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1 week ago | 
soundonsound.com | Luke Wood
Is your synth collection spiralling out of control?
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1 month ago | 
soundonsound.com | Luke Wood
The right studio furniture can transform your workflow. We round up some of the best current options.
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2 months ago | 
soundonsound.com | Luke Wood
This new ARA2 plug‑in aims to make aligning doubles and backing vocal stacks a breeze. Conceived for use in music projects, Sync Vx from Waves has been designed to automatically align the timing and match the pitch of multiple vocal takes, and to tackle everything from double‑tracked vocals to large groups of harmonies and ad‑libs. The manual mentions ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement) as another potential application, though.
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2 months ago | 
soundonsound.com | Spotlight Round-up |Luke Wood
There’s a huge array of dedicated stereo mics on the market. We round up some of the best current options. At first thought, stereo microphones might seem like a solution looking for a problem. Setting up a pair of ‘normal’ mics for a stereo recording isn’t a particularly difficult task, after all. However, an all‑in‑one stereo mic actually offers a number of significant benefits.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
soundonsound.com | Luke Wood
From busking to barbecues, gigging with no mains power is now an affordable reality. We check out the current options. There’s no shortage of portable PA gear these days, and thanks to efficient amplifiers and clever cabinet designs, even light, compact systems can pack a serious punch.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
soundonsound.com | Luke Wood
Love it or hate it, pitch‑correction is here to stay — but there can be way more to it than fixing performance issues. Originally, pitch‑correction processors were developed to fix the slight tuning issues that are so common in recorded vocal parts, but engineers and artists soon discovered that by pushing those early processors’ settings beyond their intended limits, they could make them behave more like an effect — the almost vocoder‑like sounds that grace so many modern productions.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
soundonsound.com | Luke Wood
In the age of mixer‑less studios, monitor controllers are on the rise! The first thing that springs to mind when you think of analogue consoles is likely their front end — the mic preamps, filters, EQs, dynamics processors, and so on — but their monitoring sections also played a hugely important role in the traditional studio, providing a convenient way to switch between input sources and speaker systems, set monitoring levels, communicate with artists and quickly check a mix’s mono...
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
soundonsound.com | Luke Wood
There’s been a tremendous renaissance in hardware drum machines recently. We round up some of the best. Much like the samplers we covered recently, hardware drum machines have seen something of a resurgence in recent years, and there’s now a healthy selection of modern options for those looking to craft and sequence drum sounds outside of their DAW.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
soundonsound.com | Spotlight Round-up |Luke Wood
We round up some of the best small studio monitors for your listening pleasure. There’s no getting around the fact that acoustics play a huge part in the sound of monitors, but the shorter listening distances and lower SPLs offered by smaller monitors can certainly help in situations where extensive treatment isn’t practical or possible.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
soundonsound.com | Luke Wood
Along with various other improvements, version 6 of this labour‑saving plug‑in brings ARA2 support to Pro Tools users. Originally conceived for the AV post‑production world, VocAlign soon became popular in music production because its ability to automatically align vocal and instrument takes could save hours of manual editing.
