The grave of a liberation hero faces a direct threat from violent miners. Illegal gold diggers are endangering the burial site of former Home Affairs minister Dumiso Dabengwa in Ntabazinduna. The late Zapu president rests beside his wife at the Emanxeleni location. Local headman Harvard Phangwana reports these miners threaten multiple homes and have already destroyed one family’s grave, leaving bones exposed.
Community leaders describe the miners as violent outsiders, possibly with local collaborators. A petition targets an individual claiming to be the acting chief, suspected of enabling the chaos. The mining activity damages roads and fields, creating general instability. Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo has called for revised laws...
Caledonia Mining is throwing a huge chunk of cash at its next gold project. The company allocated over one hundred sixty million dollars for capital expenditures, with most funds directed to develop the massive Bilboes Gold Project. This site holds proven and probable reserves measuring nearly two million ounces of gold. The total development cost for Bilboes is projected at five hundred eighty-four million dollars.
Current operations at the Blanket Mine require sustaining capital of roughly twenty-six million dollars. Another three point eight million is earmarked for exploration at the Motapa site. The company noted potential additional spending to address persistent power reliability issues at Blanket, which currently requires...
Techivation just dropped an EQ that basically does the thinking for you. Their new M-EQ plugin uses adaptive smart bands for surgical-level control with only three frequency ranges. Each band performs real-time analysis, automatically applying boosts where sound lacks energy and cutting areas with excessive buildup. This approach aims to replace manual tweaking across many static bands with intelligent, musical adjustments.
An integrated Mix Assistant analyzes incoming audio to suggest a starting EQ configuration for better balance. The tool includes per-band saturation controls and stereo balancing options. A visual spectrum analyzer, mid-side processing, and oversampling capabilities are also part of the feature set. The interface is...
PSPaudioware drops a metering plugin that basically does everything. PSP Metra combines professional loudness, dynamics, and stereo analysis into a single tool. It provides real-time monitoring for mixing and mastering engineers, ensuring compliance with modern streaming and broadcast standards. The interface displays sample peak, true peak, RMS, and VU levels simultaneously. It also tracks dynamic range, crest factor, and stereo correlation with visual goniometer displays.
The plugin features full loudness metering supporting LUFS, LRA, and true peak detection. Built-in presets configure targets for major music platforms and broadcasting bodies. Its design allows two different measurement panels to be viewed side-by-side for a...
Universal Audio just made a classic piece of studio gear accessible to everyone. The company released native software versions of its iconic 610 tube preamp and equalizer collection. These faithful software recreations of the original 610-A and 610-B channel strips capture their rich harmonic saturation. The plugin works on any computer without requiring special audio hardware, which was previously necessary.
This tool adds noticeable warmth and presence to vocal tracks, helping them stand out in a mix. It can fatten up guitar, keyboard, and drum sounds with its distinct tube character. The emulation covers every circuit component from the vintage units, including tube amplifiers and transformers. Users can apply it to any signal to...
Korg just dropped a filter plugin that’s basically a playground for sound designers. Filter Ark lets users combine up to four different filters at once, blending classic recreations with totally new designs. This approach moves the filter stage from a simple effect to the central element of sound creation. The plugin includes legendary models from iconic hardware like the MS-20 and the ARP Odyssey.
These classic filters are joined by modern types, including a resonator and a vocal formant filter. A flexible routing system allows for serial, parallel, or feedback configurations between all active filters. A deep modulation section features a morphing LFO, an envelope follower, and a step sequencer to animate sounds. The toolset...
FabFilter just leveled up the compression game entirely. Their flagship dynamics processor, Pro-C 3, lands with a massive overhaul. The update packs six fresh compression algorithms, bringing the total to fourteen distinct styles. These range from ultra-clean glue compression to vintage optical and variable-mu emulations, even including upward compression for creative sound design.
A new Character section introduces analog-style saturation and drift, with separate drive control. The side-chain EQ gets a complete redesign, now featuring six bands with filter shapes borrowed from the legendary Pro-Q. The plugin now natively handles immersive audio formats for surround sound production, supporting complex channel configurations.
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DiscoDSP drops a visual and functional overhaul for its flagship synth. The Discovery Pro instrument receives a substantial update, free for existing users. A redesigned interface called Shadow Wave introduces detailed three-dimensional graphics, ditching the older flat design. Under the hood, the Moog-style ladder filter has been refined for better behavior, especially at high resonance settings.
This virtual synth and sampler packs four layers with twelve oscillators. It supports a dozen filter models, including emulations of classic hardware from Nord and Moog. The feature set covers PADSynth, loads of file formats, and a complex arpeggiator with Markov chain functionality. Users get access to a massive library containing thousands...
SSL just dropped a beast of an audio interface for serious pro setups. The UMD192 handles a massive channel count across MADI, Dante, and USB connections. It bridges between any two formats, perfect for dumping MADI stageboxes into a Dante network or high track count recording. This unit supports insane channel numbers at various sample rates, with redundant power and connection options for mission-critical events.
A front panel display shows signal flow and network status, with locked controls to prevent accidents. It works natively on Mac systems while requiring a driver for Windows machines. The interface delivers ultra-low Dante latency and supports advanced broadcast audio over IP standards. Six MADI pairs allow for triple...
