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DiGiCo’s Quantum338 is a Boon for The Blessing USA Tour with Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes USA – One of the most highly anticipated tours in the contemporary Christian music world this year is The Blessing USA Tour, pairing six-time GMA Dove Award winner Kari Jobe and husband/partner Cody Carnes. Kicking off in Pittsburgh on 15 April and culminating in Brandon, Mississippi on 18 June, the tour is taking the celebrated singer-songwriter duo on a 24-city run of shows at large houses of worship a...

The ABC Of MPE You’ve probably heard of MPE, but what exactly is it and what can it do for you? You’d be forgiven for thinking that MIDI had largely remained unchanged since its inception and widespread adoption back in the mid‑1980s. Indeed, the core functions of MIDI have remained steadfast, meaning that a synth made back in 1985 can still be played by a DAW released last month. MPE, or MIDI Polyphonic Expression, became part of the official MIDI specification back in 2018 and has bee...

Unplugged I mixed a song recently for a friend who has a bare‑bones Pro Tools rig. He wanted to use my project as a template for the rest of his album, so we came up with a plan. I would mix a representative song using only the bundled Pro Tools plug‑ins, and use the Comments field in each track to explain what I was doing with them. I hope the experience was as educational for him as it was for me. Sam Inglis.Putting 95 percent of your plug‑ins off‑limits, and describing in be...

Kali Audio IN-5 Kali’s latest nearfield design offers an unprecedented amount of monitor for the money. Back in SOS May 2020, I reviewed the dual‑coincident, three‑way Kali Audio IN‑8 monitor and concluded that, although it wasn’t without faults, it was extraordinary value for money. Now, with the introduction of the IN‑5, Kali have dropped the entry price for a dual‑coincident, three‑way monitor even lower. If I had an adjective beyond ‘extraordinary’ to describe apparen...

Pro Tools 2021.3 The 2021.3 update brings limited Big Sur compatibility, and more besides. At the end of March, Avid released Pro Tools version 2021.3. While the preceding 2020.12 update brought with it some really significant new features, particularly Audio to MIDI and the integration of Melodyne, 2021.3 is more focused on OS compatibility for Mac users, bringing as it does limited support for Big Sur. Unlike most OS releases where ‘support’ means exactly that, in the case of Big Sur some...

22:00 Musician Oliver Wood is releasing his first solo album, called “Always Smilin.’” It features the mix of sounds and styles and catchy vocals Wood has pursued over many years with The Wood Brothers, as well as a variety of new collaborations. Its been such a strange year for most musicians. What have you been up to? Well, I had a lot of time on my hands without the usual touring that we musicians do and that I usually spend, you know, 130 days a year out in the world. So to be home wa...

Avid Pro Tools Carbon review 17th May 2021 What is it? Avid Pro Tools | Carbon is a DSP-based audio interface/DAW system that brings many of the advantages of Pro Tools HDX at a lower price point. What s great? Latency-free recording. Seamless integration into Pro Tools. Mix and match DSP and Native plugins. All preamplifier, monitoring and other interface parameters are stored in the Pro Tools session. Excellent quality pre- and headphone amplifiers. What s not? Might be too expensive f...

Rolling Stone Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall Perform ‘In His Arms’ on ‘Colbert’ Trio released the rustic By Marfa Tapes track “In His Arms.” The trio gave the simple, sweet song an appropriate set-up, playing guitar and singing in front of a wood-beam backdrop surrounded by Edison bulbs. “Is he playing in some house band in Dallas?/Is he breaking horses in San Antone?” Lambert sang. “Is he all alone in the neon light?/I wish I was in his arms tonight.” ...

The aged wisdom of Patient Zeros punk Rock and roll is not a young man’s game when it comes to the intensity of the music, as Patient Zero has proven with its combined age of 191 years. Author: By Alan Brostoff People say that rock and roll is a young man’s game; well, no one told that to the group Patient Zero. These three punks total 191 years on this planet with the youngest being a spry 51 years old.  Get to know this new energetic force as David Cimino (drummer), Rooster Knack (gu...

I switch on the old TEAC reel-to-reel, thread the tape spools, sit back and listen to a 24-year-old Bob Dylan conjure up a dystopian mindscape he imagined midway through the ‘60s: “They’re selling postcards of the hanging, they’re painting the passports brown.” Here in the lee of the pandemic, these words appear prophetic, as alive today as when they were written. But not only is my equipment old, and I shall wear my trousers rolled, but the Bard of Hibbing turns 80 thi...