Getting mains power around a stage cleanly is not an electrician’s afterthought: it decides safety, whether you get hum, and how reliable the rig is. Here is how to think about distribution, balancing phases and hunting down ground loops.
Two quiet legends of the 2000s, Elektron’s Monomachine and Machinedrum, are now emulated as free, open-source software. Built by an independent developer, the plugins run as VST3 and standalone on Mac and Windows, engines and parameter locks included.
Rupert Neve Designs releases its first in-house plugins: the Portico II Master Buss Processor, the 551 Inductor EQ and the 542 Tape Emulator, built natively with McDSP. Three hardware classics finally land in the DAW, no interface or rack required.
Lindell Audio launches the LiN76 mkII, the second generation of its 1176-style FET compressor: a new in-house transformer, redesigned circuit, lower noise and dual-mono link, at a still-gentle price.
The complete wiring diagram for a mixing console: every input, every output, the right cable, and three typical setups from a small PA to a digital stage rig.
Tentacle Sync unveils the Sync E mkII: a pocket timecode generator with a TCXO clock, Bluetooth 5, USB-C and a reference mic, built to lock audio and picture on multicam shoots.
The XR18 hides an 18 x 18 USB interface that records a whole show over a single cable, with no surface and no extra hardware. Here is a step-by-step guide to capturing your tracks, avoiding routing mistakes, and replaying the gig as a virtual soundcheck once the band has gone home.
Granular synthesis chops sound into tiny fragments — grains — and replays them by the hundred to create pads, textures and soundscapes you can’t get any other way. Here is how it works, which controls really matter, and where to find it today, on screen and in Eurorack.
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.