By Randy Alberts
New Products
Scratch, Trash, Freeze That Audio!
What if you're in the middle of the mix and your client says, “Can you make it sound a little more…exotic?” If you're at...
New Products
Multichannel Mic Preamps
Once considered an anomaly, multichannel mic preamps are becoming more commonplace. Why? The reasons are many, but certainly among them are a resurgence in...
New Products
Digital Consoles 2003
An alternate headline to this article might've read Old Dogs Learn New Tricks, but calling a 24-month-old digital console just didn't feel right. Legacy
New Products
Bring Me Surround!
A mild hypnotic suggestion: The next time a ringwraith, explosion, tidal wave, symphony or laser beam leaps off of the screen and takes a...
New Products
Virtual Instrument Plug-Ins
Today, there seem to be as many virtual instrument plug-ins as there are guitars, synths, vocoders, basses, string sections and electric pianos to emulate.
Reviews
Minnetonka Audio discWelder Steel
Anyone who is waiting for easier-to-use, more affordable DVD-A authoring tools will want to check out Minnetonka Audio's discWelder Steel. This basic
New Products
Burn This! Affordable DVD Drive Bundles
IT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO WHEN Pioneer introduced the first recordable DVD-R drive. Even at $17,000, it was considered must-have technology for serious
New Products
New Instrument, FX and Utility Plug-Ins
Q: How many digital audio recordists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Forget light bulbs; take a look at this...
New Products
Top-of-the-Line Wireless Microphone Systems
As new digital television (DTV) broadcasters' and emergency response units' signals continue to eat up wireless frequencies each year, wireless mic manufacturers
New Products
New Digital Effects Processors
Eighteen new or significantly upgraded digital hardware multi-effects processors have been released in the 18 months since January 2001's Winter NAMM.
New Products
Turnkey Acoustic Treatment Packages
Are you thinking about adding a new edit suite or doubling your studio floor space? You can easily turn an unused storage area into...
New Products
24/96: The New Standard in DAWs
Once upon a time, grunge was cool, the Berlin Wall came down, and 20-bit/48kHz recording was considered over the top. It wasn't long ago...
New Products
Complete Control
Nothing can harness the increased horsepower of a new software release like a dedicated DAW control surface. Randy Alberts talked to more than a...
Live Gear
POWER To Go
Whether used in a small band's monitor rig or in a multichannel system driving large speaker arrays, a good power amplifier (or three) that...
Guides
SURROUND MONITOR SYSTEMS
No consumer format in the history of audio has succeeded so quickly as DVD, which offers attractive functions and features such as 5.1 surround...
New Products
So Many Plug-Ins, So Little Time
2001 has already seen a bumper crop of new plug-ins no less than 55 new signal processing packages have been released since Winter NAMM...
Guides
Hot, HotHot!!! What’s New in Tube Microphones
For pro and project studios alike, no instrument is quite so vital as the microphone. From Nashville to Tokyo, London to New York, money...
Profiles
MIX’S 2001 GUIDE TO ACOUSTICAL MATERIALS
STUDIO DESIGNERS AND ENGINEERS MUST AGREE THAT, FOR BEST RESULTS, A RECORDING SPACE STANDS OR FALLS ON ITS ACOUSTICAL CHARACTERISTICS. Studio designers
Profiles
MEGA-SYNTHS on the Tip of a Chip
Hardware and software of all sorts cross this desk, but the small-package/big-sound index leapt off the scale after I bought a palm-top studio and...
Close