Every developing band has the same person in it. The one who owns the interface, learned the DAW, and ends up doing all the recording. They set up the mic, hit record, run back to their instrument, play the take,...

There is no shortage of people who know exactly what an MPC is, love the idea of owning one, and then stall completely when they look at the range. Right now Akai sells a compact battery-powered sampler, a grid-based performance...

There is a moment every new record collector has. You bring the album home, slide it out of the sleeve, put it on, and the first note arrives with a physical weight that streaming somehow never manages. Then a few...

Every few months, a guitarist walks into our showroom, plugs in, plays the opening of Plug In Baby, and then asks the same question: why doesn't it sound like that? The notes are right. The timing is right. The sound...

Walk into any jam, any studio, any church hall in the Klang Valley and look at what the bassist is holding. There is a very good chance it is a Precision, a Jazz, or something built to be one of...

Every studio conversation about microphones eventually arrives at the same place. Somebody names a mic, somebody else says it is overrated, and nobody in the room can explain what the thing actually does differently. Meanwhile the vocalist is standing there...