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FeatuRes
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Recording Vocals-From An Insider's
Viewpoint.

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Dangerous Music Source.

A rock vocalist and studio tech guides us through
the ins and outs of a successful vocal session,
from singer preparation to final tracking.
BY ELEANOR GOLDFIELD

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Your monitoring system is critical to the final
quality of your tracks-this versatile controller fits
under your laptop and provides classy and flexible
audio routing to speakers and headphones alike.
REVIEW BY MIKE METLAY

Recording Background Vocals.
A lot goes into a great backing vocal arrangement,
and some of the most important parts happen
before you press the Red Button. Here's a survey of
some of the things to keep in mind when capturing
those backing tracks.

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BY JOHN MCVEY

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Antelope Audio Orion32.
Wait a minute... 32 channels of high-end 24-bit
audio, all in one rackspace and communicating
via USB? Believe it.
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

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Vocal Recording-My Take.

Samson Resolv SE Active Studio
Reference Monitors.
Clean, clear monitoring for the desktop rig or the
small control room at an unheard-of price.

A successful producer discusses some of his
strategies for capturing great vocals.

REVIEWS BY MIKE METLAY

BY BRUCE KAPHAN

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All About Reverb-Part 2.
In the second half of our 2-parter on adding
ambience to your tracks, we cover vocal reverb
tricks, explain how modeling and convolution
reverbs work, and look at some successful software
in use today.

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These hardware controllers and iPad apps make
music composition portable, easy, inspiring, fun...
and in a couple of cases, free.
REVIEWS BY MIKE METLAY

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Plug-In Outlet.
Universal Audio Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection
for UAD-2 and Apollo; iZotope Nectar 2 Standard
Edition and Production Suite; U-He Satin Tape
Machine.

BY JOE ALBANO

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Novation Launch Family.

2013 Annual Index.
If you want to find a review, interview, or feature
that ran in the past year, here's where to look.

REVIEWS BY PAUL VNUK JR.

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Reviews
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Blue Bottle Rocket Stage One.
This versatile solid-state mic comes with one of
up to nine different capsules with widely varied
and beautiful sonic characters. Also: Hands-on
comparisons with the tube-based Bottle Rocket
Stage Two, previously reviewed in our pages.
REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

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RegulaRs
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Fade In.

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Talkback.

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Fast Forward.
New product releases, plus a special report from
PreSonuSphere 2013.

PreSonus Sceptre S8 CoActual Active
Studio Monitors.

BY MIKE METLAY

A coaxial driver design and powerful onboard
DSP combine to create a speaker that's transparently
smooth, balanced, and ultimately truthful.
REVIEW BY LORENZ RYCHNER

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BY MARTY PETERS

REVIEW BY PAUL VNUK JR.

Fade Out.
Auto-Tune Ethics.

Pearlman TM-250 Tube Microphone.
This handmade mic brings the spirit of the
famous Telefunken ELA M 250 to life in a manner
that's magical to hear.

Readers' Tapes.

GUEST EDITORIAL BY ERIC FERGUSON

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