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Warm Audio’s latest overdrive pedal is the Tube Squealer, and with its name and green case that slopes down slightly at the front, there’s little doubt as to what it’s based upon!
We’re decades into the age of the DAW, but outboard channel strips remain popular for good reasons — and there are plenty to choose from.
With their precision engineering and distinctive white waveguides, the One series put Amphion on the studio map. And now they’ve got even better.
Hifiman’s assault on the studio market continues with no fewer than four new headphone models: the Edition XV, Audivina LE, Ananda Unveiled and HE600.
Elegantly combining analogue and digital, and balancing programming with performance, the TR‑1000 is the best drum machine Roland have ever made.
The OC‑S10 is a premium vehicle for Austrian Audio’s highly regarded CKR‑12 microphone capsule.
Brainworx’s latest offering is bx_pulsar, and just as bx_aura does for reverb, bx_pulsar can handle conventional delay treatments while also providing some very interesting creative options.
The SOS team pick their highlights from hardware and software launches from 2025.
SED‑CSM, from Berlin’s Rides In The Storm, is a full analogue synth voice, with its own mixer, packed into a big‑but‑really‑very‑small 36HP.
With switchable input impedance, dual compression voicings and a semi‑parametric EQ on board, the Pro Channel III certainly offers tonal versatility. Could it be your next ‘front end’?
The latest version of Ozone promises improved AI assistance and adds some interesting mix‑repair options to its powerful mastering toolkit.
Focal’s latest studio‑focused headphones aim to deliver reference‑quality monitoring in a closed‑back format.
Mark J.T. Griffin’s unofficial biography stems from a long‑held interest in and passion for Vangelis’ work.
Grace Design have brought their considerable expertise to the audio interface arena.
SuperKar+ can produce up to 32 voices and has a bi‑timbral split to offer a Chord voice and a separate polyphonic Solo voice all within the one 12HP module.
Zero‑G’s popular hybrid scoring toolkit gets a significant upgrade.
A vintage German console EQ gets a new lease of life in 500‑series format.
In recent years, French company Arturia have steadily been growing their collection of effects plug‑ins, and now a recreation of the Studer J37 joins the line-up.
Designed specifically for immersive formats, the BP3600 is a novel alternative to more familiar Ambisonic microphones.
These audio examples accompany the review in SOS November 2025 of the AudioScape ASA-6A, a lovely hardware valve compressor based on the classic RCA BA-6A design.