Pro Tools 11 Pioneer — Part Four: Recording Without TDM Plugins
As much as we love to debate the topic, recording vocals isn’t the rocket science we make it out to be. Zach is on the hunt for effective TDM plugin workarounds. Once you’ve got the hang of it,...
View ArticleApogee Launches MiC 96k – Higher Fidelity Microphone for iPad, iPhone & Mac
With CES currently unfolding, and NAMM on the way, expect manufacturers to be upping the ante on existing offerings, along with the myriad new product rollouts. For the former category, observe Apogee...
View ArticleWaves Audio Announces Waves Loudness Meter Plus
Is this the audio post plugin with the mostest? Post production pros of every stripe stand to gain additional control with Waves’ WLM Plus. Maybe, maybe not, but no question that post houses – along...
View ArticleSweetSounds Studio Launches Soho Audio Source
Recording studios have long served as de facto technology showcases. SweetSounds Studio in Manhattan is now taking on that role in an official capacity, via its partnership with Legacy Audio as the...
View ArticleThe Best Electric Basses for the Recording Studio
It’s hard to make a great pop song without a great bass line, and it’s hard to do a great bass line justice without a great bass sound. The bass often serves as the soul and the spine of a record, and...
View ArticleWaves Audio Launches Scheps 73 Plugin – 3-Band EQ With a Pedigree
Ears before gear…but put prime examples of both of them together, and you should get something special. The new Waves Audio Scheps 73 plugin has a good chance of being just that. A 3-band EQ, its...
View ArticleIK Multimedia Debuts iRing – 1st Motion Controller for iOS Music Apps
Has wearable technology for the music producing sector finally arrived? Where’s OUR wearable? Right here. Well, almost. IK Multimedia has introduced iRing, now available for pre-order, which it claims...
View ArticlePentode Audio Launches VTC-1 Vacuum Tube Compressor Plugin
As long as people inhabit the planet, it looks like we can count on them to come with new twists on compressor plugins. The latest to arrive on Earth is the Pentode Audio VTC-1, which they describe as...
View ArticleBig Post Expansion for Brooklyn: Rumble Audio Arrives
Remember the movie Rumble in the Bronx – the one that unleashed martial arts actor Jackie Chan into the film world? Now another equally deft, sonic maneuver is unfolding one borough over. Rumble Audio...
View ArticleHybrid Studios: A New Orange County Nexus for Recording, Video, & Creativity
In a place as creative as Orange County, an inspirational new space is long overdue. Fortunately, that facility has arrived in the form of Hybrid Studios, an ambitious audio video complex that intends...
View ArticleSundance Sound Brief: Inside the Audio Post for Four Film Premieres
Audio post pros worldwide have been working year ‘round for this moment, when a plethora of indie films premieres at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The POV style of “Low Down” required a special...
View ArticleSlate Digital Announces The VMS Virtual Microphone System
With their expanding array of hardware and digital audio products, Slate Digital has created a hybrid solution – the Virtual Microphone System. The VMS combines high quality audio capturing with...
View ArticleRupert Neve Designs Debuts 551 – 500 Series Inductor EQ
From the hand of the man, comes yet another audio first. Rupert Neve himself created every nook and cranny of the Rupert Neve Designs 551 Series Inductor EQ – the first and only 500 series EQ that he...
View ArticleMusic in 5.1 Dimensions: How the Best Surround Mixers Approach the Soundstage
Surround sound made its first public appearance in 1941, when Disney released its groundbreaking animated musical, Fantasia. Ever since then, surround systems have increasingly been used to enhance the...
View ArticleJZ Microphones Announces Channel Strip JZ Track
After solid growth since their conception in 2007 JZ Microphones has decided to officially expand their line from high end microphone production to their first channel strip, the JZ Track. JZ...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Apollo Twin – High Resolution Desktop Interface
It turns out there was yet another dimension for Universal Audio to occupy. The latest breakout from UA puts their ideas onto the desktop, via the Apollo Twin High-Resolution Desktop Interface with...
View ArticleManley Labs Debuts The Core Reference Channel Strip
From creators of ultra high quality analog outboard gear produced straight out of Southern California, Manley Labs presents to us the CORE analog channel strip. The core purpose of CORE is to provide...
View ArticleM-Audio Announces Trigger Finger Pro & M-Track Eight Interface
Winter NAMM, 2014 is underway and M-Audio wasted no time introducing two new audio devices that bring new features to their existing line of products. First up is an addition to their M-Track interface...
View ArticleAVID At NAMM: Space, Sibelius & Eleven Rack
With NAMM kicking off yesterday, Avid had a few announcements, though no earth-shattering new releases. Here’s what new from the Avid camp: First, they announced the new Sibelius 7.5 music composition...
View ArticleTracktion 5 DAW Released – Enhanced Creativity And Optimized Performance
Seattle-based software development company, Tracktion Software Corporation (TSC) is continuing their successful re-lauch of the Tracktion brand with version Five of their DAW, Tracktion. Tracktion 5 is...
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