Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

[Special Review] About Right Lok and Load 2.1

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

It's been some time since the Moozek preview of the unique DAW plug-in manager Lok and Load. A lot has happened, and a new version was released. We were offered the new version for reviewing, and I made sure an unbiased review was written about this new application with a ...

Pro Tools for Leopard: Ultimate Reason to Upgrade to 10.5?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

As you might know by now Pro Tools 7.4.2 is out, supporting Mac OS X 10.5.3 and 10.5.4 . But if you don't know, and if you purchased 7.4 and Leopard, you can run and download it. It has been running pretty stable, but then again, it wasn't extensively tested. Even though ...

Super Review: Yamaha HS50M - The new NS-10M?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Yamaha is attempting (again) to replace the legendary standard, and studio owners and engineers appear to be accepting it! The latest Alter Bridge album, Blackbird, was mixed in Nashville on a pair of HS80M. Are the HS Series going to be the new nearfield monitors of the if-it-sounds-good-here-sounds-good-on-anything type? Read ...

Corporate Censorship at Digidesign?

Friday, December 28th, 2007

After some user complaints of pointless post censorship at the Digi User Conference (Digidesign's official user support forum) we registered to ask for troubleshooting info with 7.4, and engage in some online digi discussion. We almost believed the myth was busted after a quite healthy and normal interaction with other ...

Gracenote Music Map - Statistics for the Music Business

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Gracenote makes a music popularity world map, where you can check top artists and album charts by geographical location, in most countries (at least definitely all countries that actually have an influence in international music sales, and then some). All you need is to have the Flash plug-in in your browser, ...

Line 6 Spider Valve - The True Hybrid

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Line 6 teamed up with all-tube amp maker Reinhold Bogner and released a pleasant surprise to all faithful lovers of the "authentic tone": tubes. 12AX7 in the preamp, 6L6 in the power amp, and even Celestion Vintage 30 speakers for the cabinets and combos. All tube Bogner-branded gear for ...

Waves Guitar Tool Rack 3 vs. IK Multimedia Amplitube 2

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Waves GTR3 (Guitar Tool Rack) is out and no one made a lot of fuss about Digidesign Eleven – Sorry Digidesign, but the demos seem to suggest it's another average amp modeler. But not GTR! That one sure sparked a lot of interest at AES 2007 in the field of high ...