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Why You Need an Intersample Meter When Mastering by: Victor Mason

headline_sq_inter_sample_peaksYour mix is done but a “digital bug” lays dormant waiting to be unleashed on the listener. Unless you have taken the steps needed to check for them, odds are against you that you have them and probably don’t even know it. You’re not alone, the vast majority of commercial mixes are laden with them. What is this Bug? It’s called intersample peaks, and they are present on most mixes, yet they are chronically overlooked by many engineers. Let me explain. Read the rest of this entry »


New Kit from ModTM Kits DIY, the ThunderDrive

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The ThunderDrive is an overdrive pedal kit that provides a strong clean signal

boost in the early gain settings and smooth distortion at maximum gain settings.

Adjusting volume and gain controls provides a wide variety of tones in spite of its

simple construction. It is capable of overdriving the preamp section of your guitar

amp or adding its own layer of distortion at lower volume. The current draw of

this pedal is very low at 1.3 milliamps, allowing for long battery life.

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Tips for balancing multi-core performance In Logic

Logic Pro and Logic Express 8 or later can use all cores on 2, 4, and 8 core Macs. Keep these tips in mind as you work with Logic to balance performance on a multi-core system.Logic CPU monitor

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