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Reviews of the tools of the trade for the Independent Musician

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Review of Izotope Ozone 11

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Making a Scene Brings you a Comprehensive Review of Izotope Ozone 11 Izotope Ozone 11 is a highly acclaimed audio mastering software that has been widely praised by audio professionals for its exceptional range of features and tools. With its intuitive interface and advanced capabilities, it provides users with everything they need to enhance and […]

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A Review of Captain Plugins Epic

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A Review of Mixed in Key’s Captain Plugins Epic Introduction If you’re a music producer or a musician, you might be familiar with the struggle of finding the right tools to enhance your creativity and streamline your workflow. In today’s digital age, there are countless plugin options available, each claiming to be the ultimate solution. […]

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Bandlab Discontinues Free Version of Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW

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Bandlab Discontinues Free Version of Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW Bandlab, the company behind the popular digital audio workstation (DAW) software Cakewalk, has announced that they will no longer be offering a free version of the software. Bandlab acquired Sonar by Cakewalk DAW after Gibson discontinued the software after it purchase it from Cakewalk, leaving their […]

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A Review of the Warm Audio WA-CX12 Microphone

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A Review of the Warm Audio WA-CX12 Microphone When it comes to recording music, having high-quality equipment is essential. Microphones are especially important to ensure the best possible sound. The Warm Audio WA-CX12 is a microphone that has been gaining popularity among music producers and audio engineers. Warm Audio designed the WA-CX12 as a faithful […]

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AI Songwriting Tools For Words and Music

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AI Songwriting Tools for Words and Music Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming various industries, including music. The integration of AI in music has led to the development of AI songwriting tools that can compose music and even write lyrics. These tools have become popular among musicians, producers, and songwriters, as they can save […]

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Fender Musical Instruments Releases Presonus Studio One 6

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Fender Musical Instruments Releases Presonus Studio One 6 Introduction Back in November of last year Fender Musical Instruments announced their intention to acquire Presonus Audio Electronics as part of their expansion of their reach into the pro audio market. In January “Making a Scene” interviewed the founder of Presonus Jim Odem about this new acquisition […]

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Studio One 5.5 Update!

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Making a Scene Takes a Look at the new Studio One 5.5 Update Even with the pending acquisition of Presonus by Fender Musical Instruments, the team at Presonus is still rolling out updates to their flagship DAW “Studio One”. The new 5.5 update adds some powerful new features to their “Project Page” that will making […]

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10 Last Minute Christmas Gifts for the Indie Musician

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Making a Scene Presents 10 Last Minute Gifts for the Indie Musician With only a few days left before Christmas, the shipping window has closed for many gift options. Fortunately for your favorite indie musician there are some options that you can get them in plenty of time for Christmas! Here is out list of […]

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Masterwriter – Songwriting and Creative Writing Software

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Making a Scene Presents a Review of Masterwriter – Songwriting and Creative Writing Software! What is Masterwriter? Masterwriter was created over 20 years ago as a software product to help songwriters and creative writers with their process by giving them access to all the tools they need in a single place. It has over the […]

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Making a Scene Reviews Warm Audio’s Bus Compressor

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Making a Scene Brings you a Review of the Warm Audio 2 Channel VCA Bus Compressor! What is a VCA Compressor? Before we get into reviewing the Warm Audio 2 Channel VCA Bus Compressor, lets take a look at what a VCA compressor is and why you would want one. Even though the compressor is […]

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OBS Studio a Free Solution to Take your Content Creation to the Next Level

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Making a Scene Takes a look at OBS Studio With the shutdown of the gig economy during the pandemic many musicians have been thrust into the world of content creation as a way to stay connected to their fanbase. One of the main avenues that has been most widely used is the Live Stream. This […]

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Tape Plugin Shootouts Don’t Make Sense

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Tape Plugin Shootouts Don’t Make Sense Commonly asked questions in audio groups regarding the use of tape emulations include: “Which tape machine plugin is best?” “Which one should I reach for on my sources?” “I keep hearing that this one is better than that one, but that one always sounds best to me and I […]

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Review of the Warm Audio WA-47jr

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Making a Scene Presents a Review of the Warm Audio WA 47jr History When Neumann discontinued production of the legendary U47 Microphone in the mid 1960’s their engineers started working on a solidstate version of the microphone to take it’s place. In 1969 they introduced the U47 FET using the same K 47 Capsule as […]

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Plugin Alliance Mega Bundle Review

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Making a Scene Reviews The Plugin-Alliance Mega Bundle The Plugin-Alliance The Plugin Alliance is an umbrella company that pulls together a variety of software developers under a single digital marketing and authorization system. The companies that are now under this “alliance” are some of the industries top hardware and software developers with more slated to […]

