Corey Pemberton gear analysis for artists weighing glass, fiber, quilting, and mixed-media tools in contemporary craft practice.
Sunflower Sound System Mixing Lessons For Crews
Sunflower Sound System mixing lessons for live crews: spectral separation, delay alignment, room tone, and careful effects before its US debut.
Why Sampleson Backgrounds Makes Word-Based Sound Design Work Without The Cloud
Text prompts have become familiar in AI-assisted creative tools, but audio production often turns that convenience into a cloud workflow: describe something, upload or transmit a request, wait for a remote model, consume credits, then download the result. Sampleson’s Backgrounds…
Why Smart Audio Plugins Timbral Box Treats Harmonics Like A Parallel EQ
Smart Audio Plugins released Timbral Box on September 16, 2026 with an unusual proposition for mixers: instead of reaching immediately for EQ boosts or heavier compression when a sound needs more presence, generate harmonics beside the original signal and use…
Festival Soundscapes: Mixing Lessons From 2026
Festival Soundscapes from 2026 reviews show how bass control, system design, and dynamic mixing shaped live music clarity.
Live Sound Gear Lessons From 2026 Festivals
Live sound gear from 2026 festivals showed larger PA control, spatial mixes, and wireless shifts. Here is what artists should expect.
Why Gazillion Industries Skruu And Triple OG Make Tape Movement Playable Again
Tape emulation plugins often concentrate on the sound left behind by magnetic recording: saturation, hiss, softened transients, darker frequency response, wow, and flutter. Gazillion Industries takes a more physical approach with two effects released in September 2026. Skruu treats changes…
How Phaseburn One Turns Radio-Electronics PLL Behavior Into A Groove Synth
Phaseburn One approaches synthesis from a direction that still feels unusual in software instruments: its signature oscillator begins with a phase-locked loop, or PLL, a control system more closely associated with radio electronics and frequency synchronization than conventional subtractive synthesis.…
AMERICANAFEST 2026 Live Mix Lessons For Crews
AMERICANAFEST 2026 gives live mixers a clear case study in venue scale, FOH discipline, broadcast audio, and cautious tech choices.
Why Khorlo Makes Physical Modeling Feel Like A Rhythm Generator
Khorlo makes physical modeling feel like a rhythm generator because it changes the usual relationship between exciter, resonator, and time. Instead of asking producers to pluck one modeled string from a keyboard and then build rhythm with MIDI notes, JAS-I…