Audio Technology

The past couple of weeks up in Brisbane at Lush Studios have been a busy period. Producer Kevin (The Caveman) Shirley dropped in to produce Jimmy Barnes and his band, with guest drummer Jason Bonham (son of the late John Bonham of Led Zeppelin). Bonh

Review: Christopher Holder How big is the wireless mic market? Have a guess. I found a report from Grand View Research (released in October last year) that valued the global wireless market in 2016 at US$2b, with the handheld segment accounting for a

Review: Preshan John Three versions in and I can’t help but feel the SPL Crimson still looks like it belongs in a different era. It’s decidedly unfashionable. While a cockpit-like dashboard of lights and knobs was once the norm, modern interface desi

Story: Mark Davie When the main Sing Sing studio in Cremorne shut down and Kaj and Jude squeezed the biggest and best pieces of its inventory into the smaller Sing Sing South, there wasn’t a whole lot of space left for engineer/producer Tristan Hoogl

Story: Mark Davie Kamasi Washington doesn’t want to save jazz. He just wants you to give it a chance. In the same way that the perception of country music is saddled with layers of exaggerated twang, jazz has been pigeon-holed into the living rooms o

Story: Mark Davie “Eight of nine,” Shane Crawford reminds me, when I short change how many tips he and fellow podcast host, James Hird, got right in the first round of the 2018 AFL season. It’s been a ripping start for the pair on both the tipping an

Review: Andrew Bencina No doubt, the first thing you noticed about Steinberg’s UR-RT desktop interfaces were those tailored Rupert Neve Designs transformers, integrated into the signal path as switchable inserts following the Yamaha-designed D-PRE pr

Report: Preshan John A year ago, JBL introduced its VTX A Series; a large-format system that sneaks into the gaps of the VTX V series. The A series works with 12- and 8-inch LF drivers, while the V sticks with 15- and 10-inch. There’s a lot of crosso

Column: Mark Davie It’s difficult to know how to frame Milan; the latest AV-over-IP networking protocol. On the one hand, it’s technically ‘open source’. Taking on the entrenched, proprietary Dante protocol — owned and operated by a single entity, Au

Review: Mark Davie I’ve gotta say, Bluetooth speakers are getting pretty incredible. I just got a Sony Bluetooth speaker, and I’m loving it. It’s IP67-rated, lights up like a Christmas tree, and has a ‘Party Booster’ mode where you can play it like a

The diagram on the left shows old-school LED metering. At the input, audio has already been rectified to DC and had ballistics applied, perhaps like the VU meter in Diagram 1. Its DC voltage level is fanned out identically to the Signal reference pin

Review: Mark Davie I’ve been toying with an Arduino board lately. Not building anything, mind you, just picking it up occasionally and turning it over in my hands, pondering what analogue interfaces I can digitally wrangle with the tweeny-priced proc

Tutorial: Andy Szikla It’s 1861, and James Clerk Maxwell (whose name now describes magnetic flux) and his chums take a break from zapping frogs’ legs, influencing Einstein, and shooting lightning between big Frankenstein Balls, to sit themselves down

Column: Dr. Lachlan ‘Magoo’ Goold A part of being a producer is battling that deadly vice… lust. The condition has a name: Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Have you got G.A.S.? Do you convince yourself that a new preamp, microphone, compressor, plug-in, et

Review: Brad Watts JBL, or more succinctly, Mr James B. Lansing, has been trotting out sound reinforcement drivers for the motion picture industry since the 1920s; the musical instrument field with Fender’s use of the D130F speaker for its instrument

Review: Preshan John The struggle is real. You’re trying to lay down electric guitar tracks through a vintage tube amp and quad — in your living room. The guitarist insists the ‘true tone’ of the amp exists beyond the halfway Volume knob mark, but it

We haven’t been able to project sound forward, like a sound hologram. It’s starting to happen in video using lasers, but we haven’t got the equivalent with audio. Everyone’s hoping we’ll figure out 3D sound… we’re hoping, too. It’s like the Greeks ho

Story: Paul Tingen Three years ago Byron Bay metalcore band Parkway Drive took what they called “a gamble”; instead of continuing to work with big-name producers, they decided to record their fifth studio album, Ire, with two relatively unknown names

A river cuts through rock, as they say, because of its persistence. And Flood is persistent. “Flood looked me in the eyes and said, ‘You should move to London.’” recalled Australian producer Dax Liniere, who at the time was tossing around the idea of

Column: Brad Watts It was that time of year again. World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, California ran from the 4th to the 6th of June and, as always, focused on software developments for, well, developers — those folk who create software fo

Review: Graeme Hague Way back in 2009 Presonus’ Studio One DAW software was introduced to the industry as a ‘bloat free’ application. It offered plenty of features, it just promised to deliver them without any of the baggage its competitors had accum

Review: Preshan John I make no secret of the fact that I dislike ‘intelligent’ plug-ins which make mix decisions on my behalf. Same goes with algorithmic mastering. No thanks, I have ears for a reason. Still, here I am reviewing a plug-in that sits s

Review: Preshan John We recently reviewed Korg’s Grandstage flagship digital piano, which puts the finest Korg tones under an impeccably authentic keybed to make for a thoroughly satisfying piano experience — and you’d expect no less for nearly $4k.