Posted on Thu 15 September 2011 in Computer Music • Tagged with se electronics, studio
Andy Munro is a name associated with the sound of some of the world's top studios. He is an acoustic consultant with 30 years of experience in sound and monitor design... in fact, he has even written a short article on each of these subjects for us if you are …
Posted on Fri 09 September 2011 in entries • Tagged with analogue, digital, Live, mixer, studio
MIXING WARS
Stuck between a digital rock and an analogue hard place? Let Jono Buchanan and Andy Legg help you out of it...
Before the days of FireWire and USB-based DAW recording, the word ‘digital’ equated to ‘expensive’ and we were all charged a premium for digitally controlled signal paths …
Posted on Mon 05 September 2011 in entries • Tagged with Live, mixer, presonus, studio
The Presonus StudioLive 24.4.2 and 16.4.2 have already established themselves as popular products for both home and studio use. With this kind of momentum behind them, Presonus cleverly decided that the next step was to release a scaled down version that would be more friendly on …
Posted on Sat 27 August 2011 in entries • Tagged with egg, genelec, krk, monitor, se electronics, studio
Expert acoustician and monitor designer Andy Munro explains why it's so important to get exactly the right monitors…
MEET THE WRITER
Principle owner of Munro Acoustics, Andy co-founded Dynaudio Acoustics in 1990 and still designs custom Dynaudio monitor systems. He is currently designing many of the studios for the new …
Posted on Mon 15 August 2011 in entries • Tagged with active, monitor, studio
It’s been a long while since I have brought you a review of a studio monitor, so today I decided to set-up a pair of Tannoy Reveal 501A’s in our Poole store and write about what I heard! Plus, being in the same price range as the popular …
Posted on Fri 20 May 2011 in entries • Tagged with monitor, speaker, studio
If you haven’t heard of Quested monitors before, then where have you been living? Quested Monitoring Systems design and manufacture what have become established as the world’s most neutral loudspeakers for recording studios and engineers worldwide, and their products have found homes in the world renowned Abbey Road …
Posted on Mon 04 April 2011 in entries • Tagged with active, cms 65, focal, monitor, speaker, studio
These award-winning monitors have been designed to deliver great sound in the professional environment or the home studio. Meet the Focal CMS series…
Here in the Absolute Music studios we love a bit of French chic, and that’s what we get every time we install a new set of …
Posted on Thu 31 March 2011 in entries • Tagged with Live, mackie, studio
The Onyx range of digitally infused premium analogue mixers are perfect for live and studio applications. We plug in the 16-channel Mackie Onyx 1640i…
Mackie is widely known for designing high-performance, professional audio gear that fits into the budget of the working musician. The Mackie boffins know mixers and continually …
Posted on Wed 30 March 2011 in entries • Tagged with cubase 6, daw, software, Steinberg, studio
The major new update to Cubase has us dead excited with its massive editing tools, virtual instruments and groundbreaking VST Expression 2…
Are you producing your music on any old DAW? Are there any plug-in effects or editing tools you’re missing and would like to call your own? With …
Posted on Wed 12 January 2011 in entries • Tagged with focal, monitor, speaker, studio
The Focal SM9 3-Way active studio monitor is one of the strangest looking speakers I’ve ever seen! Unfortunately, they aren’t expected to be released until around March 2011, so I won’t be able to get my hands on them to take a listen just yet! Until then …