Key Of Grey

January 23, 2011 - A new year, a brand new product review! Audio-Technica was kind enough to send me a set of their DJ headphones, the ATH-PRO700. I've been itching to try out a good set of headphones since the ones I've used to mix and listen with for the past 10 years, have begun disintegrating. Because I check my mixes with a couple sets of in ear monitors, one of them being the Ultimate Ears Triple-Fi I reviewed last month, I haven't ... Read More

December 13, 2010 - I recently received a set of Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10 IEM's (in ear monitors) and I've had a few days to put them through their paces. The TripleFi 10s, as the name suggests, contain 3 drivers, each corresponding to the low, medium, and high frequency ranges. Many earphones claim to go down to super low frequencies, lower than the normal range of human hearing in fact; in the TripleFi 10s Ultimate Ears says the can get down to ... Read More

October 10th, 2010 - Over the past few weeks, I've been working on music on my freshly installed Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive so I thought I'd share a few thoughts on it from a music production perspective. First off, the computer boots much faster than on a standard hard drive. I didn't do any instrumented testing, however when started side by side by my friend's identically spec'd Macbook Pro, but with an Intel 256gb SSD, it more than held its own. ... Read More

Photo courtesy of Sebastien Chorney September 18th, 2010 - The NS10, NS10, NS10; to a beginner it must seem that audio engineers have an infatuation with it. Indeed, the signature white cone on black cabinet is so recognizable, people who aren't audio geeks might think all studio speakers look like that. Earlier this week, I linked a Gizmodo article on the Yammies through Twitter (btw, add me here!). Later I figured that I might go a step further and provide a succinct review of ... Read More

February 10th, 2010 - No, unfortunately I don't have a Numa Nero to review, but Dom Leong of Logical Productions does and he's posted up a video on Youtube with his impressions. For those of you unfamiliar with the Numa Nero, it's a $1500 keyboard MIDI controller. What makes it so special? Unlike most keyboards that are semi-weighted, the Numa Nero is fully-weighted. This means that the action and resistance changes depending on where you are playing on the keyboard, just like ... Read More

January 24th, 2010 - If you've read any blogs other than mine lately, you've heard about the Pick Punch. Well this week I received one so I thought I'd throw up a lightning review. This will likely be the fastest review you've ever read on a piece of music gear, because there's really not much to say about it. The Pick Punch is basically the same as those craft hole punches, but it punches holes the size and shape of a standard pick ... Read More

November 25th, 2009 - First off, sorry about the delay in getting this post up. I actually had the videos ready to go Monday night, but the company I host my websites on, suffered a massive crash. Alright, now that's out of the way...let's get to the review! Ok, let's dive right into this review (if you missed the unboxing, you can read it here). See that picture up above? That's the Vestax Spin, and it's sitting in a custom steel case that ... Read More

November 21st, 2009 - After contacting my local Apple stores last week and none of the staff knowing anything about the Vestax Spin, a product exclusive to them, I bought it off of the Apple Canada website. Today was the estimated arrival date and it came right on time (despite what the UPS site said). Since it'll take me a couple days to get a full hardware/software review up (hopefully I'll have it done by Monday or Tuesday), I figured I'd create a ... Read More

Photo courtesy of Joey Roth October 10th, 2009 - I had heard about these speakers before, but wasn't sure if the product would ever come out. After all, trying to sell 2.0 computer speakers that, while they look amazing, might not entice the masses who listen to poorly encoded mp3s. If the name on the front doesn't say Logitech and didn't cost less than a hundred dollars, then it's fail and too expensive. On the opposite end of the spectrum, at $500, audiophiles ... Read More

Photo courtesy of wicho January 3rd, 2009 - Following yesterday's post where I said that I could always use more processing power when I mix, I've been thinking of building a hackintosh. For those of you who don't know what a hackintosh is, it's a PC that is running a hacked BIOS that allows it to run Apple's OSX operating system. Why would someone want that? Well for people like you and I, it means that we can run Logic Pro, which only is ... Read More