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Featured Review A loudness reading is meaningful only when the measurement method matches the delivery requirements. Under ATSC A/85:2026, audio engineers need to distinguish dialogue-gated loudness from...
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Featured Review Audiomodern Riffer 4 is a generative MIDI sequencer built to create riffs, melodies, basslines, and arpeggios without requiring producers to enter every note manually. Its...
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VWB-1X by Black Rooster Audio: A Channel Strip Plugin That Trades Depth for Speed The idea behind every channel strip plugin is the same: reduce friction, speed up decisions, and keep everything in one place....
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Reason 14 Review: A Full Workflow Reset, New RV-9 Reverb, and a Late Push Back Into the DAW Race Reason 14 review is not about incremental updates. This release signals a structural rewrite of how...
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Pyramix 16 Review: A Precision DAW for Mastering, Spatial Audio, and Real Acoustic Workflows Pyramix 16 is not a mainstream DAW update. It’s a targeted engineering release built for a specific class of problems: phase...
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REFERENCE 3 Review: Is This the Smartest Mix Referencing Plugin or Just Another Crutch? Mix referencing has always been a discipline, not a feature. You compare, interpret, adjust, and repeat. That loop requires experience, not...
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Transport Vintage Tape — Not a Tape Emulator, But a Controlled Saturation Engine The release of Transport Vintage Tape by Iconic Instruments doesn’t follow the traditional tape plugin formula. It doesn’t aim to recreate a...
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New York is one of the few cities where polished label-level studio productions exist side by side with raw live recordings, fast demo drops, and beat-based singles released between shows. From Brooklyn home studios to...
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XLN Audio DB-30 Drum Butter — a faster way to shape drums without breaking your mix Modern drum processing is overloaded. Producers stack EQs, compressors, saturators, transient shapers, and limiters — and end up fighting...
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Harrison LiveTrax 3 — A Smarter Approach to Live Recording and Virtual Soundcheck Live recording has always been a compromise. Even with high-end consoles and experienced engineers, the reality is simple: what happens on stage...
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Accentize dxSplit Review: Rebuilding Dialogue Instead of Just Cleaning It There’s a hard truth in audio post: once dialogue is compromised, most tools can only make it “less bad.” They reduce noise, soften problems, and...
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