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Review of the Warm Audio WA-412 API preamp

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There are a few essential purchases you can make for your recording studio setup that will impact your sound. One of those is your choosing the right preamps! Today we are going to look at the Warm Audio WA-412 their 4 channel preamp inspired by the API 3124 . Automated Processes Incorporated or API was […]

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Review – Warm Audio WA-47 Microphone

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Making a Scene Presents a review of the Warm Audio WA 47 Microphone For anyone who has or is considering building a home studio, your microphone collection is one of the most critical investments you can make. Many of the classic microphones we would love to have are more often than not priced way out […]

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Top 10 Wireless Guitar Systems under $200

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Top 10 Wireless Guitar Systems Under $200 Guitar cables…let’s face it, they can be annoying. I like to think of them more like a leash that consistently gets tangled up. The good news is, these easily tangled inconvenient leashes (guitar cables) are relatively cheap. Especially if you’re in the earlier days of a startup band, […]

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Top 4 Microphones For Recording Acoustic Guitar Under $100

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Top 4 Microphones For Recording Acoustic Guitar Under $100 Finding the right mic to produce the highest quality sound for your acoustic guitar can be difficult. Making things tougher is when your in the beginning stages of your home studio where budget is limited. The end goal for most is not necessarily to find a […]

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Making a Scene Takes a First look at the Slate Digital All Access Pass

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Making a Scene Takes a First Look at the Slate Digital “All Access Pass”! When a software company announces they will be having a major announcement in the coming days, one of the first things that come into my mind is “How Much is it Going to Cost Me”. I have been a “Everything” bundle […]

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10 Essential Microphones you need in your Home Studio

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Choosing the right Microphones for your home studio is one of the most important decisions you are going to make. The quality of your microphone will determine the quality of the sound that you capture. Some of the high end microphones can run you into the thousands, but fortunately there are some really good alternatives […]

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A Review of Steven Slate’s Everything Bundle

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Whether you are a home recording musician, or you own a commercial recording studio one of the biggest ongoing investments you make are for good quality plugins. Keeping up with what is new in analog modeling plugin technology can be daunting to say the least. If you are at all like me, you have a […]

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Buyers Guide to Wireless Microphones

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Which Wireless Microphone’s Have The Longest Range? We know what you want, you want to jump in the audience as you crowd surf through out the entire Festival as you sing in to your wireless mic. Or maybe, that has absolutely nothing to do with the reason you want a long range wireless microphone. For […]

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What Makes a Good Wireless Guitar System?

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By Tony Hossri Performwireless.com John Pagano Band What Makes a Good Wireless Guitar System? Here it is, the million dollar question………..more like $500 or so. What makes a good wireless guitar system? When you google this question, what typically pops up are a bunch of payed ads of wireless guitar systems. Yet, never give you […]

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Plugins I’ve Been Using That I Recommend

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Plugins I’ve Been Using That I Recommend Brandon S Hire The Noise Floor It’s not the tool, it’s the user. But as a blogger and content creator, I get to play with a lot of cool tools. Here’s a few of them that I highly recommend checking out. 1. The Plugins From My Walkthroughs. Obviously […]

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4 Handy Guitar Pedal Hacks that You Probably Don’t Know

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4 Handy Guitar Pedal Hacks that You Probably Don’t Know While owning and using a guitar pedal can be a great way to bring new life into your performances, these awesome little devices don’t come without their fair share of problems. From connectivity issues and power problems to residue and faulty dials, there are plenty […]

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Review of Waves PRS Amp Models

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As many of you may have noticed, the long awaited Paul Reed Smith amp models from Waves were released.  From the moment I downloaded and plugged in a guitar (In this instance a cherry red 1998 Godin LGxT) I was completely hooked. Finally the holy grail of smooth satisfying clean tone was available at my fingertips, and […]

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BandLab Launches Cakewalk by BandLab as a FREE DOWNLOAD!

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SONAR relaunches as ‘Cakewalk by BandLab’: Iconic DAW now free to download for everyone   World-leading DAW SONAR, with the entire SONAR Platinum feature set, is relaunching as Cakewalk by BandLab Full authentication and unlimited feature-access will be available free Early access to Cakewalk by BandLab is available now on Windows SINGAPORE, 4 APRIL 2018 — Today, […]

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Top 5 Audio Assault Plugins

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Top 5 Audio Assault Plugins Brandon Shire We all have our favorites, and in this post I want to share my top 5 from Audio Assault! Let’s countdown, starting from number 5. FREAKQ 305 5. FreakQ 305 It’s hard to see what’s so special about FreakQ 305 on the surface, because it looks like a typical […]

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