Computer Audio
Roli has revolutionized the keyboard with its cutting-edge Rise and Grand instruments, which utilize a unique, soft silicone surface that lets you shape sound intuitively through five dimensions of touch. Designed for everyone, BLOCKS is a versatile music-making system for beginners who have never taken a music lesson, to professionals who want to shape sound in new
If you’re an aspiring musician, music engineer, or music producer, there’s a good chance that you suffer from some form of gear addiction. There’s really no way around it, nor is there a good way to explain this to your non-musically inclined friends and family. The temptation to make that next gear purchase looms over you like a giant Grammy-shaped cloud—kind of like the uncontrollable urge you have to eat that additional, unnecessary slice of pizza that’s just sitting there in the box, staring at you, waiting patiently to be devoured.
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Arturia has crafted some well-received pieces of analog gear of late, and the company is at it again, with the Arturia DrumBrute—a full analog drum machine and sequencer; we at B&H are proud to announce that we carry this powerful, accessible device.
Building on the look and sonic palette of other offerings in
All year long, and especially around holidays, many of us have to travel—to our family homes, across cities, over oceans, enduring whatever the TSA throws at us each time, cramming ourselves into airborne Petri dishes while a pilot with the voice of Chuck Yeager slingshots us across the continents.
If that doesn’t sound fun, don’t worry: we at B&H have solutions to make the trip less painful—even more fruitful, if you’re a creative person in the audio sphere. After all, nothing speeds time like creative enterprise. So, whether you’re
Time is of the essence in Part 3 of this series—time-based effects, that is! Watch as Sonic Scoop’s Justin Colletti manipulates reverb and delay on a vocal track to craft a sense of ambiance, folding in classic slapback echoes and creating unique reverberations out of repeating delays. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other instructional and informative videos at BandH.com.
Sit down with Sonic Scoop’s Justin Colletti for this extended look at how to shape a vocal with EQ, dynamics manipulation, and automation. Some tricks Colletti employs in this video include multiple compression stages, level-riding, and harmonic distortion. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other instructional and informative videos at BandH.com.
In this video, Sonic Scoop’s Justin Colletti gives you several tips for greatly improving vocals in a mix, including how to use commercial references to gauge how loud to make a vocal track, when to use automation, what kinds of time-based effects to employ, and which frequency bands to concentrate on while applying EQ. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other instructional and informative videos at BandH.com.
Looking for an affordable way to control your monitors, talk back with musicians, and route audio to and from your computer? Then look no further than the Behringer Xenyx Control2USB, a high-end studio control and communication center with VCA control and an integrated USB audio interface. This all-in-one master volume
Have you ever looked at your piles and piles of MIDI equipment—some of it modern, some of it vintage—and thought, “Why can’t I somehow network all of these devices, so that I may have a seamless and powerful workflow that will merge, filter, and route my MIDI messages?” Well, if that sounds like you, look no further than the
New to B&H, the Boss RC-202 Loop Station is an advanced, compact tabletop looper that is designed for fingertip operation. Based on the RC-505 Loop Station, the RC-202 offers two simultaneous stereo phrase tracks with dedicated controls and loop-status indicators. There are four input FX and four track FX available simultaneously for processing loops
In the following “How To” video, Robert Rives demonstrates how to automate the parameters on a delay plug-in to create a dub-style feedback effect for a transitional break in an EDM style track. Rives shows you how to set up your tracks, buses, and the tape delay plug-in. Using touch automation, he records parameter automation for feedback delay, panning, high and low cut filters, and mute, to create a smooth breakdown. The results are polished and professional sounding. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of
Justin Colletti, from our partners at Sonic Scoop, sits down with recording legend Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, U2, Elton John, Beck) in the first part of a three-part interview. In the first installment, Chiccarelli shares some of his approaching to tracking and mixing, including when he knows to let someone else take over with fresh ears and mix an album he’s recorded. They delve into how recording and production create an emotional response to the music, and how Chiccarelli goes about achieving that goal.
Universal Audio has announced a new line of UAD-2 Satellites offering the rich analog sound of UAD-2 powered plug-ins over USB 3.0 on Windows with support for VST, RTAS, and AAX 64 formats. The satellites utilize SHARC processors that are offered in Quad and Octo Core formats with a number of plug-in packages including: Quad Core,
A well-designed room can make the difference between smooth sailing and major headaches down the road. With today’s technology, it doesn’t take thousands of dollars to get the gear needed to set up your home audio studio. Here are a few things (six steps) you should know before you start so that you can spare yourself some months of frustration and get it right from the very beginning.
Step 1: Choosing the Right Space
In the average household, you may have a selection of rooms to choose from. If you have only one option, that choice is
