welcome
“We’ll take you through the iconic sonics of old-school gear” To call the digital era we live in ‘revolutionary’ is quite the understatement. Only decades ago, professional music was made exclusively in high-end studios crammed full of expensive music-making gear, but these restrictions are now but a distant memory – all the electronic instruments and processors that shaped music through the years can now be had in software form for a fraction of the original cost. And what’s even more exciting is the fact that we can go beyond nostalgia and marry those retro sonics with the sounds of the future! But to keep music moving forward, you need a solid understanding of what came before, which is why this issue’s cover feature (p20) is half history lesson, half technique. From tape…
