SOUND ON SOUND
Does Line 6's streamlined approach to amp modelling manage to provide all the features needed for stage, studio and home?
With seven amp and six cabinet emulations, there’s a wide range of guitar and bass tones on offer here.
Make Noise need almost no introduction. Among the prime movers in the Eurorack explosion, former Moog employee Tony Rolando...
Coral is an eight‑voice, eight‑part, 10‑sound‑engine synthesizer in a 14HP module.
Baby Audio’s first soft synth is inspired by the baby of the Yamaha CS range, the small but immediate CS‑01.
Though based on Mr Neve’s historic designs, the Newton offers something a little different — for a little less money!
Several famous console manufacturers now make their preamps available ‘to go’. Here's a handy round-up...
Sound Particles have placed 3D audio at the heart of their new soft synth.
The latest in UJAM’s Finisher series aims to give your risers, impacts and transitions a boost.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. If you have a liking for the unconventional in your virtual instruments, then Cinematique Instruments should be on your radar.
Recording podcasts, interviews and video content couldn’t be easier with Rode’s compact new wireless mics.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Looking for contemporary tribal and warrior percussion? Elements Cinematic Rhythms combines over 100 single instruments, hundreds of loops, an impressive collection of multi‑presets, internal sequencing, mic options and effects.
These two stompbox amps may look superficially the same and do have quite a lot in common, but each one seems to have been optimised for a different type of user.
JBL’s newest PRX range combines quality sound, powerful DSP and remote system control.
There’s more to this stylish‑looking pedal than meets the eye!
Designed in collaboration with the JHS Pedals team, EHX’s Lizard Queen is a slightly unusual distortion pedal...
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Hemisphere is simply gorgeous, with a varied range of carefully curated sound sources, additional effects, and some unique features.
We put the latest M2‑based Macs through their paces with music benchmarks.
If you like your drums heavy, the Hertz Drums Bundle might be just the thing.
Think you know what analogue synthesis sounds like? Pittsburgh’s Taiga might change that...