April 2020 Magazine Contents

Reviews: Moog Matriarch (front cover) • Asus ZenBook Pro Duo UX581GV • SSL 2+ audio interface • Avid S1 control surface • MOTU Digital Performer 10.1 • RME Babyface Pro FS interface • Boss SY-1000 guitar synth • Drawmer 1976 saturation processor • EastWest Hollywood Backup Singers • Euterpe Vertice filterbank • Mackie SRM-Flex PA • Motas Electronics Motas-6 synth • Novation Launchpad Pro, X & Mini MkIII • Quested V2104 monitors • sE Electronics V Pack Arena drum mics.

Techniques + People: The Psychology Of Mixing • Bombay Bicycle Club • Classic Tracks: Happy Mondays 'Step On' • Inside Track: Selena Gomez 'Rare' • Ken 'Pooch' Van Druten: FOH Mix Engineer • Mix Rescue... Pro Tools Folder Tracks and other DAW workshops • Warren 'Oak' Felder: Recording Demi Lovato's 'Sorry Not Sorry' [Video Feature].

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  Asus ZenBook Pro Duo UX581GV

  Laptop Computer
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  Audified ToneSpot Electric Pro

  Electric Guitar Processing Plug-in
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  Audiothingies Doctor A

  Reverb & Delay Processor With MIDI & CV Inputs
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  Austrian Audio Hi-X55

  Closed-back Headphones
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  Avid S1

  EUCON Control Surface
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  Bastl Instruments Kompas

  Eurorack Module
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  Best Service Arabic Oud

  Engine 2 Instrument
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  Best Service Elysion, by Sonuscore

  Kontakt Instrument
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  Boss SY‐1000

  Guitar Synthesizer
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  Cem Olcay StepBud

  AUv3 MIDI Sequencer For iOS
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  Drawmer 1976

  Stereo 3-band Saturation & Width Processor
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  EastWest Hollywood Backup Singers

  Sample Library
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  Electro-Harmonix Ram's Head Big Muff Pi

  Distortion/Fuzz Pedal
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  Erica Synths Pico System III

  Modular Synth
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  Euterpe Vertice

  Hand-built Analogue Filterbank
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  Mackie SRM–Flex

  Active Line Array
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  Mission VM-Pro Ultrasweep

  Volume Pedal
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  Moog Matriarch

  Semi-modular Synthesizer
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  Motas Electronics Motas-6

  Analogue Monosynth
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  MOTU Digital Performer 10.1

  Digital Audio Workstation Software
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  Native Instruments Straylight

  Kontakt Instrument
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  Novation Launchpad Pro, X & Mini MkIII

  Control Surfaces
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  Pulsar Echorec

  Analogue-modelling Delay Plug-in
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  Quested V2104

  2-way Active Reference Monitors
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  RME Babyface Pro FS

  USB Audio Interface
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  sE Electronics V Pack Arena

  Drum Microphone Set
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  SSL 2+ audio interface

  SSL 2+

  USB Audio Interface
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  Step By Step: Adventures In Sequencing With Max/MSP

  Book Review
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  Warm Audio WA-DI-A & WA-DI-P

  DI Boxes
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  Wave Alchemy Bassynth

  Bass Instrument For Kontakt
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Techniques

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  Ableton: Bring Your Step Sequencing To Life!

  Ableton Live Tips & Tricks
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  Classic Tracks: Happy Mondays 'Step On'

  Producers: Paul Oakenfold & Steve Osborne
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  Cubase: Padshop 2's Modulation Matrix

  Steinberg Cubase Pro Tips & Techniques
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  Cubase: Padshop 2’s Modulation Matrix: Audio Examples

  Hear For Yourself
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  Guitar To MIDI Explored

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  Inside Track: Selena Gomez 'Rare'

  Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Sir Nolan & Tony Maserati
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  Mix Rescue: Andy Zuk

  Our Experts Transform Your Tracks
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  Pro Tools Folder Tracks

  Avid Pro Tools Tips & Techniques
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  Using SampleOne XT In Studio One

  PreSonus Studio One Tips & Techniques
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  Producer Oak Felder in his studio.

  Warren 'Oak' Felder: Recording & Producing Demi Lovato's 'Sorry Not Sorry'

  VIDEO FEATURE
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Sound Advice

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  Q. Can I correct my speakers' response with graphic EQ?

  Sound Advice
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  Q. Is there a 'right way up' to mount a mic?

  Sound Advice
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  The Psychology Of Mixing

  Mind Games
  Sound Advice

People

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  Bombay Bicycle Club

  John Congleton, Jack Steadman & Ed Nash: Recording Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
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  Ken 'Pooch' Van Druten: FOH Mix Engineer

  Justin Bieber • Iron Maiden • Jay‐Z • Whitney Houston • Linkin Park • Kiss
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  Paul White

  Leader: The Modular Mindset

  Paul White
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  The Mix Review: April 2020

  Commercial Hit Productions Analysed
  People
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  Why I Love... The Kindness Of Strangers

  Paul Evans
  People