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Bridging the Gap 

By Michael Cooper

One can't help but notice the increasing number of 24-bit, 96 kHz-capable digital audio devices flooding the pro-audio market these days. The unprecedented...

Digidesign Pro Tools|HD 

By Nick Peck

Change is guaranteed in all things. But when it comes to digital hardware, change comes quickly, and it always means more, faster, and better. Digidesign,...

Alesis ADAT HD24 IDE Hard Drive Recorder 

By Nick Batzdorf

The Alesis ADAT was undoubtedly one of the most influential and successful recording products of all time. Today, though, hard drives and computer processing...

How to Build a Personal Studio on Any Budget 

Steve O

This article describes how to go about building a home studio, on a variety of budgets. Includes specific product recommendations. From the editors of Electronic Musician magazine....

How to Build a Personal Studio on Any Budget - Part II 

By Gino Robair

Read part I of How to Build a Personal Studio on Any Budget here. The $10,000 Studio Without Computer ITEMS PRICE Alesis ADAT HD24 modular hard-disk recorder...

Korg PXR4 4 Track Digital Recorder 

By Steve Broderson

With the new ToneWorks PXR4 digital recording studio, Korg seems determined to destroy two popular notions: one, size matters, and two, you can't take...

Aardvark Direct Pro Q10 

By Allan Metts

It seems that every new computer-based audio-product release offers more channels, fancier features, higher audio quality, and, on occasion, a lower price....

Zoom MRS-1044 

By Steve Broderson

The explosion of affordable and sophisticated digital multitrackers has produced its share of frustrated musicians. Plunging headlong into the waters...

Roland VS-2480 

By Mark Nelson

The Roland VS-2480 is the most recent in a long line of desktop audio workstations that began with the VS-880. Like its predecessors, the VS-2480 packs...

Digidesign Pro Tools TDM 5.1 

By Nick Peck

Surround sound is everywhere. Once the exclusive bastion of film, multichannel audio has spread rapidly into the worlds of music, games, and broadcast....

Tascam US-428 Digital Audio Workstation 

By Brian Smithers

The portastudio meets the computer. In spite of USB's lukewarm reception in some quarters, innovative developers continue to do amazing things with the...

HHB PORTADISC MDP500 

By Rudy Trubitt

I use a DAT recorder for field recording, but I'm not especially fond of the format. Although generally reliable, DAT recorders have been known to eat...

STEINBERG NUENDO 1.5 (MAC/WIN) 

By David Miles Huber

One of the most anxiously awaited computer-based digital-audio workstations (DAWs) is the latest version of Steinberg's Nuendo for Mac and Windows. Aimed...

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING STUDIO 

Marty Cutler

The recording studio was once the domain of the seasoned professional engineer. Anyone seriously considering recording a project for posterity would rent time at a fully equipped recording studio armed with a good multitrack recorder......

Akai DPS16 

By Allan Metts

With so many fresh, feature-laden alternatives vying for your attention, all-in-one portable digital studios continue to grow more numerous and powerful....

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