SOUND ON SOUND
Although not as well-known as the classic Fairchild 660, the Telefunken U73b is in many ways its European counterpart.
This month: Noise Co Patterning drum machine app and the Korg iM1 synth app, both for iPad.
Billed as ‘The Jazzy Film Scoring Library’, Swing focuses on the Big Band sound.
This SSL-inspired compressor boasts excellent performance and some useful additional functions. What’s not to like?
This 21st-century emulation of the SID 8‑bit soundchip is accurate down to its three notes of polyphony and ability to export your songs for playback on an actual Commodore 64.
Looking for an audio interface that puts all the controls and I/O right where you need them? Check out our round-up of desktop devices.
Can musicians be trusted to mix their own monitors? If the system they’re using is as intuitive as this one, the answer might be ‘yes’.
No effects pedal has managed to pack in all the juicy sonic goodness and delicious mayhem of dual tape machines — until now!
There are many USB microphones around today, but Lewitt’s offering has some surprising and useful extra features.
Hardware drum machines and effects pedals have been around a long time but Singular Sound claims that BeatBuddy is the first drum–machine pedal.
While high-quality clones of Bill Putnam’s 1176 compressor abound, stereo versions of that much-loved design are rather less common — especially at this price.
The third iteration of Mackie’s ever-popular SRM series incorporates some handy DSP functionality.
With Rupert Neve’s pedigree in transformer-based equipment design, a DI box was surely just a matter of time.
Could Radial’s latest processor add a little vintage sum–thing to your mixes?
Zero–G have given us bangs, crashes and wallops with Impact Designer, and created a sense of speed with Whoosh Designer. To round off the collection is Rise Designer: Cinematic Build Creator.
This delay pedal was designed to offer ‘that’ vintage Echorec sound. Does it convince?
These files accompany the Sample Shop article in the October 2015 issue of SOS.
Akai’s Advance 49 is a tightly integrated controller/software package designed to bridge the gap between musician and computer.
French speaker makers Focal continue their campaign of innovation, with this classy new three–way monitor design.
Back in 1977, Scottish company GR International, designed and manufactured a rhythm machine called the Powerhouse. Thirty-eight years later, owner of two Powerhouse machines, Dan Radclyffe, renovated his tapes and hardware and sampled all eight original cartridges to make this 64–loop library.