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Moog Sub Phatty Review: As Good As You’ve Heard

At least among older keyboardists, monophonic, analog synths have gotten greater visibility in recent years. The Cure’s Rodger O’Donnell’s first solo album The Truth in Me (2006) involved the Moog Voyager, while Depeche Mode’s Sounds of the Universe, even as mediocre as the result was, featured some vintage Moogs. The [...]

By |2023-11-23T22:22:56-05:00October 14, 2013|

Numark Mixtrack Quad Review: A Step Up for Value Gear

Who says beginners or casual DJs can’t have decent gear? With its value and “starter” Mixtrack line, Numark continues to grow, with the Mixtrack Quad expanding the capabilities of the Mixtrack Pro II, which we reviewed back in April 2013. This DJ controller with audio I/O comes with four channels [...]

By |2020-11-26T11:37:19-05:00October 11, 2013|

KRK VXT6 Review: Quality in Every Component

If details go into a piece of gear’s design, will the sound be as equally high-quality and fine-tuned with such meticulousness? In the case of the KRK VXT6, a two-way active studio monitor with a six-inch Kevlar woofer, this notion proves to be true. Even when it comes down to [...]

By |2023-11-23T22:22:57-05:00October 7, 2013|

Conductr iPad Controller For Ableton Live: Review

More and more iPad controllers for Ableton are appearing all the time. Conductr is a new offering that claims to stand out from the crowd in that it is specifically designed for live performance. It certainly does have an elegant and intuitive interface that appears well suited to being used [...]

By |2023-11-23T22:22:57-05:00October 4, 2013|

Vocal Recording and Processing: Part 3

In the first two parts of this guide (Pt 1 & Pt 2), we showed you how to capture a great vocal sound and a fantastic vocal performance. Now that you have the vocal recorded, how do you process it to ensure that it can compete with the very best [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:49:58-05:00September 23, 2013|

Vocal Recording and Processing: Part 2

In the first part of this guide we looked at how to set up a ‘dead’ sounding space in your studio and discussed microphone choice. Here, in part two, we will look at how you capture a great vocal performance. The Role Of The Producer The role of the producer [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:34:02-05:00September 11, 2013|

Stanton CMP.800 Review: High-Quality, Decently-Priced Cross-Media Player

Back at the 2013 Winter Music Conference, the theme of versatility over the purity of vinyl pervaded throughout various gear workshops. Based on events from Stanton’s parent company Gibson Audio and Pioneer, the question regarding gear these days isn’t so much “Does it seem authentic, like playing vinyl?” but rather [...]

By |2022-06-10T17:00:54-04:00September 9, 2013|

Vocal Recording and Processing: Part 1

Early in their careers, many producers of electronic music have little or no experience of recording live vocals. This is obviously due to the fact that we are able to achieve often excellent results through the use of samples. Eventually however, many of us will want to start using vocalists [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:50:27-05:00August 30, 2013|

Djay 2 iPad App by Algoriddim

Almost a year ago, I wrote a review of the very popular djay iPad app by Algoriddim. I really enjoyed the app and had very few complaints, so naturally I had high expectations for djay 2 when it was released in July. Although the update to the app isn’t completely [...]

By |2022-06-10T17:01:36-04:00August 26, 2013|
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