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RECORDING

May 2021 Contents

Reviews

44 PreSonus: PM-2 and PX-1

10 Focusrite: ISA 828 MkII

Features

Find out just how good affordable mics can sound

18 Inside the Studio with Mark Hornsby:

condenser microphones
REVIEW BY ALEX HAWLEY

Classic ISA Preamp

Dante, digital expansion and eight fine ISA 110
preamps
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

The Key To Recording Classic Keys

52 Kali Audio:

IN-5 Studio Monitors

How can a coaxial three-way
monitor this compact and
affordable perform so well?

14 Rupert Neve Designs:

MBC Master Buss Converter

Do you prefer your dual-path mastering grade
analog conversion with or without transformers,
Silk and analog limiting? Why not have it all?
REVIEW BY JUSTIN PERKINS AND PAUL VNUK JR.

Acoustic grand piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer
and organs remain staple sounds in almost
every music genre. This month Mark offers
considerations for recording them all.

REVIEW BY ALEX HAWLEY

54 Reviewed and Revisited:
Daking Mic Pre II-T

The return of the Jensen output transformer
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

56 Little Labs:

LL2A Compressor Limiter

22 Peluso: P-47 SS Solid State

You don't need to know the complex math to
appreciate this unique new compression circuit

LDC Microphone

A new take on the classic FET sound, with
fullness and clarity
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

62 Tierra Audio: Gravity VCA
Bus Compressor TAKE 2

Buy a compressor, plant a tree-seriously!
REVIEW BY ALEX HAWLEY

Mixing Instruments Inside the Box

This month Joe offers his in-the-box mixing
advice on doubling, channel grouping and
routing, fixing it in the mix, and studio politics.

Regulars

Hybrid Digital/Analog Mixer

This is what happens when two rock star
designers dream up a new compact mixing desk

4 Fade In

REVIEW BY BILL STUNT

40 Ocean Way: S10A Subwoofer

8 Fast Forward

Last issue we became acquainted with Ocean
Way width, now we bring the boom

64 Readers' Tracks

REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

42 Once Over: MicLock

An essential accessory for every MD-421 MKII
mic owner
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

42 Once Over: Warm Audio Premier
Two new series of audio cables from Warm
Audio and Gotham AG

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RECORDING May 2021

In this installment of our deep dive into recording
this Marc Bolan/T. Rex tribute album, engineer
Marc Urselli talks about the microphones,
techniques, arrangement considerations and
more, related to tracking brass and strings.

58 Inside the Box with Joe Albano:

26 Korg: Soundlink MW-2408

REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

The AngelHeaded Hipster, Part 5:
Brass, Strings and Arrangements

BY MARC URSELLI

Interview

and Professional Audio Cables

46 Session Log: 

30 Sounds and styles collide:

Inside the Sonic Trip of Leon III's 
Antlers in Velvet

No instruments are too precious and no sounds
are too sacred on this expansive, deep, grooving
collection of songs from Leon III. What would a
collaboration by Beck, Pink Floyd, My Morning
Jacket, Grateful Dead and Radiohead sound
like? Artists Andy Stepanian and Mason Brent,
and engineer Mark Nevers give us the answer.
INTERVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

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BY MARTY PETERS

70 Advertiser Index
72 Fade Out: Real Instruments
In the Time of Computer Magic

Why it's essential to study and improve your
techniques for recording real instruments, even
in the virtual world.
GUEST EDITORIAL BY AARON J. TRUMM
COVER PHOTO BY MARK HORNSBY AT DAVE
MARTIN'S JAVA JIVE STUDIOS, NASHVILLE, TN

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