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Vienna’s Austrian Audio has announced its first open-back circumaural headphones, which have been designed for the mixing and mastering workflows of studio professionals but could also find themselves wrapped around the heads of audiophiles.Continue Re… Continue reading Austrian Audio brings transparency to the studio with Hi-X65 headphones
Audio gear maker M-Audio has launched two USB interfaces geared at folks who are looking to break into computer-based recording, podcasting, live streaming and more, without emptying their bank accounts.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: … Continue reading M-Audio aims USB interfaces at cash-strapped podcasters and musicians
Korg has today unleashed the Nautilus performance synthesizer and workstation, which harnesses the power of its flagship Kronos system, but is presented in a more streamlined packaged designed for musicians, songwriters and producers.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Korg dives deep into music production with the Nautilus workstation
IK Multimedia’s Axe I/O guitar interface now has a baby brother. The Axe I/O Solo is a cheaper, more compact bus-powered version of its impressive sibling, with two inputs and three outputs, instrument tone shaping and music production software bundled… Continue reading IK rocks out compact tone-shaping USB interface for guitarists
About five years ago, NeoLab Convergence released a stylish smart pen designed to write like a normal pen, but also transferred notes to a phone or tablet over Bluetooth. Now the company has launched a Kickstarter for a recording device that works with its Smartpen to match written notes with what’s being recorded.
Category: Mobile Technology, Technology
Tags: Audio, recording, Smartpens, Kickstarter
Continue reading Voice recorder matches audio with notes taken with smart pen
Late in 2018, Australia’s Røde Microphones launched the Rødecaster Pro, the “world’s first fully integrated podcast production studio. But its need for mains power made casting on the road a challenge. The Maonocaster solves that drawback thanks to a b… Continue reading Maonocaster takes podcast production on the road
Musician and designer Yuri Suzuki has collaborated with Japanese education company Gakken to create a cute little record cutting machine that gets music-making consumers cutting their own five-inch vinyl records in a few short minutes.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Mini record cutter lets music lovers cut their own vinyl in minutes
Any studio operator worth their Protools subscription will have a wide array of microphones to cover any conceivable situation. SM57s to cover guitar cabs, fancy gilded ribbon mics for vocal takes, and a variety of condensers to round out the selection. That’s all well and good for high-fidelity recording, but …read more
Any studio operator worth their Protools subscription will have a wide array of microphones to cover any conceivable situation. SM57s to cover guitar cabs, fancy gilded ribbon mics for vocal takes, and a variety of condensers to round out the selection. That’s all well and good for high-fidelity recording, but …read more
Back before we all pirated FruityLoops, before ProTools, and before VSTs and DAWs, audio recording was much, much cooler. Reverbs were entire rooms. Sometimes they were springs. Sometimes, in the high-end music studios, reverbs were plates. These plate reverbs were simply a gigantic sheet of metal mounted in a box about ten feet long, four feet high, and a foot thick. Inside, you had some transducers, some pickups, and not much else. Send a signal into the plate reverb and it will bounce around on this flexible membrane, and emerge through the output in a suitably reverberant form.
Of course, …read more