After 20+ years in professional audio: live sound engineering, studio technical direction (Deep Forest, Pierre Jacquot), head of digital marketing at Playback.fr. A first-hand witness to the analog-to-digital shift, I track the whole audio landscape and break it down here — no fluff.
EQ, compression, saturation, stereo width, limiter: in mastering, the order of your processing matters as much as the tools you pick. Here is how to sequence a chain that holds up, what each stage brings, and the mistakes that quietly wreck a master.
Calrec has folded its Type R ecosystem into a self-contained tabletop desk. The Type RT packs DSP, control, I/O and monitoring into a compact, fanless chassis, in 6-, 12- or 18-motorised-fader versions. Shown at IBC 2026, it targets rooms where space and budget matter as much as audio quality.
Launched at IBC 2026, the Calrec Apex M6 modular I/O platform brings ST 2110, AES67, Dante, MADI, SDI, SoundGrid, AES3 and analogue into a standalone 1RU that works without a console.
Acid Rain Technology launches the Ziggurat, a four-channel Eurorack quantizer built around note masks, per-note slew and a sequencer-style Chain mode to turn voltages into melodies.
Acon Digital launches Acoustica 8: DeNoise 3 and DeHum go machine-learning, the spectral editor gains a stereo view and immersive reaches 9.1.6 — all on a perpetual licence.
X-USB card to a computer, standalone X-Live SD recording, tap points, extraction and virtual soundcheck: the complete guide to recording a concert in multitrack on the Behringer X32 and Midas M32 without getting the routing wrong.
Valery Mironov releases Sentient, an iOS and macOS synth whose neural network listens to everyday sounds to build a wavetable unique to each user. AUv3, MIDI, native Apple Silicon and out now for $5.99: we break down this fresh approach.
Audio latency is not a mystery but a set of distinct phenomena. Buffer size, round-trip latency, hidden sources and direct monitoring: the complete guide to managing it and never suffering it again, from tracking to mixdown.
Telos Alliance is spotlighting the Axia Pulsar at IBC 2026: a compact eight-fader AoIP surface whose entire engine fits into a silent 2U box. Built-in R128 loudness, sixteen mix-minus and full browser control – here is the detail on a console built for radio and podcasting.
Getting the sound of a stadium or a reporter back to the studio, live and without a dropout, rests on one discreet link: the codec. Here is how contribution links work, which algorithms to choose and how to hold a link over an imperfect network.