Many of you know Benchmark Media's chief engineer, John Siau. The latest issue of Sound on Sound August 2022 just did a review of his amazing headphone amp. His Benchmark DAC1 and its successors are well known in mastering, mixing, and listening rooms worldwide. I am sorry to report that John's son,...

I have not heard the Barefoot MM45 but I compared the Focal Trios to my Focal Twins in my studio. They like the MM45's separate out the instruments a little more than the Twins. This is supposed to allow you to fine tune things better with the different instruments being on their own separate plane....

There are disadvantages of USB. Most annoying is not having a piece of gear switched on when my DAW starts up, which then generates an error in the DAW, requiring a shut-down/re-launch. I have a few USB/MIDI adapter cables to pull a few non-USB items into the fold, but unless each cable is from a d...

I have a Roland Jupiter X and Roland FP 90-X keyboards. Both have USB connections and they seem to work just fine connected to Cubase when I record midi through the USB. On my older Roland D50 I of course have to use my Motu box. It seems the big advantage of staying with the midi boxes is you can r...

The Roland FP-90X replaced the FP 90 with a more powerful chip that helps provide unlimited polyphony. It has Dual, Split, and Twin Piano keyboard modes as well as dual headphone outputs. MIDI. Bluetooth and USB, for wireless streaming to and from your smart device and integration with your computer...

The Focal Clear Professional open back headphones came out in 2017. We see now in about 4 years they updated them with the new Clear MG Professional. The the sound is very close to the original Clear's which had received high praise by many. The only difference between Clear MG's and Clear MG Pro ve...

I would love to own the PMC 6-2 but costing $8,500 for my project studio monitors is too much. It looks like the Barefoot MM45's are one of the better choices in my price range

[ACCOUNT DELETED] wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:56 pm What I don't understand about the UF8 is no transport buttons, why did they do that?

With the Key1 pushed, the transport controls are on the top buttons and they work well With 2 controllers, I keep the one UF8 on Softkey 1 and use the 2nd one on different favorite commands.

I currently have the Focal Twins and Focal sub and my mixes come out the way I and clients expect them to be. I have had them since 2010 and I think its about time to update my monitors. I tried the Focal Trio's. They do provide more separation with the instruments and improved front to back, but th...

https://www.soundonsound.com/news/new-monitor-range-pmc The PMC 6-2 really caught my eye. A 3 way PMC in this lower price range has never been done before. I am hopeful they are as good as I think they will be. I have heard the Two Two 6's and liked them a lot. I hope this new 6-2 three way monitor ...

If you think the UF8 is too expensive, they added in the Drum and Vocal channel plug ins from SSL with a purchase of the UF8. So your getting a bit more for your money.

I had the Mackie Controller and Expander in my studio for many years and I figured it was time to try out the new SSL UF8 controller. I will get to the negative news first. There are no dedicated transport controls or jog wheel. Currently the fader volume number does not show up in the scribble stri...