Jeff Anderson

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The Most Recent stories by Jeff Anderson

• Dangerous Music 2-Bus  April 2008

  More people are mixing “in the box” (exclusively within a computer host, using its software mixer) than ever before, but some feel this approach causes the resulting sound to lack some of the “charm” of analog mixing. Dangerous Music’s ...

• CAD Signature Series Microphone Packs  March 2008

  Imagine this, you’re a large microphone manufacturer, and you want to know which of your microphones are going to sound best on electric and acoustic guitars. Well, what better way than to send your complete array of products to two ...

• Drum Heads: How to Record Trigger-Ready Drums  March 2008

  A new band called Seed started cutting rhythm tracks for their first major record at Sound Logic, my studio in Indiana. As the future mixing engineer, I thought I’d stop in during a tracking session to see how things were going. There ...

• Shure KSM137/Sl Stereo Mic Pair  January 2008

  Like most engineers, I’ve always been a big fan of Shure mics. How can you not? There’s a good chance the SM57 was the first mic you ever owned, and your favorite hit record has an SM81 in there somewhere—besides, just try finding a ...

• Blue Woodpecker Ribbon Mic  December 2007

  It’s official: Ribbon mics are all the rage these days. The usual suspects (we’re talking Royer and AEA) have kept their game up—providing the market with awesome mics and related ribbon-specific products (such as AEA’s TRP). And a ...

• Peavey M1 AND M2 Studio PRO Series Mics  October 2007

  Admittedly, in the recording world, Peavey is not the first manufacturer that comes to my mind when discussing studio mics — to me, the company is synonymous with guitars, basses, amps, live sound gear, and the like. Why? Because while ...

• TC Electronic C400XL  October 2007

  I bet you’re expecting what I was expecting when I first heard about this product —  another two channel box with the standard ratio, threshold, attack, and release controls, and maybe a stereo link. But there’s a lot more going on ...

• Beating Phase Issues in Your DAW  October 2007

  Phase cancellation occurs when two identical sound waves are equal and opposite to each other; in other words, as one waveform increases in amplitude, the other decreases at the same rate. If you add the instantaneous values of these ...

• Primera Bravo SE  September 2007

  There are many duplication services on the market, and it’s tough to find the best company to handle your CD or DVD if you’re doing limited runs. The fix is to do it all at home, but creating a stack of your own duplicates has, historically, ...

• Robert Carranza  July 2007

  “When someone asks me to come in the studio and work with them, the first question I ask them is ‘what haven’t you been happy with in your past records?’ Robert Carranza — the man who has sat behind the board for acts such as Jack ...