Category: Gear

Samplephonics Ambient Soundspheres review

Checking out and ambient sound bed library from Samplephonics called Ambient Soundspheres for Kontakt, NN-XT, and EXS24 samplers as well as raw WAV files.


Music Production Masterclass w/ Zombie Disco Squad

We were very excited to welcome to the Point Blank studios DJ/producer Zombie Disco Squad to go through some of his tracks in Ableton Live and Cubase and start to build a new one from scratch.


Into The Lair #35 – Vocal Delay Techniques

Mixing Engineer Dave Pensado of Pensado’s Place teaches you how to do some unique delay techniques on lead vocals in the 35th edition of “Into The Lair”.


Ableton Tutorial – Sound Design Series – Dubstep Bass Morpher

Sampler’s morphing filter is unique amongst Live’s instrument collection so it makes sense to use it. Here Danny shows you how to add a special twist to a dubstep style mid bass layer instrument. In this part Danny takes a look inside the rack to show you the settings used on the morphing filter and…


SonicTALK 282 – The Last Thing I Learned

First up, Gaz tells us about his new Quneo and Sonuus Wahoo 01:48, a kind of multi-filter wah pedal on steriods, we talk bass drum mics with the news of the new AKG D12VR 10:53 , then Chiptunes come under the microscope with the Pianocade and the Chipophone 25:00, then we look at Impaktor 47:01…


Dave Smith Mopho VST editor overview

This is a follow up video to my Mopho synth review showing the VST/software editor for the DSI Mopho synthesizer


Apple Unveils the iPhone 5 and Redesigned iTunes

This morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the long-awaited iPhone 5. The smartphone boasts a bigger screen, a faster chip and a thinner frame, and it will be available on September 21st. During the press conference in San Francisco, Apple chief marketing officer Phil Schiller referred to the iPhone 5 as the thinnest smartphone on…


Dave Smith Mopho analog synthesizer review – SoundsAndGear

In this video I’m doing a review of the Mopho synthesizer from Dave Smith Instruments. It’s a monophonic analog synthesizer module that I’ve had for about a year. I love the aggressive analog sound it has, plus it doesn’t take up much space on my desktop. In this video I go through the front panel,…


Sonic TALK 281 – Mininova, Integra-7, Krome and Kamouflage

We talk MiniNova, Krome, Integra-7, New Maschines and Raspberry Pi Synths.


Review: NoiseKickFX Pedals

Amped editor Richard Beech takes a look at 2 dual-unit pedals made to measure for him by custom FX Pedal maker NoiseKickFX.