With the year coming to an end AES 2016 showcased quite a number of new products available in the market today. While AES was relatively small show the number of new products was quite high. Here are some of them showcased recently.
The AVID Pro Tools 12.6 with its new features allows change to the user’s workflow with new shortcuts and editing capabilities. Featured also is the debut of Legacy AXS by API selling their very first board during the event to a company in Brooklyn called Strange Weather. Another product announced by SHURE was their 5oth anniversary model of SM58 with its new look.
Read more here: http://www.mixonline.com/news/news-products/product-hits-aes-2016/428759
Recording Software
Functional Automation: The How To
The ultimate goal of functional automation is to fine tune any work that you have done. Every time you follow recommendations for EQing you will be dealing with we call as a filter. Filter deals with how a certain instrument would sound, the thickness, the depth etc. Now it is easy when there are multiple instruments playing like a guitar and a bass, for example, the sound simply fits together now the problem is when the instrument is playing alone. Sometimes it’s hard to make the sound come out thick in these situations, That’s where automating your filter comes to play
Read more here: http://en.audiofanzine.com/recording-mixing/editorial/articles/functional-automation.html
The Top Freeware Guitar 2017 Edition
With 2016 nearly closing and 2017 is just around the corner there are already a lot of reviews and predictions with regards to gear, instruments, software and of course freeware. Who would not want freebies especially to welcome the coming year, with that in mind here is a list of guitar freeware that tops the year and a must have for the coming one.
Guitar freeware consists of five amp and instrument based plug-ins here are the best downloads.
The Amplesound AGm Lite II, the lite version of a Martin Guitar Emulator. although its free and an upgrade would cost a $169 this freeware gives you pretty much proper emulation without really paying for it.
Read full list here: http://www.musictech.net/2016/10/best-freeware-guitar/
Measure Loudness With These 6 Metering Tools
Most engineers today are used to approximating loudness using Root Mean Square (RMS), which a measure of average loudness using math that you probably don’t want to know about. Mastering professionals though prefer Loudness Unit (LU) metering tools. Here are the best 6 metering tools, according to MusicTech, that you can use to measure loudness. And you don’t even have to be a mastering engineer to use them:).
One of their choices is Insight by iZotope. It’s one of the most comprehensive tools available in the market today. It has a wide range of loudness meters available. The “meter tap” allows comparison of channels.
LM1n by TC Electronics is another choice. It’s the simplest of TC Electronics line of metering tools
Read more about it here: http://www.musictech.net/2016/10/loudness-meters/
EQ-Ing With Cubase
EQ-ing is very important for any audio or video project, learning to do it properly gives you the capacity to do even more with less effort and time. Even the slightest adjustments to your EQ can produce the proper sounds despite lacking in other aspects.
Cubase a digital audio workstation (DAW), a software package for recording and producing live audio. This same software carries a number of EQ’s you can use for your projects. Learning to use them properly will give you the advantage in doing so.
The first step is configuring your EQ, Cubase has a parametric EQ found in the Inspector panel.
You can continue reading here: https://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/all-about-eq–cms-27385