Reviews
Freqport FreqInOut FO1 — A Mix Real-World Review
Seamless Integration of Outboard Hardware Into DAW Sessions
Mike Levine, Mix Technical Editor-Studio, has been a music-technology journalist for over 20 years. The former editor of Electronic Musician and Onstage magazines, he was also the US editor for the Paris-based music-technology site, Audiofanzine. You’ll also find his writing on pureMix.net, the Yamaha Music blog (the Hub), Waves.com, the Universal Audio blog, Sound on Sound, Popular Science and ask.audio. Levine is a professional musician, producer and composer. He’s written music for TV shows on CNN, the History Channel and A&E and TV commercials for Advil, Days Inn, Lysol and more. He played in Broadway and Off-Broadway pit bands, on numerous sessions on guitar, pedal steel and dobro, and engineered and mixed countless projects. Check out his music at michaelwilliamlevine.com and his writing at mikelevine.journoportfolio.com.
Plug-ins
UA Woodrow ’55 Instrument Amplifier—A Mix Real-World Review
Reviewer Mike Levine woodsheds with the Woodrow '55 Instrument Amplifier plug-in—How did it hold up to his axe?
Reviews
Dreamtonics Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro — A Mix Real-World Review
Dreamtonics Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro is a vocal synthesizer that uses MIDI sequence data to trigger AI-controlled voices—and we put it to the...
New Products
Heritage Audio TAPEoPLEX — A Mix Product of the Week
Heritage Audio, has released TAPEoPLEX (Mac/PC), an authentic-sounding modeled version of the original Echoplex.
New Products
Apple Logic Pro 11.2—A Mix Product of the Week
Logic Pro 11.2, just dropped and, sure enough, it has some cool new capabilities and lots of improvements on existing ones.
Plug-ins
Vertigo VSS-2 Plug-in — A Mix Real-World Review
Our review team takes on the VSS-2 Plug-in—a channel strip featuring emulations of Vertigo Sound’s top hardware.
Plug-ins
PSP Wobbler—A Mix Real-World Review
Our reviewer discovers the PSP Wobbler, created with legendary producer, engineer and musician Alan Parsons, is much more than just an emulation of the...
New Products
Native Instruments Circular — A Mix Product of the Week
A polyphonic sequencer with four independent layers, Circular is capable of generating everything from simple to complex musical patterns and altering them with a...
Reviews
DAACI Natural Drums — A Mix Real-World Review
A Virtual Instrument That Thinks Like a Drummer
New Products
Lewitt Space Replicator — A Mix Product of the Week
With this week’s release of Space Replicator, the Vienna, Austria-based company has made its first foray into the plug-in market.
Plug-ins
UJAM UFX Reverb 2.0 — A Mix Real-World Review
Our review team dives into UJAM UFX Reverb 2.0, a plug-in with powerful multi-effects built in
New Products
iZotope Equinox—A Mix Product of the Week
What does a product need to make an impact in the competitive reverb plug-in market? The team behind iZotope's Equinox knows.
New Products
MOTU 16A Audio Interface — A Mix Product of the Week
MOTU’s redesigned version of its 16A audio interface, outfitted with both Thunderbolt 4 and USB4, just started shipping.
Reviews
Universal Audio Apollo x8 Gen 2 — A Mix Real-World Review
Mix reviewer Mike Levine finds that the UA Apollo x8 Gen 2 is everything you need for quality mixing and mastering.
New Products
Sonible pure:deess Plug-In — A Mix Product of the Week
Sonible’s new pure:deess plug-in may find a welcome place in your processor collection.
New Products
Plugin Alliance Vertigo VSS-2—A Mix Product of the Week
The VSS-2, a new plug-in from Plugin Alliance, combines processing from a variety of Vertigo’s products.
New Products
SPL Machine Head — A Mix Product of the Week
SPL's new plug-in version of its discontinued tape emulation processor, Machine Head, features source code from the original unit.
Plug-ins
iZotope Neutron 5 — A Mix Real-World Review
iZotope’s Neutron 5 mixing-processor suite is a garden of mixing delights that continues to grow.
New Products
PSP Wobbler — A Mix Product of the Week
Alan Parsons recently collaborated with PSP to create the Wobbler plug-in, a modulation that emulates Frequency Translator and adds additional capabilities.
