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Complete boxed sets of drum mics at incredibly low prices. Is it too good to be true?

DK Audio have revised several of their audio metering products since we last looked at them...

Combining strings, a monosynth, a bass synth and a polyphonic synthesizer, did ARP create the keyboard equivalent of 'Wash and Go', or a jack of all trades and master of none?

***** Score = 5/5 stars. Categorised by emotions, Twisted Textures is a very useful and admirably varied collection of short, self-contained sonic mood pieces.

This active nearfield monitor offers stunning audio performance from its extremely compact cabinet dimensions.

A Channel One without the valve for little over half the price? Seeing (and hearing) is believing.

Digitech BP200 Modelling Bass Effects

Midex 3 is a one-in, three-out USB MIDI interface employing their Linear Time Base technology, first used in the larger Midex 8.

Korg's AX1500G floor-standing guitar multi-effects processor offers tons of tone for very few pounds.

TL Audio's heavyweight valve recording channel not only provides you with gating, de-essing, compression, equalisation and limiting, but also lets you experiment with the sounds of different types of circuitry.

**** Score = 4/5 stars.  If you want some Aphex/Atari Teenage Riot madness or truly brutal loops to scare your granny, Noize Loops will not disappoint...

Emu's synths may have broken no new ground since the 1999 launch of the Proteus 2000, but the new 2500 plays to their strengths, offering the best of their sound library, plus excellent sequencing and real-time control capabilities, at a very attractive price.

Tascam's affordable 32-channel, eight-buss digital mixer takes on Yamaha's O-series, providing 24-bit/96kHz operation, surround panning, and effects processing from TC Works and Antares.

The latest dual effects processors from LEM sound better than their price might lead you to expect.

Following Trident Audio's S80 Producer Box comes the S20, which offers high-spec mic preamplification and an unusual input switching facility.

CAD continue their M series with an affordable valve mic.

The pioneering Sonic 6 has a complex and intriguing background, featuring not only the synth industry's most famous name, Bob Moog, but also that of an unsung hero called Gene Zumcheck - a shadowy figure now, but one whose contribution to synthesis deserves acknowledgement.

The ISA220 offers the circuitry of the renowned ISA430 in a much more affordable package.

TC's DSP-powered effects board has been upgraded, and now includes a much more impressive plug-in bundle.

No expense has been spared in the design of Lynx Studio Technology's latest soundcard, which adds 192kHz capability to remarkable sound quality, bringing it into real competition with high-end, stand-alone converter boxes.