Presonus has been making some waves lately with their new interfaces and other equipment such as the Eureka channel strip. One of their latest offerings is the Firepod, the first piece of Presonus gear I have had a chance to check out and I’m glad I did. The Firepod is an 8 in/8 out A-D [...]
“This cute little box is dual channel microphone and instrument preamplifier. At UK165 it is firmly in the budget sector and the price is all the more remarkable for a tube device. The housing is approximately half a rack space wide — PreSonus has designed a rack converter kit but has not manufactured this yet. [...]
“I like golf. It’s not just the fresh air, little electric carts, bizarre dress code and ability to smoke cigars and drink beer while doing it either. Part of the attraction is that every time you go to swing the club, a laundry list of all you’ve ever learned and practiced comes into play. How [...]
“When my “Using Effects Effectively Part 2″ article about compressors, limiters, and gates came out, I received quit a few E-mails from people at the Guitar Alliance and people that received the Musicians Friend newsletter. These E-mails revolved mostly around what setting should be used on a compressor and what is the best compressor to [...]
While the new M-Audio iControl was consciously designed as the ultimate controller for GarageBand 2 (GB2), it does not address the fundamental need of importing sound and MIDI. You must rely on the modest two channels of quasi-CD quality audio available on selected Macs or you need to buy a sound card or box to [...]
