Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
New RODE NT-USB Mini mic is versatile and easy-to-use The RODE NT-USB Mini brings the pristine sound quality of RODE’s world-class studio mics to a compact, easy-to-use USB microphone. In 2014 RODE brought their world-renowned condenser microphone quality to a USB platform, proving that incredible audio quality doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive. Now […]
Antares Autotune Artist is the new real-time vocal multitool Antares Autotune Artist is the latest upgrade from vocal processing giants, with all the real-time feature of the pro version. Hate it or love it, Autotone is certainly one of the most notable vocal processing tools of the last decade. What was originally designed to correct […]
ISOVOX 2 Vocal Booth – Professional vocal sound at home The ISOVOX 2 portable vocal booth allows you to get clean vocal takes every time, no matter where you are. One of the hardest parts about recording vocals at home is controlling the reflections from your recording environment, in home studios we often have to […]
iZotope Neutron 3 | Tech Spotlight iZotope Neutron 3 makes the whole mixdown process much easier with the new assistant technology and variety of modules. iZotope Neutron 3 is not only an incredible all-in-one tool for processing – featuring a variety of high-end modules from EQ to compression, the “Visual Mixer” is an interesting and […]
Goa-Trance style Gated Vocal Pads using Kilohearts Phase Plant Kilohearts Phase Plant is quickly becoming one of my favourite plugins, today we’re exploring Goa-Trance style Gated Vocal Pads There are various ways of creating the Gated Vocal Pad sound but often producers default to using a loop or sample and applying a trance gate, while […]
Teenage Engineering PO-137 Vocal Synth – Rick and Morty Edition Introducing the new limited edition Teenage Engineering PO-137 – a collaboration between Teenage Engineering and Rick and Morty producer, Justin Roland. The new Teenage Engineering PO-137 is a vocal synthesizer and sampler, similar to the PO-35 Speak however it comes with eight different voice sampling […]
How to create new Serum Wavetables using vocal samples One of the features that sets Serum apart from a lot of Wavetable synths is the ability to create wavetables. Loading samples into Serum’s Wavetable oscillators is as easy as dragging them onto the interface from your DAW. When using vocal samples, I found the FFT […]
Roland VT-4 – the updated vocal transformer effect with harmonies The all-new Roland VT-4 builds on the success of the VT-3 with added polyphonic vocoder and advanced harmonies amongst others. The Roland VT-3 was nice for staple vocal effects like adding subtle variations, however the newly redesigned bigger brother, the Roland VT-4 takes vocal effect […]
iZotope Vocal Doubler – the super simple new vocal effect plugin Make your vocal recordings stand out in the mix with iZotope Vocal Doubler, the easy-to-use new vocal processing effect plugin. iZotope has a long history of creating award-winning audio plugins, from the complex mixing suites like Ozone to the intuitive all-in-one processing plugins like […]
Yamaha Vocaloid 5 – the most realistic digital vocal sound yet Yamaha Vocaloid is a software instrument used to create shockingly realistic digital vocals for your music. Yamaha Vocaloid is a standalone system that can also be loaded up as a VST in a variety of DAWs, it comes packed with four “Voicebanks” – two […]
