April 2022 Magazine Contents

Apogee’s long‑serving desktop audio interface gets a thorough makeover.

Back by popular demand: Korg have miniaturised the ARP 2600 but kept the spirit and sound of the original very much alive.

A new collection adds expressive solo instruments and voices to the company’s orchestral range.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars.

Beyerdynamic’s new studio mics are as classy as they are versatile.

The IR‑200 is a compact, DSP‑powered pedal that pairs an amp simulator with a speaker cabinet impulse‑response engine.

This modern take on the Lexicon 224 may be a pedal, but it has applications that go way beyond guitar.

Poltergate is a combination tool for use with drums or other percussive sounds and has both creative and problem‑solving capabilities...

One of the best Uni‑Vibe clones on the market just got an update.

Fracture Sounds elevate the humble cardboard box to versatile percussion instrument.

Hungarian company Gainlab impressed us with their Dictator compressor, so we were looking forward to putting their EQ through its paces.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This library/virtual instrument focuses very much on analogue synth‑based sound sources.

Hifiman are driving the development of headphone technology at an impressive pace!

IK Multimedia’s Fame Studio Reverb emulates the sound of the legendary FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Borsta's audio engine is designed to simulate natural‑sounding brush playing and it offers 18 different percussion instrument sounds.

Nektar keep doing what they do best: making solid, capable, no‑nonsense MIDI controllers.

If anyone knows how to make a transmission‑line speaker, it’s PMC...

PreSonus’s Revelator io24 is packed with useful features for podcasters, streamers and even common‑or‑garden recording musicians.

Embracing both the charm and limitations of open‑reel tape, the Tensor is a unique and creative looping pedal.

Sonic Potions and Erica Synths team up to create a truly unique drum machine.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. This first title in Sonora’s new solo string series expands the frontiers with a large set of atmospheric articulations beautifully performed by Alan Black, distinguished principal cellist with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.

Clean‑gain ‘booster’ preamps are popular accessories for ribbon and moving‑coil dynamic mics — but what if that gain were deliberately made more characterful?

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Toontrack’s latest EZbass expansion delivers a classic American sound.

UJAM add sonic movement to the themes explored in their popular Finisher series.

Waldorf return to their roots with a modern take on the classic Microwave.

We offer some tips for processing strummed guitars.

These Audio examples accompany April 2022's Cubase workshop.

What can Live’s Device Racks do for you?

We explore the many tools available in DP’s Waveform Editor.

Learning to manage CPU resources effectively will make you a better mixer.

How they recorded the solo on ‘Solace’ from Fuel’s second album, Something Like Human (2000).

With six lead singers, an orchestra and more, ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ from Encanto was always going to be an epic production challenge — and then lockdown happened.

We explore some of Logic’s lesser‑known features that you might easily have overlooked and wondered where to find them..

Leading mix engineer Andy Bradfield shares some of the lessons he’s learned in getting to grips with Dolby Atmos.

We explore some handy tools for making the most of macros.

These vocal tracking tips will help you achieve decent results every time.

Studio One’s Video Player makes writing for picture a breeze. Find out how...

Intel’s latest CPUs promise big performance gains. But can they topple AMD in our audio benchmarks?

Could you please explain why audio gear uses balanced signals and how they work?

One of the core skills of the audio engineer is overcoming limitations. In the days of tape, that might have meant squeezing...

HBO’s Chernobyl exposed the horrifying story behind the 1986 nuclear disaster — and made a star of composer Hildur Guðnadóttir.

Howard Gray gives us a fascinating look behind the scenes of recording and engineering some of the biggest tracks of the '80s.

Matt Johnson has emerged as one of the most talented and prolific keyboard players of the last 20 years, mostly as part of the legendary Jamiroquai.

With an extraordinary track record as producer, songwriter, musician, mixer and remixer, Mike Dean is a one‑man music industry.

We put the desert island questions to this Tel Aviv-based dynamic, hip‑hop‑infused pop duo.

My school attendance was, ahem, erratic to say the least. The only place I felt I was any good at anything was hitting drums...

SOS visits the world’s most famous studio, Abbey Road, to discover how the ones and zeros in a digital recording get turned into grooves on a vinyl record.

LEWITT Audio chat to Hugh Robjohns about their approach to developing, innovating and engineering their range of home, studio and live microphones.