Audio Technology

Story: Mark Davie L-ISA only debuted in 2016, and Guillame Le Nost, L-Acoustics’ Director of R&D on L-ISA, is already referring to stereo PA deployments as “the way it used to be”, “traditional”, and “stuck in a 50-year old configuration.” I guess ev

Column: Martin Walker Like many other musicians, I’m often asked for comments about in-progress mixes, and recently I’ve noticed a couple of common issues relating to software reverb. The first one thankfully seems to be getting rarer, and that’s the

Review: Brad Watts KRK monitors aren’t something I’ve had great experience with. Even so, I’m well aware of the impact KRK’s nearfield designs had on the Australian recording industry back in the early ’90s. At the time, it seemed like every second m

Story: Paul Tingen Photos: Ben Sullivan The deliberately tasteless cover of The Presets latest album, Hi-Viz, reads as a label warning for its graphic musical content. It looks like the aftermath of a high-velocity exploding piñata, which feels apt

Story: Mark Davie Photos: James Adams “My biggest concern was the gain before feedback figures, but I had more gain before feedback than I’ve ever had before” In mid-July, The Classic BRIT Awards was due to descend on the Royal Albert Hall in the UK

Interview: Greg Walker Even if you haven’t heard Australian producer/engineer Anna Laverty’s name, you most certainly know a good fistful of the records she has worked on. Originally from Western Australia and a graduate of WAAPA’s sound engineering

Story: Christopher Holder Thanks to L-Acoustics’ L-ISA and d&b’s Soundscape making headlines, it really feels like immersive audio’s time has come. Immersive (or ‘spatial’) audio has been around for a while. Ambisonics’ bubble of 3D sound was first i

Review: Mark Davie My first impression of the Rode VideoMic Me-L for iOS was, ‘Geez, that’s a bit quieter.’ Of course, I simply hadn’t adjusted for the fact that reducing the background noise to that degree would feel so drastically different. All th

Review: Mark Davie AU$469.95 | www.sennheiser.com.au Can record at any resolution Mics well protected Low noise recording iOS only Bulky cable lump Sennheiser’s Ambeo Smart Headset takes a different tack to the Verse; it’s wired and iOS-only. While y

Review: Preshan John Audient’s history is steeped in large-format consoles and time-tested circuit designs; the founders both worked at Soundcraft, before starting DDA consoles. While consoles are still a big part of the Audient catalogue, the compan

Story & Photos: Corey Hague Martin Peralta has quickly become the ‘go-to’ audio guy for podcasts from the ABC, Gimlet Media, BBC, SBS, The Guardian and The Wheeler Centre. It’s been a busy two years for the Sydney-based producer, as one podcast proje

Story: Christopher Holder The UAE celebrates its National Day (when a bunch of Gulf States unified to create the UAE) with a variety of cultural events, military parades, and unimaginable quantities of fireworks. A formal VIP presentation at the most

Story: Mark Davie “I FEEL HAPPIER RUNNING AROUND CHECKING IF A MICROPHONE IS IN PHASE. IT KEEPS ME MORE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS” Two weeks before Run the Jewels’ producers were due to fly out from New York to work on The Ruben’s latest record, the ri

Story: Christopher Holder Ralf Zuleeg is d&b’s head of Sales Services & Application Engineering. If Soundscape is anyone’s ‘baby’, it’s Ralf’s. For d&b, it was a case of ‘what would be the next loudspeaker?’ With GSL, we have an amazing new loudspeak

Story: Mark Davie The collision of real estate developers and recording studios usually spells bad news. That somewhere, out there, a studio is making way for yet another apartment block. Even Australia’s largest studios aren’t immune. Sing Sing Stud

Review: Preshan John Price: $139 To the recording engineer, EQ filters are a way of carving out space in a mix. To the FOH engineer, high pass filters buy headroom in the sub sends. But to the electronic music producer, filters are practically instru

Column: Mark Davie We go through cycles of technology, and it’s easy to be critical of something before it hits its stride — to sit back, popcorn in hand, and label the newest trend a fad; to lampoon manufacturers who’ve bet the organisation’s entire

Mickey currently lives in the Victorian countryside, freelance designing venue tech systems and acoustics. Prior to that he accidentally co-founded a bedrock of Sydney’s indie rock scene, Troy Horse. It grew from a rehearsal studio into a studio comp

The crew at Damien Gerard’s recently ripped the roof out of the studio’s main live room. They’d always used the stairwell for ambience — using the door to change the ‘size’ of the space — but dreamed of ripping out the false ceiling and opening up th

Column: Brad Watts If you’re an OS X or macOS user with half a clue you’ll know that jumping into the application Disk Utility and hitting the ‘Repair Permissions’ button can drag your operating system drive back towards peak performance. But what ex