New Products
Drawmer MQ-1 and MQ-2 — A Mix Product of the Week
New at NAMM are two Drawmer 500-series units inspired by the classic Motown EQ and hand-built in the UK.
New Products
Heritage Audio BritStrip Plug-In – A Mix Product of the Week
Heritage Audio, best known for its hardware products, has a new plug-in out with the release of BritStrip.
New Products
Sonible prime:vocal — A Mix Product of the Week
Sonible’s latest AI processing-based software for audio is prime:vocal, which functions as a standalone app or as an ARA plug-in.
Plug-ins
IK Multimedia T-RackS 6 – A Mix Real-World Review
The sixth incarnation of T-RackS is out, with the mixing and mastering processor suite having matured into a robust collection. Is it worth the...
Reviews
Focal Lensys Professional – A Mix Real-World Review
Focal's latest high-end headphones, Lensys Professional, aren't cheap; find out why our reviewer said you get your money's worth.
New Products
JMG Sound DarkFire — A Mix Product of the Week
DarkFire (Mac/Windows) is not your typical saturation plug-in
New Products
iZotope Cascadia — A Mix Product of the Week
The latest plug-in from iZotope’s Catalyst Series, Cascadia, is a tape delay with intelligent unmasking and flexible controls.
New Products
Bettermaker C502V — A Mix Product of the Week
The new Bettermaker C502V plug-in is a digital version of the 500-series compressor of the same name but with more features.
New Products
iZotope Neutron 5 — A Mix Product of the Week
The latest version of iZotope’s mixing suite, Neutron 5, features three new processors, improvements to all returning modules, and more.
Plug-ins
KIT Plugins KIT Drums-Connor Denis—A Mix Real-World Review
We put the latest KIT Plugins release—a drum plug-in created in collaboration with Beartooth session drummer Connor Denis—to the test.
Business
Audio Gear Modeling Demystified, Part 2
Take a peek behind the scenes at how developers simulate, re-create and emulate classic analog gear for modern workflows.
Business
Audio Gear Modeling Demystified, Part 1
Take a peek behind the scenes at how software developers simulate, re-create and emulate classic analog gear for modern workflows.
New Products
SounDevice Digital Biverb — A Mix Product of the Week
Biverb from SounDevice Digital provides a selection of reverb algorithms and lets you deploy them via two separate reverb engines.
Business
Spike AI — A Mix Product of the Week
Spike AI, an AI-based mixing plug-in being developed by engineer Mark “Spike” Stent, is expected to be released in early 2025.
Monitors
Steven Slate Audio VSX — A Mix Real-World Review
Steven Slate Audio has introduced VSX, a headphones/plug-in studio monitoring system based around what it calls Binaural Perception Modeling.
Plug-ins
Softube Flow Mastering Suite — A Mix Real-World Review
Our Mix review team puts the Softube Flow Mastering Suite to the test and finds its a complete mastering suite for your DAW.
New Products
Three-Body Technology Trinity Shaper — A Mix Product of the Week
Three-Body Technology has introduced another powerful processor, Trinity Shaper, a multistage and multiband transient shaper.
New Products
IK Multimedia T-Racks 6 — A Mix Product of the Week
T-Racks 6 is the latest generation of IK’s mixing and mastering software suite, adding eight new processors for a total of 60 plug-ins.
Reviews
Austrian Audio MiCreator Studio – A Mix Real-World Review
Exceptional USB-C microphone that doubles as an audio interface.
New Products
Universal Audio ANTI 1992 High Gain Amp – A Mix Product of the Week
Designed for heavy, aggressive metal guitar and based on the sound of the legendary 'block letter' Peavey 5150 amp head built for Eddie Van...
Plug-ins
Three-Body Technology Cenozoix — A Mix Real-World Review
The Cenozoix Compressor provides multiple compressor types plus unusually deep parameter control.
Plug-ins
Universal Audio Verve Analog Machines Plug-In — A Mix Real-World Review
Verve Analog Machines provides ten sonic choices; think of it as an analog buffet.
New Products
Blue Cat Audio PatchWork 2.68— A Mix Product of the Week
Blue Cat defines PatchWork as a “Universal Plug-ins Patchbay.”