Accessories / Gadgets

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’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...

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

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...

Given the rich ecosystem of music and audio–related iOS apps, it’s not impossible that the usefulness of the Apple Watch in this field will evolve over time.