Audio Technology

We’ve been busy. After months of planning and construction, the first part of Turramurra Music’s new shop front is now open. Our new showroom connects our Musical Instrument and Studio Equipment stores, expanding our display space and allowing us to

Professional, studio, portable, lifestyle and mobile? AKG reckons it’s ticked all boxes with its new K361 and K371 headphones. Both combine a ‘studio quality’ reference sound with a compact, foldable design for content creators who need to produce pr

The last couple of months at Newmarket Studios, with the help of producers/engineers Guus Hoevenaars, Callum Barter, Nao Anzai and Charles Mann, have been busy: Vance Joy, Teskey Brothers, Kingswood, Woodes, TKay, Mayvis, GraceJean, Voyeur, Claps, Cl

There’s a first time for everything, and for mid/side processing pioneer Brainworx it’s virtual instruments, cutting it’s teeth on the Oberheim OBX! Reliant on fully-analogue, discrete circuits and a classic state-variable filter, Brainworx draw on t

www.dbaudio.com The all new A-Series from d&b audiotechnik combines variable splay angles, two approaches to acoustic optimisation, and an advanced waveguide design for coverage flexibility in both the horizontal and the vertical. The system comprise

Rob Kinelski’s music career curve saw him going from Spinal Tap to urban cool. He recounts, “I grew up on the East Coast, and played bass in a band from age 15 to 20. We were doing really well, and had booked a cross-country tour, and enjoyed label i

Storyk believes there have been three major changes in control room design over the years. “Firstly, people are more interested in low frequency than ever before, both because of the nature of the music we listen to and the advancement in the deliver

One of WSDG’s most prominent commissions was its work for Jazz at Lincoln Centre (JALC). The organisation had two firms in mind for the development — Russell Johnson’s (“a brilliant acoustician who knew more about large halls”) Artec, and WSDG — but

“How many pieces of information does someone have to give you in order to determine the nature of a car?” Storyk asked. “0-60mlph time? Braking distance? Number of doors? Horsepower of the engine?” It turns out you need quite a few. It’s the same wit

It always makes sense to keep plenty of free disk space on your drives, to provide working space and buffers. However, now that so many of us are relying on much smaller solid state drives to host Windows, it’s much easier to fill them up without rea

Basic Waves: Wave morphs from square and sawtooth to dual-sawtooth waves. Timbre tweaks the duty cycle of the square wave or the phase relationship between the dual saw waves. Shape adds a sine sub oscillator. Superwave: Arturia’s take on the notorio

In this issue I reviewed Rødes TF-5 small diaphragm cardioid condenser microphone and made comparison recordings to share with readers. I put the TF-5 against two established favourites I’m familiar with: Neumann’s KM184 and DPA’s 4011. Between the t