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Beat combines competent hardware and software tests with dedicated reviews as well as reports and interviews from musicians and the music business. We will report on music production with the latest synthesizers and computers, introduce new trends in recording, and always have our finger on the pulse with up-to-date reports. Many well-known specialist report on the widespread music production solutions and experienced editors take care of the most important entertainment and scene topics. This magazine is a platform for musicians and contains a regular demo and MP3 section for readers as well as a download with high-quality sample and music files for creative musicians. Software licenses available while stock lasts. You can check the availability of each product here: www.plugins-samples.com/all-issues

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Pro-Level Masterclasses • The popular community trade fair, Studioszene, is on the starting blocks. This year will once again see a comprehensive program of workshops, new products and events. We spoke with the organizer and founder, Marc Bohn, about the upcoming Studioszene and LEaT con 24, who shared some exciting details with us.

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BEHIND THE BEAT • Tobias Fischer is your host for the Behind the Beat Podcast. This episode is dedicated to an all too often neglected aspect of production. We spoke to Cordial‘s Martin Hubner about copper, connectors and creativity – in short: cables.

Editorial • BEAT introduces itself

STUDIO ACOUSTICS 58 SOLUTIONS, TRICKS & FAQ FOR YOUR PERFECT SOUND • Booming bass, hissing highs and tiring mixing - such sound problems are often due to poor acoustics. In our special we show you how to get the most common acoustic problems in your desktop or home studio under control. Optimize your room acoustics and find the ideal monitor solution not only for your workflow, but also for your sound. Whether you‘re a beginner or a professional, we‘ll help you set up your studio perfectly. No more half-truths about acoustics - here are the facts!

7 steps to the perfect room • If you want to use a room to produce and/or mix music, you are often faced with the challenge of setting it up and optimizing it acoustically. However, with our 7-point plan from GIK Acoustics, this task becomes very easy!

58 acoustic tips for your studio • Long before you actually start treating and optimizing a room or studio, you usually have basic questions about costs, materials, or simply the „how“ and „why“. Here you will find all the answers to the most frequently asked questions about studio acoustics, answered by the expert Lukas Rimbach from GIK Acoustics and the Beat editorial team.

The typical home studio • This is a typical home studio room, as we optimize it very often. Usually there is furniture, windows and other problematic features of the room that we have to plan around. In this case, the client didn‘t want to set up the room the other way around. However, that would have made a lot of things easier, especially since the windows behind the speakers are less of a problem than behind the listening position.

Plan your studio acoustics • Regardless of whether it‘s a producer‘s corner in the living room or a studio, acoustically optimizing your room with absorbers, diffusers and bass traps is a must. Because hardly anything distorts listening as much as suboptimal room acoustics. But to help you plan and better imagine where the individual elements should be placed, there is a very useful tool: the „Room Acoustics Visualizer“ from GIK Acoustics. And it‘s free too!

To know is not to know • Jon Hopkins‘ new album „Ritual“ is hypnotic, mesmerising, and utterly beguiling 41-minute, one-track trip. Hopkins refuses to reduce its meaning to platitudes or...