Tag: Gear

If you’ve been mixing for a while you know that a vocal or piece of dialog with sibilance could mean ...

Microphones are like guitars – they all sound different, and that makes us want to collect them. Just like guitars, ...

Prepping the vocals is a time-consuming process for most engineers, with leveling words and phrases, dealing with sibilance, and editing ...

It’s very easy to get great piano sounds from either an electronic keyboard or virtual instrument these days, but I ...

Last weekend, American producer and DJ Mustard showcased his limited-edition Native Instruments Maschine MK3 and Kontrol S49 on the Coachella ...

Every major gear manufacturer makes an analog mixer these days and they come in all shapes and sizes. That said, ...

I come from the days when a keyboard player carried around an electric piano, a couple of synthesizers and maybe ...

One of the things that young producers sometimes overlook is vocals that aren’t tight enough. Unless vocalists sing together all ...

Every engineer and bass player knows how important a high quality direct box is, as a good one captures the ...

For the longest time the headphone outs on most interfaces were weak and would usually distort as you got close ...