Audio Technology

Hans Zimmer is the godfather of modern Hollywood film scoring. With a seemingly bottomless creative wellspring, Zimmer is renown for his emotive and dramatic scores that weave sound to sight with the bombast of a floor-to-ceiling tapestry. If his nam

www.questaudio.com.au Quest Audio has built the QX-280 series from the ground up to withstand the demands of a commercial environment. The class D technology makes it possible to have a compact single rack format with the right combination of power

Some people’s legacies are written into history so indelibly that it will be impossible to forget their achievements. Geoff Emerick was one of those. As an engineer on the most storied record in music history, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, h

US$399 | www.antelopeaudio.com Antelope has released the much awaited AFX2DAW plug-in for its Zen Tour, Orion Studio and Orion Studio Rev.2017 interfaces. The AFX2DAW plug-in essentially acts as a software bridge, allowing you to utilise the process

$599 | www.astonmicrophones.com Stealth is the newest mic from Aston Microphones, and is unique in a number of ways. Similar to the Origin, Stealth was developed in partnership with more than 90 top engineers, producers and artists on the Aston 33 d

I have worked with quite a few spatial audio tools and plug-ins and the SoundField plug-in by Rode really impresses me. Partially because of its functionality, but more because Rode seems to have gotten so much right on the first try. There is a func

Adam Dempsey has been mastering new projects for ALLIPHA, Georgie Currie, Dandecat, Grand Pine, Harrison King & The Lost Tribe, Ronan Nicholson, noti., Karl Straub (USA), Grace Turner, Vanderlay, Velvet Bloom, and kicked off the new year with album t

Traditionally the voice of those wielding ‘real instruments’ as their axe, Australian Musician (in association with the Australian Music Association), hosted the first instalment of the Melbourne Synth Festival providing a fitting finale to Melbourne

TGX represents a bold assault on the touring markets by Bosch. There’s plenty of headline features, and is an impressive demonstration of a huge engineering-based multi-national like Bosch flexing its R&D muscles. This is the first point to make: the

Continuing a long association with software developer Brainworx, the BX-Masterdesk steps up the UAD platform’s digital mastering capabilities. Again eschewing any one classic design’s footprint, the Masterdesk combines useful features from a number o

Here we are, at the final stage of the vocal process — mixing. Previously, we’ve gone over recording and editing the perfect vocal take, but before we move on, let’s add some doubles and harmonies to the pie. A ‘standard’ approach would be to have yo

These days I’m opening more VR headsets and gaming console packaging than microphones. Sleek and shiny boxes are par for the course when trying to catch the eye of the would-be consumer; less packing foam and more ‘presentation display’. With one eye