Updated Sept 2026: my Feb 2024 Kontrol S61 MK3 review, kept as written, plus an UPDATE on NI's on-device MIDI templates, Play Assist and arpeggiator, and firmware 2.0 and 2.1.2.
The Ultimate Shield for Your Rigs: Are These the Last Cases You’ll Ever Buy? Let's be honest: most musicians treat their gear like children until the moment it gets loaded into the trailer. Then it's bumper cars. We spend thousands on our instruments, amps, and effects,
Hey Gear Mortals, Alex Nasla here, and today we're checking out iZotope's Ozone 12. For those of you who aren't familiar, Ozone has been the de facto mastering suite for damn near everyone. Bedroom producers, mix engineers, mastering engineers, for the better part of 25
The Hands-On Console You Can Actually Fit in Your Studio I live in the world of music production, and I spend a ridiculous amount of time inside DAWs, sculpting mixes for bands, making records, and teaching others how to do the same in Spectre Academy. Over the
Uncovering the Detail Hiding in Your Mixes In the world of heavy music production, our tools need to be surgical. We spend hours sculpting high-gain tones, dialing in sub-bass impact, and wrestling with triple-digit track counts. When it comes to monitoring, traditional studio headphones often fall
I tested Synchro Arts VocAlign Pro 6 in Cubase Pro 13 and Logic Pro on doubles, gang vocals and harmonies. It lined up about 95% of them. Here is what's new and what to know.
Alex Nasla reviews the Stealth Sonics C9 custom IEMs: a tighter seal and better sound than his UE Reference Remastered, for mixing and live performance.
