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- in Gear , Guitar , Hardware , MI/Audio Business by Bobby Owsinski
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 […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Mixland Rubber Band Compressor Plugin
I think we’ve finally run out of vintage gear to digitally emulate, so developers are now forced to think beyond the analog sound that fewer engineers and producers seem to care about anymore. Thankfully that revolution started a few years ago, and now we’re really starting to see plugins that think way outside the box. […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Harrison 32C Vocal Intensity Processor Plugin
All analog gear has its sonic quirks, but once engineers learned them, they turned them into an asset. Such is the case with the famed Harrison 32C console made famous by engineer Bruce Swedien on the many Michael Jackson albums he worked on. Move ahead to today and Harrison has duly recognized what really made […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Sonnox Claro Smart EQ Plugin
Equalizers have been around almost since the beginning of recording and although they can take many forms, they all have more or less the same operation. You pick a frequency, either boost or attenuate it, and sometimes select the bandwidth. What if that paradigm was redrawn a bit? I think that’s what you’ll find with […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Warm Audio WA-8000 Condenser Microphone
Most vintage mics are from the golden era of the 50s and 60s, but one relatively new mic has become a staple of hip hop and R&B – the Sony C-800G. This unusual mic came out in 1992 and took those genres by storm, and would probably have even more traction today if it wasn’t […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Techivation T-De-Esser Pro Plugin
I’m always on the lookout for the ultimate de-esser. Thankfully, many new ones have come out lately that have upped the ante over the old analog versions that we’ve been accustomed to. One of these is the brand new T-De–Esser Pro plugin from Techivation. Let’s take a look. More Sophisticated Most traditional de-essers just have […]
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