Product reviews
Cloudlifter CL-2
Cloud 3 way mic Comparison I wanted to compare the ribbon characteristics of a Cloud JRS34 microphone to some mics I figured we all knew well - the venerable and ubiquitous Shure SM58 dynamic, and the classic Neumann U87 condenser. I asked a friend of mine, Rhode Island-based soprano Shoshana to help me by singing an aria from Puccini's opera Tosca. Together we found a beautiful studio... [read on...]
STD MERCENARY EDITION
SOUND ON SOUND APRIL 2007Little Labs specialise in building those apparently boring little gadgets that are essential to make a studio function properly, and a very good job they make of them too! Apparently, this latest offering is a collaboration with US company Mercenary Audio. It aims to allow signals from an electric guitar fitted with passive pickups to be sent over long distances... [read on...]
PCP Instrument Distro
EMUSICIAN.COM MARCH 2002The Little Labs PCP Instrument Distro 3.0 signal splitter and routing box is as versatile as it is compact. The PCP Instrument Distro has the unique ability to split a guitar's high-impedance signal without compromising audio quality and then route the output to three amplifiers or effects pedals at once. For guitar-intensive studio productions, in which different... [read on...]
Red Cloud
TAPE OP MAGAZINE - ISSUE 72We recently added a Pro Tools HD rig to our studio, and an unexpected hitch was that the pre-"VT" Lynx Aurora 16 interfaces we bought don't have trimming capabilities. Since we often track to tape and then dump to digital for mixing, I immediately realized that any signal with a healthy level on tape was too hot for the Aurora's converters. I was a little... [read on...]
DK25/L
Scroll down for a review of the DK25L. http://www.earthworksaudio.com/microphones/drumkit-series-2/dk25l/... [read on...]
B2 Bomber DAC
Review of Burl B2 Bomber DAC and ADC. Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 This review originally appeared in abridged form and with other comments in Tape Op Magazine. The notion that a piece of audio gear can achieve complete sonic transparency is a bit idealized, yet when it comes to converters we hear a lot about neutrality, accuracy and transparency. It’s true that many... [read on...]
AK47 MKII
Telefunken USA AK47Published in SOS April 2008Will this young gun fire the imagination like the Telefunkens of old? The Telefunken name that we associate with rare and valuable microphones and preamplifiers dates back to well before World War 1. Telefunken were set up in Berlin as a collaboration between Siemens & Halske and the General Electricity Company and by 1939 the parent company had a... [read on...]
Multi Z PIP Instrument Pre-amplifier / DI / Re-amplifier
Reviewed in December 2005 ... [read on...]
TG CHANNEL MKII
Reviewed in January 2005This review is for the MK I ... [read on...]
V8 Roadster - Portable Rack
Tonelux V8 Roadster review by Hugh RobjohnsModular audio processing racks don?t suit everyone?s requirements, but it is a very flexible way to build up some great quality and varied outboard in easy incremental stages. The Tonelux modules reviewed here, designed by Paul Wolff, may appear superficially similar to the widely supported API ?Lunch Box? module format, but they aren?t actually a... [read on...]
ELA M 250
Telefunken ELA M250F - MusicTech December 2007Vintage Telefunken microphones are among the most valuable and collectable of all classic recording equipment ? despite the fact that Telefunken didn?t actually make them. Instead, the leading microphone manufacturers of the 50s and 60s were contracted to make them for Telefunken on an OEM basis. Invariably, these microphones were just... [read on...]
The Americans had their Echoplexes, the Germans had their Klempts and the Brits had their WEM Copycats. These old tape echo units were noisy, the pitch was unstable and their unbalanced Hi-Z inputs and outputs were really designed for use with guitars and amplifi ers. But despite all these technical shortcomings, they made such a ... [read on...]
PM40 PianoMic System
I have had the privilege of working with many professional pianists in both studio and live performance situations. I have found that to achieve the ideal grand piano sound it has been necessary to experiment with various microphones in a number of different placements. In the studio, where time isn't as limited, there is more opportunity to try different... [read on...]
Germanium Pre-Amp/DI
Chandler Limited Germanium Mic Pre Amp by: Mike Caffrey Have you noticed how some manufacturers consistently hit home runs with their gear designs? I think there are lots of things that manufacturers with this success rate have in common: high standards, good design and manufacturing discipline and the designer is usually the owner of the company without the financial restraints put on... [read on...]
TG2 Abbey Road Sp.Ed.
Chandler Limited TG2 Microphone Pre-Amp by: Barry Rudolph EQ Issue #2, 2003 Introduction The single rack space TG2 microphone preamp uses the same circuit design and components of the TG12428 amplifier from EMI's TG Series mixing and mastering consoles. The 1970's TG Series was EMI's first transistorized equipment designed to replace their tube gear in use since the 1950's. Although... [read on...]
Germanium Tone Control
Chandler Limited Germanium Tone control EQ by: Mike Caffrey If gear design were a sport, I?d be calling for steroid testing of Wade Goeke, as he seems to hit a home run every time he?s at bat. I don?t think it?s an exaggeration to say his Germanium Tone Control is the most innovative new EQ design I?ve seen. It has germanium transistors instead of silicon (which all other solid-state... [read on...]
TAPE OP - EMI TG EQ Mastering Pack by: John Baccigaluppi Tape Op Magazine - Jan/Feb 2007 Abbey Road Studios along with their stateside partner, Wade Goeke of Chandler Limited, are continuing to make some of the great sounding early audio gear from the EMI Empire available to us common folk. Wade?s hardware is amazing, but the plug-ins are also surprisingly great. The EMI compressor... [read on...]
