Thom Monahan

Coming from a family of jewelers in Iowa, and growing up fascinated with small scale measurements and attention to detail, Eric Heiserman became a...

Unusually heavy for its size and price point, the RØDE PodMic dynamic broadcast microphone feels overbuilt to the very meaning of the word. With an...

When Arturia introduced a new series of Brute synths and a Eurorack/power supply system at NAMM last year, we had several reviewers asking about...

Monitors of all shapes and sizes have always seemed like an extension of the stereo speakers I saved up my paper route money to buy when I was a kid....

With most pro audio gear, there's never enough control right where the gain-staging starts to get interesting. The upper range of the operating...

The boutique microphone landscape was very different 16 years ago, when I bought an original Soundelux Microphones U99 in 2001 — serial number 017....

The first time I heard the Soyuz SU-017, it was facing backwards. A singer was wailing away into the wrong side of its cardioid-only pattern, and it...

The API 535-LA is a line-amp module based on the company's venerable 325 booster card. It utilizes the same AP2503 transformer, 2510...

Do people still argue about analog summing versus in-the- box mixing? I'm sure somewhere in Internet-world, the flames are still raging. I can...

Sometimes, it's right in front of your face, and you just don't see it. You're working with your preconceptions and past experiences —...

At its core, recording, like any creative endeavor, is about us making decisions one-by-one, until they all pile up on each other to form something...

It’s nice to see something at this price point showing up in the 500-Series world. The 581 is a Class AB, discrete preamp based on the venerable Neve...

With every recording session, there's one piece of the puzzle that never rests; it's constantly in use, informing every decision that you...

Bock Audio

So many microphones... I once had a friend tell me, “Every mic, no matter what kind or what condition, will be better than every other mic...

WaveMachine Labs

Drum replacement software can seem like so much digital voodoo, adding to the “Photoshop-ification” of music production, but really...

Few pieces of gear prove themselves indispensable to every session — something you’d pick to put first in your bag when you travel, that you can...

The Translator is an interesting little passive device that purports to add “vintage tone” to your stale signals. It’s a small, bright red, inline...

If you've heard of Steven Slate and his sample libraries, you're aware of one thing; Steven Slate loves drums. All kinds of drums - big...

Using a ribbon microphone can be a tricky bit of business. Unlike dynamics that can take anything thrown at them or condensers that can provide...

Switching between in-the-box mixing, external summing, and console mixing has been a project-by-project reality in my personal world for a long time...

It used to be that using a soft synth really felt like a compromise. Even with the best emulations, it's always been hard not to think that if...

Hey kid, wanna make a record? Lord knows how you're going to do it. At home on a laptop, in some studio doing basics, probably to a computer...

Over the last two years, mixing at The Hangar, John Baccigalupi's studio in Sacramento, I've come to rely on the pair of ADAM P22As that...