October 2018 Magazine Contents

Auto-Tune keeps evolving, and the latest version incorporates both its best pitch-correction ever and a nod to its past.

Apogee increase the range of their Symphony I/O MkII interface with a module aimed squarely at mastering.

Meet the DrumBrute’s leaner, meaner little brother.

Highly regarded for their test equipment, US company Audio Precision are hoping their new mic will find favour among recordists too.

The very existence of the Behinger Model D has divided opinion, but just how good is this “homage” to the Minimoog?

The 2GB Vintage Vocals library offers three different female singers, a range of performance articulations and, of course, the same ‘retro’ sonic target.

Covering the everyday and the esoteric, could this pedal meet all your reverb needs?

Kosmonaut is Bram's take on a delay effect. Like Troublemaker and Ripplemaker, the GUI is both a cool design, easy to use in the compact mobile format and packed with features.

This debut product from a new British company is not just another mic preamp...

The Stylophone is back — with knobs on!

With mic preamps, multitrack recording and mixing built in, EHX’s 95000 is much more than your average looper.

Skulpter 500 is ostensibly a mic preamp, but there’s much more to it than that — in fact, you could argue that there’s enough on offer to call it a channel strip.

Can you emulate a classic valve microphone using solid-state circuitry? Slovakian mic makers Flea certainly think so!

Reviewed here are two brand new variants of possibly the most famous overdrive pedal ever made...

IK’s iRig Stomp I/O bridges the gap between hardware and software, both on stage and in the studio.

iZotope’s one-stop shop for processed vocal sounds has acquired a few new aisles!

While virtual drummers are part of the music technology furniture, non-drum virtual instruments that provide automatic musical accompaniment are thinner on the ground under iOS. Enter iBassist...

Electric Sunburst delivers highly polished Les Paul-style electric guitar performances via a Kontakt front-end...

How do you improve upon what is already one of the best iOS drum machine apps? Well, Olympia Noise Co are giving it a go with the release of Patterning 2.

The Con Moto Cellos samples are taken from actual performances, the idea being to give a sense of naturalistic movement with dynamic and tonal consistency to played phrases.

Crammed with discrete electronics and boasting huge headroom, this box has rather more to offer than the average DI...

Ever wanted to tailor your own software amp in a plug-in, and pack the result into a box to take on stage with a real speaker?

The updated FaderPort aims to give you comprehensive DAW control with a single fader.

Push Turn Move offers a fascinating insight into how we interact with electronic instruments.

One year and a major firmware update later, we take a second look at QSC’s flagship digital console.

If you like your control surfaces to be versatile as well as tactile, the Sensel Morph might be for you.

Sonarworks software has been widely lauded for its ability to correct the sound of headphones. Can it do the same for monitors?

This device packs 32 channels of bidirectional analogue-to-Dante conversion in a 1U rackmounting box...

This new EZX pack was created from existing recordings made for Superior Drummer 3 Rock Foundry — and rock is most certainly what it delivers.

Live has a few tricks up its sleeve to add variety to your drum patterns.

Turn hardware monosynths into software polysynths by auto-sampling in Logic’s companion app, MainStage.

Become a Cakewalk power user with these handy hints.

Create robotic vocal effects using Cubase’s in-built tools.

Headphones are central to music-making and music listening. But can we trust what they’re telling us? We ask the experts...

The songs of ABBA are reaching new generations of fans, thanks to a second hit musical movie. Bernard Löhr was the engineer who recaptured them!

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To get the most from Pro Tools, you need an extended keyboard — and here’s why.

Create an auto-ducking talkback facility using Reaper’s ReaGate plug-in.

We offer tips on working with speech in Studio One.

Why do so many monitor manufacturers persevere with reflex-loaded active monitors? 

I read your feature on gain staging a few years ago, but I’ve been following some blogs that say it isn’t at all necessary if you’re just working in software. Who’s right?

I recently watched a YouTube video in which it was recommended that you match the input and output level of every plug-in in a mix session...

For his recent tour of the States, synthwave star Seth Haley, aka Com Truise, has had to adapt his complex studio setup to life on the road.

David Guetta is the global superstar who brought EDM out of the underground and into the mainstream.

Together with David Guetta, French producer and composer Fred Rister created the hits that made EDM a global phenomenon.

Should we pay more attention to the benefits of creating a suitable sound and sticking with it rather than, for example, recording a dry guitar part and then spending hours trying out different amp models and effects?

“Nothing, to my mind, represents the harmonious marriage between the creative and the technical quite like a patchbay.”

Installed in an old water mill, the building is home to the 200-square-metre ‘stone studio’ Studio A, an open-plan space with no acoustic barrier between the control and live areas...

Branding is perhaps more important now than it’s ever been — but the old rules of providing a valuable service still apply.