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by Rip Rowan The seminal article blasting the modern mastering industry for singlehandly destroying a generation of great music.
the Spirit of Radio?
by Bill Park A scathing indictment of the megalithic entertainment conglomerate Clear Channel and its devastating effect on music and the people who make it.
Debra Soule
by Rip Rowan Building a mix from the ground up with Debra Soule's "Everlasting".
by Bill Park A comprehensive explanation of the wholesale changes in the radio industry stemming from the 1996 Telecom Act. | | | | | | | |
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Bruce Richardson
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Advanced samplers have facilitated the creation of advanced orchestral sample libraries. In my opinion, these new libraries are extremely important to anyone producing music today.
Before and during this review, I read user forums across the internet, attempting to do two things.
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Bob Lichty
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"What a waste" and "what a shame" are two phrases I've heard a lot lately.
My father, John Lichty, after 20 clean and sober years, decided to fall off the wagon a few years back. Despite the best efforts of a family who has, quite frankly, seen enough alcohol related problems to fill an entire season of "The Young and the Restless", he has been unrelenting in his pursuit of distilled spirits.
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Rip Rowan
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PreSonus has been the surprise of the audio industry since the company first popped up on the radar screen a few years ago. The company's 2 and 8 channel mic preamps have received excellent press, and their unique (if slightly simplistic) Blue Max compressor is both innovative and good-sounding.
I was therefore excited to review the VXP voice processor.
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Rip Rowan
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The Voicemaster Platinum from Focusrite is a multifunctional mic preamp featuring a discrete mic preamp, noise-reducing downward expander, vocal saturator, optocompressor, EQ, and de-esser in a single-space rack unit.
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Bruce Richardson
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I've got to admit, there's a couple of things that made this particular review meaningful to me.
One was testing these samples in a real-world situation, rather than just casually playing through them.
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Rip Rowan
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The Joemeek VC6Q is a one rack space unit that includes a mic preamplifier, optical compressor, and three-band EQ.
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Rip Rowan
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The Bellari RP533 is a tube-based mic preamp featuring compression and exciter circuits.
Like other units in Bellari's line of tube products, the RP533 is built into a two rack space enclosure with an "antiqued" gold front panel, utilitarian black knobs, and lighted analog meter.
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Rip Rowan
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If 1998 was the year of the large-diaphragm condenser mic, then 1999 was the year of the multi-function mic preamp. Companies are bundling tons of features into these new units, vying for the premium position in your gear rack.
But do these units perform? Is there really any benefit to be gained by these units, often costing as much as a small studio mixing console with 8 or more mic preamps? How important is it to have tons of features in a unit designed to facilitate tracking? And, more importantly, is it really possible to pack all those features into a $600 unit?
I set out to answer these questions and arrived at some interesting conclusions.
I reviewed five mic preamps in the under-$1000 price range.
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Bruce Richardson
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Peter Siedlaczek's Advanced Orchestra for GigaSampler (distributed in the US by EastWest) may well be the most-used set of orchestral samples on the planet. Thanks to its wide-ranging palette and reasonable asking price, this is a product that easily qualifies for ProRec's more-for-less club.
Burned onto a five-CD collection, you'll find an extensive set of samples (5455 to be exact) covering the instrumentation of the modern large orchestra.
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Bruce Richardson
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There are a couple of orchestral libraries, both by EastWest, that don't really fit the mold of the traditional sample library.Scoring Tools and Symphonic Adventures provide users with a set of fully orchestrated phrase components that can be used in loops, or cobbled together into larger structures.
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Bruce Richardson
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 One of the biggest gifts that GigaSampler has given the production world is the availability (at long last) of a realistic MIDI-driven piano.
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