Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger all great aspirations, ideal for opening Glastonbury or indeed a tag line for the latest incarnation of your killer software. Avoiding of course – fatter, flatter, slower, harder to use. So have the Presonus boffins working on Version 3 of their Studio One Digital Audio Workstation delivered the Daft Punk upgrade or have they fallen foul …
Windows 10 upgrade – Wavelab, Cubase, Reaper, Studio One V3 and Magix Sequoia
I am very conscious that I have a back log of writing to do. I haven’t updated the CableFactory DI review and I haven’t written about the rather wonderful Marian Seraph AD2. Plus I haven’t finished musing on editing and I have something to say about Studio One and multi-document interfaces! However all that has to be banished to the …
Cable Factory – DI-Pro P-1 Passive DI with Lundahl transformer
You would think that makers of the world’s best passive DI’s would be closely clustered around the makers of the world’s best audio transformers, wouldn’t you? Well I would for one, it kind of makes sense. Which should mean that DI production should peak near Ipswich in East Anglia, where Sowter make top notch transformers, Norrtalje in Sweden or more …
Crossfade editing – keeping in trim with Sadie, Sequoia, Pyramix, Cubase, ProTools, Nuendo, Reaper, Studio One, Digital Performer.
In the beginning was Sadie 2.04. Well nearly Sonic on a Mac and Sunrise on the Amiga came first for me, but let’s start in PC world. In those days Sadie like pretty much everyone else was running on a plug in DSP card. In fact two, there was the XS card that hosted the DSP power and the X-ACT …
Audio Technica ATH-M70x Headphones – Review
Some gear is born great, Neumann microphones say or Nagra recorders. You expect great things of a new Neumann mic or Nagra recorder. But other gear from maybe less fashionable manufacturers has to fight tooth and nail to establish the credentials required for a seat at the top table. The Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones belong very firmly in the latter …
Sennheiser evolution wireless D1 – 2.4G licence free digital radio mics – review
A few weeks ago I was looking forward to a new wave of 2.4 gig radio gear from well established manufacturers that won’t need a licence and won’t break the bank. The first to arrive was courtesy of Sennheiser. It was only after unpacking the new Sennheiser Evolution Wireless D1 digital radio mics that I realised how much Sennheiser radio …
MusicBee and Exact Audio Copy – Let Wavelab 8.5 decide – audio file comparison in Wavelab
Every now and then I sneak off to the growing number of charity shops on the local high street and gorge myself on second hand CDs. Five for two pounds was the best deal I could find the other day. At the more expensive end of the market somebody had been clearing out their U2 albums as I got Joshua …
Far from MADI crowd – build a PC for the RME HDSP Madi card and Micstasy or use my Olympus LS-3?
I’m all too aware that I love complex solutions to simple problems, it’s just the way I am. I have a simple gig coming up, I could in truth cover it with my Olympus LS-3, well if I could find it. The Olympus is so pocket sized that I regularly lose it, in a pocket somewhere. However I could probably …
Resident Audio T4 and T2 Thunderbolt audio interfaces – review
Where are the audio interfaces of yesterday? The Zefiro ZA2 – doyen of the ISA bus, went down with the ship. The Marian Marc 2, one of the greatest two channel cards in it’s day died a driver death with XP along with the Terratec 6fire. The Gadget lab disappeared with the company and the the Mackie firewire – I …