KMR News
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INSIDE TRACK: Silver Shark Studios
Silver Shark Studios is based in South London and offers one of the best synth rooms we've seen in ANY recording studio. We speak with owner Grant Strang about how his ambition to create one of the UK's best facilities for synth recording came together… How long has Silver Shark been […]
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Meet The Maker - Klaus Heinz of HEDD
HEDD (Heinz ElectroDynamic Designs) was formed in 2016 by ex-ADAM Audio founder Klaus Heinz and Frederik Knop. Their range of hand-crafted studio monitors and headphones is fast gaining an excellent reputation in the pro audio community. We speak with Klaus about how he started out and the technology behind HEDD’s recently released Mk2 […]
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Meet The Maker - Unity Audio
UNITY AUDIO started out as a successful distribution company, introducing some of the industry's best-loved brands into the UK including Empirical Labs, Thermionic Culture, Chandler, Burl, Telefunken, Adam Audio, Great River, Focal, Elysia, Little Labs, and many more. 2009 saw the introduction of "The Rock" - the first UK-designed and manufactured 2-way active professional monitor […]
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Producer Club: Spacestation Φ Studio
SPACESTATION Ø STUDIO is the personal studio of renowned techno producer and DJ, Luke Slater. Since the beginning of the 1990's, Luke has pioneered and developed this musical genre whilst amassing the impressive collection of modern, boutique and esoteric recording equipment he uses on his tracks. Luke runs the studio with producer/songwriter/mix […]
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A CUBAN ADVENTURE - upgrading the Buena Vista studio
Background... In early 2019, we were approached by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to assist them in upgrading Cuba’s oldest and largest recording facility, Estudios Areito. Most famous as the birthplace of Buena Vista Social Club, the studio dates back to the 1940's and remains in regular use to this […]
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MixBus Podcast: Matt Lawrence
MixBus is a series of new podcasts featuring leading producers, engineers and mixers talking informally about their careers in the recording industry and how they approach their work... LATEST PODCAST - MATT LAWRENCE Matt Lawrence is a Grammy-Award winning mixer, producer and engineer. He is credited on some of the biggest selling records of the […]
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Staff Picks: 500 Series Modules
Outside of shop hours, the KMR team are often burning the midnight oil in their own studios. We ask the guys to tell us about their favourite 500 Series processors and why you might want to check them out yourself... 1. API | 512c API were the originators […]
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Meet The Maker : Anssi Hyvönen of Amphion
Finnish manufacturer Amphion have quickly established themselves as a premium player in the studio monitor market with a raft of rave reviews both in the press and among users. Although relatively new to pro audio, the company have a long and respected 20-year history in Hi-Fi, with a reputation for mid-range detail, excellent […]
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Moog Subharmonicon Released
Moog's polyrhythmic masterpiece makes its public debut; The Moog Subharmonicon is a Semi-Modular Analogue Synthesizer with a very unusual, but incredibly inspiring sequencing and sound generation architecture, it uses the concepts of mathematically generated sub divisions of audio and clocks to produce gorgeous evolving chordal structures and music phrases. This creation originally saw the light […]
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Universal Audio LUNA - first impressions
Possibly the biggest splash from this year’s winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California was Universal Audio’s announcement of their new LUNA Recording System. LUNA further expands the UA ecosystem and consists of a UA audio interface (Thunderbolt only), the new LUNA Application, LUNA Extensions and LUNA Instruments. We take a first look […]