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Inside Track: Bruce Springsteen Letter To You Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Bob Clearmountain Photo: Danny Clinch Bruce Springsteen’s latest album was an international hit last year, but the console it was mixed on was made a quarter of a century ago. Mixing legend Bob Clearmountain was at the controls. “A note to your readers: you figure it out! That’s how I learned. Nobody told me what delays or reverbs to use. I would listen to records, and I’d try to work out what they ha...

MOD Devices MOD Duo X Hardware Plug-in Host & Controller Now you can rock the MOD on your desktop! Back in November 2017, Paul White reviewed the MOD Duo, a guitar stompbox that hosts software plug‑ins that you can arrange as virtual ‘pedalboards’. A key feature is the open platform, which allows third‑party developers to release compatible plug‑ins. Over the product’s lifetime, the folks at MOD Devices noticed that more and more people were using the MOD Duo as a desktop d...

LCR Panning Pros And Cons A Mixing State Of Mind The idea is simple: don’t use intermediate pan positions. Any given mono source can be panned hard left, hard right or straight down the middle. LCR panning isn’t so much a technique as a mindset that can lead you to more satisfying mixes. There can be a huge gulf between what trained and untrained ears hear when they listen to a track. Your average listener isn’t thinking “That guitar’s a bit edgy” or “Isn’t the conga fight...

Korneff Audio Pawn Shop Comp 2.0 Compressor Plug-in We check out Korneff’s vibey take on a tube‑laden FET compressor. Back in SOS August 2020 I reviewed Korneff’s Talkback Limiter, which was a wonderfully warm and teasingly tweakable model of SSL’s Listen Mic Compressor. Korneff have taken a similar ‘tweaker’s delight’ approach to their new Pawn Shop Comp 2.0, and while this a very different compressor — this time it’s a virtual FET compressor with tube amplificati...

Pro Tools: Ableton Link & Record Arm Avid Pro Tools Tips & Techniques We explore Ableton Link, record arm options and other new features from the 2020.9 update. Released in September, Pro Tools 2020.9 coincided with a new version of EuCon, and brought proper support for Folder Tracks in the Avid Control app. This, for me, has been the most significant new feature, though version 2020.9 also made some changes to the way Pro Tools works with Cloud services, as well as adding a couple of e...