“The most important factor in the development of a good audio engineer is time spent engineering.” Writers like Malcolm Gladwell argue that talent is a myth. What separates the ...

Sennheiser’s MD 435 is a dynamic, cardioid-pattern microphone, tailored for live performance. It essentially takes the company’s MD 9235 cardioid pattern capsule — a popular ...

When they’re not busy developing plug-ins for other manufacturers, Danish DSP wizards Relab find time to extend their own highly regarded range of reverbs. The first of these, an ...

Toontrack have kept the EZbass add-on content coming at a breath-taking pace over the last 12 months with both sound expansions and MIDI groove packs. The latest release is Fretles ...

At first glance, Baby Audio’s Smooth Operator looks like a rival to dynamic resonance suppression plug-ins such as Oeksound’s Soothe. But although dynamic resonance suppression ...

No, no don’t turn the page! Seriously, you need this hootery of odd plug-ins in your studio arsenal. Well, unless you’ve never used hand claps, boot stomps or finger clicks in ...

It’s been a year since I first reviewed dSONIQ’s Realphones, a plug-in and ‘system-wide’ application that combines headphone frequency correction with speaker and room mode ...

Playing through the layered presets of Hyperion is like an unfolding sonic adventure of deep swells, huge synths and elegant infusions. Each of these ‘Combi’ patches seems desi ...

English producer and mixer Chris Sheldon got his start working in a recording studio as a teaboy in the 1980s, before he worked his way up and eventually moved into production and ...

I can still clearly remember the excitement when, in the mid-1980s, I first got to experiment with the revolutionary Audio & Design Panscan; what delight we had in making instrumen ...