage large-diaphragm tube microphone hanging upside down in front of the vocalist like on this famous photo on the left, and while it looks very cool, there really was a method to the madness for placing it like this. It’s not something that’s regularly taught in schools or […]
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Fox To Bury Mics On The Field For The All Star Game
The Major League Baseball All Star Game will have something new this year as Fox plans to expand the field audio coming from the players. This is made possible by a new type of microphone that can actually be buried on the field. The company plans on burying 13 of them on the infield, outfield […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Relab Development LX480 Reverb Plugin
If you were involved in any part of the analog recording age you know that Lexicon was the king of reverbs and that one type or another of the company’s hardware products would be found in any studio. The top of the line product for the company was the 480L and it was the standard […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Touch Innovations Kontrol Master Controller
Working with a mouse or trackball is second nature for some people, and torture for others. As a result, a number of different types of controllers have come to market recently, but most center around the fader, with other functions being secondary. The fact of the matter is that we use all those other functions […]
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