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Designed as a hand-held live vocal mic, this mic has a cardioid pickup pattern, and seems very robustly engineered.
Building to a price inevitably entails compromises. The art is in choosing the right ones...
Picture this: you're working in an edit suite and the director comes and looks over your shoulder. "Let's try a lens flare”,...
Rycote made waves in the studio world recently with their universal shockmount, which improved on the ageing 'cat's cradle'...
Neat Video is designed to deal with the kind of chroma (colour) and luma (black and white) noise that appears in digital video...
Dont let Vir2s inexplicable 6 put you off: their new virtual guitar instrument is quite special...
Windchimes consists of 20 Kontakt instruments in all, between them featuring two soprano, two alto, three tenor and one bass set of windchimes, a set of horizontally mounted chime bars, small temple bells and a bonus set of rainsticks.
Yamahas DTX950K kit combines cutting-edge drum-pad technology, heavy-duty hardware and an advanced brain — but what does it sound like and how does it play?
As any craftsman will tell you, if you get the basics right you can build with confidence. In this case we're not talking...
Regular readers of our sample library reviews might be forgiven for thinking that Ueberschall's Score FX II is just the same...
The latest version of BIASs popular restoration software aims to remove even more hassle along with your unwanted noise...
Shadow Hills pack a lot of punch into a tiny space, as they combine a hi-tech interior with classic styling in this new API Lunchbox-compatible compressor.
USB mics are nothing new, but the Samson Go Mic is probably the smallest and cutest I've seen to date. This metal-bodied mic,...
Tom Oberheim has returned to the analogue synth fold with a revised and updated version of his classic 70s monosynth, the celebrated Synthesizer Expander Module.
An electric guitar's tone is complex, but something that contributes to it is the electrical loading on the pickups. Guitars...
These audio files accompany the SOS September 2010 review of the MXL Revelation microphone.
Rolands Octapad range has been with us in one form or another for an amazing 25 years. What does the latest addition to the family have to offer?
Theres a risk of over-hyping anything that has a link to the heyday of Abbey Road, and theres plenty of buzz about this EMI-inspired EQ — but it seems that in this case it isnt hype.