Producer's Blog

Hi! My name is Yuriy Smalius and I'm a chief engineer and a sound-producer for various artists and bands at Britrecords Studio Kiev. In this blog I'll be happy to share my personal experience, some ideas, some funny stuff that happens a lot during recording sessions and news of music and recording world.

HCL TubeSCream - all tube distortion box

 I’m proud to present you one the latest products from Handcrafted Laboratories, Ukraine’s leading tube gear manufacturer, the TubeSCream. So what it is apart from being great vintage-looking 3U rack beast with lots of knobs? Here’s the story.
Originally developed by the request...
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Introducing New Vari-MU Compressor/Limiter by Hand Crafted Labs

MIX IS ON FIRE
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If Jeremy Clarkson Would Have Written a Pro-audio Top Gear Review.

Whenever one is talking about some top class studio equipment, valve compressors and limiters in particular, you might think of names like Manley, or Avalon, or a godfather of them all - Fairchild 670. Well, think again. Because now there's a new kid on the block. And it's called VARIS. 

We are talking about new 3U rack sized creation of Ukraine's leading pro-audio tube gear manufacturer Hand Crafted Labs which had been...
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