Audio Technology

Shawn Everett’s final mix session of Pain contains a fairly moderate 68 tracks, many of which are marked as stems. Hidden within each, explained Everett, is a whole world of outboard and other treatments: “I used a lot of outboard, particularly when

Ableton Live 10 is here, and there’s plenty to get excited about! The new Capture features lets you jam away on a MIDI track while it’s armed, then recall the last idea you played after the fact. Or use it to add new parts or overdub MIDI into existi

Not merely satisfied with packing I/O into every nook and cranny, Antelope Audio has announced four new hardware products and a bunch of software to go with it. In all there are two new audio interfaces — Discrete 8 and Discrete 4 — in an entirely ne

Allen & Heath latest pair of compact digital mixers are called Super-Qu; as in, souped up versions of the successful Qu series. The biggest differentiator between Qu consoles and the SQ range is the underlying 96k XCVI FPGA engines, which delivers 96

Story: Mark Davie “There’s no live drums on the record at all. It’s all programmed. Some drummers are like, ‘How many arms does that guy have?” Ecca Vandal doesn’t really fit in, and she’s okay with that. Disappointing her Sri Lankan family by purs

Review: Mark Davie Getting an Antelope Audio interface up and running is like reaching the Promised Land — it was everything you hoped it might be, but you have to wander through the wilderness to get there. This is the third time I’ve fought throug

At Newmarket Studios, Ella Thompson was in to record some strings, bass clarinet and grand piano from her Like Running Water collaboration. Engineer Callum Barter captured some amazing arrangements by Sam Boon, the stings/woodwind combination sounded

Review: Preshan John Don’t get me wrong, I dig Arturia’s stuff. However, with so many MIDI controllers already in its catalogue, I often wonder if this exercise in minute differentiation is necessary. When the new KeyLab Essential 61 keyboard contro

Review: Mark Davie Six seconds. That’s how long the EV rep reckoned it would take to get the Evolve 50 set up. Challenge accepted. By the time we got the column bits unzipped and stacked, then found a spot to plug in the power cord, it was more like