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New Music Gear Monday: Telefunken TF11 FET Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
There are certain microphones that stand iconic in the pantheon of great gear. Some are so good that even competitors try to emulate them. One of those is the AKG C12, which has been a favorite of engineers everywhere for decades. Telefunken makes some wonderful microphones itself, with a long history of excellent originals and […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Non-Lethal Applications Snapshot 2
Do you use outboard gear when you mix? If so, you probably have a way to document the gear settings so you can repeat them if a mix revision is needed. But what happens if you can’t find the documentation? Snapshot 2 from Non-Lethal Applications is a way that you can attach your documentation to […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: PSP InfiniStrip FIRE Plugin
If you like to use a lot of plugins, there will come a time when you’re going to run out of processing power. That means you’ll either have to disable a few plugins or try to squeeze in some native processors that you might not like but don’t take up much computer power to get […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: UnitedPlugins Front DAW Plugin
Did you ever feeling that the signal coming into your DAW was too clean? Have you struggled to add that little bit of analog mojo to make it more realistic? If you can relate, then United Plugins has a plugin that you should check out and it’s called Front DAW. Front DAW is an input […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Korneff Talkback Limiter Plugin
I remember being in the studio in the mid-80s and being very influenced by a then-#1 hit by Power Station called “Some Like It Hot.” The drum sound was huge and ambient and I was working my hardest to duplicate it to no available. As the drummer was in the studio playing, someone hit the […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: Warm Audio Jet Phaser
You have to hand it to Roland. Over the years the company has come up with some great effects that managed to become key sounds on tons of records. One of those effects has actually been somewhat forgotten even though it’s been in use on hit records for decades – the AP-7 Jet Phaser. You’ve […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Lauten Audio LS-308 Noise Rejection Condenser Microphone
A question that I’ve been getting over and over through the years from engineers who are just starting out is, “How can I get more isolation between my tracks?” Now that’s normally not much of a problem for older engineers who’ve learned to make leakage work for them, but today’s modern recording requires another order […]
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New Music Gear Monday: SSL SiX Desktop Mixer
When Greg Mackie started the desktop mixer trend in 1991 with his ground-breaking CR-1604, it became quickly apparent that there was a real need for a high-quality, yet inexpensive small mixer. Unfortunately, the 1604 might have been the high-water mark for fidelity in the category way back then, as subsequent products have grown smaller, cheaper […]
Continue readingNew Music Gear Monday: 10 Road Dog Travel Accessories
Even though I’m not on the road playing every day like I did early in career, I still travel a lot. About once every 4 or 5 weeks I’m on a plane traveling to some location in the world – 22 countries in the last year alone. Since I spend so much time on a […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Audified ToneSpot Bass Pro Plugin
The bass synth or guitar element of a mix can sometimes be the hardest to fit for engineers to work with. A weak sound here will cause the mix to be weak, something that every mixer is afraid of. While there are plenty of tools to process the bass, there may not be one that’s […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Royer Labs dBooster
Anyone who’s ever used a ribbon mic is aware of a surprising limitation – the output is low. Likewise for good sounding dynamic mics like the Shure SM7B or RE-20, and even the SM57. This isn’t a problem when the program material has a moderately high SPL level, but if that’s not the case you […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Synclavier Digital iOS App
If you weren’t around in the early days of digital audio, then you might not be aware that the field was originally dominated by two major players – New England Digital’s Synclavier and the Fairlight CMI. Although the Synclavier developed into a digital audio workstation that dominated the charts for a period of the 80’s, […]
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New Music Gear Monday: AcoustiTools Live Sound AR Analysis App
Live sound engineers have struggled with the variance in venues ever since the beginning of the discipline. Whether a sports arena, a roadhouse stage, or a house of worship, every space presents its own unique challenges when it comes to sound engineering and speaker placement. And while there are some great analysis tools available, none have […]
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New Music Gear Monday: iZotope Spire Studio Wireless Interface
Have you ever had a great music idea but either didn’t have your gear available, or it took too long to get it set up before the idea disappeared? Yeah, me too. That’s a big part of modern recording technology in that there’s a lot involved with actually getting to the point where you’re recording. […]
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New Music Gear Monday: McDSP EC-300 Echo Collection Plugin
I know many hitmaker mixers who refrain from using reverb on a mix, preferring delay instead to provide all the ambience they need for the track. As a result, they’re always using a wide variety of delay plugins to achieve different effects. That all may be possible now with just a single plugin – the […]
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