
Second Fiddle
During his lifetime, Antonius Stradivarius made around 2000 instruments, but dying gave his productivity a real boost...

During his lifetime, Antonius Stradivarius made around 2000 instruments, but dying gave his productivity a real boost...

A stunning overhaul of SSL’s bus compressor, the Bus+ goes much further than most imitators without sophistication undermining ease of use.


New mixer adds more preamps, more EQs and a 16x16 USB audio interface.

With the SiX, SSL shrank the large-format console. Now it’s grown again!

SSL Native X‑Echo is a tape‑echo plug‑in that’s inspired by the sound of early hardware units, not least the Echoplex...

New delay plug-in models the sound of vintage Echoplex units, and features an innovative multi-head waveform display.

Two successful new producers from New Zealand have used a unique blend of old and new technology to create two hit albums for the Stereophonics. Mike Senior talks to Bird & Bush about their role in a British rock & roll success story.

The new desktop controller is specifically designed for SSL's Channel Strip and Bus Compressor plug-ins, and sports a real moving-coil gain-reduction meter.

The new processors comprise an EQ inspired by the SSL Fusion, and a channel strip drawn from the compact SSL SiX Console.