The Sound
On their latest release, Bloom, Beach House picks a mood and sticks with it in earnest. To their fans, the atmosphere of this album is sure to be a familiar one, and record reviews are abuzz this week with all the expected adjectives – “hypnotic”, “aching”, “sultry”, “languid.” Read more...
FLUX Studios and a Friday night proved to be a killer combination once again, as the “Demystifying Mastering” event went down last week.
A full house of producers, engineers, mixers, artists and – of course – mastering engineers kicked off their weekend with knowledge and networking at the always-buzzing East Read more...
Need a killer limiter in your signal path? Of course you do! Here’s a strong development to consider: The highly enlightened French developer Blue Cat Audio has released Blue Cat’s Protector 2.0, in what Blue Cat is calling a “total redesign” of its brickwall limiter plugin for Mac and PC. Read more...
HARMAN’s DigiTech has introduced its new Whammy pedal – featuring chordal Whammy pitch-shifting, additional Whammy intervals, and true bypass.
The Whammy is a classic pedal – enabling guitar and bass players to raise and lower their tuning by up to two octaves, to create pitch shifts from subtle to extreme Read more...
During the final weeks of April, I had the opportunity to sit down with iZotope’s new sampling re-synthesizer, Iris. Upon first opening it, I instantly recognized and felt comfortable with the spectral analysis view. If you’ve ever used iZotope’s RX software then you’re already familiar with the basic layout of Read more...
