News Pro Audio Audeze’s flagship headphones create immersive soundscapes by Alec Clark The LCD-5s is a tour de force in planar technology. Audeze’s latest and most faithful reproduction of sound, the LCD-5s, is equipped with luxury comfort and state-of-the-art magnetic drivers, making…
News Pro Audio MasterCheck 2 brings streaming insight to the DAW by Nic Kumar NUGEN Audio help you hear how your music holds up once it moves beyond your studio with MasterCheck 2. NUGEN Audio have extended their MasterCheck tool with MasterCheck 2, a…
News Pro Audio The OR60 is the most versatile amp Orange has ever built by Alec Clark This valve amp head irons down the signature ‘British’ sound into a single channel without any limitations. Orange has consistently delivered premium amplifiers for half a century. From a clean…
Music Joydah Mae: Carrying the Threads, Weaving the Healing by Alex Cooper This is music as medicine. The voice of Joydah Mae begins in the earth. It is rooted in the highlands of Benguet, among the Ibaloi tribe, and now rises through…
News Pro Audio FabFilter drop Pro C 3 and it feels like a fresh take on something familiar by Nic Kumar FabFilter introduce Pro C 3 as a considered update to a compressor many producers already know well. FabFilter have announced Pro C 3, the latest version of their long running…
Music Laguna: The Solo Psych Revolution by Alex Cooper A deep dive into the self-made universe of an artist who does it all. In an era of digital perfection and algorithmic predictability, the one-man creative fortress known as Laguna…
Music Beyond the Simulation with Monico’s new Folk-Rock Single by Alex Cooper In their new single ‘N.P.C.,’ Monico issues an anthem for real connection in a simulated world. In the flickering glow of a thousand screens, a dangerous idea has taken root,…
News Pro Audio A Saturation Plugin That Lets You Decide Where the ‘Damage’ Happens by Nic Kumar You wouldn’t want to damage your car and certainly wouldn’t want to damage your microphone, but when it comes to audio ‘damage’ takes on an entirely different perspective. And thanks…
News Pro Audio SITRAL Klangfilter W295 taps into classic broadcast EQ character by Nic Kumar Korneff Audio translate classic broadcast EQ ideas into a plugin that feels calm, musical and easy to work with. Korneff Audio have brought the SITRAL Klangfilter W295 into the plugin…
News Pro Audio The Dumblifier Overdrive Special is the all-in-one guitar tone solution by Alec Clark DSM/Humboldt has equipped this overdrive pedal with enough bells and whistles to downsize your entire pedalboard. The original Dumble OD, manufactured in Tokyo, Japan in the 1970’s, is essentially unattainable…
News Pro Audio EarthQuaker Devices and Dr. Z have joined forces to create a bite-sized tube amp by Alec Clark The ZEQD-Pre is a muti-faceted pre-amp which combines superb pedal engineering with decades of tube amplifier-modeling experience. The minds of two music gear veterans have breathed authenticity into an all-analogue…
News Pro Audio Prism by Aurally Sound brings audio to MIDI without the friction by Nic Kumar Aurally Sound refine audio to MIDI conversion with a focus on musical accuracy. Audio to MIDI tools have been around for a long time, but Prism by Aurally Sound is…
Music Finding Truth in the Strings: Anna Rowley’s ‘Will to Trust’ by Alex Cooper A folk song from New Zealand finds the pulse of a pandemic paradox. Anna Rowley writes from the edge of the world, or at least it feels that way. Her…
