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- Presonus HP60 Headphone Amp
Do you have a studio wish list? Most of us do. So what’s your number one item? If we had to hazard a guess, we think it’s safe to say that it’s unlikely to be a headphone amplifier. After all, they’re not the most exciting toys in the box, are they? But it’s also safe […]
- Zoom HD16
Music technology hardware review: Product – Zoom Hard Disk Recording Studio HD16. Manufacturer – Zoom Corporation
- Fostex CR500 CD recorder
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The Fostex CR500 is a next generation CD mastering recorder and playback machine offering pro-quality features to the project studio owner…
Not so long ago, owning a project studio was a relatively expensive business and almost entirely hardware based, apart from MIDI sequencing software. Quality mixers and multi-track machines didn’t come cheap. […] - BOSS BR-600 Digital Recorder
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Smaller than most notebook computers, can an 8-track digital recorder this small really deliver the goods?
The costs of laptop recording are dropping all the time. But for many young strapped-for-cash guitarists, quality mobile recording remains frustratingly out of reach. Recently, though, several well known Japanese companies have begun manufacturing portable digital […] - Edirol M-16DX digital mixer
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Edirol have broken the digital mixer price barrier with their amazingly compact M-16DX - but how does it square up to its analogue rivals?
Although digital mixers have been around for many years now they still remain, for the most part, in the preserve of the professional studio. Generally speaking, they’re far […] - TC-Helicon VoiceLive
VoiceLive will provide you with on-stage backup singers and top quality effects at the tap of a footswitch…
When you’re recording you probably spend a great deal of time in pursuit of the ideal vocal sound. Selecting the best pre-amp, the right reverb, tweaking the eq, thickening and perhaps even applying pitch correction to the […] - Yamaha ST-5
With 32 digital effects, comprehensive practice aids and a clip on condenser mic the ST-5/MC7 might just be the ultimate brass and woodwind accessory?
If you’re a woodwind or brass player and you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to add effects such as chorus, flanging and even distortion to your sound, you might be […]
- Roland MV-8800
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Many producers of groove-based music prefer to work on a hardware music production system like the new Roland MV-8800…
In the late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop, house and electronic dance music was often sequenced using Atari computers and software such as Notator/Creator (later to become Logic). The combination of rock-solid […] - ART Tube MP
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ART have transformed their popular TUBE MP Project Series valve preamp into an easy-to-use USB audio interface…
When the original TUBE MP appeared, over a decade ago, it sold like hot cakes. And to date, more than 100,000 of these very affordable microphone preamps have been sold. ART have been refining them […] - MindPrint TRIO USB
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MindPrint TRIO USB has all the essentials for recording, analogue sound shaping and studio monitoring in one box plus a USB interface…
If you’re a young musician into home recording, the chances are that you work with a DAW of some kind. You may never have experienced the efficiency of a classic […]