Author Archives: Don Steele

Steven Slate Audio VSX Modeling Headphones – Essentials Edition

Steven Slate Audio VSX Modeling Headphones – Essentials Edition Perfect Mixes Just Got Easier.  The VSX Headphone System – Essentials Edition allows you to create and mix your music in authentic recreations of world-class mixing studios, car stereos, nightclub sound systems, and more so you can effortlessly get perfect mixes that sound great on every […]

NEW! FLEA – ELA M 251 Microphone

FLEA – ELA M 251 Microphone Flea have just announced the release of the ELA M-251 Tube Microphone, a meticulous recreation of the original and iconic ELA M 251, painstakingly crafted to the exact specifications as the original. Flea have long been producing arguably some of the finest recreations of legendary microphones for decades, building […]

UTA Pyra-Sum passive summing mixer

The Pyra-Sum is a passive summing mixer that has what other summing mixers don’t: multiple cascading busses. This bussing architecture allows you to truly have the sound and workflow of a large format console but with even more sonic flexibility and in a much smaller format. We’ve left out any active circuitry, which means that […]

Lindell Audio LiN76 Vintage Limiting Amplifier

Lindell Audio LiN76 Vintage Limiting Amplifier Audio engineers and music producers in search of an affordable 1176-style compressor will rejoice over the Lindell Audio LiN76 Vintage Limiting Amplifier, a dynamics processor that’s carefully designed to recreate the timbres of nuances of vintage-era ’76-style FET compressors. The LiN76 features USA-made transformers and a vintage-style VU for monitoring. […]

Lindell Audio LiN76 Vintage Limiting Amplifier Shootout!

Lindell Audio LiN76 Vintage Limiting Amplifier Shootout! Audio engineers and music producers in search of an affordable 1176-style compressor will rejoice over the Lindell Audio LiN76 Vintage Limiting Amplifier, a dynamics processor that’s carefully designed to recreate the timbres of nuances of vintage-era ’76-style FET compressors. The LiN76 features USA-made transformers and a vintage-style VU for […]

Crumar Seventeen Vintage Digital Piano

Crumar Seventeen Vintage Digital Piano Crumar’s Seventeen is a streamlined, affordable variation of their popular Seven electric piano that uses the same sound modeling in a different package. The Seventeen has a smaller, more direct interface consisting of a screen, encoder knob, a few buttons, and a volume control. Using the same hybrid physical modeling found in the […]

THE LATEST FROM VANGUARD AUDIO LABS: 8 July, 2022 Borexit EDITION

THE LATEST FROM VANGUARD AUDIO LABS: 8 July, 2022 Borexit EDITION Stükenberg Records Live with Vanguards in an Abandoned Church Qerenne Croons with Vanguard Mics in “Demons” Vanguard-endorsing artist Qerenne is at it again with another wonderfully-recorded performance at Mitzlol Studio. In her new song “Demons”, Qerenne croons into a Vanguard V13 Tube Condenser, with backing vocalists Michal […]

From LA’s Decibel Studios – The Breakfast Table Sessions: Mary Alfaro Velasco

From LA’s Decibel Studios – The Breakfast Table Sessions: Mary Alfaro Velasco Decibel owner Jesus Martinez is a producer/engineer and requintista (master of the tenor guitar, which he’s playing in the photo above) based in Los Angeles, CA. He began to play latin folk music at a young age and is part of Tres Souls, […]