If there’s a topic that will get rabid audio fans to their feet, it has to be metering and reference levels, am I right?
I will acknowledge that it’s not as glamorous or sensational a subject as some, but there’s a reason that meters are still with us after all Read more...
In the world of professional audio, Pro Tools has long been king.
This has been especially true in the U.S., where it has become the de facto standard of music production, much like 2” 24-track tape was from the 70s to the early 2000s.
Today, even the average hobbyist musician Read more...
Whenever a musician or fledgling recording engineer decides to create his or her own studio, the journey seems to begin by poring over gear catalogues to choose the sexiest mics, preamps, compressors and EQs.
It’s a common tendency to want to outfit one’s studio with the most glamorous and coveted Read more...
I have had many chances to try out and use gear from Chandler Limited, either in plugin form or with pieces of analog hardware as a guest engineer in commercial studios. I can say without reservation that everything they make is of the highest quality, in terms of circuit design Read more...
If you wanted to record something of reasonably good quality 20 years ago, you generally had to go to a recording studio that had a professional-grade tape machine, a console, and a whole slew of outboard gear and mics.
That studio would have had an engineer, too. Back then, the Read more...
