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New Music Gear Monday: Mic Sentry Microphone Protection Tool
No matter how digital our audio world gets, the one piece of analog gear that’s not going away anytime soon is the microphone. We’re willing to spend great amounts of money on them, yet we also take them for granted when it comes to actually taking care of the them. I’m actually pleasantly surprised whenever […]
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New Music Gear Monday: API MC531 Monitor Controller
There are many pretty good computer audio interfaces on the market, but if you’re really serious about the sonic quality of what you’re listening to, you have to up your game. Yes, there are good choices in the higher quality ranges as well, but a new entrant with a long pedigree is the legendary console […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: JMG Sound Mirror Reverse Reverb Plugin
Getting a reverse reverb sound isn’t all that difficult in a DAW these days. Copy the reverb to a new track, reverse it, then copy and paste the result where needed. The real problem is that if you don’t like the way the effect came out, you have to keep doing it over again until […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Mixland TILT! Shelving EQ Plugin
No one likes spending extra time on a mix when it could have been done hours ago with the right tools. Simple is always best if it does the job. That’s exactly what you’ll find with the new TILT! equalizer plugin from Mixland and Kiive Audio. TILT! is designed to work like a vintage analog […]
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New Music Gear Monday: WA Production Multiblender Multi-Band Delay Plugin
We all have so many choice for effects these days and most offer almost the same parameters. As a result we end up choosing what we use based on sound first, but also the user interface, but every now and then something new comes around that rethinks what we’ve always taken for granted. That’s exactly […]
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The Story Behind 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: Audified Linda Ironverb Reverb Plugin
It’s fair to say that there are so many great reverb plugins on the market that one would wonder why the world needs another one, but there’s always room for something that takes a different approach or specializes in a particular area. Such is the case with Audified’s Linda Ironverb which takes plate reverb emulation […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Accusonus ERA Audio Clean-Up Assistant
We all have those tracks that require cleanup to make useable. Excessive noise, too much room, too many S’s, lots of breaths – the list goes on. Most post pros will use one or more of the iZotope RX tools for cleanup, but that can be expensive and there’s a learning curve that many music […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Denise Audio Poltergate Gate Plugin
Most good engineers know how to make leakage work in their favor, but sometimes it’s just too much to deal with. This can come from an inexperienced drummer that’s not used to controlling his or her dynamics in the studio, or a drum kit with unbalanced levels on the drums or cymbals. There are now […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: SSL Drumstrip Plugin
If there’s one thing we can’t get enough of its drum processors. No matter how much you like your drum signal path is already, I bet you’re on the lookout for something that works even better or faster. If that’s you and you’ve always admired the sound of Solid State Logic consoles, then SSL might […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: SSL BiG SiX Mixer/Interface
No one ever expected SSL to enter the inexpensive interface market, and yet they have with the SSL 2. Likewise, no one ever thought that they’d see a small desktop mixer/interface from the company, but then came SiX. Of course, all that did was whet the appetite of many users for more features similar to […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Acustica Audio HWMC Howie Weinberg Mastering Console Plugin
If you’ve ever carefully read the album credits on numerous hit releases then you know the name Howie Weinberg. Howie has been awarded 15 Grammy awards with 31 nominations and has an amazing 19,000 credits that include major releases like Nirvana’s debut Nevermind, The Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill and Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Mojave Audio MA-37 Condenser Microphone
While clones of just about every old Neumann, Telefunken and AKG vintage microphone are now available, there is one vintage mic from that era that you rarely see – the Sony C-37a. That’s because it’s quirky design has been difficult enough that most manufacturers don’t want to attempt it (more on that in a minute). […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: United Plugins Unichannel Plugin
There are plenty of vintage style channel strips now available – so many that it seems like just about every possible console has now been emulated. But what if you want to mix sections of a channel strip together? That means that you have to use multiple channel strips on that track, which may carry […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Earthworks ETHOS Broadcast Microphone
When it comes to radio, television talk shows, and serious podcasting, the Shure SM7B has reigned supreme for quite a long time. Its combination of fidelity and hyper-cardioid pickup has made it one of those no-brainer choices that we don’t often get in audio. Many manufacturers have tried to make a better version and none […]
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