Category Archives: Audio Geek Zine

Amplitube Custom Shop Group Buy

IK Multimedia just announced a new group buy for Amplitube Custom Shop credits. I’m a big fan of Amplitube 3 and Custom Shop. I use it in almost all my projects for processing direct guitar and bass recordings. Through October 31, we’re offe...

Video: Portishead’s Adrian Utley on Arturia MiniBrute Analog Synth + Synth collection tour

I came across this video of Adrian Utley playing with the Arturia MiniBrute in is studio. He’s running it through an Echoplex and getting incredible sounds. Suddenly I NEED an analog synth to run through my Space Echo. The MiniBrute looks like a ...

Review: Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter

This week I bought the Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter from the Apple Store to add an extra Firewire 800 port to my iMac. I had been planning on getting one since they were announced along with the Retina Macbooks in the summer. At $29, is it jus...

Dueling Mixes

Joe Gilder (Home Studio Corner) and Graham Cochrane (The Recording Revolution) have teamed up again to create the best educational resource for home studio engineers I’ve ever seen. Dueling Mixes. Joe and Graham duke it out to get the best mix, t...

Review – Soniccouture Crowd Choir for Kontakt

A while ago James at Soniccouture contacted me about their new crowd-sourced sampling project called Crowd Choir. 1000 participants from all over the world contributed 4000 voice recordings to the project. The result is a 500MB sampled choir spanning 3...

How to use Multiband Compression

A multiband compressor is a powerful tool for controlling dynamics. The signal is split into 3 or more frequency ranges and processed independently. This is different from a standard compressor which operates on the entire frequency range at once. Stan...

Ibanez ’83 Roadstar II electric bass

Last night I was a a client’s house helping with his setup. He had this old Ibanez bass sitting in the corner, it looked interesting and played pretty well. He said it didn’t record well and said “If you want it, it’s yours. If ...

Learn Synthesizer sound design with Syntorial [kickstarter]

This week I got an email from Joe Hanley about a new app he’s developing. It’s a tutorial app that teaches synthesizer operation and how to program patches by ear via videos and challenges. I thought this was a really cool and unique idea. ...

New AudioGeekZine Store Page

Shopping Cart On the weekend I set up a new store page with better product profiles, shopping cart, order tracking and automatic download delivery. The new system also lets me run sales and give out coupons without having to manually change Paypal butt...

DCAM FreeComp – new free bus compressor from FXpansion

Earlier this week I checked out the new DCAM FreeComp from FXpansion. It’s a simplified version of the Bus Compressor in the DCAM Dynamics package. FXpansion DCAM FreeComp FXpansion is proud to present DCAM FreeComp, a free circuit-modelled compr...