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Soundtoys Launches Little AlterBoy – Free Voice Alteration Plugin, + “Plugged...

Soundtoys know how to party with the best of ‘em at SXSW, and 2015 is no exception – yet again they’ve launched a free plugin for the festival, and this one should be plenty of fun. Prepare to worship...

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In Defense of the Laptop Record

Many studio veterans maintain a certain stigma against “laptop records.” By laptop records, I mean recordings that are made outside of a traditional recording studio, without a collection of expensive...

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Bobby Owsinski Launches 101 Mixing Tricks Coaching Program

On his journey through the winding corridors of the wondrous music industry, Bobby Owsinski has gathered a personal collection of mixing and audio engineering tricks that he is willing to share with...

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Wendy Starland: On Protecting Producers, Bands & Brands, and Bringing Up Lady...

Wendy Starland exudes the ideal of the modern entrepreneurial recording artist. She is also famous for having discovered and developed Lady Gaga at NYC’s famed venue The Cutting Room – a fruitful...

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The AMP Act is Introduced to the House: Legislation to Provide Producers,...

Are more dependable royalties on the way for producers, mixers and engineers – by the letter of the law? (L-R)The Recording Academy’s Daryl P. Friedman, Chief Advocacy & Industry Relations Officer;...

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PSP Releases MasterQ2 – Successor to Their Original MasterQ Mastering EQ Plug-In

The original MasterQ from PSP Audioware has been around the block. Their customers loved it so much that they decided to make it even better. Bigger, stronger, Q-er. MasterQ2 is a mastering EQ plug-in...

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The Case for Digital Wireless Microphones

This is a guest post by Alex Milne of RF Venue. Digital wireless microphones sometimes get a bad rap. Early models, especially those operating in the 2.4 GHz band, did not sound as good as analog and...

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iZ Releases Radar Studio – Native PC + Audio Interface + More

Announced back at AES 2014 and demoed to much acclaim at NAMM earlier this year, iZ is ready to release their Radar Studio into the wild. The PC, audio Interface, and DAW combo aims to be the...

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Line 6 Now Shipping Firehawk FX – Wireless Multi-Effect Guitar Processor

If a wire is good, then wireless must be better. That’s been the prevailing fact in all the other tech we touch, so why shouldn’t it apply to our guitar (and synth) effects? Line 6 agrees...

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Back to Basics: How to Improve Gain Staging In Your DAW (Video)

Gain Staging is an important part of dealing with audio when recording and mixing. In this tutorial, I’ll go through some of the issues that are big red flags. If you’re needing some help with gain...

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Brooklyn Event: Meet API’s BOX Console at Strange Weather — Thursday, 4/9

API is all about New York City this week. API’s BOX takes over NYC this Thursday, at a free-to-attend Open House in Brooklyn. Don’t miss the opportunity to get up close and personal with API’s BOX...

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Recreating Bird: Returning to Detroit’s Legendary “United Sound Systems”...

A lot has changed in the recording industry since the 1940’s. The road from acetate masters to digital streaming has been a long one, and there are still music critics who feel that it is simply...

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Review: Steinberg’s Cubase Pro 8 – By Andrew Koss

Presented with the opportunity to write a review about a DAW, my initial reaction was, “How can anyone cover an entire DAW in a single article?” Cubase Pro 8 is the latest version of Steinberg’s...

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Muse Research Launches Receptor VIP2 – Hardware Plug-In Player

San Jose, CA-based Muse Research has released their second iteration of their popular Receptor VIP Plug-In player. The Receptor VIP2 comes loaded with new I/O, processor, expandable RAM and over $900...

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Solid State Logic Announces δelta-Control for Duality and AWS Consoles

SSL is raising the veil on a significant upgrade to two of its major consoles — meet Duality δelta and AWS δelta. What makes these desks “Delta” is the introduction of δelta-Control (δ-Ctrl), which...

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Kaleidoscope Sound: Evolution of the Engineer-in-Residence

If you want to know what New York City recording is coming to – or rather, where it’s going – cast your eyes towards the Garden State. While Brooklyn was seen for decades as an affordable haven for...

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Exponential Audio Releases Excalibur – Multi-Effects Plugin

There are so many plug-ins to choose from these days. If only a developer was kind enough to bundle them up into a single plug-in with tons of modulation options and minimal effect on the CPU. Well...

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Universal Audio Launches Next-Gen Apollo Thunderbolt 2 Audio Interfaces,...

Universal Audio has announced four new Apollo interfaces and the industry’s first and only Marshall-branded amplifier plug-in at Musikmesse 2015. Available today is the Apollo 8 – A single rack...

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Back to Basics: 3 Simple Steps to Improve Your Mixes with Subtractive EQ

When I first started mixing, I thought the only way I could improve a sound was to add something to it. I piled dozens of plugins and EQ boosts onto every track, and my mixes sounded muddy and...

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Musikmesse 2015: Antelope Audio Introduces MP8d, Eight-Channel Microphone...

Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany is in full swing with a bunch of big announcements from around the world of audio. There are quite a few noteworthy additions to the industry but we would firstly like...

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