SOUND ON SOUND
Rating: 4/5 Stars. Built in collaboration with Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Music collective, Fractured Strings is a compelling library full of personality.
With newly designed drivers and Sonarworks integration, ADAM’s new A series promises a lot of monitoring for your money.
If you’re looking for a mic to lend weight to lean sources, the characterful Martian could be just the thing.
Audient’s iD44 was pretty good to start with... and now it’s even better.
Flux Pro is an affordable, easy‑to‑use, graph‑driven effects plug‑in which can produce some addictive rhythmic effects that completely transform the source material.
Rating: 5/5 Stars. There can be few instruments with a simpler interface than Sound Dust’s Drift 001, but then that was the design ethos behind its creation.
Can Dreamtonics really deliver a session singer in software?
Polyend’s Play takes a unique, and very hands‑on, approach to sequencing samples.
Some love a Pultec. Others prefer a Neumann or a Lang. Marshall Terry decided to combine his favourite aspects of these much‑loved equalisers in one box!
We check out Antares’ latest fine‑tuning of their flagship product.
It may not be esoteric, but sometimes a good‑quality mic at a very reasonable price is all you need!
Has Rode’s new USB‑capable NT1 made clipping a thing of the past?
Austrian Audio’s new instrument mics are intended to turn heads!
The BP1 and BP1 Compact are superb bass guitar preamplifiers in a pedal format.
This digitally controlled monitor controller boasts an impressive array of features.
Californian start‑up Groove Synthesis haven’t just recreated the PPG Wave, they’ve made it even better.
Comprised of an 18dB/octave three‑pole multi‑mode filter, a VCA, two different West Coast‑style wavefolders and a rectifier, at its mildest end the FIL4 very much does what it says on the tin: it sculpts timbre.
The LXR‑2 is a six-voice, 28HP module with the same sound engine as the LXR‑02...
This deceptively simple plug‑in has been designed to blend ‘nice’ and ‘nasty’ saturation any way you need it.
Rating: 4/5 Stars. Fluffy Audio’s Simple Opera Singer may provide a compelling alto and soprano solution for your next musical needs.