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Review: TC Electronic Flashback Delay Pedal

Jon — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:59:52 +0000

The TC Electronic Flashback is a digital delay pedal with 9 distinct delay styles; a looping function; and Tone Print, an extra mode that can be loaded with downloadable artist preset. The pedal has stereo in/out, buffered or true-bypass and controls for FX level, Decay, feedback and mode plus a 3 way toggle to divide the timing. The pedal is powered by 9V battery or standard DC pedal power. The bottom of the pedal is removable with one screw revealing the battery compartment and a pair of DIP switches. The first switch activates the buffer circuit which helps keep the signal strength consistent in a large pedal board. The second switch mutes the dry signal for use in a parallel signal chain.

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Guitar store adventures – 5 mini guitar gear reviews

Jon — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:47:45 +0000

Once in a while I make my way downtown (Vancouver) and waste an hour or two messing around with whatever guitars, amps, and pedals that catch my eye. On these outings I grab some gear, go into an iso booth and compare. For example, on my first trip I compared an Ibanez TS9 to a [...]

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Review: ValhallaDSP Ubermod

Jon — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:40:40 +0000

Valhalla UberMod is a unique multitap delay and modulation plugin. The various algorithms allow from 2 to 32 modulated delay taps. Ubermod can be used to create lush choruses, tape and bucket brigade style echoes, reverbs and many strange other effects.

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Review: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB2 audio interface

Jon — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:06:14 +0000

The Scarlett 2i2 caught my attention right away. Compact, striking appearance and simple layout. I have recommended the interface to dozens of people. While I appreciate the extra i/o my TC Impact Twin provides, its just too big and bulky for a mobile interface. At a third of the size of the Impact, and less [...]

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Review: T-RackS Black 76 and White 2A

Jon — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:16:42 +0000

Earlier this month I reviewed T-RackS 3 Deluxe. This review is for the two newest (already a year old) additions to T-RackS. The Black 76 and White 2A are modelled on classic hardware units that have been around for decades and are some of the most used mixing tools used in professional audio production. There’s [...]

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Review: IK Multimedia T-RackS Deluxe

Jon — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:08:55 +0000

Introduction T-RackS 3 is a suite of high-quality digital and analog-modelled VST/AU/RTAS Dynamics and EQ processors, for mixing and mastering. T-RackS can also be used outside of your DAW as a standalone mastering application. Version 3.5.1 is the latest at the time of this review. T-RackS Standard comes with the 4 ‘classic’ processors and metering [...]

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Review: TC-Helicon VoiceLive Rack

Jon — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:30:22 +0000

This post is adapted from my review published on The Home Recording Show episode 154 Back in November, Craig from TC Helicon sent us one of their new products the VoiceLive Rack, to try out and review. I got to play with it first and here’s what I thought of it. Overview The VoiceLive Rack [...]

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Review: TC Electronic Impact Twin

Jon — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:27:56 +0000

Overview The TC Electronic Impact Twin is a mid-level firewire interface with 14 inputs and outputs. It has two preamps, onboard effects, S/PDIF, ADAT Lightpipe and MIDI I/O. It’s not as compact as some other interfaces but packs a ton of features and i/o yet still small enough to fit in a backpack. The Impact [...]

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Mastering With Multiband Compression E-Book

Jon — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:10:07 +0000

Last week Ian Shepherd (productionadvice.co.uk, mastering engineer and friend of AGZ) announced the release of his first instructional E-Book Mastering with Multiband Compression. There is a basic and enhanced edition. The enhanced version has a bonus 1hr tutorial video, and audio examples for just $10 more. Here is the sales page: Buying through this link [...]

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Review: Groove3 Programming Rock Drums in Pro Tools

Jon — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:46:54 +0000

This week I checked out the latest tutorial from Groove 3, Programming Rock Drums in Pro Tools and I thought I’d write a short review. Programming Rock Drums in Pro Tools is presented by Travis Brown and runs about two hours, fifteen minutes. This is shorter than many of the other Groove3 titles which run [...]

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