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Archive for August, 2010

Pioneer DJM-2000

[ 0 ] 2010/08/18

Taking this mighty mixer out of the box is quite incredible. It’s a heavy, wide and very robust feeling unit with a 5.8-inch dual-touch touchscreen interface and central effects section dominating the majority of the space. It’s designed to sit flush alongside the CDJ-2000s, and Pioneer has mirrored the same slanted-front design. When you’re in [...]

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Blackbox M10

[ 0 ] 2010/08/18

Although conventional wisdom has it that mixing on headphones is A Bad Idea – because sound is piped directly into each ear, you don’t get the left/right bleed that comes from using monitors – the popularity of laptops, iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices means that most of us now do at least some of [...]

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Thermionic Culture Little Bustard

[ 0 ] 2010/08/16

The rackmounted summing mixer has recently become the premier means of getting your in-the-box mix out of the box for some wholesome analogue conditioning before it goes back into the box. Thermionic Culture responded to this trend with typical aplomb by issuing the impressive Fat Bustard. To expand that unit’s 12 channels (via the Aux [...]

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Novation Dicer

[ 0 ] 2010/08/13

Now that most manufacturers have done the generic MIDI controller to death, we’re seeing the next wave of controllers, designed for specific jobs or even specific software functions. In our opinion, this is definitely a good thing, as we’d rather have something doing one job well than something else doing a lot of things, but [...]

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Yamaha CP1

[ 0 ] 2010/08/13

Yamaha have, it’s fair to say, always been at the forefront of stage piano technology. The first pianos to wear the CP badge were the now-classic CP70/80 electric grands, adopted by many big-name artists over the years. As with the recently-launched Roland V Piano, the Yamaha CP1 uses modelling technology (combined with sampling) to capture [...]

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MeldaProduction MMultiBandDistortion

[ 0 ] 2010/08/10

This Melda plug-in is billed as being for processing guitars and synths, but with a possibly wider range of uses thanks to its deep structure. The multiband and modulation aspects of MMultiBandDistortion are identical to MMultiBandChorus, which we recently looked at, so we won’t labour the point here. Suffice to say, the plug-in offers up [...]

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MXL Drum Microphones

[ 0 ] 2010/08/10

MXL microphones are manufactured by American technology giant Marshall Electronics (not to be confused with the legendary British guitar amps). Well known around the rest of the world, MXL mics are now being distributed in the UK by Bedfordshire-based pro recording specialist musictrack. For review, musictrack sent a selection of four mid-range models, all of [...]

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MeldaProduction MMultiBandChorus

[ 0 ] 2010/08/09

It’s not often that we see a worthwhile new spin on an established effect, but MeldaProduction’s MMultibandChorus is just that. It utilises up to six fully adjustable bands, each being essentially a separate chorus effect working on a specific frequency range. On first loading the plug-in, a single band covers the entire frequency spectrum, so [...]

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