Paul Atkins takes the Joe Co BlackBox on tour Paul Atkins Paul is an engineer, producer, composer and musician who these days spends a large portion of his working life mixing FOH sound either on tour or in-house at London venues – including the legendary 100 Club. His studio credits include Lucky Soul, The …
PMC DB1+ Passive Monitor Speakers Review I bought my PMC DB1+ speakers to use as nearfields in my own design lab. So not only do I listen to a wide range of recorded material through these speakers but I also get to evaluate a wide range of audio hardware through them, so these speakers have …
Quad 405 Stereo Monitor Amplifier Review In 1936, Peter J. Walker formed a company, in London, initially called S.P. Fidelity Sound Systems, then later, after a move to Huntington (near Cambridge UK), renamed to the Acoustical Manufacturing Co. Ltd., finally becoming best known for the Quad brand (from an acronym ‘Quality Unit Amplified Domestic’.) After building …
Review of the Drawmer MC2.1 Monitor Controller Ever since I bought a classic (read very old but wonderful) Quad 405 to use as my main monitor loudspeaker amplifier, I have been getting around to buying a bespoke monitor controller. Finally after a good look at what was available at reasonable pricing, I settled on the …
Earthworks Microphones David E. Blackmer (11 January 1927-21 March 2002) was an American audio electronics engineer, most famous as the inventor of the DBX noise reduction system and founder of dbx, Inc. As well as audio noise reduction, Blackmer worked on extending the frequency response of audio electronics beyond the conventionally-accepted audible range of …
Sennheiser MK4 Condenser Studio Microphone Review t’s always seemed strange to me that the company who own Newmann in Germany, and have a big reputation in the headphone and live microphone market, have always seemed a bit under represented in the lower priced studio microphone marketplace. The MK4 should help to correct this misconception, especially …
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Review of the new RØDE NT1 Studio Condenser Microphone I have to admit to a ‘Back to the Future’ moment when I heard that RØDE had released the new NT1. Was it not the NT1-A which was derived from the original NT1? And now we have come full circle and RØDE have reinvented the NT1. But …
Review of the Røde NT-USB Studio Microphone I am increasingly being asked to recommend recording microphones to work with iPad recording apps, so it was timely that the brand new Røde NT-USB Studio Microphone dropped through our letterbox (not literally!) for review. More and more songwriters are using the iPhone and iPad to record. …
Review of the DPA d:dicate 4011 and d:facto 4018V microphones I had been planning to catch up with blues artist Angelo Palladino for a while and record a few tracks with just acoustic guitar and vocal. Angelo is a very accomplished guitarist so I wanted to really capture the performance aspect of his style in …
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Review of the RØDE M5 Matched Pair Condenser Microphones If you are recording acoustic guitar on a regular basis and you want to take capture a good stereo image then one option is to use a matched pair of microphones. The RØDE M5 matched pair are now at such an attractive price point that I felt …
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