Leslie speakers have a special place in the heart of many studio owners and musicians. Upon entering a studio equipped with one of these coveted rotating speaker cabinets, eyes will light up at the possibilities of running keyboards, guitars, and even vocals through it.
Sometimes these special wooden boxes hide Read more...
Last month, Plugin Alliance and Brainworx released the bx_opto compressor and the bx_opto Pedal—the latter of which is essentially a “diet” version of its big brother. These new plugins are based on traditional optical compressor designs, but with some new tricks that make them extremely versatile.
In an age of Read more...
If you’re a producer or engineer who hasn’t heard about the Novation Launchpad series by now, it’s likely you’ve either been dead, avoiding electronic music production at all costs, or living under a rock. (Or maybe some combination of the above.)
With the release of the latest iterations of these Read more...
Peak limiters have become ubiquitous in music production. With the advent of digital processing, limiters can now “look ahead” and react instantaneously to audio peaks, providing true “brickwall” limiting and ensuring that the signal never gets louder than a predetermined ceiling—something that was impossible to achieve in the analog domain. Read more...
We’re always hearing about the good old days of analog, when all of the non-linearities of tubes, transistors, transformers and tape combined to color recordings in a wonderful way. From the beginning of digital, producers and engineers have been trying to figure out how to get the flavor of analog Read more...
