Gear
Akai DPS12 Recorder Review
Our final contestant in our recent recorder reviews, the Akai DPS12, is chunkier and shorter than the Fostex DMT-8VL but closer to it than the Korg D8 size. Instead of relying on a built-in hard […]
Month: September 2008
NAMM Archive
Harmony Central Message Board Is Down
Harmony Central Message Board Is Down We’ve noticed that Harmony-Central music message forum is down due to having database error (s). We would like to take this opportunity to invite acapella.harmony-central.com forum members to join us at […]
Gear
Fostex DMT-8VL Review
From the tiny Korg D8 that we reviewed, I moved on to the substantially large Fostex DMT-8VL, another great eight-track recorder, which was available with either a 2.55 GB hard drive (60 minutes worth of […]
Amplifiers
Johnson Marquis JM60 Guitar Amp Review
Johnson’s Millennium amplifiers have set a good standard for what a digital modeling amp should be. While the Marquis is something of a scaled-down version of the Millennium, it retains much of what makes the […]
Amplifiers
Crate DX-212 Guitar Amplifier Review
With its brushed copper front panel, big black knobs and jellylike, illuminated keypad, Crate’s digital DX-212 looks like a Sixties vision of the future. The knobs (Master, volume, gain, bass, mid, treble. Channel level, effects […]
Amplifiers
Crate and Johnson Marquis Guitar Amplifiers
The ascension of digital modeling technology in amplifier design continues. The latest entries in the tone-cloning competition come from Crate and Johnson, who bring out the contest remarkably similar packages. Both the Crate DX-212 and the Johnson Marquis JM60 arrive in combo format, with easy to tweak knobs in addition to digital keypads, […]
Gear
Korg D8 Digital Any Good? – Analog Recorder Review 2020
The fun started with the Korg D8, which is by far the smallest of the three recorders I sampled for this series of reviews. If you weren’t looking at it too closely, you might mistake […]
Guitars
Fishman Rare Earth Acoustic Guitar Pickups
For years; acoustic guitars have been trying to perfect a system of amplifying their “unplugged” styling without the use of a microphone. Though many guitars these days come with built-in piezo electric transducers (i.e. pickups), […]
Gear
EV Electro-Voice RE510
EV Electro-Voice RE510 Because of their wide frequency response and great sensitivity, condenser mikes are often the first choice of recording engineers, particularly for vocals. But studio conditions are idyllic compared to the rigors of […]
Gear
Sweet Voices of EV 368 Electro-Voice 468
A few decades ago, Electro-Voice set the audio industry on its ear when they introduced the NeoDymium (N/DYM) line of durable and affordable dynamic microphones, which boast response and performance characteristics comparable to costly condenser […]