Focusrite ISA828 and ISA One

This is the first installment of "The Recording Process" which covers preproduction - all the events leading up to recording. There will be a new installment in this series once a week until it is completed. The songs we record will be available for download in January of 2008.

TASCAM'S latest breakthrough for home recording is the VL-A series, a value-priced lineup of great-sounding reference monitors. The VL-A5 is a 5" two-way reference monitor that's self-powered and employs balanced TRS/XLR combination inputs. A deep-cabinet design with front-mounted bass ports...

FM202 April 2008 Probably one of Dance music's best kept secrets, Matt Schwartz has been machine-gunning the charts with commercial Dance hits and European club-smashes for years. FM gets into the studio with him as he creates a track from scratch. The final part covers Vocals and Creative Effects.

You know the old saying: "some plates may drop in value, but most plates go up." This advice doesn't really offer any kind of advice for picking out a reverb, so we enlisted engineer Matt Boudreau of Broken Radio Studio in San Francisco to provide a little guidance. Matt broke out his studio's two...

Geoff Foster - high-end film score producer - lets us in on how he utilizes his TC Electronic System 6000 units. Foster has been working on many blockbuster movies including 5 James Bond movies, The DaVinci Code, The Pirates of the Caribbean series, and most recently, Sherlock Holmes. Overall,...