PreSonus has slowly been making it’s way into the digital audio workstation (DAW) market for several years now, releasing the first incarnation of Studio One in 2009. With this new release of the software, more features than ever are filling out the interior of the software to make a great, competitive product in the cluttered digital realm of music...

Music Midtown, the long-running music festival hosted annually in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, has just announced their lineup for 2022, and as expected, it's loaded with a great mix of alt rock, hip hop, and EDM. Notable headliners this year are My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Future, Jack White, and Phoebe Bridgers. Who are you mist excited to see at this...

After carefully testing several of the monitor sets at my local Guitar Center, I finally decided that for a home setup nothing works better than a pair of KRKs. While each size of the KRK Rokit series has it’s own pros and cons, I chose the Rokit 8 speakers because they have a great sound with nearly any electronic...

Riot Fest is celebrating another year at Chicago’s Douglass Park with this year's festival taking place from September 16-18. Today, the festival organizers shared the lineup, featuring some of the biggest and best names in rock, alternative, and folk. This year's headliners include My Chemical Romance, Nine Inch Nails, and the Original Misfits - performing their 1981 album, Walk Among Us, in its entirety. Looking...

Waves recently released their OneKnob series for just $249 for their large collection of fans with individual plugins available starting at $49 each. We got to experience these plugins first hand, and compared to their several thousand dollar packages usually sold by Waves, this series makes a great entry-level package. There’s not very much control over them (after all...

Røde proudly boasts its NT1-A cardioid condenser microphone to be the quietest studio microphone available, which is hard to argue against when the unit only creates 5dBA of self noise. The NT1-A is one of the most transparent sounding microphones on the market, making it the perfect tool for home recording artists and major studios alike to have in...

Today, Insomniac Events dropped the lineup for the highly anticipated EDC Las Vegas 2022 festival that's set to take place at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in just a few short months. The festival will run from May 20-22 and brings together over 200 artists for a larger-than-life event of lights, sound, and fun. Some of the most notable names...

Pro Tools has been the industry standard for the past decade when it comes to professional quality recording studios. With many unique features and add-ons, Pro Tools operators have a wide palette of sounds and options at their disposal. With the release of Pro Tools 9, they have opened their professional DAW to the masses, by no longer requiring...

The Event 20/20 BAS monitor is a modern take on the original 20/20 monitor that blew the minds of mix engineers everywhere in the 90‘s. This improved, modern version really lives up to its name. These monitors are the definition of sonic honesty and true quality. Several modern updates were made to a classic speaker, including 250 Class AB...

The Aftershock Music Festival will return to Discovery Park in Sacramento, CA from October 6-9, bringing together some of the biggest bands in metal and rock music, plus 145,000+ of their biggest fans. Leading the charge will be headliners Slipknot, KISS, My Chemical Romance, and Muse. With a topline that heavy, you might think the rest of the lineup would suffer,...