One of the things we spend a lot of time doing up here at Giraffe Audio, is listening to monitors. They're one of the most crucial parts of the studio and arguably the one piece of equipment that can make the most difference to how you work. This week, we've been taking a listen to the new Focal Alpha range...
Meris Audio is a new company that are based in Los Angeles. They were started by a gent called Terry Burton. Prior to this, he set up Strymon, a name synonymous with superb guitar effect units and worked doing hardware design at Line 6. They have just released their first product- a new preamp, called the 440. It's a 500-series...
Thinking about getting one of the very fine Universal Audio Apollo interfaces? Now, is a great time they have just launched a new time limited offer. Free UA plugins....MmmmmMMmmm See below for details! Get Up to $1,295 in UAD Plug-Ins FREE When You Purchase an Apollo Audio Interface! From October 1st - December 31st 2014, purchase and register a new...
Universal Audio have just announced new versions of their UAD-2 Satellite systems with Thunderbolt. By using thunderbolt, they've overcome the limitations to bandwidth that the firewire systems had, so allowing them to get more DSP onto a card. They're due to start shipping next month and we're taking pre-orders!
If you're in the market for a new high-end audio interface for your mac, we've some nice savings on Metric Halo interfaces for the Autumn. Metric Halo have been in the interface game for quite a long time and they're highly regarded for top level professional solutions. Drop us a line for more information!
Native Instruments have just announced the Komplete Instrument. At first glance, its a controller keyboard- albeit a very good looking one- but pigeon-hole it in the DAW controller with ever other MIDI controller on the market and you’ll miss where NI are coming from with this. Here’s our cheat sheet to understanding fully what this new board is about and...
We had a bit of a treat today- its not often you get to audition £3000 headphones... Welcome to the Ultrasone Edition 5! Limited to 500 sets world wide (only 20 of which are in the UK), these are probably the most expensive headphones that we've ever had the opportunity to audition. And we were impressed! Everything about the Edition...
We've pleased to announce that we've now got AKG Studio headphones now in store for demonstration. If you're looking at a reliable and great-sounding headphones for monitoring, we've the semi-open K240 MKII and the closed back K271MKII in stock and on demonstration. For people after a higher-end headphone for critical listening and reference use, we've got the K702 and the...
Toontrack have a rather nice summer offer on for August- you can pick up any of their EZX Expansion libraries for half price! Available as either a serial code or a boxed version, we can order these and get them out to you in no time! EZX Expansions work with EZ Drummer and Superior drummer. They're great sounding drum...
Believe it or not Arturia have been bringing us awesome recreations of many classic synths for 15 years now! To celebrate, they've got a great offer on until 8th September where you can pick up 10 of their synths including the Jupiter 8V, CCS-80V and Mini-V in their V-Collection 3 for £149! If you fancy getting your hands on a...