TG1 Abbey Road Special Edition Compressor
TAPEOP REVIEW - Chandler Limited TG1 Compressor by: Mike Caffrey www.monsterisland.com Chandler Limited TG1 Compressor Two word review: Holy shit! That's what I said after listening to the first tracks I ran through this compressor. It's also literally what the next four people who heard it said. The bad news -- it costs around $4000. The good news -- it?s worth it. Ellis Sorkin,... [read on...]
Abbey Road TG12413 Limiter TDM
SOUND ON SOUND - Chandler EMI TG12413 by: Mark Wherry Sound on Sound - February 2007 I first head the Chandler EMI TG12413 limiter plug-ins at last year's winter NAMM show, and even in the less-than-ideal listening conditions of a trade show you could hear that this was a great processor. Digital recreations of classic analogue gear are commonplace these days, but the TG12413 plug-ins... [read on...]
Abbey Road TG12413 Limiter NATIVE
SOUND ON SOUND - Chandler EMI TG12413 Formats: Mac & PC TDM & RTAS by: Sam Inglis Sound on Sound - January 2007 The best-known studios of the 60s and 70s all had their own, identifiable sound, and none more so than Abbey Road. Lots of factors contributed to the unique sonic fingerprint of EMI?s in-house studio, from its engineering practices to the shape of the recording rooms... [read on...]
Abbey Road TG12413 Limiter TDM
PRO AUDIO REVIEW -Chandler Limited EMI TG12413 Plug-In by: Russ Long Pro Audio Review - 11.15.2006 One of the highlights of the 2005 AES show in New York City was the Chandler Limited EMI TG12413 plug-in. The plug-in was jointly developed by Chandler Limited and Abbey Road Studios and is based on the original solid state compressor/limiter module in the famous TG12345 mix... [read on...]
Mini TG Rack Mixer
Field Test: Chandler Limited Mini Rack Mixer BY: BARRY RUDOLPH Mix, Sept 1, 2005 16X2 RACKMOUNT UNIT WITH TALKBACK AND MONITOR CONTROL Chandler Limited is known for designing new products with a vintage spin. Its latest, the Mini rack mixer, features Chandler's version of the classic ?Beatles and Pink Floyd? EMI TG mixer circuits, with a modular construction and a modernized,... [read on...]
Germanium Pre-Amp/DI
Chandler Limited Germanium Pre Amp/DI: Getting into the thick of it by: Jay Matheson EQ - January, 2007 Chandler?s new Germanium is truly a completely different mic pre. Though boasting an effective front panel (1/4? unbalanced DI jack, rotary Germanium Drive input gain knob, Pad, Thick switch for low frequency rise, Feedback rotary knob, and a VU range switch with an accompanying... [read on...]
1073 LTD-1
Chandler Limited LTD-1 Preamp/EQ by: Russ Long Pro Audio Review - January 2004 Chandler Limited, a Waverly, Iowa-based company, specializes in manufacturing and reintroducing classic equipment that is no longer available or in some cases never was. The Chandler Limited TG1 has been one of the most talked about and lusted after pieces of analog gear over the last few years. The box is a... [read on...]
SoundToys Native Effects Bundle
SoundToys (formerly Wave Mechanics) have been marketing plug-ins for Pro Tools for years, but until recently these were, in the main, expensive TDM-only effects. However, the company recently launched this bundle of RTAS versions at a much lower combined price. With ever more powerful computers becoming available, this is a much ... [read on...]
In the digital world, the sound and quality of your final productions are defined to a large extent by your choice of plug-ins and the way in which you use them. And with increasingly high-quality plug-ins bundled as standard with most DAW applications these days, mixing entirely inside-the-box can produce truly professional results. But if... [read on...]
Altiverb 7 Regular (Mac only)
The latest technological advances in reverb design have yielded expensive hardware units that can 'sample' the sound of real rooms. Now Audio Ease's Altiverb brings the same technology to the Mac ? at a fraction of the cost.Robin BigwoodPublished in Sound On Sound May 2002You can get a lot of recording gear for comparatively little money these days, especially if you're prepared to commit to... [read on...]
EL8 Distressor
Empirical Labs DistressorPublished in SOS December 1997Can new technology really emulate vintage equipment, or do you have to use vintage parts? PAUL WHITE tests a modern compressor that claims chameleon-like abilities to emulate classic compression sounds.At one time, it seemed as though all the black arts of audio design were focused on digital reverb algorithms, but in the latter half of... [read on...]
TG1 Abbey Road Special Edition Compressor
RESOLUTION TG 1 REVIEW GEORGE SHILLINGChandler TG1 LimiterIt's a fact of life that certain items of old equipment are deemed more classic and therefore more desirable to emulate than others are. The audio industry has a long and illustrious past and new candidates for imitation are emerging; others have simply been missed on previous passes. HAVING BEEN LUCKY enough to use an EMI TG console... [read on...]
TG2 Abbey Road Sp.Ed.
RESOLUTION REVIEW - GEORGE SHILLING Chandler TG2 Following in the steps of the very highly regarded TG1 limiter, this mic preamp draws on a similar lineage and inspiration from 1960s consoles. GEORGE SHILLING shakes his mop top and squares up to the mic.CHANDLER CLAIMS IT has based the TG2 dual mic preamplifier on the innards of the 1960s EMI TG model console, faithfully copying the... [read on...]