Category: Gear

Into The Lair #43 – Working With Multiple Instrument Tracks

In the 43rd Into The Lair, Dave Pensado shows you how he makes multiple instrument (in this example, distorted guitar) tracks fit together in a mix.


Sonic Logic Demo on Ableton Live

Sonic Logic is a modular MIDI controller for iPad, it allows you to make a MIDI setup live from your iPad and control an external DAW with it (like Ableton, Traktor, Logic Pro etc…)


Moog Unveils 24k Gold Synth

Today, Moog Music announced the release of the limited edition 10th Anniversary Minimoog Voyager. Moog created this 24 Karat gold Voyager with the finest materials, as a testament to American craftsmanship. The company is handcrafting 31 of these analog works of art, but only 30 are available for purchase worldwide. As a thank you to…


Sonic TALK 288 – I Want To Ride My Badger

Of course we first look at the new Apple products 05:00, then a great fly on the wall video with Queen in the studio – hence the Brian May reference26:30, Native Instruments Action Strings 38:30 and a photo is worth a thousand words… 48:45


Bitwig Studio Beta video – VST support and plugin crash protection.


Pandora Goes Ad-Free For Windows 8 Phone

At the beginning of 2013, Pandora will be ad-free for all Windows 8 owners throughout the entire year. I think this is a good marketing plan, but I am not sure how much it will drive sales. It is definitely a good start to create attention for the newest phone from Microsoft. I also wondered how they…


Sonic TALK 287 – Gaga BoomStar

We are joined by Andy Shillito fresh back from engineering The Darkness supporting Lady Gaga, we talk of his work then how do you add tracks to a live gig recording, Felix Baumgartner’s incredible leap and what are the musical equivalents, the Studio Electronics Boomstar synths. Gaz tells us about his 12hour long single.


Into The Lair #42 – Working with Bass and Kick Drums

In this week’s ITL, Dave shows you how to make sure your kick drum and bass are working well together in the mix.


Ableton Live 8 – Set Drum Rack samples to oneshot by default

I did a video a while ago showing how to chop samples like an MPC in Ableton Live. In that video I showed how to create a default setting for Drum Rack samples to oneshot by default. I get a lot of questions on how to do this in Live 8, so here’s a video…


Sonic TALK 286 – Pringles Drumkit Soundboobscloud

Dave Robinson editor of Prosoundnewseurope.com, Dave Spiers – Gforce Software and Mark Tinley – sound artist. We talk – dream studio, soundcloud and ghetty buddy up to create new music library, Sound Forge on OS X, Pringles Drumkit.