Interview: Roger Lomas
Roger Lomas is a Grammy Award–winning producer from my home town of Coventry. He has produced records for key 2-Tone/Ska bands that the city is well known for including Coventry’s own The Specials and...
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Interview: Chris Sheldon
Chris Sheldon is a prolific rock mixer/producer based in London. His credits include Foo Fighters, Roger Waters, Pixies, Garbage, Biffy Clyro, Feeder, and Skunk Anansie. I’ve been a long time admirer of Chris’s mixing...
Pro Tools – Auxes the easy way
After watching so many students of mine do this the loooooong way. Here is a quick guide to make setting up auxiliaries and sends the most efficient way.
Digital Gain Staging with VU Meters
Tired of misinformation about using a VU meter for digital gain staging? so was I so I made a quick video about it.
Careers in Music Part Three: Going Freelance
This post talks about the daunting step of leaving your employed studio job and into the world of freelancing. So, you’ve got a job at a studio and all is going well, but you are...
Careers in Music Part Two: First Studio Job
In this entry I’ll concentrate on leaving university and the first steps in my personal journey to working in the music industry. This is by no means the only way, but it will provide...
Careers in Music Part One: University
In this 3 part series of blogs, I want to take you through the process of how I got to where I am in the music industry today; from university, to being employed in...
Unity Audio — The Rock
For many years Unity Audio have distributed some of the finest bespoke audio gear; this includes many of the most lauded and popular nearfield monitors. So when in 2009 they announced that they would...
Slate Digital — FG-X
APT have previously analysed and reviewed most of the limiters on the market, with Fab Filters Pro-L and PSP’s Xenon coming out on top. However, there is a newer contender to the already cluttered...
Unity Audio — The Boulder
A few months ago, I had the privilege of reviewing Unity Audio’s first speaker design, the near field monitor The Rock. After rave reviews (not just from APT), Unity Audio decided that they should...
sE Electronics — Voodoo VR1 Passive Ribbon Microphone
Over the short period that SE Electronics have been active in the pro-audio industry, they’ve been consistently lauded for their excellent microphones sold at an affordable price. Their strategy is simple: they sell their...
Prism Sound — Orpheus
For years now Prism Sound has been creating arguably some of the finest A/D D/A converters in existence. So it was a shock to me that they had entered into the vastly overpopulated realm...
