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Slate DigitalMakersDrumsByDavid Inspires Recording Drummers to Think Beyond Traditional Microphone Setups Using Slate Digital’s ML1A and ML2A Modeling microphones, the online drum educator demonstrates how a single recording setup can unlock a wide range of professional drum sounds and creative…

09.15

Slate DigitalMakersRoss Hogarth Never Leaves Home Without the Slate Digital Virtual Mix Rack Multi Grammy-Winning Producer/Mix Engineer on Making Classic Records in the Digital Era and Being a Slate Digital ‘OG’ Los Angeles, CA, August 19, 2026 —Producer/Engineer/Mixer Ross Hogarth is the…

08.20

Slate DigitalMakersParallel Compression Explained (and how to use it) Parallel compression is a mixing technique where you blend a heavily compressed copy of a track underneath the original, uncompressed signal.

08.03

Slate DigitalMakersWhat Is Gain Staging (and why your mix sounds muddy) Gain staging is the practice of setting an appropriate signal level at every stage of your recording and mixing chain, so nothing distorts unintentinally and nothing gets buried in noise.

07.23

Slate DigitalMakersHow to Build the Perfect Vocal Chain with Plugins A vocal chain is the sequence of plugins on your vocal track, in a specific order, from raw recording to finished mix.

06.18

Slate DigitalMakersVocal Tuning Without the Robot Voice: A Producer’s Guide Pitch correction has a branding problem. Mention vocal tuning to anyone outside the studio and they picture the T-Pain effect: glassy, quantized, the vocal sounding like a synth patch.

06.15

Slate DigitalMakersEric Emery Keeps Tracking Sessions Dialed in With Slate Digital ML-1A and Virtual Microphone System Slate’s large-diaphragm modeling microphone helps the Grammy-nominated producer and mix engineer maintain creative momentum, quickly matching the right microphone sound to every artist Los Angeles…

06.10

Slate DigitalMakersSlate Digital vs Waves: How To Pick the Right Plugin Suite What you get: Slate Digital’s Complete Access includes 180+ plugins. The catalog leans into analog-modeled processing: console emulations, tape machines, vintage compressors, EQs, and tools like…

05.11

Slate DigitalMakersHow we designed the Bus Clipper This article presents some technical aspects and challenges that we faced during the development of the Bus Clipper.

04.20

Slate DigitalMakersCome and see Slate Digital at NAMM 2026 NAMM 2026 is now less than a week away and we are hugely excited to see all of you at the show!We will be exhibiting from booth 18303 and will be showcasing our latest production tools: the ML-1A and…

01.16

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.