Using Multiband Compression to Conquer Proximity Effect Issues
What is the Proximity Effect? The proximity effect describes how bass frequencies build up when a microphone is brought very close to a sound source. This effect frequently occurs when a vocalist...
View ArticleBeyond the Basics: A Survey of Stereo Microphone Techniques
Surround sound is becoming more ubiquitous than ever, but when it comes to music, stereo is still king. While up to 40% of American households now have surround sound systems, the penetration of stereo...
View ArticleSoftube Releases Solid State Logic XL 9000 K-Series for Console 1
Console 1 is Softube’s solution for closing the analog console-DAW gap. Their system allows users to mix audio with their hardware interface that resembles a horizontally layered channel strip. The...
View ArticleBlack Lion Audio Announces B12A MKII
Mod extraordinaire Black Lion Audio has announced their B12A MKII single channel mic preamp straight out of Chicago. Their new preamp, like Black Lion’s original B12A, is based on the API 312A but...
View ArticleRecording Studio Sweet Spot – 825 Records, Brooklyn (Video Tour)
He’s not the hardest-working man in music — yet. But give Matty Amendola time, and the Brooklyn producer/engineer/composer/multi-instrumentalist may yet get a share of that coveted title. There’s...
View ArticlePro Sound Effects Launches Enhanced Hybrid Library & Expansion Program for...
Robin Hood has returned! The Hybrid Library from Pro Sound Effects packs 338 GB of sounds on a USB 3.0 hard drive. There may be no more beautifully benevolent bundle in the world of audio then the...
View ArticleReview: Spitfire eDNA01 – Earth – by Andrew Koss
For those of us that love music/sound synthesis, sound designing, and electronic production, we are living in glorious times indeed. We now have a vast ocean with a plentiful bounty to fill our...
View ArticleiZotope Releases Sample-Based Synthesizer – Iris 2
The idea behind iZotope’s Iris software is to combine the capabilities of a sampler and modular synthesizer (see SonicScoop’s review of the original edition here). The next step for Iris 2 introduces...
View ArticleGrace Design Announces m905 Analog-Only Stereo Reference Monitor
Colorado-based Grace Design originally developed their acclaimed m905 with included DAC – now with the audio-only version of the m905, users that already have converters can still make use of the m905...
View ArticleEli Janney: Mixing For Wilco, Wheat & People He’s Never Met
"One thing I learned a long time ago is to listen to the mix in the 'wrong' place in the room…Before I finalize a mix, I’m always listening in places like the far corner by the doorway."
View ArticleZulu Pearls Signs To Cantora Records
Cantora Records, the Brooklyn-based label that launched MGMT, has signed a new band – Zulu Pearls. Zulu Pearls is singer/songwriter/rocker Zach Van Hoozer, a Washington, D.C. native who has been living...
View ArticleInputOutput Interview: Ian MacKaye, Part I
Geoff and Eli reconnect with punk icon Ian MacKaye for a look back at the early D.C. hardcore punk scene.
View ArticleEli Janney: Mixing For Wilco, Wheat & People He’s Never Met
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: We think it would be QUINTUPLE cool to be Eli Janney. He grew up in Washington, DC (#1). He honed his audio chops with Don Zientara of Inner Ear Studios and recorded groups like...
View ArticleZulu Pearls Signs To Cantora Records
Cantora Records, the Brooklyn-based label that launched MGMT, has signed a new band – Zulu Pearls. Zulu Pearls is singer/songwriter/rocker Zach Van Hoozer, a Washington, D.C. native who has been...
View ArticleInputOutput Interview: Ian MacKaye, Part I
As a member of seminal hardcore punk bands The Teen Idles, Minor Threat and Fugazi, and a founder of the pioneering indie label, Dischord Records, Ian MacKaye led a musical movement out of Washington,...
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