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Could this modern take on a classic compressor design be fab for your studio?

Studio stalwarts sE join the stage-mic fray with these two new designs. It’s a crowded marketplace — can they stand out?

The Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble dates back to 1976 and was the very first Boss pedal to use charge-coupled ‘bucket brigade’ delay line chips. Now, on the 40th anniversary of the original CE-1, Boss release the Waza Craft CE-2W, still in the familiar compact pedal format — and still blue...

Analogue Solutions’ Megacity is a step sequencer like no other...

With eight new Air preamps and two-way ADAT connectivity, could this be the best way to expand your audio interface?

Imagine that you’re using a computer-based DAW alongside a modular analogue synth and that you want them to talk to each otherhttp://Silent Way...

iZotope say that Neutron not only has the processing power to address all sorts of mixing issues, but the intelligence to help you identify them.

All-round percussionist and jazz vibraphonist Frank Ricotti has enjoyed a stellar career as a composer, arranger, band-leader and session player, appearing on countless records and film scores. Spitfire Audio’s Ricotti Mallets features our man playing straight hits, rolls and glisses on marimba, glockenspiel, crotales and xylophone.

UA’s latest updates add new compressors, delays, voice channels and virtual bass amps, as well as refreshing a few familiar faces.

KRK’s established V-series monitors have long been popular in the project studio, and now they’ve been given a major overhaul.

Rigid Audio’s Synferno is a Kontakt-based construction kit library, offering 1200 24-bit loops organised into 300 preset ‘kits’ with a bass, synth, ambient and groove loop within each kit.

The name Lunastone may not sound so familiar, but this Danish company have an excellent provenance...

Many companies have offered rack-lighting products over the years, but this elegant British-made light employs super-bright LED strips rather than conventional bulbs.

Ribbon mics have long been associated with a subdued high-frequency response — but this classy example bucks the trend.

The Monologue may be a cut-down version of the Minilogue, but it offers a few features its polyphonic big brother can’t match.

Ueberschall have built up an impressive series of titles based around their Elastik Player front-end. The bulk of these follow a construction-kit format offering collections of genre-specific music composition broken down into their constituent loops...

With clever new tempo-mapping features and low-level Melodyne integration, time and pitch are now putty in the hands of Samplitude users!

Room simulation on headphones usually stops being convincing as soon as you move your head. Not so with Waves’ new Nx...

Guitarscapes is built on a foundation of electric and acoustic guitars, plus mandolins and pedal steels. Sometimes the sources are obvious, but more often they’re not.

Blue’s newly updated range of studio mics offers stylish looks and great sound for a very reasonable price.