SOUND ON SOUND
Designed to meet very specialised needs, mastering consoles can be scarily expensive. Crookwood’s modular system offers faultless sound quality at a surprisingly affordable price.
When it comes to valve distortion, few want it more than guitarists— and few know more about it than Thermionic Culture...
Roland have updated their celebrated electronic drum kits with an improved brain and their patented Supernatural Sound technology.
The interview-style text is divided into 30 chapters, each comprising a mini interview-format documentary on the making of a classic album. Edited by Kylee Swenson Gordon, a well-known US music journalist.
Sometimes you yearn for new sounds that haven't been heard before. Resonance: Emotional Mallets most definitely falls into this category, starting life as 14 unique instruments constructed from materials including glass, metal, stone and wood.
Having reinvented the 500-series rack with their Workhorse, Radial are now offering a smaller, more portable version...
When we compared eight mic preamps with very different designs and price tags, we found it hard to tell them apart. Could SOS readers do better?
Rhythmic Robot, Loopscape, Universal Audio, MXR Flanger/Doubler, Waves NS1
MOTU have brought their expertise to bear on a new desktop audio interface, the Track 16.
The latest firmware update for Lynx's LT-HD card enables their highly regarded Aurora 16 and Aurora 8 A-D/D-A converters to emulate Avid's HD I/O converters
Logic Pro For Recording Engineers & Producers is written for the benefit of those who may not yet be familiar with Logic Pro, but who already know through experience of other products what a modern DAW can be expected to do.
Lindos, known for their test and measurement equipment, have started making products for musicians and engineers. We put their versatile new stereo mic/preamplifier kit to the test.
This compact ‘wedge’ speaker uses a coaxial driver to deliver broad stage coverage and a sound that cuts through.
A good monitor controller is invaluable — but ‘good’ doesn’t have to mean complicated...
Keith McMillen’s idiosyncratic controllers go from strength to strength — and in this case do so with a spectacular blaze of colour...
Multi-format 'mood'-themed collection
MakeMusic’s Finale score-writing software has been helping composers and publishers for a quarter of a century. What does its 2012 incarnation bring?
In the D5, Equator have employed the same innovative technology they use in their premium models — but at a remarkably low price.