Soyuz: 013A Ambisonic Mic
reviewed by Matt Anderson
I’ve loved everything Soyuz has made so far and own many of their mics, but ambisonics seemed like an odd direction for them. When Soyuz announced the 013A Ambisonic Mic, I began doing more...
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McDSP: TAPE APB Plug-In
reviewed by Larry Crane
Here's another new plug-in that comes included with McDSP's APB ("analog processing box") units (APB-8, APB-16 [Tape Op #134]). In case you don't know what APB processors are, they're 8 and 16-channel...
Harrison: 32Cpre+ 500 Series Preamp
reviewed by Tim Pratt
If you’re of a certain age (mid-40s/50s), you probably remember sifting through and being raised on the records of your parents and/or siblings. Such listening sessions probably included the...
half light: Taped Spaces Reverb Plug-In
reviewed by John Baccigaluppi
half light is Mitchell Schneider and David Riddle. Taped Spaces is their first full plug-in (they’ve also made some Kontakt instruments), but they’ve been playing music together for over a...
Baby Audio: Smooth Operator Plug-In
reviewed by Daniel Ryan Morse
I recently discovered that my mixes sounded a bit thinner than I wanted because of a buildup in presence frequencies (4 to 6 kHz). Looking for a cure, I turned to Baby Audio’s Smooth Operator...
ADAM Audio: T10S Active Subwoofer
reviewed by Daniel Ryan Morse
I’m nearing the end of a search for a new monitoring setup in my small home studio (aka spare bedroom). I fell in love with the ADAM Audio A7Vs [Tape Op #153] and a matching subwoofer Sub10 MK2...
Universal Audio: SD-series Mics & Hemisphere Plug-In
reviewed by Mike Kosacek
The boxy, rectangular shapes, light grayish-white painted bodies, and contrasting black windscreens of the new dynamic microphones in Universal Audio Standard Series – SD-3, SD-5, and SD-7 with...
RT60 Ltd: Songzap iPhone DAW App
reviewed by Larry Crane
A pocket DAW app for your iPhone? Sure! Songzap is built for creating and capturing song ideas. Professor Rob Toulson and Dr. Mike Exarchos developed this app, and Rob wrote the excellent book Drum...
Denise Audio: Motion Filter Plug-In
reviewed by Larry Crane
In the fall of 2023, Baby Audio acquired Denise Audio, a company with an awesome line of deceptively-simplified plug-ins. Motion Filter is their reworking of Denise's The Sweeper, a digital motion...
: PSP Flare Compressor Plug-In
reviewed by Larry Crane
Touted as “a new kind of psycho-acoustic compressor,” PSP Flare can apply a huge amount of compression to a stereo or mono source, and do so without immediately veering into nasty...
Raising Jake Studios: SideMinder Max Plug-In
reviewed by Larry Crane
Billed as a "Spectral Dynamic Stereo Width Maximizer," the SideMinder Max plug-in works on stereo tracks to adjust the width of a signal at different frequency ranges. I reviewed the original...
Don Hardy, director: Linda Perry: Let It Die Here (film)
reviewed by Larry Crane
In Tape Op #143, Dawn Landes interviewed Linda Perry, one of the most successful producers and songwriters of the last 30 years. In this documentary, Don Hardy captures Linda in action, writing and...