Articles by: Finn McKenty

Apogee One: The number one rule of recording is “garbage in, garbage out,” which makes your audio interface arguably the most important part of your rig. The Apogee One has inputs for line-in (great for guitar/bass DIs), XLR (for an external mic), and a built-in omni mic that’s surprisingly good.

"Mutilated World" from Thomas Giles' new album "Modern Noise. " Order it here.

Amplifier Modeling has come a long way in the last five-ish years. As manufactures have honed their algorithms and musicians and producers have begun to adopt sims as part of their normal live and studio setups, the possibilities have expanded enormously.

x50 v2 now includes a cab sim component (IR loader). You can choose from several dozen included IRs, or load in your own.