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Arturia built their reputation on software recreations of classic synths, now they're back with one of their own.
This ambitious overdrive promises to recreate the entire signal path of a valve amp in solid-state electronics.
Daniel Weiss' hardware helped convert mastering engineers to the joys of digital processing. Is it still equally desirable in plug-in format?
AudioSourceRE's innovative plug-in provides new ways to slice and dice stereo audio in real time.
The Airpulse brand may be new to you but they're a company with some serious pedigree, as these unusual monitors prove.
If your thunderous cinematic percussion is getting out of control, you need Taiko Creator.
Audient have used their considerable expertise to create an audio interface just for guitarists.
Re-live the sound of the '70s with this classy combination of limiter and tape emulator.
FXpansion's new soft synth boasts sensational sound and an almost unhealthy level of modulation.
For their newest speaker model, Polish monitor makers APS teamed up with experienced studio designer Troy Germano.
Luke Audio's new valve microphone provides three classic capsule options at a highly affordable price. Is it too good to miss, or too good to be true?
Find out how just how well this vintage recreation compares with the original that inspired it.
Overstayer's versatile stereo processor offers endless ways to manipulate — or obliterate — any input signal!
The transformerless, Class‑A DI input circuit from Phoenix Audio's DRS2 mic preamp has spawned a range of dedicated active DI products, the latest being the single-channel Nimbus DI.
The first edition of Loudspeakers was published in 2007 but now, with the much revised and expanded second edition, we have reason to give it the formal SOS review treatment...
The ODR‑Mini is essentially a slightly tweaked version of Nobels' ODR‑1 overdive pedal (by all accounts extremely popular with Nashville musicians), with true bypass and a tightened low end, but squeezed into a mini‑format case.
Antares' Auto‑Tune needs no introduction, and the company have now launched a super‑simple version that is more...
Eventide have long offered a plug-in version of their 1972 Instant Phaser hardware, and now they've revisited it to add both new capabilities and the ability to 'age' the circuity by introducing modelled component value drift.
StageOne is a plug-in designed to manipulate stereo imaging, by extracting a signal that corresponds to what we hear as the 'phantom centre' and processing this independently of the rest.
The third major update to Pro‑Q is packed with functionality, and the headline feature this time around is dynamic equalisation.