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2023 is here and it's time to celebrate! 2023 marks 20 years of sharing our passion for Recording Studios and Pro Audio brands with New Zealand. That's 20 years since we started our Trade Me store, and 14 years of running our online store: STL Pro Audio. We are extremely proud of what we have achieved with your support, it's been an incredible ride and we have plenty more planned.To celebrate the 20 years, we'll be featuring one of our brands each month and offering a giveaway from them. We …

SAMAR AL95 Overhead Video DemoIf you've been a subscriber of ours over the years, or seen any our YouTube videos, you'll see that we're big fans of shootouts for ribbons as overheads. We're always on the hunt to get the best out this part of recording drums.We knew that the SAMAR ribbons where an amazing microphone after demoing on acoustic guitar and guitar amps, but when we got a chance to try them on a drum kit we couldn't believe it. So we spent a day creating some videos of the SAMAR AL9 …

The Surgery Recording Studio uses Lynx Studio Technologies N 32HDX - the converter you've been listening to, but never knew.It wouldn't take long for any conversation about music production in NZ to mention Lee Prebble and his incredible recording studio, The Surgery. With over 20 years of producing music, countless Tui's for Engineer of the Year, a discography with numerous number 1 hits, and multiple successful albums, Lee certainly knows his way around a studio. Lee has al …