Altec-Lansing’s tube gear from the 1960s has a small but loyal following. Their 1566a and 1567a preamps have a sound that’s as distinctive as their look: blocky, beefy and badass.
These units appeared as integral submixers in the Motown studio, and among daring engineers they’re still sleeper favorites on bass, Read more...
Dave Amels is both diversified and singularly driven. Formerly famed as the founder of digital plugin developer Bomb Factory, today he’s pushing the envelope of Anamod Audio analog hardware like the Realios A9052 Equalizer and TL Compressor, the A9031 mic pre, and the ATS-1 Analog Tape Simulator.
The design principle? Read more...
Last week, we covered some of the best large diaphragm condenser mics around at an entry-level price of $300. This time, we’ll move up a bracket to review some of the most useful condensers available from $500 to $1,500 new.
Keep in mind that this list is no way conclusive. Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: It’s not everyday that a game-changing audio solution arrives on the scene. So it follows that after January’s NAMM announcement of the Universal Audio Apollo high resolution audio interface with realtime UAD processing, interest levels ran high.
With the first units just shipping now following an extremely Read more...
I started working as an audio engineer just as the home studio market began to blossom into what it is today.
This means that throughout my career, I’ve been as much of a counselor as a craftsperson, because so many of my clients spend nearly as much time recording at Read more...
