
Beachtek DXA SLR
Your bargain DSLR may be able to shoot wonderful cinematic video, but its audio quality and connectivity are unlikely to meet a Sound On Sound reader’s high standards. Beachtek suggest a compact solution...

Your bargain DSLR may be able to shoot wonderful cinematic video, but its audio quality and connectivity are unlikely to meet a Sound On Sound reader’s high standards. Beachtek suggest a compact solution...

In our new App column, Jules Harding looks at three iOS-compatible Apps: • Harmonicdog Multitrack DAW • IK AmpliTube and iRig Adaptor • IK AmpliTube Fender

If there's one thing the world isn't short of, it's drum sample libraries, and with huge and expandable instruments from the...

Produced by Funk/Soul productions for Big Fish Audio, Ambient Skyline provides a hefty collection of loops and one‑shot...


Can a product be expensive and still represent great value for money? When it comes to the ultimate in guitar-amp and speaker modelling, the answer would appear to be yes...

Choral libraries featuring only children’s choirs are unusual — yet the atmospheres and textures they provide have many uses.

The Mouth has an insatiable appetite for sound — and turns everything it eats into sweet music!

As its name suggests, the Nucleus is designed to be the core of your studio. It’s ambitious, but if anyone can pull it off, SSL can...

Hugh Robjohns investigates the latest offering from well-known engineer-cum-author Douglas Self.

Before you can call your computer a studio, you need at least two things: a means of getting audio into your computer, and some way of listening back to it. Enter the Samson Studio GT!

Hugh Robjohns checks out a mic kit from Rycote designed to accompany the USM (reviewed in SOS in March 2010) and USM-L microphones.

Is this a versatile mic that shines out as a bargain for the home‑studio recordist — or is it as light on features as it is on the pocket?

Mixing the benefits of ribbon smoothness and condenser flexibility, Pearl show us that it really is hip to be, erm... rectangular.


Effects and processors don’t get much more simple than Waves’ new OneKnob range. But is this a case of one knob to rule them all, or are these plug‑ins simply nobbled?


Rain are quick off the mark with a model featuring the latest ‘Sandy Bridge’ CPU — and the results are rather impressive...

There’s no more revered name in the history of synthesis than Moog, and the Voyager XL aims to cement their reputation for top‑flight instruments. Is this the Rolls Royce of the synthesizer world?

Hugh Robjohns reads up on mixing tips from Mike Senior.