Recording - October 2011 - 4

RECORDING MAGAZINE OCTOBER

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REvIEws
26 Grace Design m103.
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66 Electro-Voice RE320 Dynamic Mic.
The newest entrant in the legendary E-V dynamic line offers dual voicing and a unique, modern sound.
REVIEW BY SCOTT DORSEY

A company known for its preamps releases its first channel strip, with remarkable results.
REVIEW BY MIKE METLAY

74 Alesis iO Dock.
With all the cool things you can do in a studio with your iPad nowadays, wouldn’t it be great if your studio had a cool place to install it?
REVIEW BY MIKE METLAY

30 Adobe Audition CS5.5.
The newest Audition is a ground-up rewrite of a well-established audio-file editor, now including a full-on Mac version.
REVIEW BY DARWIN GROSSE

38 Radial Engineering Workhorse and 500-Series Modules: JDV-Pre, Shuttle, EXTC, and PhazeQ.
A whole new way to think about using 500-Series effects, and a sweet selection of new effects to take advantage of it.
REVIEWS BY PAUL VNUK JR.

78 Reviewed & Revisited: Fable Sounds Broadway Big Band Kontakt Edition and Broadway Lites.
A new software engine adds flexibility to an already magnificent virtual instrument.
REVIEW BY GARY ESKOW

FEATuREs
12 Postcards From The World Of Recording.
Travel the world with us as we check in with jackof-all-trades musician, producer and label owner Jeremy Cohen, record a local pop star in Turkey with Michael C. Ross, check out a world-class new album from the Bouchard brothers’ Blue Coupe, and hear the wisdom of a Grammy®-winning songwriter on where good ideas come from.
BY LORENZ RYCHNER AND TOBY GAD

46 Blue Reactor Multi-Pattern Condenser Mic.
This new mic has a capsule with a familiar pedigree and a design that’s a complete original.
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

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48 Great River Electronics / Harrison 32EQ 500-Series Equalizer Module.
A famed console maker teams up with a high-end audio designer to make a legendary eq available to all. Also in this review: the MP-500NV mic preamp module.
REVIEWS BY PAUL VNUK JR.

62 It’s Your Music—Know Your Rights. Chapter 19: Album Release Checklist.
In this, the final installment of our successful music-legalities series, our authors collect their wisdom from the past year and a half into a handy reference list to make sure you don’t miss anything on the way from finishing your master tape to seeing your album on store shelves.
BY TODD GASCON WITH BRUCE KAPHAN

52 Millennia Media HV-35 500-Series Mic Preamp.
The HV-3D preamp defines ‘clean and pure’ for many recording engineers. Now it’s here in an affordable 500-Series format.
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

76 Putting Together The Pieces.
Tracks recorded all over the world come together to form a coherently musical album release. How? Read on and learn about chasing the magical thread of consistency....
BY MARK HORNSBY

54 Telefunken Elektroakustik AK-47 MkII Tube Condenser Mic.
New electronics improve the performance of an already-stellar tube mic.
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

56 Pulse Techniques EQP-1A3.
Not a model, not an emulation... the most famous equalizer in history, rebuilt from scratch to exacting accuracy.
REVIEW BY BRIAN TARQUIN

REGuLARs
2 6 8 Fade In. Talkback. Fast Forward.
BY MARTY PETERS

CELEBRATING

58 Audix CX212B Multi-Pattern Condenser Mic.
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A tried and true design beloved of decades’ worth of small studios, updated for the 21st Century.
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

80 Readers’ Tapes. 88 Fade Out.
Everybody Wants To Modify Everything These Days.
GUEST EDITORIAL BY SCOTT DORSEY

60 A-Designs HM2 Compressor “The Nail”.
Trend-setting design choices give this dynamics processor world-class sound and flexibility.
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

81 Advertiser Index.

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