Hardware Reviews & News Archives - Making Music 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 Hardware Reviews & News Archives - Making Music 32 32 39023228 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 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 five-year existence, but when they do release a product […]

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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 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 comes from British Company Aston Microphones. Aston is known […]

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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 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 mics, which means it’ll take something special to tempt […]

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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 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 impressed with the Origin that at least two staffers […]

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]]> 42201 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 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 many of the top industry professionals, who blind test […]

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]]> 42149 Arturia MicroFreak Review https://making-music.com/arturia-microfreak/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:49:11 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42122 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 that? For some years now there has been a […]

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]]> 42122 News: Hardware from IK Multimedia, Audient and Synclavier Digital https://making-music.com/news-hardware-from-ik-multimedia-audient-and-synclavier-digital/ Mon, 13 May 2019 21:07:16 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42073 Here’s a few tasty hardware releases to make you prise open your wallet instead of going on holiday… UNO Drum They teased it for what seemed like only a matter of hours before IK Multimedia officially announced their new hardware drum machine, the UNO Drum. This analog/PCM drum machine sports the same form factor and […]

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]]> 42073 News: Hardware Special – Native Instruments, Eventide and Antelope Audio. https://making-music.com/news-hardware-special-native-instruments-eventide-and-antelope-audio/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 00:20:50 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=42024 With all the latest software announcements and releases, hardware sometimes gets forgotten about. So, here’s a look at a few of the latest crop of hands-on control and physical goodies for your studio, due for release in the next month or two. Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol M32 Portability seems to be the name of the […]

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]]> 42024 News: Wham, bam, thank you NAMM! https://making-music.com/news-wham-bam-thank-you-namm/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:31:55 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=41998 There’s nothing like a trade fair to loosen the wallet, a task made even more difficult by the post-Christmas month of January that seems to last eleventy-million days until the next pay day.  But every year, NAMM showcases some of the newest and most innovative music tech for the forthcoming twelve months to whet the […]

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]]> 41998 News: Aston tell all about their new microphone https://making-music.com/news-aston-tell-all-about-their-new-microphone/ Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:43:39 +0000 https://makingmusiccom.wpengine.com/?p=41941 After a few slightly ambiguous images over recent weeks, Aston Microphones have finally announced officially what they’ve been teasing. The Aston Stealth microphone is a dynamic with a twist, literally.  At the bottom of the large barrel-body is a switch mechanism which changes the voicing of the microphone itself and not by imparting a different […]

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