Music Tech Magazine - Issue 31
Get the best from your studio and Stephen Street on Blur, Morrissey and the Kaiser Chiefs.
Publish date: 14 September 2005
Issue 31 of Music Tech Magazine is out now in newsagents throughout the UK
In the issue
Being in the studio can be both an enjoyable and a stressful time for everyone involved. Keeping things running smoothly and ensuring everything is well recorded is the engineer’s responsibility. With a wealth of experience under his belt, Tim Crich knows a thing or two about recording, and in this issue he offers his advice on maintaining a smooth session in our Recording Tips For Engineers feature.
This month’s interviewees have worked with some of the biggest names in pop and rock, including The Smiths, Blur and most recently The Kaiser Chiefs. Producer Stephen Street and engineer Cenzo Townshend talk to us at length about their new project studio in a corner of London’s world-famous Olympic Studios, and how the setup influenced the sound of The Kaiser Chiefs' debut album Employment.
Compression is possibly the most essential of all the effects in the engineer’s arsenal. It can be used to subtly fix a wandering vocal into place or aggressively squash a drum loop. In the first instalment of Mark Cousins' Ultimate Guide To Compression, he rounds up The Essentials.
We’ve also taken an in-depth look at Ableton’s new Live 5 production environment this month, guiding you through the creative possibilities of all its new features.
In addition, there are two new Ten Minute Masters, covering The Decibel and Granular Synthesis and workshops for Cubase SX/SL3, Reason 3.0, Logic Pro 7 and Pro Tools LE.
In this month’s reviews we’ve been given an exclusive look at Mackie’s new Onyx 400F audio interface, which comes with Mackie’s top-of-the-range Onyx preamps, a FireWire connection and a bundled copy of Tracktion 2. We also take a look at the Apogee Rosetta 200 stereo converter, Yamaha AW1600 16-track hardware multitracker, TC Electronic G-System digital effects box and Mark Of The Unicorn’s new portable buss-powered Traveler interface, among many others.
On the DVD
Bösendorfer ‘96’ Piano
The PMI Bösendorfer ‘96’ Piano is a luxurious 24-bit/96kHz sampled piano for GigaStudio 3, Kontakt, HALion and Logic’s EXS24 mkII, as well as a 16-bit/44kHz version for GigaStudio 2 users. Like all PMI’s piano’s the ‘96’ sounds superb and we’re sure you’ll enjoy using it.
Ableton Live 5 demo
If you’ve been itching to get your hands on a copy of Ableton’s powerful production and performance tool, then now is your chance. No longer simply a live performance tool, Live 5 is carving a niche for itself as a powerful all-round production environment.
Liquid Sax demo
This sample instrument from Ueberschall powered by Celemony’s Melodyne engine is causing a stir. Create countless phrases from a single lick by altering the pitch, formants and note lengths without any loss of sound quality.
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