Looks like the 'big copyright' lobby (major labels, big film and TV studios) are being out-lobbied by big tech... Some kind of licensing system could work though, something akin to royalties whereby some of the revenue generated by AI 'artworks' goes back to the rights holders of the work it was ...

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Can you be any more specific? Do you mean the review in the June 2024 edition, or our Spotlight article on kick mics in September 2024?

Didn't Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure answer this question?

In a word, yes. In a few more words: you'll need to create a MIDI track in your DAW, and select the Launchkey as its input and the MiniFreak as its output, and set the MIDI track's input monitoring to 'on'. That way, MIDI notes, CCs etc from the Launchkey will pass through your MIDI track and then ...

Did you have the L-R button pressed in on channels 11/12? I note that the sub 1-2 strip has a 'To Phones/Ctrl Room' button, so it's entirely possible for your channel 11/12 signal to arrive at the control room, via the submix, without getting to the main L-R output. (Likewise, ch11/12 could easily ...

As the others have said, you need the L/R button pressed in on a channel if you want that channel to come out of the main mix. But the 'faders not doing anything' thing sounds like a PFL issue. Do you have the 'PFL Solo' button pressed in on those channels? Cos you shouldn't... L/R button pressed in ...

Had one for years, loved it, it went walkies after a gig

I'd venture that if a Neutrik jack plug and a socket aren't quite playing ball, it'll be the socket that's at fault!

I've always had a bit of a soft spot for them. They sound quite 'exciting', which suggests they're not the most accurate nearfields, but sometimes that's what you want (when writing rather than mixing, say). If you want to be inspired while you're noodling around with synths and whatnot, then I'd ...

Epic, surely, not EA? (If it had been the latter I'd have been even less surprised...)

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Have you considered one of those monitors that attaches to a mic stand? If compact is the name of the game then they'd be pretty hard to beat, and there's a few options now (the Galaxy Audio Hot Spot was the first, I think): https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/galaxy-pa6s https://www.soundonsound ...

That was fun. Shame you can't see the price go up exponentially in real time as you add extras though, like on the Apple website. For those curious, the largest you can spec is 72 channels plus DAW control section plus patchbay plus a single producer desk (in theory you can add a second producer ...

No point reading the mag if I have to look everything up on the manufacturer’s site. That's a little churlish... And by the same token, if published specs told you everything you needed to know about a product, there'd be no need for independent reviews. Besides, where on the JBL website would you r ...

I don't doubt that the image quality will be a huge leap forward, though. That'll be the key. Text legibility on current-gen headsets isn't great, especially when the text is being rendered on a virtual screen that's some distance away. My Mk1 Rift is pretty crap at it; not tried a Quest 1/2 yet (I ...

I once did sound for an electro-folk band whose percussionist had contrived, using a small contact mic, to put his spoons through a wah-wah pedal.

It sounded exactly like spoons going through a wah-wah pedal.

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thanks for the response, I was looking at getting a Soundcraft FX16ii Lovely little desks, those! A lot if channels and connectivity in a very small space, and decent effects too. You could always go for a Samson S-Patch patchbay. They've got switches on the front to change the normalling, so you ...

Is this something like how you envision we would use the step tone test files? I don't think so... The step-tone sequence is generally used to identify either 'hot/cold' spots in the room (ie. where not to put your studio chair!), or 'flat' spots (ie. where to put your subwoofer). If you want to be ...

I find the poll results surprising! 91% still using CDs to play music? Somewhat related: I had to pop down to the SOS Archive the other day to retrieve some hi-res photos we originally printed in 1997. I'd hoped to find the original transparencies or negatives but they are apparently lost to time ...

Especially on tunes where the acoustic is the prominent instrument That suggest a pretty sparse instrumentation generally (unlike, say, a full band arrangement with drums, bass, maybe another guitar or two...). There's potentially a huge amount of dynamic range in singer-guitarist solo pieces, so ...

The thing is, once you start adding things like user verification, escrow services, and listing fees and seller fees to pay for it all...

You've basically recreated eBay, which everyone hates.

Been there, done that!

There is a reason people swear by the Samson S-Patch, which has switches on the front for normal/half-normal/thru...

I knew one drummer that used words/phrases to guide his playing. A friend used to play in a klezmer band, and he insisted that every time signature could be rendered in terms of hummus and falafel. So, 5/8 can be either 'falafel-hummus' or 'hummus-falafel', depending on where you want the accents ...

I'm afraid I'm not that familiar with either the SL or Reaper, but the term that describes what you want to do is 'banks'. When you're controlling channels 1-8, you're in 'fader bank 1'; on most fader controllers there'd be 'bank up/down' buttons to select the next/previous batch of 8 channels. Your ...

If you use Kontakt a lot then the NI S Series controllers are great.

I'm attempting to use a compressor as an I/o insert across multiple tracks. Do you mean that you want to send multiple sources (multitrack drums, say, or a bunch of backing vocals) through the compressor at the same time, to be compressed together? If so, send them to a bus in Pro Tools and then ...