Category Archives for "New Music Gear Monday"
- in Gear , New Music Gear Monday , Plugin , Software by Bobby Owsinski
New Music Gear Monday: Mastering The Mix LEVELS Plugin
There are a lot of plugins that monitor a single aspect of your mix, like dynamic range, frequency response or headroom, but until now there hasn’t been one that looks at everything and more within the same plugin. That’s where Mastering The Mix LEVELS plugin comes in, a neat bit of kit that instantly tells you […]
Continue reading- in Gear , New Music Gear Monday , Plugin , Software by Bobby Owsinski
New Music Gear Monday: SoundRadix Muteomatic Plugin
Anyone who doesn’t use a console has the same problem while recording. You have to manually mute the talkback or listen mic when recording starts, and you have to unmute it when recording stops. Doesn’t seem like much, but doing it dozens of times during a session can be a complete pain. The clever boffins […]
Continue reading- in Engineering , Gear , Hardware , New Music Gear Monday , Video by Bobby Owsinski
New Music Gear Monday: Undertone Audio Vari-Cap Cable
I’m always surprised when I change something as simple as a cable and the sound lights up. That’s because there’s much more to cables that you’d ever think (check out my interview with Larry Smith from Wireworld Cable Technology for a great explanation between the differences in cables). The one thing that most guitar players […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Microphone Parts DIY Microphone Kit
There are so many great boutique microphone manufacturers these days, that’s it’s pretty easy to buy a pretty good mic for a reasonable amount of money. The quality of the classic microphone clones continues to get better while the price seems to keep coming down. That said, if you’re willing to put in a little […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Standard Audio Stretch Effects Processor
Back in the old days of multitrack tape, we used to have a trick that would add a little bit of air and sparkle to vocals. It was an unorthodox technique and for a long time no one talked about it, but it was used on many of the classic records that you know and love […]
Continue reading- in Guitar , New Music Gear Monday , Video by Bobby Owsinski
New Music Gear Monday: Pickatto Bluetooth Guitar Pick
Just about everything has a Bluetooth connection on it these days, but a guitar pick? If you’re curious what you might want with a connected pick, then it’s time to meet Pickatto, the brainchild of guitarist Michael Murawski. Murawski found that while most guitar players have a pretty well-developed fret hand, their picking hand lagged behind. Pickatto […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Hofa 4U+ BlindTest Plugin
Let’s face it, when it comes to a new piece of gear or plugin we’re often enamored because it’s brand new, or because of the name on it, or what we’ve read about it. How often do we do real blind testing? The answer is probably “Not much” since blind testing is pretty hard to […]
Continue reading- in Guitar , New Music Gear Monday , Video by Bobby Owsinski
New Music Gear Monday: Yamaha TransAcoustic Guitar
OK, this is pretty wild. What if you want to add some extra ambience to your acoustic guitar, but hate the idea of plugging into an amp or adding effects pedals. If that’s the case, then the Yamaha TransAcoustic guitar might be the thing for you. The Yamaha TransAcoustic guitar lets you add reverb and chorus […]
Continue reading- in New Music Gear Monday , Plugin , Video by Bobby Owsinski
New Music Gear Monday: Softube Modular Eurorack Emulation Plugin
Those tiny Eurorack synth modules have been growing in popularity, going from a simple 10×20 foot booth down in the no-mans-land basement at NAMM to a huge pavilion on the main floor. While everyone loves hardware, for many of us its just impractical in our musical creation so the new Softube Modular Eurorack emulation plugin addresses […]
Continue reading- in Guitar , New Music Gear Monday , Video by Bobby Owsinski
New Music Gear Monday: Digitech Whammy Ricochet Pedal
Every songs wants a signature sound and as a result, we often spend days at a time in the studio searching for just the right one to put a stamp on a recording. The one cool thing is about some of the latest electronic plugins and pedals is that it’s getting easier and easier to […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: SSL System T Console
NAB was pretty cool this year but one of the products that jumped out was the new Solid State Logic System T console. While this isn’t of direct interest to most of you in terms of a purchase, it’s worth knowing about since it’s stunning in both its looks and capabilities. The SSL System T […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Eventide Tverb Room Reverb Plugin
We all love great room sounds and one of the most famous rooms ever recorded was on David Bowie’s “Heroes” by Tony Visconti. Visconti set up three microphones in the hall of Berlin’s Hansa Studios; the first for Bowie to sing directly into, a second positioned about 15 feet away and the third further back in […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Radial BT-Pro Bluetooth Direct Box
Radial Engineering makes a grand variety of useful direct boxes, and just about the time you think they’ve thought of everything, they come up with something new. One of the company’s more unique DIs is the new BT-Pro, a unique Bluetooth direct box that converts a wireless audio signal into an analog stereo balanced line. This […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Audio Technica ATM230 Tom Microphone
It doesn’t matter what microphone you like to use on toms, because chances are that it’s going to pick up a lot of the cymbals as well. This is pretty typical because most of the mics that end up on toms have a cardioid pattern. The problem is that there aren’t too many true hypercardioid […]
Continue reading