Out of the many sample packs I have downloaded and played with before, I have to say that this was one of the easiest to work with. All you have to do is simply go on to the websi

Where would we be without 19th century German Emile Berliner? This was a guy who had old-fashioned smarts crawling out of his high-buttoned shirts like rampaging frisky spiders. He was the don, t

Camel Audio are an established company with award winning plugins, instruments and effects. They have a vast collection of sound libraries, VST plugins and audio units that you can buy so when I h

Wave Alchemy are well know for their sample packs, so I was interested to see what Deep Tech and Progressive had to offer. There are so many sample packs, particularly of drum loops, on the mark

Auto tune is everywhere these days. From the new Cheryl Cole track to Black Eyed Peas and Keisha all the way to my own band Bleed Electric. I might even go as far here as to say that Auto-tune

Auto-tune has been all over music for a few years now and in the press of late for its use on X Factor and, for whatever reason, people seem to either really like the auto-tune effect or absolute

Anyone that knows me, knows how much I am a fan of Propellerhead and their associated software, particularly Reason. As you can imagine then, I was very excited to finally get my hands on the late

The TC Electronic Nova Drive NDR-1 pedal is a very well put together and attractive pedal that is intuitive to use without the need to consult the manual before plugging it in. However, that bei

When I found out there would be an opportunity to review this Peavey amp and pedal board combination, I jumped at the chance. Before receiving the items, I had already had some experience wi

For those of you who are unaware of Blackstar Amplification and their background, let me enlighten you briefly. When you take two ex-Marshall Amplifications top designers and give them free reign

Cakewalk are renowned for their timely version updates of Sonar. Sonar users were awaiting version 9 when they were instead faced with a curveball with Cakewalk introducing a point upgrade to Son

Producing your own music can be a difficult affair. Finding sounds, instruments and initial ideas to use becomes a bit of a chore. The most difficult part of the song writing process for myself

Having winged their way from Danelectro’s HQ, a new series of guitar FX pedals entitled ‘Cool Cat’ screams vintage from the offset. Having dabbled in the past with a variety of boxes and multi

As a music producer I was very familiar with Blue, their Microphones and the Blue Bottle Tube microphones. I was also familiar with their £3,215.00 price tag which was a little too rich for

Nothing like a bit of tribal thumpers right up your jacksy. This one is not for the faint hearted, this is for the serious players. Pull your socks up and pop your production hats on as the Samp

As your production career progresses so will your audio hardware needs. I have been using multiple pairs of studio monitors for a while and the minute I got two pairs, was the minute in all hones