Universal Audio Capitol Mastering Compressor: What is it? Universal Audio’s meticulous software emulations of classic gear have recently started going native, so more and more of them no longer ...

Brainworx AMEK Mastering Compressor: What is it? Although Brainworx’s first pair of Amek-inspired plugins, the bx_2098 EQ and bx_console 9099, are based on specific original Amek hardware, the ...

Scheduled for release alongside the new UAD Software (v6.3.2 - out in early November) Universal Audio has announced a new Shadow Hills mastering compressor and Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "In my experience there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the world of mastering, its ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

People mix up the two types of audio compression all the time. Dynamic range and lossy compression are very different things. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

First, the robots came for our factory jobs, then for our fast-food jobs. Now, they’re aiming their laser-guided sights at… music-recording engineers? On Thursday, the audio-processing company Landr ...

An audio compressor is one of the most important parts of sound design and mixing, but it is also one of the most misunderstood and mis-used. Here Tim Dunphy unravels the mysteries surrounding the ...