Monthly Archive: January 2020

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) has enjoyed success across its array of course offerings since it was founded in 1996. With constantly high rankings in most government and independent measures, it boasts numerous high-profile and successful alumni in disciplines from acting, dance, and music, through to management, theatre technology, and sound technology. In […]

The NAMM Foundation held the 35th Annual NAMM TEC AWARDS on Saturday 18th January. Winners include Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who was awarded the Les Paul Innovation Award. Herbie Hancock, who presented Mitchell with the award, said, “it’s hard to imagine a world without this courageous woman’s brave songs and records.” Mitchell herself remarked that she […]

The Warm Audio BUS-COMP is an all-analogue, 2-channel, stereo VCA compressor “based on classic circuitry that has provided silky smooth tone for decades”.  I think we know what they mean – it’s the silky-smooth-legendary ‘glue’ in an affordable 19″-rack recreation.   One feature Warm have added to the original design is the ability to have […]

Nearly 40 years since making its debut on the professional recording scene, the iconic AMS RMX16 Digital Reverberation System has been relaunched in hardware format as part of AMS-Neve’s rack-mounted 500 Series. In keeping with its predecessor, which AMS-Neve say “was the world’s first microprocessor-controlled, full-bandwidth digital reverberator”, the new RMX16 500 Digital Reverb Module is […]