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Felt Instruments Blisko Collection Felt Instruments’ Blisko Collection offers a unique blend of sound and motion. There is a particularly austere and engaging aesthetic to Felt Instruments products, which seemingly emerges straight from the soil of Polish culture. Trapped for years behind the Iron Curtain, the country managed to maintain a unique cultural and international profile instead of just melting into a larger Soviet soup. Despite strict censorship (or perhaps in spite of it), gre...

Native Instruments Maschine+ Is the Maschine+ the standalone music‑making box you’ve always dreamed of? The arms race of beat production workstations has come full circle. In 2009 the first Maschine took cues from Akai Pro’s MPCs, but by moving all the hard work to an attached computer NI opened up the scope of what was possible. Maschine had access to processing power and plug‑ins, and could slot into the DAWs that had become the primary workspace for many producers. Akai found themsel...

Reason Mixer: Adding Analogue Warmth Reason Tips & Techniques We explore a couple of ways to add analogue warmth with the Reason Mixer. I’ve been thinking about how many people like to bring a little analogue warmth to their in‑the‑box mixes, and whether this was something you could do with just Reason’s stock toolkit. This is also a good excuse to revisit one of the underused features in the standalone Reason app: the Mixer’s Inserts section. Some DAWs have analogue console o...

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...