Dan Knobler
Gear Review
JC37 Tube Microphone
Nov 15, 2024
The Sony C37A may be the last classic tube mic without ubiquitous modern clones. There are a million variations of the Neumann and AKG classics at...
Gear Review
MR3eq 500 Series EQ
Mar 15, 2024
As noted in my review of their new 32Classic console , in the of classic records, Harrison Audio had just as formidable a studio...
Gear Review
32Classic Console
Jan 15, 2024
If you took at face value the mythologizing of recording consoles as it stands today, you could be forgiven for thinking that Neve, API, and SSL made...
Gear Review
LVX Modular Delay Pedal
Nov 15, 2023
The Meris LVX is exactly the delay unit I have been dreaming of. Lucky for me, it’s also the delay unit that the folks at Meris have been dreaming up...
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Herchild 670
Sep 15, 2023
It’s a good time to be an enthusiast of the classic Fairchild limiters of the past. Not all that long ago, there were no mass-market reproductions of...
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Solo6 ST6 Active Monitors
Nov 15, 2022
Reviewing speakers is a funny game. As engineers, perhaps we pick up on how to evaluate monitors in a new listening environment and how to work...
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MagicVerb Reverb Plug-In
Jul 15, 2022
There is absolute magic contained in the plastered walls of classic studios’ echo chambers. I’ve been lucky enough to make many records at Sound...
Gear Review
VIP-60 Microphone
May 15, 2022
The new Milab VIP-60 large diaphragm condenser mic is marketed as an update to its flagship VIP-50, but in all honesty, I had never heard of, seen...
Gear Review
A127 Microphone
Jan 15, 2022
When a pair of Audix’s new high-end A127 omnidirectional small diaphragm metal film condensers arrived in the mail, it took me a minute to put them...
Gear Review
UT FET47 Microphone
Nov 15, 2021
The allure of a classic microphone design is powerful, and the emotional tug of a modern clone, that closely resembles its forerunner is undeniable –...
Gear Review
Cortado MkIII Contact Mic
Sep 10, 2021
It’s been a long time since a microphone has given me the thrill of being a kid playing with my first 4-track, but when a pair of Cortado MkIII...