SOUND ON SOUND
XILS Labs XILS 3 is a recreation of the EMS VCS3, but there's more to it than that — much, much more.
The Carillon PC is back, but how does it measure up in the modern computer market?
Looking for the essence of the 70s sound? Vintage drum kits recorded at the worlds most famous studio might be a good place to start...
What do you get if you cross an 1176 with a Distressor — and then throw in a few unique features for good measure? Enter the Dragon...
Tascam break from the crowd with their new USB 2 multi-channel audio interface.
We put MXLs Genesis through its paces alongside a much pricier model, to find out just how good a tube mic can be at this price.
The fall of the Iron Curtain revealed a surprise for Western musicians: a flourishing Soviet synthesizer industry. Its flagship instrument was crude, cheaply made, horrible to play — and sounded like nothing else...
For the latest additions to their Native Effects bundle, Sound Toys have updated two vintage effects for the DAW age.
To accompany our July 2010 Genesis review, we recorded a series of standard tests with the review mic alongside a more established mic (in this case, the AKG C12 VR).
Once installed, this little flute library, created by producer Eduardo Tarilonte and flautist Carlos Soto, comprises around 470MB of samples.
These little mixers could provide the ideal starting point for would-be computer musicians — and at this price, whats not to like?
Fluxs innovative dynamics processor adapts to your programme material in a much more sophisticated way than conventional compressors. But how does it sound?
Universal Audios latest plug-in, based on Manley Labs classic Massive Passive EQ, is being hailed as the best emulation yet of a hardware unit. So how would it fare when we pitted it against the real thing?
PMC broke new ground a decade ago with their TB2 monitors, but the competition have been catching up. Does PMCs new activated design nudge them back to the front of the pack?
The PalmTrack is an extremely affordable pocket-sized recorder with plenty of features — but have Alesis sacrificed quality to keep costs down?
Analogue Solutions get back to basics with their new sequencer, the Europa.
Despite the ubiquity of the SM57 for use on snare, there are other options — and Earthworks aim to help you capture a more natural sound.
Was Laurens Hammond a time traveller? The inventor of the world‑famous Hammond organ certainly created a temporal blip when he launched a polyphonic synthesizer in 1939.
A selection of audio files comparing the Manley Massive Passive EQ hardware with the Universal Audio Massive Passive plug-in.
The Formanta Polivoks is becoming an increasingly familiar sound to Western ears — it is, for example, all over Franz Ferdinand’s most recent album Tonight. But for those who haven’t heard this mighty Russian beast in action, Sam Inglis created a few examples to accompany Gordon Reid’s Retrozone feature.