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Talkback: Dani Bennett Spragg Despite still being resident at London’s Hoxa HQ, 24 year‑old British‑American engineer Dani Bennett Spragg spends much time at Toast Studios as accomplice to legendary analogue obsessive Craig Silvey. Recipient of the 2019 MPG Breakthrough Engineer of the Year award, Bennett Spragg began her career as a teenager, assisting on records by Kurt Vile, Foals and Trent Reznor. She soon went on to work as a fully-fledged engineer with such artists as Baxter Dury,...

Acustica Audio Gainstation The kings of dynamic convolution take on producer Mike Dean’s signal chain. Gainstation is a collaboration between Italian plug‑in developers Acustica Audio and Studio DMI, this time involving producer Mike Dean (Kanye West, Jay Z, Travis Scott, Drake). Described as a “distortion and creative sound mangling device”, it’s Acustica’s first dedicated distortion plug‑in and its aim is to provide a quick and easy tool for adding “power, juice and dimens...

Recording an instrument you’ve not encountered before can seem daunting. Here’s a rule of thumb that guarantees a decent result every time.

DOF published two decrees that establish the NICOs and the tariff correlation charts of the LIGIE tariff. Also, on Dec. 27, 2020, two additional decrees were published in the DOF. In the first decree, certain HS Codes of the First and Second Articles of the decree published on Nov. 17, 2020, were amended (modified, added and derogated). 4 The second decree modified the Single Article of the decree published on Nov. 18, 2020, to add the correlations of the pending HS Codes. With the NICOs in fo...

Talkback: Marcus Hamblett Over the last decade, Brighton‑based producer and multi‑instrumentalist Marcus Hamblett has appeared on albums by everyone from Bear’s Den to This Is The Kit. He now sits among the staple personnel of Justin Vernon’s ever‑developing PEOPLE festival movement, with the track ‘Stavesynth’ — performed on a software instrument Hamblett used to turn the voices of folk trio the Staves into a keyboard instrument — appearing on Vernon and Aaron Dessner�...

Inspired Acoustics Inspirata The evolution of convolution takes several steps forward with Inspired Acoustics’ awe‑inspiring immersive reverb. It’s amazing how a technology that seems mature can turn out to be anything but. Not so long ago, it seemed, we were all pretty happy as long as our plug‑ins could do a passable impression of a Lexicon, or implement convolution without melting our CPUs. Yet over the last few years, plug‑in reverb has evolved beyond recognition. Only last mon...

Roland TR-06 & TR-6S Roland’s unsung TR‑606 is the inspiration for their newest drum machines. Roland love a themed day, but unfortunately missed June 6th for the launch of their three new 606 related products. They could have called it Rule of Six day, but I’m not sure if that would have been funny outside of the UK. Or in the UK. Anyway, the Boutique range now has the full trinity of classic synth‑voiced drum machines with the addition of the TR‑06. This is complemented by the plug...

Reproducer Epic 5 We put German company Reproducer’s unusual debut nearfield speaker to the test. Reproducer was a completely new name for me when a review enquiry landed in my inbox. A bit of digging, however, revealed that the company were founded in Germany in 2016, and in January 2020 launched a two‑model range of active monitors comprising the nearfield Epic 5 and the midfield Epic 55. The first of those is the subject of this review. First impressions of the Epic 5 are positive ri...

We explore Remix FX, which brings together many of the real‑time audio processing tools available in Logic under a new streamlined single interface.

Pro Tools: Bus & Group Compression Avid Pro Tools Tips & Techniques Screen 1: The green fader works like a group fader on a traditional analogue mixer, controlling the levels of all the channels that are being fed through it. The light blue fader on the right is a VCA fader: it doesn’t actually pass audio, it simply tells the faders within the group what level they should be. For simple setups they work identically, but as things get more complex the comparison falls apart. We explore B...