Review: Mackie ProFX22v3 Mixer
Plenty of Live Mixing Features, Along With Some Intriguing Studio Functionality
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Plenty of Live Mixing Features, Along With Some Intriguing Studio Functionality
Mike Levine has looked with envy at the hardware versions of SPL processors for years, though the 8-channel units were just out of his...
With everyone at home, touring has been postponed and staples such as record-release parties either canceled or delayed. So Mike Levine's daughter-in-law and his...
Autoformer is a mixing plug-in that combines separate preamp, compressor and automatic gain-riding sections to imbue delicious, analog-style saturation and compression, ranging from subtle...
Now that he has plenty of enforced time at home, Mike Levine is coping by heading into his studio more often, taking care of...
In 2018, CEntrance unveiled the MixerFace R4, a mobile, two-channel audio interface with high-quality preamps and converters. This year, the company debuted a new version,...
The plug-in lets you dial in modeled ambience and acoustic characteristics from a variety of rooms and processors at the iconic Sunset Sound Studios...
There's a simple feature in every DAW that just might the most useful one in the whole set... as long as you take the...
Affordable Eight-Preamp Interface That Offers Quality Sound and Expandability
Small bits of eco-friendly practices are popping up all over the audio industry, from solar panels at studios to recycled plastic for acoustic treatment...
Waves made a big splash at NAMM with OVox, a powerful and deep vocal processor and synthesizer that runs as a plug-in or as...
Do you suffer from gear lust? Many recording musicians do. I happen to have a particularly severe case. For example, I have lately found...
As always, there were gobs of new products on display at the NAMM show a couple weeks back. Arguably the most significant one in...
The Billie Eilish-Finneas sweep at the Grammys put the spotlight back on home-based, bedroom studios, proving that a good song is a good song,...
Mike Levine went to see an Oscar-nominated film in a Dolby Cinema and loved the experience... except for the trailers, which felt more like...
Despite the accuracy and ease of use you get from analog-modeled digital plug-ins, there’s still nothing quite like mixing through the real thing. Warm...
Audified’s ToneSpot Pro line of plug-ins includes ToneSpot Bass Pro (which we covered in February of this year), ToneSpot Electric Pro, ToneSpot Acoustic Pro and ToneSpot...
With two simultaneous recording projects in the works, Mike Levine finds himself working in two very different manners, both of which work just fine...
You may be wondering, “What the heck is a guitar stompbox doing as Mix’s product of the week?” Well, the Strymon Iridium is an...
Mike Levine has had more than a few niggling, frustrating things happen in his home studio lately, which led him to find out more...
Updating a DAW's software, and hardware, is a big deal, and Mike Levine is not a fan of the perceived push to move users...
Thoughts on parallel compression got Mike Levine thinking about applying parallel saturation to dirty up his guitar tracks in a mix.
Major Update Adds Even More Powerful Tools to Mastering Suite
Bob Clearmountain, the original hit-making engineer, worked hand in hand with Apogee in the design and feature set of his new signal-chain plug-in
Sonnox Oxford plug-ins have a reputation for quality, so when I learned about the Oxford Drum Gate ($169) at AES, I had pretty high...
This Third-Generation Interface Offers Improved Specs & Useful New Features
WaveLab Pro is among the most fully featured audio editing and mastering applications on the market. With the recent release of version 10, it’s...
It wasn’t that long ago, maybe 10 years or so, when there was talk bout trade shows being on their way out. People speculated...
There’s a certain irony to the fact that we put so much time and energy into getting the best fidelity possible in our recordings,...
When it comes to Arturia software effects, good things seem to come in threes. Following on its previous bundles, 3 Preamps You’ll Actually Use,...
In October, Apple will release Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina, and when it does, my Mac will start bugging me to upgrade—and it can...
The recently launched United Plugins is a conglomerate of several different smaller European plug-in developers. The company hit the ground running with several new...
Over the weekend, I read a fascinating op-ed in the New York Times called “How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.” Its basic...
Reason 11 will be released on September 25. The highlight of the new version is the Reason Rack Plugin, which will allow you to...
Software options for DIY mastering are getting more plentiful and powerful. The latest entrant in the space is TC Electronic with an application called...
Here’s a thought exercise. Imagine you had to mix the same song twice, in different studios with different monitors (I know that sounds like...
A couple of weeks ago, Katy Perry and some members of her production team were hit with a $2.8 million copyright-infringement verdict, which stated...
I have a modular music system in my house that has speakers in three different rooms. It’s super-convenient, allowing me to listen to the...
Software keeps getting smarter. At the rate it’s going, it may be controlling us someday. But for now, we thankfully still have the upper...