Making Music https://making-music.com/ Music hardware & software reviews, guides and news Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:27:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://making-music.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-Making-Music-logo-512w-32x32.jpg Making Music https://making-music.com/ 32 32 39023228 Arturia Pigments 3 review https://making-music.com/arturia-pigments-3-review/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 15:01:31 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42269 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture Is this just another Arturia Pigments review? Not really… Developing as a musician is a curious phenomenon. In theory, the fundamentals of music theory can be broken down into a set of rules that are quite mechanical and mathematical. But if we’re all playing by the […]

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]]> 42269 Roland TR6s Ableton Template https://making-music.com/roland-tr6s-ableton-template/ Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:21:34 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42261 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture The Roland TR6s is rocking our world. This fantastic little drum machine packs (almost) the same punch as the larger TR8s but at a price point that is a total bargain. Sure there are fewer tracks and a few of the TR8 features are missing, but […]

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]]> 42261 Review: Aston Element Studio Microphone https://making-music.com/review-aston-element-studio-microphone/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:48:09 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42243 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture Available from: Aston Microphones Cost (at time of publication): £159/€179/$199 A Brief Introduction Aston Microphones are troublemakers. I don’t mean that in a bad way, I just mean they want to shake things up a bit. They haven’t released a glut of ‘identikit’ microphones over their […]

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]]> 42243 Aston Microphones announce another giant-killer – ELEMENT https://making-music.com/aston-microphones-announce-another-giant-killer-element/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:46:53 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42234 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture In the world of music gear, all manufacturers like to claim world firsts. Everyone likes to think they’re breaking the mold and offering the universal something truly unique. Sadly this is often a fanciful embellishment of the truth. But sometimes, it’s true, and frequently that truth […]

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]]> 42234 Review: sE Electronics V Pack Arena https://making-music.com/review-se-electronics-v-pack-arena/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 11:27:57 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42207 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture Manufacturer: sE Electronics RRP (at time of publication) GB£899.99/US$999/EU€999 The idea of multiple microphones from the same manufacturer being made into a specialist pack is not a new one. It’s also a tricky path to tread as every engineer has their own favourite tried and tested […]

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]]> 42207 Aston Microphones massively crowd-tested new microphone moves to phase 2 https://making-music.com/aston-microphones-massive-crowd-tested-new-microphone-moves-to-phase-2/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:35:34 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42201 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture It’s hardly news, but here at Making-Music.com we are big fans of pretty much everything that Aston Microphones get involved in. First to wow us was their absolutely brilliant reflection filter, the Halo. Then we got hold of their capacitor microphone, the Origin. We were so […]

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]]> 42201 Views From The Desk III – Five vocal microphones everyone should consider https://making-music.com/views-from-the-desk-3-five-vocal-microphones-everyone-should-consider/ Thu, 14 May 2020 17:27:09 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42176 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture Calling all singers! So, I’ve in worked live sound as part of my career in the industry for longer than I care to remember. I’ve seen guitarists and drummers, keyboard players and bassists arrive for gigs and unload from their cars, vans and shopping trolleys (oh […]

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]]> 42176 News: Aston Element Microphone https://making-music.com/news-aston-element-microphone/ Fri, 01 May 2020 16:31:41 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42149 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture Have you ever wanted to design or build a piece of musical equipment but never had the chops with a soldering iron to do it? Well now you can…sort of… Aston Microphones finalise their British-designed products, using the Aston 33 panel, a 600 strong group of […]

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]]> 42149 Captain Plugins 4.0 review https://making-music.com/captain-plugins-4-0-review/ Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:09:55 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42136 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture When almost anyone decides they fancy having a crack at making music on a computer there are several things that might hold them back. The first challenge is learning how your DAW (recording / sequencing software works. The second problem is often a lack of music […]

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]]> 42136 Arturia MicroFreak Review https://making-music.com/arturia-microfreak/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:49:11 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42122 Last Updated on April 3, 2022 by Andrew Culture Introducing the Arturia MicroFreak Usually, when writing hardware reviews we lazy writers can start by making comparisons with similar devices in the market. But with the Arturia MicroFreak we simply can’t do this. As far as we’re aware there is no similar device. But why is […]

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