And your son’s on crack… Wait a minute, wrong song.

Summertime is over for me and so is my pseudo-vacations with its less than usual blogging, family reunions, trips and just a wee bit work on top of that.

The coming weeks I’ll spend a fair amount of time on reviews as promised earlier. For this month I think I’ll try to focus on the limiter shootout but some other stuff will probably slip in there as well.

I’m currently giving Reaper a go and one of the coolest features in my opinion is the possibility to add any plug-in control to a knob in the mixer on the channel the plug-in is instantiated on. Basically, each channel has a number of ’smart knobs’ that you could for instance assign the threshold of the compressor on or the channel or the frequency of your EQ. This way you can adjust those parameters without opening the GUI of the plug-in.

I think this is a very clever way to solve what I find most annoying about in the box mixing, dealing with the most common things such as tweaking your EQ’s. I’m going to set up a template in Reaper where I basically have a channel EQ that never needs to be opened. Some kind of similar thing in Pro Tools would be awesome.

So I set out to find myself two more channels of high-end preamps. I usually prefer to use dynamics or ribbons over condensers, which of course shows in my choice of preamps.
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Reviews… How many of them do you read? How many of them do you believe? Personally I find them close to useless when it comes to audio products.
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Some of you might remember that I’ve been planning and working on an overhaul of my home setup where I pretty much do all of my work these days. Since I moved to a new place recently I figured it was time to take care of the acoustics properly.
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It has been announced that Avid has bought Euphonix. As you probably know, Euphonix is a manufacturer of control surfaces on both the high- and the low-end of the spectrum. Not only that, they are – ahem! were! – part of Apple’s trinity together with Apogee and Apple themselves.
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It has come true, Digidesign pretty much is no more and digidesign.com sends you to avid.com/us/resources/digi-orientation.
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This years shows had wide aisles, little noise and few people… Well, relatively.
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So… After a couple of hours at the Musikmesse I’ve only seen a small part of what this shows has to offer. I’m mostly saying “hi” to people I know, book video demo’s (will hopefully have a bunch for you later!) and trying to find the products that truly kick ass.
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When I had my morning coffee today I had a discussion someone regarding plug-ins. Having used plug-ins for quite some time now, I think it’s interesting to look back and remember how they were years ago and what they’re like now.
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