Antares Auto-Tune Advanced: price, the DVA vibrato engine and what’s new
Antares launches Auto-Tune Advanced, built around a new DVA engine that detects and preserves a singer's natural vibrato, even under hard correction.…
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Microphone placement explained: techniques for vocals, guitar, amps and drums
Before EQ, before the compressor, there's mic placement: it decides about 80% of your recorded sound. Distance, axis, proximity effect, room reflections,…
Black Lion Audio MIDI Eight: price, specs and an 8×8 MIDI hub
Black Lion Audio launches the MIDI Eight, an 8-in / 8-out rack MIDI interface. Class-compliant, with a powered USB hub and three…
De-essing explained: taming sibilance without dulling the voice
That stabbing "sss" on every take, the "sh" that spits the moment you add air: sibilance is the nightmare of vocal mixing.…
Trident A-Range 500 EQ: price, specs and the console EQ in 500 format
Trident recreates its famous A-Range console equaliser in a 500 Series module. All-discrete circuit, inductors in the mids, gain set with faders…
Synchro Arts VocAlign 7: price, specs and the new multitrack vocal alignment
Synchro Arts has launched VocAlign 7, the biggest overhaul of its time-alignment tool in years. The headline is a multitrack workspace, track-based…
Producely Dialr: price, specs and AI auto-mapping
The Producely Dialr is the first hardware controller that maps your plugins automatically, with no assigning and no templates. Twelve knobs, a…
LEWITT LW6: price, specs and the first wireless studio headphones built for mixing
With the LW6, LEWITT releases its first-ever headphones and goes wireless for the studio. Uncompressed UWB transmission, sub-6ms latency and onboard DSP:…
Parallel compression explained: keep the punch without crushing the mix
Also called New York compression, parallel compression blends a heavily compressed copy of a signal with the untouched original. You gain density…
What is phantom power (+48V)? When to use it and when to avoid it
The little +48V button is everywhere — on interfaces, consoles and preamps — and it's still one of the most stubborn sources…