The original HG-2 by Black Box Analog Design is a boutique, 2-channel, tube-based hardware unit that provides a wide variety of color options for your mix bus—with the flexibility and control expected of a modern processor.
Now, Plugin Alliance has designed a software emulation of the HG-2 that brings its Read more...
What’s the prize for an artist’s hard work? To get their music mixed by Gary Noble.
A Grammy-nominated mixer/producer, Noble’s range is unusually wide, from Amy Winehouse and Nas to Ricky Martin and Hollywood soundtracks. But this Miami based pro audio practitioner doesn’t keep his methods close to the vest: Read more...
It’s spring. Leaves are on the trees, a new crop of audio students are graduating into the workforce en masse, and it is time once again to review the just-released annual jobs data to find out where the best prospects in the audio industry lie.
Each May, the U.S. Bureau Read more...
Great saturation: Everyone knows it when they hear it, whether they recognize it or not. It’s on our favorite albums from the 60’s and 70’s right up to recent offerings from Beck and Alabama Shakes. It shapes the perfect guitar tone and leaves its print on every amazing vocal you’ve Read more...
Blue has created a new USB-powered microphone for podcasters, voice-over actors, and songwriters in need of an on-the-go recording solution.
This new Raspberry mic is their most compact yet, with some new patent-pending technology under its memorable retro-futurist casing.
Features
The Raspberry is a bus-powered cardioid condenser microphone with a Read more...
It’s not easy to construct a creative sanctuary in Brooklyn. In fact, it can be downright torturous.
But Oliver Lief, founder of Blue Table Post in the borough’s bucolic Boerum Hill neighborhood, is living proof of any number of inspirational clichés: Where there’s a will there’s a way? If you Read more...
Thanks to B&H, SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti has a new 3-part series out this month, and it’s all about recording guitars without the amp.
In part 2 of this series, Justin gives a primer on direct recording techniques, re-amping, and hardware amp simulation. Then, Vlad Holiday of the band Born Read more...
“I try to focus on doing one thing well, it also helps to like what you’re working on.”
These are true words, and ones to live by, spoken by self-proclaimed guitar geek and Kazrog Plugins CEO, Shane McFee.
McFee founded Kazrog Plugins in 2008 with the release of “Recabinet”, a Read more...
For review this week is one of the latest releases from Poland-based plugin manufacturer Professional Sound Projects (PSP) Audioware: The PSP 2445 EMT. The 2445 is an exceptional reverb with an interesting background story.
First, like so many other plugins, this is an emulation of vintage mixing hardware that Read more...
Thanks to B&H, SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti has a new 3-part series coming out this month, and it’s all about recording guitars without the amp.
Check out part 1 of this series, as Justin joins Vlad Holiday of the band Born Cages to take a quick tour of three of Read more...
