Audio Technology

with Robb Allan FOH Engineer Jim Warren’s had Radiohead nailed down for 25 years. He’s working on Arcade Fire, so I’m getting a once in a lifetime chance. Years ago, somebody asked me what my top three bands to mix would be. I said Floyd, Massive Att

Review: Mark Davie The Seaboard block is Roli in a nutshell. MIDI Polyphonic Expression… check. Squishy surface… check. Democratising a previously elite technology… absolutely. Roli has taken a Tesla-esque approach to its Seaboard rollout. Starting a

Review: Preshan John Custom-moulded IEMs are the bee’s knees, but let’s face it, forking out a couple of grand for a pair isn’t always feasible, what with the rest of the gear you have to have. Audiofly is a Perth-based IEM designer that specialises

Review: Mark Davie Rode previously had a couple of complete recording kits, but they were never really complete. Sure they had shockmounts, pop filters and cables, but they missed that link between your Rode mic and computer. With new brands and mode

Review: Preshan John I still remember the first time I used a ribbon mic — a pair of Coles 4038s on drum overheads tracked in a lively old church building. The drum kit seemed to have a rugged ‘realness’ that a pair of condensers couldn’t quite captu

1 It’s been a busy start to the year with engineer Al ‘DrAlien’ Smith mixing and mastering lots of great projects. The new seven-inch single by Australian Music Prize long-listers Nerve Quakes has just been finished, along with the debut album by dre

Tutorial: Andy Szikla I once had the pleasure of downing some beer and peanuts with a crusty old recording engineer — let’s call him ‘Fred’ — who in the 1980s was employed by one of the top studios in Melbourne. Fred used to work with advertising cus

Story: Preshan John Two years ago, SAE Perth relocated to Northbridge at the upper end of the CBD, placing it in close proximity to two important things — the hub of the city’s live music scene, and a train station. The new spot replaced SAE’s origin

Review: Mark Davie Bluetooth headphones aren’t the stock-in-trade for AT reviews; notwithstanding, we all have smartphones and like listening to music on the go. We thought we’d look at what’s out there for the discerning travelling engineer/producer

Column: Martin Walker Hands up all those who have ever spent hours comparing the effects of various EQ, compressor, exciter or other plug-ins? Yes, I thought so. Me too! Well, if you struggle to hear what (if any) change they’ve made to your audio, h

Review: Mark Woods The market for portable speakers is huge, and Electro-Voice knows it. Rather than trying to devise one plastic box to rule them all, EV has a habit of micro-segmenting; match-making users to their perfect pair. In all, users can pi

Review: Mark Davie 10 is a big number. Any version 10 product deserves a decent splash. Apple even rushed out the iPhone 8 then skipped a digit just so the iPhone X launch lined up perfectly with the iPhone’s 10th anniversary. Ableton Live recently r

Tutorial: Paul Tingen Despite Ed Sheeran’s third album being symbolically titled ÷, as in ‘divide’, the world seems united by an affection for the guy. ÷ dominated 2017, outselling and out-streaming all-comers. As if that wasn’t enough, the album als

Review: Preshan John Remember the days when a Pro Tools update meant dashed hopes and sentiments of betrayed loyalty? Me too. It felt like we waited an eternity for what seem like basic functions like faster-than-realtime bouncing and clip gain while

Column: Mark Davie Photo: Daniel Linnet Tom Misner reckons he’ll never make money from the new Studios 301. He clarified what ‘making money’ is. Selling SAE for $300m without parting with a single piece of real estate was ‘making money’. When you’ve

Story: Mark Davie Show Photos: Brett Schewitz “Just so you know,” says Dave Grohl, taking in the crowd from the tip of the catwalk at Etihad Stadium, “This is a big Foo Fighters show.” With over 45,000 rock fans in attendance, Grohl isn’t telling fib

Review: Rob Holder Reason 10 is the greatest expansion of the all-in-one DAW yet, with an injection of fresh drum samples and loops, two huge new synths, three sampled instruments and two of the most essential rack extensions. The list of new stuff i

Column: Lachlan ‘Magoo’ GooldPhoto: Music Industry Inside Out My passion for recording started with dubbing mix tapes for my high school friends. I appropriated my father’s hi-fi gear which had a cassette deck with adjustable recording volumes. This

Story: Allon SilovePhotos: © 2018 Pinewood Studios Limited If you ask the average person where Star Wars, James Bond and Harry Potter are made, invariably they’ll answer ‘in Hollywood’ without thinking twice. Would you know it, all three mega-franchi