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Amps & Re-amping The Electronic Musician’s Guide To
Add bite and character to your mixes – we show you how!
IN THE STUDIO
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Say the word ‘amplifier’ to a musician and it probably conjures up images of cranked-up Marshall stacks lining the back of some stadium rock stage set. But far from being the sole preserve of six-string gods and goddesses, guitar amps can be essential tools for electronic musicians too. Whether in the form of a miked-up stack or one of the multitude of impressive amp sims on the market, an amplified treatment can be just the thing to add bite and character to your mixes. In this issue’s cover feature, starting on page 26, we show you how. This issue also sees the launch of our brand new tutorial regular, Toolkit, in which we go in-depth on everything you need to know about analogue-style compression. This and more is available to download from the FM Vault, where you’ll also find 10GB of killer royalty-free samples from the FM archive. Head to vault.futuremusic.co.uk and get downloading!
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IN THE STUDIO WITH: Florian Meindl The techno producer has his fingers in a lot of pies – now he talks about his journey towards modular gear, live performance philosophies and his new album Time Illusion
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INTERVIEW: Forest Swords We tracked him down to talk about his love for organic sounds and his latest album
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Amps & Re-amping Co-opt these guitar processors for electronic music
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92 Mackie XR Series 94 Group Test: Hardware Filters 96 Atlantic Phonic Renaissance 98 iZotope RX6 100 Sounds & Samples
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REVIEW: Pioneer DJ Toraiz AS-1 Dave Smith’s Prophet-6 has been boiled down to create this monophonic instrument
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FEATURE: The Electronic Musician’s Guide to Amps & Re-amping Add unique tone to vocals, drums and synths with these processors
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INTERVIEW: T.Raumschmiere The German ex-punk may be an electronic producer, but he’s keeping up the old spirit in his newer work
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Expert tips, techniques and tutorials 16 Classic Album: Noisia, Split The Atom 23 Album Reviews 26 Feature: Amps and Re-amping
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