Acoustica Premium 6 – DAW Musings

I write a lot of words and I have a lot of writing tools. Emacs, Scrivener, WriteMonkey, Leo, Sublime Text, Editorial – the list goes on.  They all do similar things, I could probably get by with only one, but please don’t make me chose – I like the variety. And the same is true in audio production software. I …

Drawmer MC 3.1 Monitor Controller – Review

I grew up in monitor controller world in the days when Glensound outside broadcast desks were simple beasts and needed a DK2/20 or DK2/21 to add monitoring and control functions that just made life that little bit easier. But time marched on and more functionality got built into location desks and the star of monitor controllers began to fade. But …

Spendor D9s and Nytech Amplifiers – Audio T – Cardiff Demo

Some jobs are hard work and some are worthwhile, some are tedious but well payed and some come right out of the blue. It was one of the latter gigs that arrived recently when I was asked to help out at an Audio T demonstration of Spendor’s latest and greatest loudspeakers – the mighty D9s. As a long time Spendor …

Brexit – export opportunity for the Gefell KEM970

When you get tired of the politics of Brexit try a new game – the microphones of Brexit!  Don’t worry Stateside you can do the same thing for Donald or Hilary!  My favourite is Chancellor Merkel, nothing to do with her politics, it’s her choice in mircophones that sets her a cut above the rest. I can’t think of another …

Fission – Audio editing for OSX from Rogue Amoeba – Review

I had a little bit of an awkward moment the other day. Well it was the other day but with hosting problems intervening, it is now a month or two back – forgive me. Anyway, I had a very quick and dirty job to do for Good Friday. I was putting together a video using music from The Plymouth Music …

Wavelab 9 Pro – Review

Wavelab 7 and 8 are powerhouse programmes, you know that because when you launch them, the interfaces have more bells than the top shelf of a Glasgow pub and more whistles than a refs convention. Now if you were brought up with that, no problem. Or if you used the ‘Lab every day, no problem. But for a first time …

Allen & Heath – Dlive – Review

Allen and Heath have been making waves in the digital mixer world for quite a while, mostly of late at the more affordable end of the market where the GLD and the Qu series have been attracting a lot of attention and well deserved acclaim. Above these two newer product lines the iLive series has long established itself as a …

Radial Trim Two – Stereo DI – Review

Sometimes a new product is really new and sometimes it’s a refinement or an extension of an existing line. Both are new but the the second group tends to generate a little less hullabaloo. Radial’s Trim Two is definitely in that slightly less glamorous category as Radial already have a spectrum of DIs that cover just about every imaginable situation. …

Sennheiser AVX digital radio mic wireless system – Review

Unboxing the new Sennheiser AVX Digital Wireless Mic Set. I’m not sure exactly what the attraction of the “unboxing video” is but YouTube is full of them. Some nerdy guy unwrapping the latest hi tech toy and fondling it is all the rage. Well I’m pretty nerdy so let’s go. Even before you unbox the AVX you can’t fail to …