Bobby Owsinski

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Bobby OwsinskiVoicesLet’s Try Something New You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t posted nearly as much here lately as I used to. Some of that is the fact that I’m a lot busier now than I was, but a big part is the fact the blog traffic for…

September 21

Bobby OwsinskiVoicesSound Design And Vintage Synths With Nick Peck On My Latest Podcast Episode On this week’s episode, On this week’s episode, Nick Peck shows how a veteran audio director builds iconic effects from field recording to final mix.

September 15

Bobby OwsinskiVoicesNew Music Gear Monday: Korneff Audio Sound Techniques Alpha Range Channel Plugin There’s no shortage of console emulations available to us these days. Neve, API, SSL and Trident have all been modeled to death, and most of us have a favorite we reach for when a track needs some…

September 14

Bobby OwsinskiVoicesMixing Business Coaching With Michael Morgan On My Latest Podcast On this week’s episode, Mixing Business Coach Michael Morgan explores why building a sustainable mixing career requires a clear business system, not just great technical skills or the latest…

September 8

Bobby OwsinskiVoicesNew Music Gear Monday: Harrison Audio Flex-10 USB/ADAT Interface Most desktop interfaces are designed to disappear into the background of your desk. Most sit nicely under your monitor, but make you open a control panel app whenever you want to change a setting.

September 7

Bobby OwsinskiVoicesEngineer/Producer Bruce Sugar On Working With Ringo, Joe Walsh, And Ozzy On My latest Podcast On this week’s episode, veteran producer, engineer, and Grammy nominee Bruce Sugar explains why staying relevant means embracing new tools without sacrificing the feel and emotion that make music…

September 1

Bobby OwsinskiVoicesNew Music Gear Monday: Sonible smart:chain Intelligent Channel Strip Plugin If you’ve ever mixed a session with a dozen or more instruments, you know what happens. Every channel gets its own EQ, its own compressor, maybe a gate on some of the drums and a de-esser for the…

August 31

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.