10 Things We Learned From Glyn Johns’ “Sound Man”
Legendary producer/engineer Glyn Johns’ autobiography Sound Man is filled with cool stories about creating classic albums with dozens of household names. The tales are...
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Legendary producer/engineer Glyn Johns’ autobiography Sound Man is filled with cool stories about creating classic albums with dozens of household names. The tales are...
CAD designs and builds truly affordable workhorse microphones that shine especially in live applications.
Rob Tavaglione takes a look at Fostex PX-6 Professional Studio Monitors.
MXL sells a lot of good microphones at great prices, including the Genesis FET.
Multiple diaphragm surround-sound mics seem like such a luxury to engineers who work in stereo.
Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s interviews a list of acts that reads like a...
This year's recording session in the U.S. Virgin Islands features AEA, DPA, Fender Passport Studio, Grace Design and Universal Audio products.
Will James reviews Yamaha's CL1, an 18-fader console with touchscreen menu operation, 48 inputs plus 8 stereo inputs, and 35 outputs.
Yamaha's MGP Series is an ideal analog live desk for today, notably packed with unique new features and creativity-inspiring digital functionality.
With 1,000 watts via Class D amplification—the current standard for pro-grade full-range portable P.A. enclosures—EV hits the market with a impressively built and well...
To date, one of the most impressive and unique portable P.A. systems I’ve discovered is Cerwin-Vega’s Active Series—a truly overbuilt, road-worthy and superior sounding...
The Advanced Audio CM67se is a very nice mic at a very attractive price.
The cardioid MXL CR89 provides exceptional performance equivalent to microphones typically costing three to four times more.
The Audio-Technica AT4050ST studio microphone is a reliable, flexible stereo recording mic that’s also useful for field and live sound applications.
By Clive Young. Ken Caillat recalls every detail behind the creation of Fleetwood Mac's best-known album in his memoir, the aptly titled Making Rumours:...
Mackie desks are historically affordable, intuitive and tough. The ProFX22 is no exception.
Aesthetically beautiful, sonically (mostly) neutral and blessed by lauded LA engineer Allen Sides, the flexible ST6050 is Sterling Audio’s flagship LDC.
Generation HDX provides Pro Tools users with Avid’s most powerful and fastest DAW to date. Pro Tools HD has spent a decade at the...
The “ideally priced” ADAM Audio A77X AX-Series powered studio monitors are nicely frequency balanced, thoughtfully designed, capable of loud performance and factory guaranteed for...
The multi-pattern MA-300 is a well-built, feature-packed and exceptionally priced tube large-diaphragm condenser.
An “extremely versatile,” unique LDC specimen, the Oceanus is deep and broad in both qualities and potential applications.
In less than a year, the Apple iPad has morphed from the toy we didn’t need to the tool we can’t live without.
The industry-standard suite is more powerful than ever.
"Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss." Pro Tools remains king of the pro DAWs with PT9.
The company behind our industry’s ubiquitous DAW can now provide I/O “on par with the best converters available.”
The dynamic duo of X-Desk and X-Patch brings SuperAnalogue character to the widest range of end-users in SSL history.
The Mackie Onyx-i Series of analog consoles — and particularly the flagship model, the 1640i — is able to do what no other affordable...
With the debut of Digidesign Pro Tools 8, our industry's ubiquitous DAW is now equally adept at processing MIDI or audio.
Giant consoles are certainly not extinct. They remain an invaluable resource to making certain kinds of productions and to making certain stages of productions.
This lightweight plug-in powerhouse makes an ideal mate for your laptop.
Pro-Convert aims to be a one-size-fits-all tool that acts as a go-between for a variety of popular DAW and NLE platforms.
The production hues of the 1980s are back, so there’s no better time than now to examine Solid State Logic’s new rack-mounted version of...
A look at Trillium Labs' TL Space 1.1 and SoundToys EchoBoy 1.0, two new plug-ins for Pro Tools.
If there was any doubt about Digidesign's, ah, designs upon the world of audio, there no longer is. A little over a year ago,...
Digidesign continues to move forward with Pro Tools 6.4. Although it is not a "major" upgrade, there are enough new features to turn heads....
Digital audio workstations are a remarkable advance... sometimes. If your model lacks a decent analog front end, or a properly implemented multichannel monitor section,...
Given Solid State Logic's unarguable mastery in console design, and its conspicuous attention to ergonomics and user convenience, the new C200 Digital Production Console...
Anyone following the world of digital audio workstations has surely heard of the new Pro Tools HD systems Without question, this is a major...
The proliferation of wireless systems is a blessing for contractors, virtually ensuring that the right combination of price, features and performance can be found...