Arturia have been in the mix since the turn of the millennium and during this period they have built an incredible reputation releasing many great synths both hardware and software, MIDI controllers, drum machines, interfaces and effects. Today, Arturia launched their newest addition to their range of audio products to their Audiofuse family, the Audiofuse 16Rig. https://youtu.be/PnOnsg4qH0E One look at the 16Rig clearly shows who this product is catering to synth enthusiasts, especially ones who have a stack of hardware synths or those who like to perform live. It has 16 inputs which are split into 16-line ins on…
Author: Tom Kunz
Melbourne doom merchants A Gazillion Angry Mexicans (AGAM) are a cluster of all things stoner, metal, doom, and hard rock. After coming together many years ago their style has evolved into a truly unique force on Melbourne’s doom circuit. Their first long-form release in 2018, ‘Stoner-Pop-Doom-Punk’, was just a taste of what the boys had to offer. After a long couple of years in the studio, ‘Blood Rainbow’ was formed and released in March 2022. We sat down with Ben and James, for a catch up and even played some shit prize quiz with them! https://youtu.be/w4LLm8oRN80 The boys followed their…
Tascam has spent the last few years updating its range of portable recorders, bringing new tech and concepts to the world of field recording. They introduced their Portacapture line with the Portacapture X8 and X6, and the newest product to get a tech facelift is their DR-10L recorder which has been redesigned and realised as the DR-10L PRO. The DR-10L PRO is a pocket-sized portable recorder with some pretty nifty new features, mainly the ability to record at 32-bit float. It can also be controlled via the DR-10L PRO Connect app and transmit timecode to Atomos products (with Tascam’s optional…
One of the biggest hurdles when it comes to being proficient at recording is learning proper gain structure so your recordings are not too quiet or peaking and distorting due to being too loud. The reason we get these peaks is because of bit depth. Bit depth is the dynamic range of a digital recording; the difference in decibels (dB) between the quietest possible recording and loudest possible recording. Most engineers and hobbyists are aware of 16 and 24-bit depths and as you would expect 16 bit has a smaller dynamic range compared to 24-bit. 24 bit is the industry…
Here at Noisegate we usually concern ourselves with creating content such as reviews, tutorials and first looks at fresh new products. As much as we enjoy creating this kind of content sometimes we yearn for something that is a bit more action-packed. We put together a crack team of investigative journalists and performed a real-world field test on JBL’s EON712 PA speaker. We came up with a raft of tests to see if the EON712 could handle some real-life impacts and adverse environments. These tests were organised in ascending order of damage with the final drop test designed to completely…
Hip Hop is one of the most popular music genres globally, and we thought we’d help newcomers through the necessities required to start producing beats and recording bars. Starting a journey in producing and recording music can be daunting for anyone. There are a whole set of rules to learn and eventually break, you gain a love/hate relationship with the physics of sound and go through the giant pit of despair before you reach enlightenment, but I digress. In this video we break down what you need to get started on this Hip Hop journey: https://youtu.be/BUWmMBou410 Here are the essentials:…
The Bock 187 is a high-end condenser microphone manufactured by Universal Audio in collaboration with David Bock, a renowned audio engineer and designer. The microphone is designed to provide a detailed, natural sound capture with a wide frequency response range, making it suitable for a variety of recording applications such as vocals, acoustic instruments, drums, and more. The Bock 187 features a large diaphragm condenser capsule and a fixed cardioid polar pattern, which we found helps to reduce unwanted background noise and really focuses on the desired sound source. It also includes a low-cut filter and a -10 dB pad…
Universal Audio recently released the SP1 mic, their take on the small diaphragm condenser microphone. Considering small diaphragm condenser mics aren’t released all that often we thought we’d see how the SP1 stacks up against some true studio favourites. Both the Rode NT5 and AKG P170 came to mind as both are approximately the same price and are popular affordable small diaphragm condenser microphones. For this video, we visited JMC Academy in South Melbourne who were kind enough to let us make use of their great studio space to see if Universal Audio’s SP1 might be a worthy small diaphragm…
Tascam has just shrunk their audio recorder with their new Portacapture X6, featuring 96 kHz/32-bit float recording technology, a 2.4-inch colour touch screen with 2 XLR inputs and a dual built-in microphone. Tascam has a long history of producing portable recorders, they are responsible for making home recording accessible since the late 1970s with their Portastudio 144, a 4-track cassette tape recorder. Since then, Tascam have continued to expand their portable recorder range and last year they released the Portacapture X8 which was a leap forward in portable recorders with a large touch screen, situational recording modes and 32-bit float…
It’s no secret that Universal Audio has moved into the microphone market, releasing their SD-1 (standard dynamic) and SP-1 (standard pencil) microphones and acquiring 2 reputable microphone brands Townsend Labs and Bock Microphones. Universal Audio have just announced their first move by rebranding the Townsend Labs Sphere L22 modelling microphone as the Universal Audio DLX and releasing the LX, the little sibling to the DLX. Visually these microphones are very similar to the previous Townsend L22 with the only difference being the UA badge and new name. The main difference between the DLX and LX is the number of microphones…
