The new Genelec 8351 was announced at the end of last year and has been making conversation as one of the oddest-looking monitors that we've ever seen. We had a chance to find out a little more about them from Andy Bensley, Genelec's UK product specialist. Without giving too much away, these monitors are an active three way that is...
One of the latest products to land in here is the new Resident Audio T2 audio interface. It's a pretty crowded market, so what is it about this new one that you should be bothering with? This new interface offers two line/instrument/microphone inputs with phantom power, a headphone output and monitor outputs and midi in and out all in a...
One of the new products announced at NAMM this year has been the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators. They’ve created quite a bit of a buzz already and they’re something that we’re looking forwards to seeing here ourselves. For those that don’t know, Teenage Engineering are a Swedish design company, most famous within the music world for their OP-1 (as seen...
Genelec are known the world over for their range of professional monitors. Their 8000 series are ubiquitous in professional environments from location broadcast vans, to recording studios and post productions rooms across the world. If you want to experience what these award-winning monitors are capable of, you can hear them first hand at Giraffe Audio. We carry the 8010, 8020...
We had a new box turn up a few days ago that we’ve been really excited to have for demonstration… the Zen Studio by Antelope Audio. If you've not heard about it yet, its a new audio interface from a very forward-thinking company. We did an unboxing video here: Here's our Zen Studio running with all kinds of nice...
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!
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...
