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BOOM LibraryStudios & prosWhy We Made UBERBASS Learn more about the story behind UBERBASS, with Axel Rohrbach, who led its development, explaining how it works.

10.13

BOOM LibraryStudios & prosTactical Guns: Why It Was Time To Create Another Firearms Library TACTICAL GUNS features 25 weapons, chosen by who uses them and why, not by era or type. Learn all about what makes this library so special.

09.17

BOOM LibraryStudios & prosThe Story Behind BOOM Library’s Magic UI Product lead Benjamin Drumeaux tells more about the development process of MAGIC UI, and how to make a fantasy interface believable.

09.01

BOOM LibraryStudios & prosDesigning ROAD RAGE From the Inside Out Product Manager Patrice Börding led the recordings of ROAD RAGE. In this blog, he tells more about the idea behind the product and how it was developed.

07.30

BOOM LibraryStudios & prosWhy Sound Designers Need a Different Transient Tool Product lead Jannik Hähn about how our transient shaper plugin TRANSFORCE came together and the unique feature set and philosophy behind it.

06.18

BOOM LibraryStudios & prosSOUND DESIGN MASTER CLASS: Fight Scene Watch James David Redding III creating the sounds for a fight sequence. What you see is every decision made in real time, from the first ambience drop to the final mix.

06.15

BOOM LibraryStudios & prosDavid Philipp on Building MECHS & ROBOTS Product lead David Philipp talks about how MECHS & ROBOTS came together and what separates it from anything else in this category.

05.28

BOOM LibraryStudios & prosRecording Autumn Where And When It Actually Happens Learn more about the creative approach for SEASONS OF EARTH - EUROPEAN AUTUMN, how we recorded it and how we created it for professionals.

03.12

BOOM LibraryStudios & prosA Guide For Those Designing Sounds For Immersive Audio In this article, Hyunkook Lee shares his findings about immersive audio and how sounds should be designed, layered and routed in Atmos and other 3D environments.

02.27

BOOM LibraryStudios & prosSix Disaster Movies That Showcase Exceptional Sound Design These six disaster movies showcase what is possible when sound design is given the space to contribute fully to the storytelling.

02.20

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.