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PSPaudioware's VintageWarmer plug-in delivers creamy-sounding dynamics processing in two flavors: via its wideband compression (with shelving pre-equalization) and multiband compression modes (the latter followed...
Project5 is the new synth/sampler/drum machine-in-a-virtual-rack application from Cakewalk. This is not a new idea, but Project5 is different from many of its predecessors...
Marantz Professional continues its tradition of creating rugged and portable recorders with the CDR300 ($849), a tough, little CD-R and CD-RW burner.
Listed below are the nominees chosen by the Nominating Panel of the 19th Annual TEC Awards. A special TEC Awards nominees supplement and voting...
A totally new, innovative mic design, the Audio-Technica AE2500 uses specifically designed dynamic and condenser cardioid transducers mounted side-by-side in perfect phase alignment in...
Universal Audio's Model 6176 Channel Strip is a two-rackspace unit containing one channel from UA's Class-A 2-610 tube mic preamp and a UA 1176LN...
There are plenty of native virtual instruments in a rainbow of formats, but the development of software instruments for TDM has been largely neglected.
Professional audio products are finding their way into consumer applications — and vice versa
Mix magazine reviews Emagic Logic Audio Platinum Version 6, testing new audio recording, mixing and MIDI sequencing features in Logic Audio software.
Once considered an anomaly, multichannel mic preamps are becoming more commonplace. Why? The reasons are many, but certainly among them are a resurgence in...
DVD authoring systems are more ubiquitous with improved price/performance ratios, from Sonic Solutions' $79 consumer apps to full-featured professional
From March 22-25, 2003, the Audio Engineering Society returned to Amsterdam — everybody's favorite city — for its 114th convention.
It's not often that a manufacturer such as SSL produces an entirely new concept in digital console technology, and it's even rarer for a...
We spend years tweaking and experimenting, constantly trying different pieces of gear and techniques to achieve the perfect mix.
Some years ago, I hired Night Ranger's Brad Gillis to do some sessions that required a bit of amazing guitar pyrotechnics.
Have you ever sat there in front of the console, putting the final touches on a track, and felt like something was missing?
In August 2000, I reviewed the Micro-tech Gefell M 930 large-diaphragm cardioid condenser for Mix. Now, the company offers the SH 93, a stereo...
Working in 5.1 can be both tremendously exciting and %@#@!! maddening. In the early 1990s, the film industry pushed that excitement into theaters and
Audient plc and LA Audio have merged their operations under the Audient name. The merger is expected to be completed by June, when Audient...
Designed for fast-paced, on-air work and live-to-tape studio production, the new-generation SSL C100 is a scalable, small-footprint digital console that takes an innovative approach...
Founded in 1998, Studio Network Solutions celebrates its five-year anniversary with the launch of SANmp, an extension of the company's successful A/V
Klark Teknik's initials have long been synonymous with quality EQ, and most engineers in the live sound world are familiar with many of the...
Because my editors have things covered in the audio realm, this month's column looks at the other new stuff happening around the latest Macworld...
In 1988, a team of young designers working in a garage in Silicon Valley founded Euphonix to develop new and different approaches to audio...
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
Digidesign's latest DAW is an integrated recording-to-master control surface and 24-bit/96kHz audio and MIDI interface/software production package. Add a pair of monitors and something...
Before the 1980s, there was very little cross-pollination between the monitor features of music recording and film re-recording consoles. The former assumed
INS AND OUTS Unlike many systems that provide only a digital interface (which may also be proprietary), Soundscape-32 includes basic analog I/O stereo-in
Once upon a time, all digital effects devices were rigid, fixed devices. However, flexible effects systems such as Lexicon's 960L allow existing customers
With the economy fluctuating, software companies folding and products disappearing this constant flux of life we're all caught up in it's nice to feel
Highly regarded as a manufacturer of precision microphones and mic preamps, Earthworks now turns its attention to the opposite end of the signal chain:
Soundscape-32 ($6,500 list) is a 2U hardware-dedicated workstation that supports resolution up to 96 kHz/24-bit. You might be fooled by its intuitive and uncluttered...
For years, Fostex has delivered portable timecode DAT decks designed for the nerve-wracking world of location recording, a gig that demands reliability,
Kurzweil's KSP8 is more than just the sum of its 249 DSP algorithms and over 600 effects presets. This multibus signal processor offers flexible...
A mild hypnotic suggestion: The next time a ringwraith, explosion, tidal wave, symphony or laser beam leaps off of the screen and takes a...
From January 16 to 19, 2003, a record-setting 65,000-plus music and audio pros made the pilgrimage to Anaheim, Calif., for the semi-annual expo of...
With its style and sound, the Chandler Limited TG1 seems to be from another age plucked from a time capsule. This stereo limiter/compressor is...
When Soundelux Microphone's co-founder David Bock designed the company's new E47 tube condenser mic, his goal was to incorporate the most essential elements
Perhaps better known for its Dream Series of no-compromise A/D and D/A converters and Maselec high-performance analog processors, PrismSound started developing
How many times have you connected two pieces of digital gear together only to end up having bizarre things happen? Or worse, nothing? Enter...
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.
Akai Professional's DPS24 builds on the company's DPS12 and DPS16 workstations with a lot of genetic material borrowed from its high-end post-production