iTrack Solo Review: Pro audio company Focusrite brings higher-end recording to the iPad

iTrack Solo Review


by Alan Watt With decades of experience recording audio on 2″ magnetic tape to the latest digital audio workstation (DAW) and everything in-between, using an iPad to capture sound is a different experience for me. The upshot is that ,…

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Grain Audio : Walnut sound equipment approved by the pros

Grain Audio

New York-based outfit Grain Audio is determined to make some noise. Launching today on Kickstarter, the small start-up resolves to stand out with a range of goods to fulfill all of your critical listening needs—from the petite Bluetooth-enabled PWS (Packable Wireless System) to the PBS (Passive Bookshelf System) as…

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RØDE iXY: A new compact mic that hooks seamlessly into your iPhone for on-the-go recording

RØDE iXY

At CES this week RØDE announced a new product to their lineup, the iPhone-compatible iXY microphone. This miniature stereo microphone snaps into your iPhone’s docking port and using RØDE’s Rec app lets you capture high quality audio directly to your device. Every year we see innovative tools emerge for…

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OD-11: Swedish design firm Teenage Engineering returns with the world’s first cloud speaker

OD-11

The enfants terribles of the industrial design world return with yet another potential banger of a product, hot on the heels of the OP-1, the synthesizer that made it cool to tickle the ivories. This time Swedish firm Teenage Engineering plundered the license cabinet of Stig Carlsson, the Swedish…

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