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The Story Of How Guitar Distortion Was Born
If you’re a guitar player, chances are you’re in love with the distorted sound that’s so easy to create these days, thanks to a variety of amps, pedals and plugins. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a time when guitar distortion didn’t exist, but believe it, there was a time when there was no such thing. […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Wide Blue Sound Audio Plugin Uninstaller Utility App
Have you ever run into a problem where your DAW is suddenly crashing when it worked perfectly before? Chances are that the problem has to do with a plugin that you installed that isn’t playing nicely with either your DAW or operating system. While it seems like it should be easy to simply delete the […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Sonible pure:limit Limiter Plugin
I think everyone that mixes modern music these days uses a limiter on the mix buss. The problem is that many limiters are too sophisticated for the average musician/songwriter, and more harm than good can come to the mix as a result. Artificial intelligence is seeping into plugins lately, and its really useful for making […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Mojave Audio MA-D Cardioid Dynamic Microphone
Microphone manufacturers have been trying to come up with a replacement for the venerable SM58 for decades now and no one has succeeded. Yes, there’s been some fairly good substitutes, but it seems like most are either radically different from the original or not different enough. Mojave Audio, a well-company known for its condenser microphones, […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: IsoVox Isoplug Vocal/Voiceover Plugin
A recent trend that’s starting to snowball is the all-in-one plugin that’s to be used for one type of program, but is intended to have all the parameters you need to do that job without resorting to additional plugins. The IsoVox Isoplug certainly falls into this category, as it sets out to be an all-in-one […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Kali Audio IN-UNF Ultra-Nearfield Monitor System
One of the primary dilemmas of a typical home studio is finding a monitor speaker system that works in your environment and with the room you have. You can’t mix it if you can’t hear it, but often that means a system that just won’t fit on your desktop and needs more room than you […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Heritage Audio Tubesessor Hardware Compressor
For many mixers, the legendary Teletronix LA-2A is still at the top of the list when it comes to vocal compressors, regardless of the vintage. The original unit does have some limitations however, thanks to its 1962 design. Many of these were addressed by the Tubetech CL 1B in 1991, a unit that was soon […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: United Plugins MasterMind Mastering Plugin
Mastering is a vastly misunderstood process that’s a lot more than just raising the level and adding some EQ. That said, mixers definitely have a need to do just that when mastering budgets are non-existent. That’s where the new MasterMind mastering plugin from United Plugins and SoundDevice Digital comes in. True mastering revolves around a […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Relab LX480 Dual-Engine Reverb Plugin
When Lexicon came out with its 224 digital reverb in 1978 it took the world by storm. When the company followed it up with model 480 in 1986 it became the go-to reverb in studios all over the world. Even today many engineers feel that it’s the gold standard for how reverbs are supposed to […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Acustica Acqua Lava Microphone Simulator
Modeling microphones are wonderful devices, designed to emulate a wide variety of vintage mics that are out of reach in price and availability to the average user. The problem is that you have to buy the microphone to get the simulations which can still be pricey. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could turn any […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: 16 Channel SSL ORIGIN Mixing Console
We live in a DAW world where outboard mic pres can suffice for most recording projects, but if you’re tracking and need a fair amount of mic pres, then there’s no solution like a real console. Most small studios don’t need a huge number of inputs that a large format desk can bring though, and […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: API Select SV14 EQ Module
We haven’t talked much about 500 Series modules for a long time, so now’s a good time to take a look at a brand new one from API. The company has recently introduced a series of modules that, as president Larry Droppa explains, gives API “…the technology and experience to engineer and produce audio products […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Sony C-80 Condenser Microphone
For many music genres, Sony’s C-800G is the Holy Grail of vocal microphones, but at a retail price of more the $10k for a new one, it’s way out of reach for most home studios. The company is aware of the limitations that price can have and has responded with a much lower cost version […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Zoom R12 Multitrack Digital Recorder
Just about everyone has a computer with a DAW in their home studios these days, but not everyone has a laptop. Even if you do have one, you might not want the tech hassles that come with computer recording when all you want to get your ideas recorded before you forget them.. One of the […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Radial Reamp Station Studio Reamper And Direct Box
Reamping a previously recorded track is a great technique to get a better sound or add natural room ambience. The process was made a lot easier in 1983 when engineer John Cuniberti built the first reamp box (you can hear him talk about it on my Podcast #343). Radial Engineering purchased his design in 2011 […]
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