Monitoring and Acoustics
Welcome to the August issue of RECORDING Magazine. This month, our topic is monitoring and acoustics. We spend a lot of time focusing on these subjects every year, because your monitor speakers, headphone choice, and the spaces you mix and track in are arguably the most critical elements in any recording chain.
Reviews
We have fourteen products from ten companies on review this month. We start with three sets of new studio monitors. The first two pairs of affordable, entry-level monitors are the just launched Kreate 8 and Kreate 5 from KRK Systems. Next, we have the new C55 Reference Monitor from KSD Studio Monitors.
We have four sets of headphones to tickle your ear canal. From HEDD Audio, we listen to the HEDDphone TWO and HEDDphone TWO GT, followed by a look at the latest version of the ubiquitous Apple AirPods Max, now with Lossless Audio4. We also get our ears on VSX 5.0 from Steven Slate Audio.
If you thought in-ears were just for the stage, beyerdynamic hopes to challenge your perceptions with its new DT series of in-ear monitors featuring the DT 70 IE, DT 71 IE, DT 72 IE, and DT 72 IE.
We also take the new LEWITT Space Replicator headphone monitoring software for a spin.
On the acoustics and room design front, we check out the new ROCS, NIRO, and TORA AI-Powered room design and treatment offerings from REDI Acoustics.
Finally, we check out the new virtual room offerings found in the new iamReverb plugin from the company of the same name.
Interview
Our interview is with synthesist, electronic musician and composer Peter Baumann. He discusses his legendary classic work with Tangerine Dream and, more importantly, his latest release, Nightfall. [GET IT HERE]
Features
Our features kick off this month with the next installment in Editor Paul Vnuk’s First Steps In Atmos series as Paul considers choosing the right audio interface for an immersive setup. [GET IT HERE]
Our cover story this month comes from Inside The Studio With Mark Hornsby, as Mark takes us inside the classic East/West Studio 3 (formerly United Western) where he recorded a jazz rendition of the classic Brian Wilson song, “God Only Knows”. [GET IT HERE]
In his RECORDING Techniques column, Dave Martin talks about the acoustics of the tracking space. [GET IT HERE]
In Studio 101, Joe Albano brings us part two of his introduction to choosing a DAW. [GET IT HERE] Giles Reaves is back with his deep thoughts and observations for “multiplexing our creativity” in his popular RECORDING Field Notes column, [GET IT HERE] and in our Fade Out, Chandler Bridges talks about sample rates and our ears.
All this and more await in the August Issue of RECORDING Magazine.