Accessories / Gadgets

Most cable testers are designed to test loose cables, like guitar or mic leads, where both ends can be brought to the test box. The CT3  allows for this, but it’s designed also to test installed cables.

I recently wanted to rig a three-mic stereo array, comprising a SoundField ST-450 mic in the centre with omni outriggers...

This low-cost and slightly simplified sibling of the TM3-Primus has been optimised for music, voice and multimedia producers.

Editors Keys made a name for themselves by providing QWERTY keyboards which displayed the usual input symbols plus default shortcut commands for a number of creative software applications. Their latest variation on the same theme uses a thin silicone overlay to convert your existing MacBook or Apple wireless keyboard into a shortcut keyboard.

We check out an interesting collection of specialist mic-mounting accessories, designed to support two mics in a precise physical relationship to each other.

Boss’s well-conceived switching system brings the convenience of a multi-effects unit to your collection of individual pedals.

Many companies have offered rack-lighting products over the years, but this elegant British-made light employs super-bright LED strips rather than conventional bulbs.

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...