Dangerous Music

It’s been an amazing weekend at the 2022 NAMM show, one that was bustling with new product launches, updates and reissues. From new monitors and interfaces to outboard gear and instruments, this year was packed with exciting new releases—and we’re here to share some the biggest news from the convention center floor. Read below to discover our top ten releases from the NAMM Show and check out our New At NAMM category to see everything that was announced.  Continue reading →

At the 2022 NAMM Show, Dangerous Music unveiled the new 2-BUS-XT Summing Mixer ($1999), combining the brand’s pioneering technology from the best-selling 2-BUS+ with the compact form factor of the beloved 2-BUS-LT. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at the new 2-BUS-XT and discuss what separates it from some of Dangerous’ other popular summing mixers.  Continue reading →

Vintage King Los Angeles is hosting our first in-store event at our new location in Burbank on Wednesday, October 20th, from 10AM to 6PM. We’ll be joined by Marek Stycos of Audio Alchemist and Dangerous Music for a special day of demos with the Dangerous System Complete. The Dangerous System Complete is a powerful all-in-one solution for helping your mixes translate no matter where they are auditioned- Radio, Club mix, earbuds or laptops. Visitors to the showroom will be able to demo a wide array of Dangerous outboard gear for mixing, including the BAX EQ, COMPRESSOR, LIAISON and 2-BUS+. For mastering purposes, the rig features all three Dangerous converter options, including the CONVERT-AD+, CONVERT-8 and CONVERT-2. Last, but not least, you’ll be able to control how you hear your experience with the beloved MONITOR-ST. Continue reading →

Serge Espitia is a mastering engineer out of Maplewood, New Jersey. With over a decade of experience in the music industry, he has spent time working in some of the most recognizable studios in the world, including Blue Jay Recording in Boston, and East Side Sound, Stratosphere Sound and Masterdisk in New York. In 2011, Serge began putting together his own Brooklyn-based studio space under the banner of Tiny Thunder Audio. Eventually, he headed to New Jersey and shifted focus from tracking and mixing to predominantly mastering. Recently, we sat down to talk with Serge about the history of Tiny Thunder, his philosophy on mixing vs. mastering, and some of the gear choices that he’s made for his studio. Continue reading →

Whether you’re looking to glue your mix together, fine-tune the dynamics of a performance, or just add some color and character to your sound, a quality bus compressor is a must-have for any mix engineer.Since Warm Audio recently released its new BUS-COMP, we decided to take it into the studio and shoot it out with several fan favorites. In this video, we put the Bus-Comp up against the TK Audio BC1-THD, Overstayer Stereo Voltage Control, Dangerous Music COMPRESSOR, and SSL Stereo Bus Compressor, so you can hear how each of them perform in different scenarios.We tested each compressor on the drum bus, both in solo and with the mix, as well as on the mix bus. Although each compressor has its own unique sound and features, we used the same settings on each one to help you hear the differences. Continue reading →

Earlier this year at the 2019 NAMM Show, Dangerous Music announced that they would be releasing an updated version of their D-Box summing mixer and monitor controller. How do you improve on a modern classic? Dangerous Music did it! The redubbed D-BOX+ features a number of new upgrades, in addition to all of the classic features that made us fall in love in the first place. We caught up with Marek Stycos from Dangerous Music and he offered up eight reasons to make the jump to the D-BOX+. Continue reading →

When you work hard in the studio, session after session, and constantly reach roadblocks created by the limitations of gear, you start to think about other possibilities. What if you created your own equipment to combat the issues? This was the thought behind Chris Muth and Bob Muller's Dangerous Music. Continue reading →