Cricket fans will remember Henry Olonga (www.henryolonga.net) as a promising Zimbabwean fast bowler, who sacrificed his sporting career by making a brave on-field protest against the dictatorial rule of Robert Mugabe. Since relocating to England, Olonga has devoted his energies to his other main interest in life: music. Last year saw the release of his ambitious debut album Aurelia, and he has also become heavily involved in sound engineering, plug-in and preset design.
The first fruits of this strand of his new career are now available, in the shape of a number of affordable preset collections for Waves' Q-Clone 'sampling' equaliser. The full Colour Mix bundle includes over 1GB data and some 5000 separate presets, which seems a bargain at a mere £40. If your needs are more specialised, you can download one or more of the individual collections that make up this bundle. Prices range from £3 to £10, and the presets have been sampled from high-end devices such as Pultecs, Neves and an MCI JH500 desk that once recorded Bob Marley.
For more details, and to listen to Henry Olonga's own music, head to his web site. Sam Inglis
