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Producer, film and TV composer Matt Robertson chooses “performance” products from sE…

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Matt Robertson has worked with the UK’s biggest producers, on films like Hot Fuzz and The Other Boleyn Girl, as well as producing the music for over 100 TV ads including campaigns for Mercedes, Pepsi, HP and Land Rover. […]

Inspiration Sounds reviews - Funked Up Acid and Apple Loops

Jan from Inspiration Sounds was kind enough to let me have copies of some of its latest releases; namely the wonderful Funked Up Apple Loops and Funked Up Acid Loops!
Following the initial unzip into wav files, these loops are just pure quality, with everything neatly labelled; drums, percussion, bass, horns and voice all in their […]

Jazzmutant Dexter review

There’s been a lot of talk for the last 9 months about the Jazzmutant Dexter, and yet the obligitory chinese whispers that come along with this kind of technology haven’t really developed past:
‘Have you seen the Dexter?.. It’s touch screen’.
The videos dotted around on Youtube and various blogs made us literally dribble with the excitement […]

Simon Franglen installs Ghost Acoustic treatment at Air Studios

Simon Franglen has worked with the biggest names in music (including Celine, Whitney, and Quincy) and produced one of the biggest songs: the Titanic love theme My Heart Will Go On.
He has just installed Ghost Acoustic treatments in his room at Air Studios and concludes: “it’s made a huge difference and conventional systems were rubbish […]

Dance producers contest

SAE, M-Audio and I-dance.com are proud to announce a new dance producers contest with a great range of prizes up for grabs.
Contestants are free to choose their dance music style and joining the contest is free. All producers are asked to do is sign up for the Global XS Trial HERE, post their competing track(s) […]

Muse’s Sound Engineer talks to Audiotechnews

Every now and again, we like to look after our subscribers by giving them access to information that no one else can get.
In the near future, we may have something coming along which saves you money as well as helps to find you work - but we’ll announce that if and when it happens.
For now […]

Take the Focusrite liquid challenge

This is the time to put your money where your mouth is. Well, not money, but ego really.
Focusrite has got a cool challenge up on its website to see if you can identify the difference betweeen classic analogue gear, and the Liquid emulation thereof. The Liquid Challenge
Unfortunately, the competition deadline for actually winning anything from […]

ALLEN & HEATH ADDS FX MODELS TO ZED RANGE

Allen & Heath has selected the forthcoming Pro Light & Sound show in Frankfurt to unveil two new additions to the ZED range of small-format USB mixers.
The ZED-12FX (6 mono + 3 dual stereo channels) and ZED-22FX (16 mono + 3 dual stereo channels) retain the same professional feature set as other models in the […]

Sontronics CHIMERA - single channel preamp/DI box

If high quality preamps are on your wishlist this month, then the Sontronics CHIMERA certainly boasts to be just that. But it’s a user friendly piece of kit with two distinct forms. Like Optimus Prime, then.
The Sontronics CHIMERA is a single-channel preamp/DI box that offers two discrete circuits: at the flick of a switch, you […]

Cambridge Music Technology launch new courses

A new range of day courses, founded by Sound On Sound contributor Mike Senior, has been launched by Cambridge Music Technology.
Mike is the author of SOS cover features including Recording Guitars  , and the Piano Recording piece in Sound On Sound’s January 2008 issue. He will give live demonstrations of audio equipment and techniques so […]

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