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good playback source to get the best idea of what’s in the recordings—an iPad’s speaker isn’t going to do justice to a Shure SM7 on a kick drum! If you look up Microphones, you’re given a photo, specs, a website for the manufacturer (where still relevant—RCA ribbons don’t have a web page!), and often some notes about the mic from the Ocean Way folks. Similarly, choosing Instruments gives you information about each source’s design, pitch range, and often general notes about how best to mike the instrument as well as radiation patterns (did you know that a violin’s acoustic output is nearly omnidirectional at 500 Hz but aims forward at 1500 Hz? I didn’t). There’s a ton of useful information in here, and it’s beautifully laid out. If you want to know more about instruments you might not work with very often, if you want to learn about classic recording microphones, if you want to see and hear good miking to help you get better at your own recordings, or all of the above, this app is a slam dunk.

Coles, and Marconi BBC ribbons, plus a Sennheiser MD 403 dynamic (shown in the photo above) and a Schoeps “floor mic”. The loops sound fantastic, cleanly miked and very well-played in a variety of genres and styles. There are lots of 4/4 examples, plus some nice 6/8 and shuffle beats, fills, crashes, and endings; each loop has a “copy to pasteboard” button that lets you nab it into the iOS UIPasteboard buffer for easy import into a track in your DAW. And that’s all there is to it! I’m sure that this approach to making drum sounds available to iOS DAW users will proliferate rapidly once people see how easy and great-sounding Drum Loops HD is. But why wait? With these exceptional loops, you can be putting great drum tracks into your songs right now.

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Sometimes all you want is a good drum track to add to a song you’re creating in your favorite iOS DAW. While drum-machine-created tracks can be a lot of fun and very inspiring (as seen in our reviews of DM1 and Molten elsewhere in this issue), there’s something to be said for straight-up drumming by a real drummer in a real studio. But in the iOS world, where there aren’t really such things as plug-ins and loop libraries, how do you do it? Drum Loops HD is one possible answer, an app that gives you a selection of over 700 drum loops to copy and paste into your DAW. The app’s very pretty to look at and easy to navigate; you can be auditioning and using its loops in no time without even reading the instructions. Recorded by Dutch studio session drummer and engineer Hans Eijkenaar on a lovely Sonor kit with Zildjian cymbals and Remo heads (details in the app under Credits), the loops are recorded with a Modern and a Vintage recording chain. The Modern setup includes familiar mics by AKG, Neumann, Oktava, Sennheiser, and also Shure (we think... unless the mic list does not have a typo and AKG really does make a Beta 52A mic for kick drum!), close miked on all drums with room mics added. The Vintage setup takes a “mike the kit as a whole” approach with RCA,
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Last but not least, here’s a fun little app that will pay for itself in a heartbeat when you’re configuring your speaker system, whether in stereo or surround. It uses the gyroscope that’s built into later-model iOS devices (iPhone 4 or later, iPad 2 or later, iPod touch 4th Generation or later) to sense when a speaker is being rotated, and to display to you the amount of rotation in degrees. Why do this? Because how your monitors sound is intimately related to how they’re angled with respect to your head, and with respect to one another. You can’t be sure that your speakers are performing to


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Talkback
Recording’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide
MOTU 4pre Hybrid Audio Interface
iOS Music Tools: Great Gift Ideas For The 2012 Holidays
James A. Abdo’s BrokenWorks Productions
A Time To Give
Cloud Microphones Cloudlifter CL-Z
Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 12: Monitors Part 1
PreSonuSphere 2012
Readers’ Tapes
iOS Music Tools: Bang That Beat!
Plug-in Outlet: Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro and Virtual Bass Amp Pro
For Your Bookshelf
Advertiser Index
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Recording - December 2012 - Cloud Microphones Cloudlifter CL-Z
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Recording - December 2012 - Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 12: Monitors Part 1
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Recording - December 2012 - PreSonuSphere 2012
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Recording - December 2012 - Readers’ Tapes
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Recording - December 2012 - Plug-in Outlet: Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro and Virtual Bass Amp Pro
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Recording - December 2012 - For Your Bookshelf
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Recording - December 2012 - Advertiser Index
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