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Do You Need a Power Conditioner? How to Decide for the Studio

When producers picture the act of experimenting with studio gear, power conditioners don’t typically top their list. Instead, it’s units like delays, reverbs, and compressors that come to mind when audio engineers consider getting creative.

When it comes to the design phase, however, there’s plenty of space for inspiration – Read more...

Sweet Spot: Southern Grooves — A Memphis Studio Masterpiece

Where do grooves grow? If you’re anywhere near this Tennessee musical mecca, it’s clear: the Memphis studio called Southern Grooves.

 

An analog attitude pervades the facility, which sprang from the mind of Matt Ross-Spang and his deep experiences spanning the studio landscape. A producer, engineer, and mixer, Ross-Spang is Read more...

Research & Development: Designing Rockruepel’s sidechain.one Compressor

How does a new kind of compressor get designed and built? Get inside the creation of the innovative sidechain.one compressor from Rockruepel.

“Building the gear is not the hardest part,” says Stefan Heger. As the partner of Rockruepel, a boutique analog audio manufacturer based in Düsseldorf , Germany, Heger has Read more...

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Plugin Subscriptions: How Slate Digital Got Sold

Is audio industry consolidation accelerating? With so many M&A activity announcements in the last two years, it would certainly seem so.

In late November of 2021, guitar giant Fender acquired PreSonus. Earlier that year, iZotope and Native Instruments merged, becoming one in the form of a new parent company Soundwide. Read more...

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