News Pro Audio Engineering the Sound: Electro-Harmonix NYC DSP Pico Range by Oliver Ashby We checked out what EHX’s founder Mike Matthews has called the most anticipated and ambitious project since opening shop in 1968 Here we have Electro – Harmonix’s aka EHX’s Pico…
News Pro Audio The FabFilter Pro-R2 adds to FabFilter’s workhorse mixing suite. by Oliver Ashby Exactly the right amount of control, exactly the right amount of thinking done for you. You would not be blamed for feeling completely lost amidst the wash of reverb plugins…
News Pro Audio Oeksound Spiff – Get that Spiff Outta Here by Oliver Ashby If theres a certain energy that EQ can’t give you (or take away), Spiff has you covered. Sometimes when you’re mixing a track there are bits of the mix that…
News Pro Audio Engineering the Sound: Flattley Guitar Pedals DG Fuzz by Oliver Ashby We all need a Fuzz in our pedal rig, and this one has whole bunch of different fuzzy characters We had a bit of a dive into a new member…
News Pro Audio Austrian Audio MiCreator Studio, an On the Go Mic for Professional Recording Artists by Oliver Ashby The MiCreator Studio is a testament to how good affordable microphones and analog to digital converters are getting. As an audio engineer I find it pretty hard to justify a…
News Pro Audio Creatively shape your reverb with the Cableguys ReverbShaper Plugin by Oliver Ashby Have you ever considered creatively modulating the volume of your reverb? Who among us is gonna say no to a new possibility in our music making world. Cableguys popular plugin…
News Pro Audio The IK Multimedia iRig USB puts your favourite amps and pedals right in your pocket by Oliver Ashby The iRig is a pretty nifty bit of gear if you’re in a pinch or have limited bag space Recording and gigging as a guitarist is only ever getting more…
News Pro Audio There’s nothing like a bit of tube squish, we check out the Softube Tube-Tech SMC-2B by Oliver Ashby It’s pretty much a compression Swiss army knife—versatile and fits any source seamlessly The Tube-Tech compressors have been receiving a lot of love lately. Warm Audio have just made their…
News Pro Audio QuickMuse: Turn Up Your Tracks with Instant Vibes and Easy Inspiration by Oliver Ashby Struggling for creative sparks in your mix? QuickMuse’s magic plugin is your answer. Grab it for just 9 Euros. We all get tired sometimes. Finding ongoing inspiration when mixing or…
News Pro Audio A seriously handy addition to the mixing toolkit: Oeksound’s Soothe 2 by Oliver Ashby I wanted to be that one guy to say ‘nah nah it’s all hype’ but alas, I am on board. Dynamic EQ and compression is becoming a go to modern…
News Pro Audio UVI: Falcon Version 3 – for cooking up the perfect synth sound by Oliver Ashby Calling all sound designers Software instruments are out of control. If you’ve got a laptop the possibilities are becoming pretty much endless. If the world of computer based synthesis and…
News Pro Audio Expressive E: Imagine and Noisy by Oliver Ashby Now we’re synthesising! It really does feel like there’s a new software instrument every day and it’s easy to get buried deep in all the hype of new soft synths…
News Pro Audio EastWest Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra by Oliver Ashby The sounds of magic and adventure, right under your fingers Do you dream of conducting and recording a vast orchestra of all of the obscure and interesting instruments you hear…
