Accessories / Gadgets

A numerical increase in a new iPhone’s name is usually representative of a significant change in the device’s physical design. The iPhone 7, however, breaks with this tradition and looks remarkably like the 6 and 6s models of the past two years. So what has changed?

The Konnektor promises mastering engineers the drag-and-drop simplicity and recall of plug-in remote control.

The world’s first wearable metronome for musicians offers an armoury of tempo-related features to help improve your timing and really get your groove on.

Boasting a novel construction method using traces printed on stacked circuit boards in place of traditionally wound coils, Fluence offers active circuitry, hum cancellation, a choice of two distinct voices and — most surprising of all — convincingly traditional sounds. We explore their newest addition.

Where you have lots of passive bypass pedals coupled with long cables, treble loss and compromised ‘feel’ can become a real problem...

Audiofile Engineering’s powerful batch processor can really speed up those repetitive tasks for Mac users.

For those with respectable but not stellar microphone preamplifiers in either recorders, interfaces or mixers, high-gain...

Pedalpunk offers a well thought-out means of incorporating your unbalanced guitar pedals directly into a recording system, where balanced line-level signals are the norm.

The curious Gizmo polyphonic guitar sustainer is reborn. Can this new version succeed where the original failed?

The pop filter is one of those humble yet essential devices that you normally don’t pay too much attention to — which seems strange, really, when you consider that it’s the first thing in your vocal recording chain.

Unlike the majority of noiseless single-coil designs, Quet Coil utilises side-by-side coils, rather than the commonly favoured stacked-coil configuration.

I would just like to ask if it’s important to use shockmounts on my microphones and how effective they are?

I’ve read so many people saying that a 9V power supply for guitar pedals means they can’t give you enough headroom, and the same for the 500-series 32V (±16V) supply. But surely there’s a way designers can ‘step up’ the voltage inside a device?

This beautifully engineered system reaches the parts other mic stands can’t...

In a box in the attic, I have a big acoustic-guitar pickup that never gets used. Apart from sounding a bit brittle, it blocks most of the sound hole when installed, thereby compromising the acoustic properties of my guitars. iRig Acoustic does the same job, but takes a very different approach...

A decent cable tester is an essential tool for every studio and roadie tech, and the clever people at DACS recently launched...

I use an ART S8 eight-channel mic splitter, a passive device, to send mic signals to two separate recording systems...

My pedalboard seems to be in a permanent state of being rebuilt, and this time around I decided I needed a better power supply...

The humble speaker stand or desktop speaker platform can make a huge difference to the sound in your room.

BonaFide acts as a low-noise, impedance-matching buffer which can be placed at the start of your collection of pedals, the idea being that it will save you from the evils of treble loss caused by long cables...

Mogees is a combination of app and vibration sensor which, together, translate physical gestures into notes played...