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SKNote Etna M8 Build Your Own Studio: 2024 Edition

Guides

Build Your Own Studio—2024 Edition: Part 3

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 03/28/2024

We asked London/Belgium-based engineer Wes Maebe to spend an imaginary $100,000 outfitting an imaginary studio. The place may not exist, but it sounds awesome!

Guides

Build Your Own Studio—2024 Edition: Part 2

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 03/27/2024 ⋅ Updated: 03/28/2024

We asked London/Belgium-based engineer Wes Maebe to spend an imaginary $100,000 outfitting an imaginary studio. The place may not exist, but it sounds awesome!

Guides

Build Your Own Studio—2024 Edition: Part 1

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 03/26/2024 ⋅ Updated: 03/28/2024

We asked London/Belgium-based engineer Wes Maebe to spend an imaginary $100,000 outfitting an imaginary studio. The place may not exist, but it sounds awesome!

Outboard-Gear

Hazelrigg VDI, VLC, VNE – A Real-World Review

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 01/13/2022

Reviewer Wes Maebe finds DW Fearn's new Hazelrigg VDI, VLC, VNE D.I., Preamp and Compressor to be 'stunning.'

Guides

Build Your Own Analog Studio in 2021

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 02/23/2021

Spoiler Alert: It Will Most Likely Be Going in Your Home

Reviews

Useful Arts SFP-30 & BF-1

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 10/30/2019

Handbuilt Vacuum Tube Preamp Makes Everything Sound Better

Recording

Build Your Own Studio

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 02/11/2019

$100,000 Can Buy a Whole Lot of Analog Punch and Flavor

Reviews

Review: RJR BAX Mastering EQ

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 05/07/2018

By Wes Maebe. Handmade 3 RU Device Shines at Mix Bus, Too

2017

Advanced Audio MT8016 Preamp

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 05/08/2017

Dual-Channel Gainer in the Trident Tradition

2017

Build Your Own Studio: The $100,000 Studio

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 02/16/2017

That time of year has come again, where Markkus Rovito and I take a look at how to improve on your current setup. In...

2016

Universal Apollo 8P Thunderbolt 2 Audio Interface

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 10/27/2016

16x20 I/O with UAD Quad Plug-in Processing

2016

On the Cover: Synchron Stage Vienna

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 05/03/2016

VSL Builds Future-Proof Facility, With a Nod to History

2016

NAMM’s Hidden Gems

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 03/04/2016

At every single trade show, you think, “Surely I won’t find anything else I need.” And without fail, you walk away with a wish...

2016

Build Your Own (Mostly) Analog Studio for $100,000

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 02/10/2016

It’s that time of year where a couple of us at Mix get to put together a recording setup for a specific price. Once...

2015

$100,000 Ante in the Analog Game

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 03/16/2015

There seems to be a trend for creating music that is akin to building with Legos. Sounds are chosen from vast libraries, divided in...

2014

Analogue Tube AT-1 Compressor: New/Old School Fairchild-Style Limiter

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 09/01/2014

I first bumped into Simon Saywood at an AES in San Francisco when he was showing off his then-brand-new Fairchild 670 copy, the AT-101....

Canadian Cred: Garth Richardson & Mike Fraser

By Wes Maebe ⋅ Published: 08/01/2014

With nearly eight decades of experience between the two of them—including seminal projects for Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Van...