Accessories / Gadgets

As CD‑writers become more popular, so the need to label one‑off CDs more professionally grows, and a number of...

Keyfax's Twiddly Bits soundware has a very respectable track record in the market of producing MIDI files for general...

Paul White tries a simple but useful digital switching system that can be used with s/PDIF or ADAT-format signals.

It's a small curiously-shaped shiny chrome box with just six buttons and no LCD screen, and it claims to be the future of DJ-ing. Intrigued? Paul Farrer goes on a voyage of discovery...

Considering that the Wavestation first emerged in 1990, it's aged remarkably gracefully and, relative to some of its...

For some years, Sambell Engineering (who manufacture the Atacama range) have provided a 'bespoke' service, making one‑...

Following my feature on MIDI controllers in the June '97 issue of SOS, distributors BCK sent me a sample of their VP3...

Quasimidi are delivering on their promise to provide new goodies for owners of the 309 dance box. Derek Johnson raves a bit...

What does the SOS team want for Christmas this year?

Paul White tries out a new hardware solution for dodgy vocalists — Lexicon Vocal Fix Card for the PCM80.

Chris Carter offers insight into motivation and stress in the studio and some possible solutions.

Low‑cost patchbays are pretty much commodity items nowadays, and ever since P...

I don't know about your studio, but the back of my MIDI rack looks like the rat's nest from hell, and a lot of that is down to...

If you want to get on with recording, rather than arguing about who needs what foldback, why not let the musicians mix their own? Martin Walker finds he's all mixed up...

Paul White attempts to discover whether the Demeter Tube Direct is really the princess of DI.

Musicians have problems finding CD-ROM drives that work reliably with samplers. Martin Walker checks out one that claims to work with everything.

Carbon-fibre cables, gold-plated connectors, contact enhancers and spiked, lead-filled supports — not a list of props from a science-fiction blockbuster, but a selection of the many accessories available from hi-fi specialist dealers. Martin Walker enters the twilight zone to sort fact from fiction and discover whether any of this black magic can help you in the studio.

Paul White turns on the juice and finds it a perfect excuse to get in his monthly 15 minutes of guitar practice.

When it comes to cloning people, or even sheep, there's always an outcry, but where do you stand on the issue of plug-in card that effectively turns your Lexicon PCM90 into two Lexicon PCM90s? Paul White feels that first in the queue would be the appropriate location!

If you don't need separate mixes for each musician, the Mojo MH4 may be everything you need in a headphone amp, says Paul White.

If you can keep your head when all around you are loosing theirs, the chances are you're not monitoring loud enough! Paul White listens in on Samson's Q5 headphone amp.