SOUND ON SOUND
Golden Age's new Premier brand takes their popular Pre‑73 preamps to the next level.
This book's 350 pages are packed with useful ideas, up-to-date, well-marshalled information, and great conceptual explanations backed up with lots of useful diagrams.
Rating: 5/5 Stars ***** If you are a budding or busy composer looking for sonic inspiration in this style, then Ueberschall's Synthetic Soundtracks titles may well be of interest.
Though a great recording front‑end, this versatile and characterful processor could just as easily find a home on your stereo mix bus...
Mojo 2 Horn Section is an ambitious instrument that aims to succeed where other virtual horn sections fail.
Retrokits' flexible MIDI interface proves that good things do indeed come in small packages.
Rating: 4/5 Stars **** Custom Shop features a range of rather exclusive hand-crafted drums and includes some very welcome brushed sounds for certain instruments.
Acustica Audio have applied their unique sampling technology to the world of magnetic recording media — with impressive results.
The newest model in Audio-Technica's popular Mx series of headphones majors on portability, ruggedness and comfort.
Qu-Bit are bringing Scanned Synthesis to the Eurorack party, a form of organic wavetable synthesis which has hitherto been unavailable in hardware form...
IK Multimedia take home-studio mastering to the MAX — and beyond!
Rating: 4/5 Stars **** Resembling a cross between an elongated viola and a hurdy‑gurdy, the Nyckelharpa is a four-stringed instrument played with a bow.
I love my Electro‑Harmonix Small Stone phasers so I was delighted when AJH Synth announced that their Mega-Phase 12 Eurorack...
This new range draws on Roland's Blues Cubes and promises to deliver both the sound and the playing feel of a real valvetube amp.
Mackie's new MC range of close-backed headphones are refreshingly devoid of over-fancy styling, and this gives them a reassuring 'get the job done' appearance.
The goal of turning musical omelettes back into eggs gets ever closer, thanks to some unlikely cloud-based DSP wizardry!
We explore what's new in the latest version of Native Instruments' flagship sampler.
The Two Hand Touch is a kind of Batman's utility belt for the live sound engineer who mixes from an iPad.
Interstellar Radio is "a faulty transmission line", whose wholly analogue design converts incoming audio to a high frequency pulse train then back again.
**** 4/5 stars. This Matt Halpern signature pack sample library is designed for productions ranging from rock through to thrash metal...