One of Universal Audio’s latest offerings is a software emulation of the Manley VOXBOX channel strip.
While many of the brand’s plugins are based on classic historical pieces of gear, the VOXBOX is comparatively new to the hardware scene. Many recordists love the sound of tubes and how they saturate. Read more...
“Boom!”
When Trevor Lawrence Jr. talks, that’s your signal he’s on to something. Whether this LA-based product of music royalty is discussing drum tracking, mixing, or producing at his Woodland Hills studio 3 Pillars, a “Boom!” is bound to come out of his mouth. Pay extra attention when that happens, Read more...
Hop on Spotify and you’ll find a playlist, The Jimmy Webb Songbook, lovingly created by one Motokuni Kiyomiya: it’s 697 songs strong, 43 hours and 57 minutes long.
How did a reverend’s son from Elk City, Oklahoma wind up standing among the most prolific and successful songwriters of modern pop Read more...
DAWs have come a long way in recent years, and the included plugins that come with them rival after-market commercial options in many cases. However, your DAW’s standard EQs, compressors, and extra goodies may not always make the cut for intense audio work. Even now, there are some things that Read more...
Casual music fans, some musicians—even some producers themselves—struggle with defining the word “producer”. It’s never the same job twice. The goals, the methods, the circumstances, the talent required or brought to bear is different every time.
To deal with this, we often rely on anecdotes and stereotypes: A producer is Read more...
iZotope is an undisputed champion of creative audio tools for music and post-production. Their products allow users of every skill level to tackle the most challenging sonic obstacles with relative ease and speed, and always produce spectacular-sounding results.
I’ve written extensively in the past about many of iZotope’s offerings. Today, Read more...
What’s the difference between a personal studio and a commercial recording facility?
While both may be capable of creating a hit single, the engineering expertise and equipment choices are two of the key differentiators at a studio for hire. Both attributes were fully on display during the recording sessions for Read more...
You’ve been glued to your computer monitor for 12 hours. You’re about to pass out on your MIDI keyboard. And the mix? It sounds killer.
But before you click “Bounce To Disk” for the last time… You hop in your ‘04 Honda Civic, plug the aux cable into your iPhone, Read more...
After years of making saturation-based audio gear, Peterson Goodwyn’s DIY Recording Equipment—or DIYRE—has just released their first foray into the world of equalization.
The EQP5 is a collaboration between DIYRE and JC DIY, which is Rascal Audio founder Joel Cameron’s brand.
As the name implies, this EQ is based on Read more...
The third annual edition of MixCon, presented by SonicScoop and the Deli Magazine, was by far the biggest one yet, taking over the famed Manhattan Center in midtown on July 8th-9th.
Audio obsessives came from all over the globe to interact with top mixers as they shared their mixing techniques, Read more...
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